This is not / Dette er ikke
(2018)
author(s): Anne Marthe Dyvi
published in: VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
The language of art is often poetic and abstract.
Reduced and lawless in terms of grammar. I experience the poetic and abstract language as closer to the experienced world than the more concrete and descriptive language that is the norm in the majority of formulations in society. In my artistic practice at the moment, I work with color, movement and time. In the video medium. To say that art is a language is also an assertion, or a worn metaphor. We have no written language rules we agree upon in the arts, no defined alphabet. And maybe that's exactly what the making of art is? Creating form, while challenging form? Being the practitioner, and in that sense defining, in a landscape of concrete and abstract, in definite and indefinite and fluid and solid.
To create while shaping the form of it, is something else than performing within a given formation.
This contribution to a digital catalogue for artistic research are selections of my work, and thoughts, related to it translated into pieces of texts.
Some pieces of text along with some video pieces as well as a print from a video, a so-called 'still'. They are selected to function in different constellations, and for several reasons. A collage as a method and a way to relate to my own work, and with the selection, emphasizes the content of the texts. I apply my own thesis discussed in the text upon my contribution 'here' *. My contribution appears in Vis – Nordic Journal for Artistic Research. The digital is representation. It is not. It is equally important to me that this contributed in form acknowledges that making a presence in an internet-based database is not without hyperlinks. It appears because the other is.
* Where is 'here', what is 'here'?
(Video and video with sound.)
The visual material in this exposition is from the videos 'La ditt liv vitne'(2017), 'Essay on Colour'(2017) and Perceptual Cycle (2016). By Anne Marthe Dyvi.
Remembering Lost Music
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): DÁNIEL PÉTER BIRÓ
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Prosjektet er initiert av Arnulf Christian Mattes, leder for Senter for Griegforskning og Dániel Péter Biró, professor i komposisjon i samarbeid med Hilde Haraldsen Sveen, førsteamanuensis i vokalmusikk ved Griegakademiet. Ved å bringe sammen kunstneriske, historiske og musikkvitenskapelige perspektiver skal dette prosjektet bidra til å øke bevisstheten om jødisk kulturarv i Bergen, Norge og Skandinavia.
Lite er kjent om de jødiske komponistene og musikerne som har levd og virket i Skandinavia, de fleste av dem immigrerte tidlig på 1900-tallet eller ble drevet i eksil under andre verdenskrig. Hva vet vi om deres biografier, deres sosiale og kulturelle forhold, deres pedagogiske eller institusjonelle betydning og virkning? Hvordan formet mottakelsen av majoriteten deres identitet som kunstnere og migranter med jødisk bakgrunn i lokale og nasjonale sammenhenger?
Et annet mål med dette prosjektet er å se på historien til jødene i Skandinavia i lys av den overordnede fortellingen om forfølgelse, trauma og Holocaust. En workshop med Griegakademiets komposisjonsstudenter resulterte i nye komposisjoner basert på lyrikken av Nelly Sachs, som utforsker disse aspektene kreativt og fra individuelle utgangspunkt. Disse komposisjonene vil bli sidestilt med komposisjonen Gvul (Border) av Dániel Péter Biró, som undersøker historisk hukommelse og traumer via dekonstruksjon av musikalsk materiale.
Utover dette har målet vært å initiere en tverrfaglig utveksling med forskere i visuell kunst om hvordan personlige vitnesbyrd og kulturell erindring, historier om forfølgelse, eksil og overlevelse kan engasjere nye publikummere. Seminarets andre dag er viet dette spørsmålet: Hvordan kan deltakende metoder for fortelling med kunstnere og tidsvitner i tett dialog utfordre og utfylle tradisjonelle former for historieskrivning?
Resultatene av dette prosjektet presenteres i samarbeid med BIT20, pianist Ermis Theodorakis, Griegakademiet og Senter for Griegforskning ved Universitetet i Bergen.
Konsert i St. Markus kirke 2. mai kl. 19:30
Remembering Lost Music:
Julia Constance Wiger-Nordås
Resitasjon
Olve Haugen, Voice
Diego Lucchesi, Clarinet
Peter Kates, Percussion
Francisco Corthey
but who?
Filip Eriksen, Voice
Jon Behncke, Trumpet
Peter Kates, Percussion
Isak Hård
Om eg berre visste
Louise Engeseth, Voice
Diego Lucchesi, Clarinet
Martin Shultz, Violin
Emiliano Ortíz Benítez
Ágata Blanca
Maria Myklemyr Reite, Voice
Jarle Lars Rotevatn, Piano
Diego Lucchesi, Clarinet
Dániel Péter Biró
Gvul (Border) for Piano and Electronics
Ermis Theodorakis, Piano
Dániel Péter Biró, Electronics
Prosjektet er støttet av strategiske prosjektutviklingsmidler delt ut av Fakultet for kunst, musikk og design ved Universitetet i Bergen.
Breaking Circles
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Sunniva Storlykken Helland
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
The project 'Breaking Circles' is matriculated in the field of social design - an area within the design field that has renewed itself in recent years. Social design is user oriented towards vulnerable and exposed groups within society.
Serving a sentence in prison is often associated with a range of penalties. Norway has only one penalty; denial of freedom. The inmates have the same rights as the rest of society, and are supposed to take part of it. The Norwegian Correctional Service’s unofficial slogan reads: ‘better out, than in’ meaning that rehabilitation overcomes penalty. The inmates have both the right and a duty to work, getting educated or attending amendment programs. The goal of their work is to qualify for working life after prison.
Having to go to prison will without a doubt be a personal crisis for anyone, and can lead to loss of jobs, housing, personal economy and social network. Inmates could benefit from building professional networks to avoid seeking out old acquaintances in criminal networks after prison, heading into criminal relapse. Having worked with design projects in the western region of the Norwegian Correctional Service, I have seen the vast areas and systems within prisons and the service that are untouched by design strategy. Design has considerable potential to help inmates benefit from their surrounding systems, both within prison and outside. I aim to use social design to ease inmate’s transitions to becoming potential employees through their work within prison.
To be able to do that, there are several problem areas to address: the content of inmate’s work in prison, inmate’s tools of sentence progress, barriers between prison and society and the lack of established professional networks to prevent criminal networks taking over after serving.
Using graphic design and visual communication in social design can contribute to a dawning interest in design and creative practice to prevent recidivistic crime and social marginalization. Breaking Circles is a project with a strong emphasis on design experiments through field work in a real-life context: prison.