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
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
EXPOSITION (RC)
Text, audio and pictures
EXHIBITION - Dig it up and put it in a bag
at Bergen University Museum, Bergen
September 2021
CATALOGUE - The Palimpsest
Exhibition and articles