Forest Conversations No.01 investigates a transformation that comes from spending time in the landscape. In the domain of mountain birches the person changes form and becomes part of the birches of the north.
Forest Conversations No.01 is filmed in Kilpiskjärvi, Finland during a residency at BioArtic Society.
The mountain birch forest zone is unique to Scandinavia. Tree-line dynamic of the mountain birch has recived a great deal of attention, partly because it is an indicator of climate change.
Performance in black, with pillar and steal.
During my residency in Ny Ålesund, in September 2021, I divided the “In Alignment” project into 3 parts.
This specific performance was built around found objects at site, as a character dressed in black. The objects I used and the performance I did was inspired by Ny Ålesund’s history as a former mining site.
In Alignment: `The phenomenon when a navigator observes two fixed reference points that are in line with the navigator. `
n Alignment (Overrett) explores the individual's relationship to nature, our acquired sense of ownership of the landscape, and how public rights of access are challenged by ever-increasing mass tourism and human environmental footprint.
In the project I investigate the core elements of the landscape by spending as much time in the particular landscape I work in. This includes long durational walks, field work and performances that investigates the rituals of movement and repetitive actions. It is the place I navigate myself through that makes the decisions on how I respond to details in both the place and its inhabitants.
Residency was supported by NBK and BKV
OVERRETT: LANDSCAPES IN MOTION
Filmed in Haugastøl, Norway, where I investigated the relationship between the artist and the walker and how these two characters are linked together. I lived and hiked in the mountains alone, following a variety of paths, investigating the rituals of movement and repetitive actions.
Wavelength LIVE ART
Is an experimental Art Stunt initiated by Visual Artist Torild Stray, together with Performance Artist Anette Friedrich Johannessen and Noisemaker čirnū.
Through its multi-visual expression and noisescape it merges between live art and sight-spesific collaborations.
Art performance episodes are supported by Bergen Municipality Arts & Culture
A Performance Video made in conjunction with Performance Køkkenet and their open call during Covoid-19 : QuAr(T)antine.
Video synopsis:
In order to find solace in an otherwise chaotic everyday life, sometimes one has to go outside and build a fort in one’s garden. The activity itself will keep your body moving, and the fort will function as a shield against an overwhelming world.
In Alignment: The phenomenon when a navigator observes two fixed reference points that are in line with the navigator.
Overrett/ In Alignment is part of a larger performance project filmed in Vadsø and its surrounding areas and at Hardangervidda during 2018/19. The project is ongoing.
Overrett/In Alignment explores the individual's relationship to our nature, our acquired sense of ownership of the landscape, and how public rights of access are challenged by ever-increasing mass tourism and human environmental footprint.
Overrett- In Alignement
In Alignment: The phenomenon when a navigator observes two fixed reference points that are in line with the navigator.
Overrett is a performance project that explores the individual's relationship to our nature, our acquired sense of ownership of the landscape, and how public rights of access are challenged by ever-increasing mass tourism and human environmental footprint.
The second visit to Vadsø in July 2019 explored the relationship between the walker/explorer and his/hers relationship to the landscape through different types of navigation systems. The walker/explorer becomes a part of the landscape by spending time in it, and then taught how to preserve it and function in it.
In the Sami tradition there is no strict distinction between culture (man-made) and nature (not man-made). They have no word for wilderness and humans and human activity are perceived as part of nature.
The Overrett project is part of a continuous and durational exercise in exploring the relationship between a walker/explorer and his/hers relationship to the landscape. By becoming a walker/explorer in the landscape, you participate in the very design of it. Your presence, touch and movement leaves a number of traces, often in already ascended paths. The paths, or the lines, one applies to the landscape, leaves behind a myriad of networks, all signs of movement and growth. As soon as you move, you participate in the relationship between nature and culture, and between man and ecology.
Ecology, is in short, is the study of life in lines.
Order is a series of performances and videos that describe the creation of own rituals that satisfy one's need for order and calm in an otherwise chaotic everyday life, where the need for perfection and control can only be manifested through repetition or physical activity.
Order describes the systems we create to find meaning and the work we put down to realize our goals and ourselves. The words can please despite the fact that it can be perceived strictly and decisively. Orders explore the areas of identity / belonging, understanding of the chaos of everyday life, the universe and our relationship with those around us. This video series described a series of actions in which the activity arises during a desire to achieve calm, clarity and presence. The work focuses mainly on challenging one's own fear of something and hence finding peace of mind.
Limestone, video performances from the project Indications, a collaboration with Malin Nyheim Overholth. The exhibition “Indications” discussed themes relating to unspoken history and patterns that affect us in life.
My work consisted of a video-performance from an abandoned factory in Odda, Norway and an installation “ Limestone on Steel”.
The factory in Odda produced calcium cyanamide for use as fertilizer, along with other things. It had a severe impact on the community when it closed down in 2003,leaving many workers unemployed.
During the exhibition period I performed with limestone 3 times, with a duration of 20 minutes.