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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.

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    • (Main Page) Tracing Rhythm (An exposition by Geir Harald Samuelsen and the Artistic Research project MGS (UiB))
    • (Text) Iegor Reznikoff: "Rock Art and Sounds in and around the Fontainebleau Forest"
    • (Text) Viggo Krüger: "The Riff, Motherese and Ancient Stone Engravings"
    • (Text) Asbjørn Grønstad: "Rhythm in Moving Image Media"
    • Exhibition Statements 01-09
    • Rhythm in Mysteries – Mysteries of Rhythms. The Great Dionysiac Fresco in Villa dei Misteri, Pompeii. In the beginning was rhythm…, Torill Christine Lindstrøm
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    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.
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