PHD 

 

Research

 


 

Matter, Gesture and Soul 

 

A cross disciplinary artistic research project, (start October 2019), that departs from, and investigates several encounters and alignments between contemporary art and archaeology. There are two geographical hubs in the project: Fontainebleau in France, and the Blombos Cave in South Africa.

•  The goal is to create autonomous and collaborative artistic, poetic and scientific expressions and responses to prehistoric art and its contemporary images. It seeks to stimulate a deeper understanding of contemporary, and prehistoric artistic expression and the contemporary, and prehistoric human condition. The participating artists and archaeologists will create autonomous projects, but also interact with each other in workshops, seminars, and collaborative artistic and scientific projects.

•  The secondary goal of Matter, Gesture and Soul is to establish an international cross disciplinary research network at the University of Bergen, and strengthen the expertise in cross disciplinary artistic, and scientific work with art as the driving tool. The project is kindly supported by DIKU, UiB, and Global Challenges (UiB).


Geir Harald Samuelsen 

geir.samuelsen@uib.no

 



An Artistic Research Project 

at The Art Academy,

Department of Contemporary Art,

Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design


University of Bergen


 

 

 

PROJECT WORK:

 

RESISTING NATURENOVEMBER 2023

 

SYMPOSIUM

at Knut Knaus, KMD, Bergen,

13th of November, 2022


 

 


THE OCHRE WORKSHOP

(With SapienCE)

at Bergen University Museum,

14th of November, 2023

THE ACADEMY STUDENT OCHRE WORKSHOP

(Painting Class, KMD)

at KMD, November, 2023

 


Nicolas Bourriaud (F) 

The Sublime in the Anthropocene (Keynote)

Heidi Gustafsen (US)

What does ochre want from us?

Elizabeth Velliky (US)

Ochre lifeworlds: perspectives from archaeology and deep time

Cyril de Commarque (F)

Signs in nature, from memories to future, a relation to the surrounding

Marte Johnslien (N)

TiO2: The Materiality of White


 

 

 




TRACING RHYTHMDECEMBER 2022

 

EXHIBITION

at Rom61, KMD, Bergen,

December 2022

SYMPOSIUM

at Knut Knaus, KMD, Bergen,

6th of December 2022

CATALOGUE 

Exhibition, symposium and articles

EXPOSITION (RC)

Text, audio and pictures

 

 

 




THE PALIMPSEST / DIG IT UP AND PUT IT IN A BAGSEPTEMBER 2021

 

EXHIBITION - Dig it up and put it in a bag

at Bergen University Museum, Bergen

September 2021

CATALOGUE - The Palimpsest

Exhibition and articles