PARTICIPANTS INSPECTIONS
We have now selected three groups for inspections at Velferden themed WASTE / DEPOSIT .
Below are lists of the participants in each group. Further down, all participants are introduced with bios and pictures.
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Siri Austeen - Visual artist
Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson - conservation biologist
Brynjar Åbel Bandlien - Dance artist
Linda Lamignan - Visual and performance artist
Bjørn-Tore Blindheim - Author and Associate Professor at the Department of Media and Social Sciences
Pierre Lionel Matte - Visual artist
Tove Kommedal - Visual artist
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Merete Jonvik - Sociologist and Social Anthropologist
Carl-Oscar Sjögren - Visual artist / Founder
Lisa Torell - Visual artist
Marie Storli - Social economist
Ingrid Halland - Art and architecture historian
Anna Carin Hedberg and Ebba Moi - Visual artists
Simon Daniel Tegnander Wenzel - Visual artist
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Runa Norheim - choreographer/actress
Adrian Bugge - photographer
Vegard Gundersen - researcher / forest ecologist
Hanna Sjöstrand - Visual artist
Jenny Berg - Visual artist
Thomas Østbye - Filmmaker
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Siri Austeen
Siri Austeen is a visual artist interested in the relationship between sound, place and reality; how different listening strategies affect our experience of reality and ourselves as a sentient part of it. A recurring theme in her artistic practice is the interplay of individual, collective and ecological structures. Her work is often expressed through investigative field recordings, participatory projects, installations, performances and public art commissions.
Austeen has exhibited and performed works at Henie Onstad Art Center, the National Museum, Ultima Festival, Falstad Center, Kunstnernes Hus, Gallery Rudolfinum Prague and Kurt-Kurt Berlin. Public art commissions include the Civilian Rose Signal for Fredrikstad Fortress 2009.
https://soundcloud.com/siri-1-3
www.austeen.no
Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson is a professor of conservation biology at NMBU, and the author of books on insects and nature, translated into 25 languages. She is interested in anonymous species diversity, such as insects and fungi - species we rarely see and don't think about, but which are nevertheless crucially important for processes in nature and thus for us humans. In the period 2023-2025, Anne works half-time as a professor and half-time as a freelancer and author.
Website https://www.nmbu.no/fakultet/mina/forskning/prosjekter/anne-sverdrup-thygeson/anne
Brynjar Åbel Bandlien
BIO Brynjar Åbel Bandlien (1975) is a classically trained dance artist from the Norwegian National Ballet Academy, now KHiO (1991-1993) and from the Hamburgische Staatsoper (1993-1995). Bandlien then worked for three years as a dancer at the Nederlands Dans Teater 2 in Den Haag, Holland, with which he toured Europe, the USA and South Africa. In 1998 he started working as a freelance contemporary dancer in Scandinavia, Europe and the USA. Bandlien has worked with artists such as Philipp Gehmacher, Manuel Pelmus, Jennifer Lacey, Heine Avdal, Vera Mantero, Raimund Hoghe and Antonija Livingstone. In the period 2004-2010 he helped establish the Centrul National al Dansului-Bucuresti (CNDB) in Romania. He has a PhD from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2020.
Currently, Bandlien is an associate professor of dance at the Faculty of Performing Arts at the University of Stavanger, where he leads the artistic development project All Tomorrow's Parties: post-pandemic dancing about how HIV and AIDS affected the Norwegian dance arts field in the 1980s and 1990s.
Bjørn-Tore Blindheim
Bjørn-Tore Blindheim is an associate professor at the Department of Media and Social Sciences at UiS. He is affiliated with the programs in change management, political science and sociology. From an organizational point of view, he works with the relationship between humans and nature. Keywords: anthropocene, nature, waste (as a sporting sign).
Linda Lamignan
Linda Lamignan is a visual and performance artist whose work I tell stories about the experience of floating in between different worlds. Through video, music, objects and performance, Lamignan explores notions related to wandering and diaspora, transformation and love. With an animistic approach, they work with materials connected to the industries, histories, living landscapes and cultural relations between West Africa and Scandinavia. Lamignan received her MFA degree at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and her BFA degree at the Academy of Fine Art in Oslo.
Pierre Lionel Matte
Pierre is a visual artist, born in Tønsberg in 1961 of Norwegian, French and Belgian background. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Trondheim 1987-1992.
Pierre Lionel Matte's work is based on his personal biography and daily events, current politics and literature that thematizes national identity, xenophobia, ecology and art history.
He believes that making and experiencing art is a constant learning process, and new personal encounters with people and places will inspire my work to always be in a process of change. My works are realized through sculptures, photography, installations, books, videos, animation, sound, drawing, paintings and text.
Has taught at Einar Granum Art School since 1985 and Nordland Art and Film School since 2001.
Tove Kommedal
Tove Kommedal is a visual artist (born 1970), who made her debut in the early 2000s and is inspired by both the conceptual art of the 1960s and the relational aesthetics of the 1990s.
Kommedal sees art as a life practice. She works from the idea that art can have the same function for society as dreams have for human health. A recurring theme in her practice is existence, the vulnerability of the individual in society and questions of power. Kommedal works process- and project-based within the following techniques: sculpture, installation, drawing, screen printing, text and film.
Her art is situated between the rational and the emotional - a place where poetry takes over from politics.
Merete Hermansen Jonvik
Merete Jonvik lives and works in Stavanger, as an associate professor of sociology at the Department of Media and Social Sciences at the University of Stavanger. She teaches topics such as social inequality and material culture. Her research areas are mainly within the sociology of art and culture.
Jonvik, together with Eivind Røssaak, Hanne Hammer Stien and Arnhild Sunnanå, has published the book Kunst som deling, delingens kunst (2020, Fagbokforlaget). The book deals with the contemporary art field in Norway after 2010. In 2021, Jonvik, together with artist Hans Edward Hammonds, published Samarbeid mellom små og store vesen (Collaboration between small and large beings ), which is based on a participatory art and research project in which Jonvik and Hammonds explore what happens when children and adults collaborate to create a work of art, as well as the report Infrastrukturelle undersøkingar. Ein rapport om Atelier Kunstnerforbundet, which was an external evaluation of the studio and development programme Atelier Kunstnerforbundet. Jonvik is a regular contributor to Contemporary Art Stavanger (CAS).
Carl-Oscar Sjögren
Carl-Oscar Sjögren is an artist who often works with questions about man's relationship to raw materials.
Carl Oscar is one of the initiators and has worked with the artist-run plastic Ställbergs Gruva for ten years, a place that carries out artistic, cultural and social activities whose starting point is nine hectares of land and 4,000 square meters of buildings in Ställberg's disused iron ore mine in Ljusnarsberg municipality in Bergslagen.
The group often works on the basis of common issues and methods, which take aim at the environment and its economic, human and ecological conditions.
A key idea at Ställberg's mine is that people with different backgrounds, professions and ages are given the opportunity to think, act and research together. An exploration of known and unknown parts of the chase and the world. Ställbergs Gruva is run by the association The non-existent Center.
Lisa Torell
Lisa Torell is an artist. In her work, she investigates the public sphere, rights and regulations related to democracy and the environment through performative and site-specific methods. She frequently participates in solo/group exhibitions and is also experienced in developing, organizing, leading and collaborating in various interdisciplinary collaboration models in teaching, exhibitions, urban projects and research.
Marie Storli
Marie Storli holds a degree in economics from the University of Oslo. Throughout her studies and work, she has focused on sustainability by understanding and challenging the relationship between people, economy and nature. On a daily basis, she works as a systems economist at Æra Strategic Innovation, where she works with innovation based on collaboration and system change. Marie has previously been the leader of Rethinking Economics Norway, an organization for students and economists who want to challenge and enrich today's economics profession by drawing on the diversity that exists in economic thinking. She is currently working on a book about why we need a diversity of economic ideas to navigate the transition to a more sustainable economy.
Ingrid Halland
Ingrid Halland (b. 1988) is an art and architecture historian and art critic. She is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Bergen and Associate Professor II at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) where she teaches in the PhD program.
Halland leads the research project "How Norway Made the World Whiter", which is funded by the Research Council of Norway (Researcher Project for Renewal, 2023 - 2028). She is also sub-project manager of the research project "The Materiality of White", which is led by Associate Professor Marte Johnslien at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, funded by the Program for Artistic Research (DIKU, 2022 - 2025).
Anna Carin Hedberg and Ebba Moi
Ebba Moi is an artist in the collective Tenthaus - a screening space that involves young participatory art projects, and is program manager for the Master's program for Art and Public Space at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
In addition to her own art projects, Anna Carin Hedberg also works on a practice-based research project at the National Museum in Oslo.
Together, Hedberg and Moi are an established artist duo that explores cultural changes in society and structures that thematize various change processes. A majority of their projects have been carried out in public environments where involvement and participants are emphasized as a starting point for both process and artwork.
The duo has exhibited at Trafo Kunsthall, Vigelandsmuseet, Trøndelag Center for Contemporary Art, Kristiansand Kunsthall, Grimstad Short Film Festival, Kulturhuset in Stockholm and Kunstnernes Hus.
Simon Daniel Tegnander Wenzel
(b.1988, Hamburg) works interdisciplinary with performance, video, sound and installation. In his works he examines how technological development, market forces, science and spiritual impulses influence human perception of reality and views on nature, norms, identity and collectivity.
He enters into various characters and roles and deconstructs the familiar and familiar as a starting point with the desire to challenge personal, environmental and normative structures that exist in our Western and urban society.
With a keen interest in the tacit knowledge found in direct contact with materials, Wenzel wants to shed light on how knowledge and tradition can be embodied and transformed, especially in relation to folk medicine, useful plants and ancient crafts.
social media: @piggsopp
Adrian Bugge
Adrian Bugge is a Norwegian photographer with an art history background who works with long-term photographic investigations of nature, architecture and transformations of the environment.
In 2023, Adrian will release his fourth photo book, "Inngrep", which shows 57 images of human-made interventions in Norwegian nature. They were taken over a period of 16 years, and provide an insight into how modern humans have become a geological force that is changing the world.
Adrian is a member of the art organizations Forbundet Frie Photographerr (FFF) and Norske Billedkunstnere (NBK) through the district organization Billedkunstnerne i Oslo (BO).
Vegard Gundersen
Vegard Gundersen is a senior researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) Lillehammer branch. Vegard is a trained forest ecologist and has researched common forest species such as martens, but also endangered species in forests. His doctorate was about the use and management of forests around cities and towns in Norway. He has particularly researched the relationship between humans and nature in different situations, such as nature experiences, outdoor activities, tourism, children and the extent to which human activity causes disturbance to wildlife.
Hanna Sjøstrand
Hanna investigates central mythologies of modernity through conceptual processes. Her methods are diverse and are expressed through painting series that explore different painting techniques.
Pervading her work is the exploration of the potential of painting; as a language and a way of understanding the many dimensions of human perception and knowledge.
Sjøstrand also works with performance, film and installation.
Jenny Berg
Jenny Berg works with installations, sculpture, film, text and performance. She is interested in wishes that seem too big and what happens to them in an artistic process.
She grew up in northern Sweden, studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in the Netherlands and is now living in Malmö since 2011. Her solo exhibitions have been shown at Trollhättan Art Gallery, Örnsköldsvik Art Gallery, Ifö Center Bromölla, Galleri 21 and Molekyl Gallery in Malmö. She has also exhibited in Estonia, Denmark and Norway.
www.jennyberg.com
Thomas Østbye
is an artist, filmmaker and activist. He runs the company PlymSerafin and has made a number of films that connect cinematic reflections on documentary to current political issues.
The documentaries In Your Dreams, HUMAN, Imagining Emanuel and Out of Norway have received numerous awards at CPH:DOX, Kassel IDFF, Høstutstillingen, Kortfilmfestivalen, the Government's Human Rights Award for short film, nominated for Amanda, Gullruten and screened at HotDocs, IDFA, Sheffield and MoMA NY.
Østbye's latest work is a trilogy of observational documentaries looking at strategies in the climate struggle, parts one and two have recently been released: "Everyone has the right to" which portrays the Arctic climate lawsuit in court and "Civil Disobedience" which follows activists from Extinction Rebellion and Stop Oil Exploration.
https://www.plymserafin.com
Runa Norheim
is a trained choreographer and actor, which is an unconventional combination, and her work is often conceptually rooted and therefore takes very different forms from project to project.
Norheim is currently artistic director of RAS, which is a programming and co-producing stage, as well as a competence and residency center for dance.
She has studied Choreography (MA), Acting (BA), Post-dramatic Theater studies at DOCH, Stockholm University of the Arts, Academy of Performing Arts at Østfold University College and Dartington College of Arts.