Liv Kristin Holmberg

Kunstliturgien - om kunstens grenser
Norway °1980
research interests: music, music aesthetics, music theater, Performance art, Theology, philosophy, ritual, ritual art, crossdisiplinary, Norwegian Artistic Research Programme, utopia, sound art, public art, Religion
affiliation: Norwegian Music Academy
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Kunstliturgien can be described as a ritualistic music theatre based on utopian philosophy, in which I develop self-made liturgical elements aiming at life’s existential questions and transitions; creating a fundament for a metaphysical reality-theatre.


The Boundaries of Art. This project is both performative and discursive: as well as an examination of the potential of the church room as an artistic arena, it will also test its capability as a transformative and powerful public space.


The performative potential of church musicians. The project is simultaneously an examination of church musicians and their performative potential. I have an ambition to develop and extend the role of the organ player, and hence lay down the general outlines for a performative aesthetics, based on my own and others experiences regarding varying interpretations of liturgical organ music and artistic experiments of ritualistic musical drama.


The development of liturgical music. As part of the artistic research, a collaboration with two to three composers is initiated, where we mutually (jointly) will develop a concept and the musical material, specially composed for the project with me as a performer.


Art and religion. The church was once the natural venue for music and art. Is this still the case or does the church operate in an aesthetic vacuum? In the light of the Reformation Jubilee 2017, and as an overarching idea, the project will reflect over existing as well as non-existing parallels between church art and contemporary art since the reformation, in a Norwegian context.


Kunstliturgien is an artistic research on the relation between belief and art, religion and aesthetics, with an spiritual and existential ambition to discover possible, transformative dimensions in art.


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  • Kunstliturgien - om kunstens grenser (last edited: 2020) author(s): Liv Kristin Holmberg This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    Kunstens grenser. Prosjektet er både er performativt og diskursivt: Kunstliturgien er en undersøkelse av kirkerommets potensial som kunstarena og en utprøving av kunstens grenser og stedsforandrende kraft i kirkerommet som offentlig rom. Man kan si at kirken befinner seg i et estetisk vakuum. Dette eventuelle tomrom kan tenkes som et mulighetsrom. Kirkemusikerens performative potensial. Prosjektet er samtidig en undersøklese av kirkemusikerens performative potensial. Prosjektet innbefatter en ambisjon om å utvikle og utvide organistens rolle og utvikle en performativ estetikk for musikere, basert på egne erfaringer og kunstnerisk utvikling av rituelt musikkteater og liturgisk orgelspill. Utvikling av liturgisk musikk. Som del av det kunstneriske utviklingsarbeidet inngår samarbeid med et utvalg komponister- der vi i fellesskap vil utvikle musikalske material og konsepter, spesialskrevet for prosjektet og meg som utøver. Kunst og religion. Kirken var, en gang i tiden, stedet for kunst. Er det fortsatt slik? I lys av Reformasjonsjubileet i 2017, innehar prosjektet, på et overordnet plan, en refleksjon over spennet mellom samtidskunsten og kirkekunsten siden reformasjonen, i norsk kontekst. Parallelt er Kunstliturgien en undersøkelse og refleksjon over forholdet mellom tro og kunst, estetikk og religion. Prosjektet har også en spirituell og eksistensiell ambisjon: Kunstliturgien er en undersøkelse av kunstens transformerende dimensjon.
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  • Smitte som skapelsesmaskin (2021) author(s): Liv Kristin Holmberg published in: VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
    The exposition ”Smitte som skapelsemaskin” (Contagion as a creation machine) is based on the artistic project ”Kroppsliturgiske eksperimenter” that explores the boundaries emerging when performing arts and human bodies enter the sacred space of a church. To what extent does the church as a social and architectural environment, shape human conceptions of bodies? What might the history of theology and of the Christian church tell humans about our relationship to our own bodies? The pandemic has put the above questions in a new light: It made the skin a potential carrier of life-threatening infections. At the same time, we suffered the lack of mutual human touch and of physical presence. Caught between the fear of being infected by touch and a hunger for being touched, the project ”Kroppsliturgiske eksperimenter” appears both challenging and attractive. Crisis has produced a desire for new forms of touch, in art and in human life. This contribution to VIS was created in collaboration and dialogue with performer Hanna Barfod, priest, professional singer and research fellow Mathias Gillebo, film photographer and editor Mats Christian Rude Halvorsen and priest Arne Jor.
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  • Gestaltande... (last edited: 2022) author(s): Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano, Liv Kristin Holmberg, Mark Douglas Edmund Price, Cha Blasco, K Benedikte L Esperi This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    Vad innebär det att gestalta Guds kärlek? Denna inledande fråga upplöses i nya riktningar och förståelser: 'Gestalta är att leva'. 'Gestaltande är en människas idé om Guds kärlek'. 'Gestalta är att skapa skönhet' och ’fördjupad medvetenhet om små rörelser'. 'Gestalta innebär att inkludera'. 'Gestalta är att vara Kristi tjänare'. 'Gestalta är ett tillblivande'. Ord har under våren 2020 'tagit gestalt' genom existentiella samtal mellan anställda och ideella i Carl Johans pastorat i Göteborg. Dessa ord och tankar formar grunden till en serie konstnärligt gestaltande (existentiella) laboratorier, som i sin tur får resultera i en performance installation med premiär under 'diakonins månad', september 2021.
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