Research Catalogue

About this exposition

Rhythm is everywhere. It is breathing and beating hearts; it is the sound of a drum and the repetitive carved lines in stone done by a prehistoric human being. It is the flickering screen and a million digital processes too small to see. It is engraved in the depth of our minds and bodies. It is remembering. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, rhythm (Greek rhythmos, derived from rhein, “to flow”) is an ordered alternation of contrasting elements, and according to Roland Barthes both painting and writing started with the same gesture, one which was neither figurative nor semantic, but simply rhythmic. In this exposition we are approaching rhythm through contemporary artistic and archaeological gestures, starting with some engraved and painted lines drawn by our stone age ancestors in France and South Africa. The participants are all from the artisitc research project: Matter, Gesture and Soul, which is based at the Art Academy in Bergen.

type	research exposition
keywords	Art, Archaeology, Palimpsest, Rhythm, Pulse, Interdisciplinarity, Sound, Seminar, Science, Music, Visuality, Mesolithic, Prehistory, Contemporaneity, Drawing, Videoart, Installation, Sculpture, Photography, AI, Hypnotic, gesture
date	20/11/2023
last modified	10/05/2025
status	in progress
share status	public
affiliation	KMD/UiB
copyright	Geir Harald Samuelsen, MGS (Eamon O`Kane, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Elin Tanding Sørensen, Iegor Reznikoff, Dragos Gheorghiu, Mihaela Montaianu, Asbjørn Grønstad, Theodor Barth, Viggo Kruger, Åsil Bøthun, Petro Cecilia Keene)
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	British English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2043704/2186421
external link	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/837154/837155

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license	Public domain
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name	Viggo
copyright	kruger
license	Public domain
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copyright	Gheorghiu, Montaianu
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copyright	Bjarte Bjørkum (Photo)
license	Public domain
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copyright	Bjarte Bjørkum (Photo)
license	Public domain
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copyright	Bjarte Bjørkum
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copyright	Bjarte Bjørkum
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copyright	Bjarte Bjørkum (Photo)
license	Public domain
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copyright	Bjarte Bjørkum (Photo)
license	Public domain
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copyright	Bjarte Bjørkum (Photo)
license	Public domain
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name	somnifera_bergen_final
copyright	Elin Tanding Sørensen
license	Public domain
usages	video

name	Histories of Memories II 2022
copyright	MVE
license	All rights reserved
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name	Into the Stone.CD.16 bit 44.1
copyright	ghs
license	Public domain
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name	Reznikoff_church_22
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license	Public domain
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copyright	samuelsen
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copyright	reznikoff
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name	RHYTHM manus 2023
copyright	Geir
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name	Fig. 3. The Room of the fresco
copyright	Geir
license	All rights reserved
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name	Fig. 4. Overview of the fresco
copyright	Geir
license	All rights reserved
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name	Models as rhythmic investigations
copyright	Theo Barth
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