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Välkommen till
Live Art Strömstad 2015 Performance brukar beskrivas som ’den levande konsten’ och innebär ofta gränsöverskridande uttryck mellan olika konstriktningar. Det som skiljer Performance Art ifrån andra konstformer är att konstnären uttrycker sig live inför åskådare och att vad som helst kan hända. Ingen föreställning kan bli den andre lik. Det blir märkliga och oväntade upplevelser; ibland synbart obegripliga, ibland vackra, alla avser att väcka reaktioner och känslor eller stillhet och harmoni. Har du inte upplevt performance-konst tidigare; missa inte sommarens stora happening! Och kom ihåg, du behöver inte förstå, bara uppleva. Är du en av de många som redan upptäckt performance-konstens särskilda magi; välkommen att njuta. För all information, besök:
www.liveartstromstad.se
BENEDIKTE ESPERI
CHUYIA CHIA
BENEDIKTE ESPERI
Chuyia Chia föddes i Malaysia 1970. Hon flyttade till Singapore i slutet av 1990-talet och är nu baserad i Göteborg. Hennes konstnärliga utbildning är ursprungligen måleri, men hennes uttryck är nu huvudsakligen performance och installationer.
Benedikte Esperi is a contemporary performance artist basing her artistic practice and research on an attempt to capture the instant moment and the essentials of a present thru choreography and camcorder. ”Every movement comes from somewhere and then continues into next / there is no beginning and no ending / every movement can tell us something / it can be used in many different ways and carry its own narrative / duplicated mirrored repeated copied etc / time space and body those are my keywords”.
Chuyia Chia konstnärskap har utvecklats med grund i hennes identitet som invandrare på 1990-talet till en global angelägenhet, där hon särskilt uppmärksammar miljöansvar med fokus på relationer och kommunikation mellan världens folk. Hennes perspektiv är ofta hur kroppen kan uttrycka dessa sammanhang och förmedla kunskap och känslor till betraktaren.
”HUPIA” It’s not a human, not a pig nor an ape. This is the hybrid of an interdisciplinary experimental body of mixed DNA.
Chuyia har samarbetat med en rad konstnärer och deltagit i många internationella festivaler och evenemang i
www.benedikteesperi.wordpress.com
www.chuyia.wordpress.com
mer än 25 länder.
FRANZISCA SIEGRIST
GUSTAF BROMS
Born in Switzerland, raised in Spain, and is nowadays based in Oslo, Norway. She has a Master in Fine Art and works with objects, installations and basically with performance art. She is also co-‐founder and chair of the artist run initiative PAO –Performance Art Oslo, and has shown her work in several European countries, in Asia and in USA.
In 1966 this human body was born, it was given the name Gustaf Broms. This concept now exists in a place called Sweden. To use the time in this predicament as a way to explore the nature of consciousness.
She is interested in the possibilities of her body and observes its relation with time and space. Usually they are simple objects from everyday life she uses to create pieces, transforming their use, taking them out of their regular context and giving them a new meaning. The topics can vary, but are always connected to every day and social life. The result of her works ranges between absurd and poetical images, and are often site-‐specific works. www.franzisca-siegrist.com
Trying to make a translation of the flow of life into a condensed symbol, as a tool for understanding, a tool for communication. Spending the last few years looking into the dualistic concept of “I”, in terms of association with the idea of BEING NATURE, as the actual biological reality this body goes through, and BEING MIND as a very direct experience of REALITY. Since 2009 I live in the forest of Vendel and work on a series of “actions-movements” that explores the concepts of “border of skin”, “border of identification with species”.
www.orgchaosmik.org
JOAKIM STAMPE
Joakim Stampe har verkat som konstnär i över 25 år och har under senare år fokuserat på performance. Han har deltagit i performance festivaler i Polen, Finland, Frankrike, Italien, Thailand, Singapore och Kina. Hans konst behandlar vanligtvis sociala och politiska frågor. Med en filosofiskt kritisk attityd ger han publiken en bild av den värld som omger oss. Joakim Stampe arbetar genomgående med med motiv från vår nutida historia. Hans performances är starkt visuella även om han även arbetar med ljud och i hög grad interaktivt med publiken. Han leder tillsammans med sin bror Jonas Stampe Live Action Göteborg och spelar en mycket aktiv roll inom den svenska och nordiska performancekonsten, både som konstnär och organisatör.
www.joakimstampe.com
KURT JOHANNESEN
Kurt Johannessen works with performance, books, video and installations. He has produced around 260 different performances around Europe, Asia and America since the early 80’s. His performances often carries a poetic and minimalistic feel. He does artist books that he releases at his own publishing company. Many of his 80 books are textrelated but he also does books based on drawings or photography. His textbased works are often stories in one sentence. They are visual, poetic and often humoristic. The last year he did produce works for public spaces at places such as NHH – Bergen, Universitetet i Bergen, KUBEN videregående Oslo, Skeie Skole – Hundvåg. www.zeth.no
NIGEL ROLFE
NIKI STAMPE ÖDMAN
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Nigel Rolfe has performed at Art Festivals, galleries and museums in most countries in Europe and in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, China, Singapore, Ukraine and USA. He has been active since 1969 and is known as one of the most important performance artists. He has also worked in the media industri with musical production as well as film, video and televison. His exhibitions include photographs, installations and sculpture. He has also worked as a stage designer, director and designer in contemporary dance. Another field of interest is cabinetmaker and designer of furniture, interiors and buildings. Nigel Rolfe has lectured in Fine Arts in many countries and been a professor of Performance Art at the Royal Collage of Art in London.
www.nigelrolf.com
2nd generation performance artist from Sweden. She has been active in the media since 5 years and we are very happy to introduce her to the audience in Strömstad this year. Niki has been a permanent member of the performance art collective Comlab since its start in 2010. In her performance actions Niki creates a meaning in the little gestures and uses the events she meet in her life. Niki participated in the latest edition Infraction Venezia 2015 during the preview of Venice Biennale.
PAVANA REID
STEIN HENNINGSEN
Born 1963 in Khonkaen Thailand ; moved to Northern Ireland 1988 and graduated in Fine & Applied Art in 2009. Living in Bergen since 2012.
Stein Henningsen is an artist that has presented his work at different biennials all over Europe. His work comments on contemporary political, social, financial or climate issues, in a manner that often can provoke and disturb the viewer.
”Northern Ireland was in the height of the political trouble and it was full of suspicions, anger and hatred in contrast to the culture I was from. The question of ones identity both as an individual and as a part of a community is always a lot more complicated than we can imagine.” The subjects of gender, immigration, religion, politic and many more which relate to her existing as an individual moving into different landscapes, cultures and societies are reflecting in her work. She sees her performances as an experience in relationship between people, place and time and chooses actions or situations to demonstrate the simplicity of life as an individual. www.bbeyondperformanceartweb. wordpress.com
Henningsen grew up in the harsh island of Svalbard, close to the North Pole, where one needs to bring a gun to go shopping because of the polar bears. A direct connection to nature, but also to life and death, that has surely influenced him in his artistic work. Henningsen makes works that deals with contemporary political issues. “Contemporary society and the world we are living in is created on the values and choices of our mothers and fathers and earlier generations. We are all today creating the future of our children and of generations to come! www.steinhenningsen.com/2007/
TAMI TAMAKI
VIKTORIA DURNAK
Musician and performance artist living in Berlin. Composing and performing music for film and dance performances parallell with a pop music carrier and with making performance artworks where music plays an important role. With a love for glitter, clubby beats and pop melodies Tamaki tries to create works with subjects that explore sexuality or identity.
A Norwegian artist and author living in Oslo. She has published two poetry collections and two novels. Recent performances in Oslo, Helsinki and Bergen. Past and future encounters trigger Victoria Durnak’s introduction of narrative structure into the mishmash of lived experience. Her narratives can be personal, detached, informed by others, nonetheless directed and arranged by the artist. Personal mythologies unfold through her performances, not just by turning life into art, but also by placing herself in odd situations where any task might become art.
”The performance is a musical, technical and physical one. It is a way to break free from the usual ways of interacting with a laptop for performers of electronic music like me. It’s a development of some of my earlier works where I have used contact microphones to create musical objects and rooms whose sound is heavily manipulated in a musical fashion by digital effect chains. In the new performance I create musical limbs, body parts attached to me that responds to touch by making beautiful melodies or raw beats.” www.management-ramonamohren.se
”I talk about the only painting I own, which previously belonged to a family member’s ex boyfriend. Why do I keep it? I can’t find a place to hang it. Is it because their ending was a mess? How do we talk about the objects that connect us to others? And: Is having a suntan better than having a boyfriend?” www.victoriadurnak.com
Program – alla tider och platser för de enskilda konstnärerna är ungefärliga. Torsdag 23 juli 20:00 Skagerack Introduktion till festivalen med de medverkande konstnärerna, fritt samtal och diskussion om performance som en del av samtidskonsten
Fredag 24 juli
10:00 GUSTAF BROMS – Strandpromenaden 11:00 CHUYIA CHIA – utanför COOP 12:00 NIGEL ROLFE – Hamnområdet 13:00 JOAKIM STAMPE – Hamnområdet 14:00 NIKI STAMPE ÖDMAN – Hamnområdet 15:00 BENEDIKTE ESPERI – Strömsån 16:00 KURT JOHANNESSEN – Oscarsplatsen 17:00 STEIN HENNINGSEN – Hamnområdet 18:00 PAVANA REID – Oscarsplatsen 19:00 FRANZISCA SIEGRIST – Strömsån 22:00 VICTORIA DURNAK – Stadsparken 22:45 TAMI TAMAKI – Konsthallen Lokstallet
Lördag 25 juli
10:00 TAMI TAMAKI – Stadsparken 10:00 GUSTAF BROMS – Strandpromenaden 11:00 CHUYIA CHIA – Strandpromenaden 12:00 NIGEL ROLFE – Hamnområdet 13:00 JOAKIM STAMPE – Hamnområdet 14:00 NIKI STAMPE ÖDMAN – Hamnområdet 15:00 BENEDIKTE ESPERI – Strömsån 15:00 SKIKT – Lokstallet 16:00 KURT JOHANNESSEN – Oscarsplatsen 17:00 STEIN HENNINGSEN – Hamnområdet 18:00 PAVANA REID – Oscarsplatsen 19:00 FRANZISCA SIEGRIST – Hamnområdet 20:00 SKIKT - Lokstallet 22:00 VICTORIA DURNAK – Stadsparken 23:00 MAXWELL JACKSON – Skagerack
Söndag 26 juli 20:00 .!. ANNIKA FORSLUND-RIMBLÉUS - Lokstallet
PLUS 1: SKIKT Tre dansare. Tre kroppar. Ett badkar. Ett flertal klädesplagg.. Vi rör oss i ett rum med bestämda och obestämda ramar. Vi leker. Vi är. Leken blir till allvar. Vad är det som stör? Evelina Boström., Tove Klang, Camilla Klemming Konsthallen Lokstallet Lördag 25 juli kl 15 och 20
PLUS 2: MAXWELL JACKSON En ljus och ljud musik performance. Ett uppvaknande, en religös upplevelse, ett ljus. Musiken är djup och annorlunda i ett dunkande pop uttryck. Mörk poesi om livets kärlekar och om vår tidsberoenden. Välkomna till ljusterapin. Martin Andersson, Magnus Wikholm, Claes Rosenberg. Societetshuset Skagerack Lördag 25 juli kl 23
PLUS 3: TEATERPERFORMANCE .!. ”The day starts with chaos. We are in a dark room. The body aches and itches. We all live because we don’t know any better. We don’t know anything. ” Med ljus, ljud, film och teater skall vi tillsammans besvara frågan omlivets mening. Annika Forslund Rimbléus, Martin Andersson, Magnus Wikholm och Claes Rosenberg Konsthallen Lokstallet Söndag 26 juli kl 20
