OSLO
OPEN AT BJØRKA
Welcome to Oslo Open at Bjørka!
This year we have a varied program, with a guest show and artist talk, slide
and video show with the Bjorka-artists themselves, plus a seminar. Please find
the detailed program below.
GOBOLUX
Opening Thursday August 28, 7-9 pm
For the first long weekend of Oslo Open at Bjorka we have the honour
of presenting Gobolux, who will be showing the video sculpture Untitled
1: Trompe
l’oeil in the project room.
BJØRKA MEMBERS
Bjorka’s own artists will be presenting themselves in the studio space
with a slideshow and portfolios.
VIDEO
WORKS
Opening Thursday September 4, 7–9 pm.
The second long weekend Bjorka will be showing
Video-works in the project room, with pieces by Bjorka-members Kjetil Snuggerud,
Katja Høst, Signe Marie Andersen and Birgitte Sigmundstad.
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GOBOLUX is Andrew Nelson and Kim Su Theiler’s artband. The New York-based
artists Andrew and Kim Su experiment with the video genre to create pieces that
are at once fleeting and tangible, transparent and opaque. This is displayed
in the work Untitled 1: Trompe l’oeil by dramatizing the light in a
room set for stage. The heart of the piece is to create what cannot be found,
placing
the viewer right in it.
“If we cannot reanimate those who only exist in our memories, maybe
it is possible to make ourselves as vaporous as the flickering, fading image,
and thus for those moments exist in the same world,” Andrew and Kim Su
explain. In that moment we are both actors and viewers, trapped in the gesture
of looking.
Bio: Andrew Nelson
In the summer of 1984 Andrew started working in NYC, and eventually became the
studio photographer he is today. Throughout those years he played in the experimental
band, Azalia Snail, the punk rock band, The Thing, an indie rock band, Poem Rocket,
and today has come full circle to be the drummer in the punk rockband, The Racket.
E-mail: andrew@gobolux.com.
Bio: Kim Su Theiler
Born in Korea 1970, joined Gobolux in 2002. Please contact Kim Su at kimsu@gobolux.com for
list of works.
Credits: A Gobolux Production © Gobolux 2003
Sound recording: Tom Damiani
Special thanks to: Jan Hovø, Alexis Raskin, Kjetil Snuggerud, Elton
Optik, Jeremy Chien, Fred Smith and Eline Mugaas.
We are looking forward to seeing you all!
PROGRAM
August 28–31
Opening Thursdag August 28, 7–9 pm
Project room: Exhibition with GOBOLUX – Untitled 1: Trompe l‘oeil
Studio: Slideshow and portfolios by Bjorka members.
Artist talk: Andrew Nelson and Kim Su Theiler from Gobolux talk with
Eline Mugaas
Saturday August 30, 5 pm
September 4–7
Opening Thursdag September 4, 7–9 pm
Project room and studio: Video-works, slideshow and portfolios by Bjorka
members.
Seminar with Birgitte Sigmundstad,
Saturday September 6, 5 pm
Opening hours: Thurs-Fri 7–9 pm, Sat-Sun 12 am–7
pm
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Stiftelsen Bjorka is a workshop for artists that work with photography
and video. The studio is composed of the project room, dark room and
work space. Bjørka has shown exhibitions and projects in its unique
project room in Hegdehaugsveien 25, Oslo. A new series of shows was started
in the fall of 2002 and will end in December 2003. The project is supported
by Norsk Kulturrad.
Stiftelsen Bjorka
Location: Hegdehaugsveien 25, 0352 Oslo
Tel. PR representative Claudia C. Sandor: (+47) 984 54 866
E-mail: bjorka@kunst.no
BjorkaWeb: http://kunst.no/bjorka