Vibeke Frost Andersen

Vibeke Frost Andersen recently graduated from The National Academy of The Arts in Oslo with a MFA in Art and Public Space. She also holds a BA(Hons) in Graphic Communication from University of Wales Institute Cardiff, a Norwegian post-graduate diploma in education and has completed university courses in art history, sculpture and photography in Norway and the UK. Frost Andersen has run a local design practice for several years, and has participated in art projects and - exhibitions both locally, nationally and internationally. She lectures on a variety of art-related topics, and has developed syllabi and administered new educational opportunities within the arts in Norway.

How does places acquire meaning? What is it that gives us a sense of belonging? Through her practice, Frost Andersen seeks to respond to these questions through an investigation of edge lands, voids and forgotten space. Considering economic, social and political structures governing the appearance and perception of landscape, both physical and mental, her research projects asks if it is possible to see, represent and understand some of the larger forces shaping our time. Frost Andersen works mainly in the media of photography, installation and social interference. By engaging with a site and people connected to it, the work evolves along a path of enquiry and possible outcomes.

The works are executed in a mix of low key materials and digital technology, alternating mediums by how they are related to the underlying idea and how it sits in the public sphere. By which medium is information about a specific topic usually mediated an accessed? What are the common ways of representing a specific theme, and what are the potentialities and limitations of those technologies and techniques? By working with material in this way, Frost Andersen explores the possibility of generating other perspectives with a new local public. The works follow each other, with discoveries made in one project forming the basis for the next.

In this way Frost Andersens practice connects to the overarching problem influencing most of her work: That late capitalism brings with it a sense of totalisation implacably at work everywhere, and that our lives are ruled by abstractions of such immense vastness, invisibility and complexity that they can only be understood parts at a time - if at all.

Angelica Falkeling

Angelica Falkeling lives and works in Rotterdam, NL. They graduated with a BFA from Malmö Art Academy and the International Academy of Art Palestine in 2014 and with an MFA from the Piet Zwart Institute in 2017. They received the Swedish Art Grants Committee one year working grant in 2017 and the Mondriaan Fonds Stipend for Emerging Artists in 2018. They make site-specific installations and work with exhibition formats that include live performance, textile, sculpture, moving image, and text-based works. They are concerned about the economic and ecological aspects of artistic production from a queer, feminist, and intersectional point of view. In the scale of the domestic, their persona often appears as a queer instigator, tailor, and storyteller who experiment with different textile craft techniques passed on through cross-generational dialogues, humor and geological time. Their work departs from and within the body. They respond to sites via material recycling and social relations. In their collaborative work, they think through emotional adaptation in relation to the social. They are also trained as a seamstress and regularly create costume designs and take on sewing commissions for other artists such as; Rana Hamadeh, Katherine MacBride, Pilar Mata Dupont, Evelyn Taocheng Wang and Katarina Zdjelar.

They currently working on a chapter based exhibition together with Selma Sjöstedt and Sara Lindeborg at Signal | center for contemporary art in Malmö. Their work has recently been part of The Hoodie at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, Emotional Channel at Rib in Rotterdam, OC, L.A The Car Show: Kraftfahrzeughaftpflichtversicherung a self-organized RV touring exhibition in California, USA, A tip’s felt dance at Available & The Rat in Rotterdam, Gift Economy at Pracownia Portretu Gallery in Łódź, Poland, tongue break inhaling at CCA Glasgow, Scotland, and Teaser, Tormentors, and the Infinite Dog at CAC Brétigny in Paris, France. Since 2018 they are also one of the facilitators of the queer art and community space Tender Center Rotterdam.

Falkeling’s participation in the residency Live or Buy is supported by CBK (Center for Visual Art) Rotterdam.

Rina Eide Løvaasen

Rina Eide Løvaasen’s (Porsgrunn, 1988) work combines astrology, mythology, archaeology, occult biology, pop culture and science fiction to predict the future by resuscitating the past and allegorically point to the mistakes we made to cause the anthropocene. Løvaasen received her MFA from the Malmö Art Academy in 2015 and is based in Malmö and Kragerø. The following year she received the Ellen Trotzig fund from Malmö Art Museum and Malmö Stad.

In 2017 she had a solo show at Galleri CC, Malmö, and was most recently represented at Brusfabrikken, Kragerø. Previous solos exhibitions include: KHM, Malmö; Galleri Blunk, Trondheim; and artmade gallery, Copenhagen. Two person shows include: ArtSafari, Bucharest and Makeriet, Malmö. Her work has also been shown at venues including: the Malmö Art Museum, Prague Quadrennial, and Liljevalchs Art Hall, Stockholm.

Esra Duzen Sandemose

Esra Duzen (1983) is originally from Istanbul, Turkey and lives in Oslo. After more than a decade of working in the insurance sector in Istanbul and London, she decided to study art and moved to Oslo to dedicate herself to becoming an artist full time. She currently studies Fine Arts at The Oslo National Academy of Art (KHIO).

Esra's passion in art comes from her strong belief in people and change. She incorporates themes of enlightenment and rebellion against oppression of all forms in her art. Her practice involves installation, painting and drawing. She is currently expanding her work to include digital and analogue animation.

Marte Dahl

Marte H S Dahl (b. 1989, NO) is an artist based in Oslo. She holds a BFA from the Academy of Fine Art, Oslo (2018).

Her works revolve around themes such as the body, movement, material, feminism, honesty and desperation, mostly taking the form of live performance and video. In working intuitively in front of the camera in a clean space, with a few rules or props, she creates a space in the meeting between the object, space, movement and body, allowing anything to happen.

She explores how one can be drawn to one’s aversions, using her own as inspiration when working with projects. She has exhibited at Sommerøya Music Festival, Rom for Kunst og Arkitektur, Galleri Ramfjord and Akademirommet.

Image 1: uten tittel, 2018, Video installation, during graduation show “Neste Næste Nästa”, Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo. (photo: Istvan Virag)

Image 2: Still from video, uten tittel, 2018

Image 3: Still from video documentation of performance "Recital No. 1", 2017 (photo: Mari Storm-Gran)

alex cruse

alex cruse is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in Oakland, California. Since 2016 she has worked as gallery curator within Artists' Television Access, which received an Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts grant in 2019.

With Kevin CK Lo, cruse performs as DROUGHT SPA, a multimedia and performance vehicle for technocapitalist critique. They have performed across the U.S. and world. cruse is the author of CONTRAVERSE (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2017) and ZERO ENERGY EXPERIMENTAL PILE (Compline, 2020). Other writing may be found in Social Text, ARMED CELL, AMERARCANA, SFMOMA Open Space, CLOG Journal, bæst: a journal of queer forms & affects, Elderly, Tripwire (forthcoming), and elsewhere.

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Brandon Covington Sam-Sumana

Devoted to a critical media performance project entitled Black Hydra's Discharge Springs Forth Errantly From Her Many Mouths, emerging multimedia artist and producer Brandon Covington Sam-Sumana works to interrogate matters related to transience, narrative structure, and system metabolism. Their interrogations have spawned music projects, objects of generative design, forays into speculative finance, video, and visual art. Brandon was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Juan Covelli

Juan Covelli is an artist living and working in London. His work has focused on new materialities generated by the digital era; in particular, on the dynamics and approaches of the physical within the digital world. In the last few years, he has been exploring the relationship between technology, heritage, archaeology and digital colonialism. In his execution, he employs photography, video, 3D printing, coding, and data streaming, where data manipulation of the image is used to produce installations, as well as web-based works.

Recent shows include: How to dust the surface (2018) Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, Warrington, UK; Life 2.0 The wrong Biennale (2017) Online; Neixcuitilamatl (2017) ADM Galería, México City, México; Connecting Columns (2017) Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India; Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (2016) Moscow, Russia.

Laura Cooper

Laura Cooper (b. 1983) is a British artist living and working between the UK and New York City, US. Group exhibitions include Play, Game, Place, State, Collyer Bristow Gallery London UK, Voice and The Lens, IKON Gallery Birmingham [2012] touring to Rich Mix Cinema London [2014]. VideoGud program Stockholm Sweden [2015] Eyes As Sieves, Global Committee Space Brooklyn NY.

Solo exhibitions include Nomadic Glow, Centro ADM Mexico City Soft Revolutions, Space In Between Gallery London [2013]. Residencies include Shrewsbury International School Bangkok with the British Arts Council Thailand [2008-9], SAP Seoksu Market International residency in Anyang City, South Korea [2010], IPark in CT, USA [2012]. She was awarded the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance [2012/13] and an International Artist Development Fund by the Arts Council England for her project at LAN 360 Degrees Biennale, Mongolia [2014].

Cooper currently co-directs Global Committee in Brooklyn NY. She received her MFA in Fine Art Media at The Slade School of Fine Art London [2012] and BFA from Glasgow School of Art [2006].

Video: Nomadic Glow - A Colour Poem[For Hyesou's Herd], 2015, HD Video

This Color Poem is part of a larger project and installation made up of charts, video and sculpture called Nomadic Glow. Nomadic Glow attempts to record—in a deliberately limited, schematic fashion—the elaborate naming system that Mongolian nomadic herdsman use to identify each individual horse in their herd, which is based on their nuanced perception of horse coat colors. When visiting the Mongolian Steppe, I brought with me a range of industrial paint color chips and invited Hyesou—a local nomadic herdsman—to match the horses in his herd through this limited selection of paint colors. The poem is the result of his selections. The voice in the video has been auto-tuned and restricted to a color scale where color tone corresponds to musical tone.

Morgane Clément-Gagnon

Morgane Clément-Gagnon is a Canadian self-taught visual artist and photographer whose images explore the uncanny through optics, modified cameras and color study. She draws inspiration from her background as a philosophy academic and professor. Her images are a reminder that our existence is complex, strange and fragile.

She has exhibited at institutions including the Museum of Jewish Montreal, McCord Museum and Espace F. Morgane currently works and lives in Montreal.

Elenie Chung

Elenie Chung is a filmmaker born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago and currently based in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Her films bring the everyday into sublimity and the unfamiliar to the everyday. Before attending the University of California: Los Angeles to pursue an MFA in Film Directing/Production, she worked at Women Make Movies, a non-profit feminist media arts organization based in New York City and also served as an assistant for artist Karina Skvirsky. At UCLA, she was a recipient of the Edie and Lew Wasserman Production Fellowship.

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Edwin Cabascango

Edwin Cabascango (EC/NO) - professional dancers based in Oslo. He started dancing in Quito, Ecuador at the contemporary dance school Frente De Danza Independiente (FDI) dance school and Metrodanza dance school, Ballet Nacional del Ecuador (BNE), as well as with different ensembles practicing modern and contemporary dance. Later he continued his dance studies at The Norwegian College of Dance (NDH) and also studied performing arts and movement at The University College of Eurythmy in Oslo.

After finishing his education, Cabascango performed in Gullhanen with the Sean Curran dance company in the Bergen National Opera. He has attended workshops by Tom Weksler, Linda Kapetanea and Jozef Frucek, Ultima Vez, Sidi Larbi Cherakoi, Cullberg Ballet, Physical Momentum Project, Martin Kilvady, Akram Khan and others. He has worked with artists including Terry Araujo, Eddie Borgues Lopez, Ingrid Midgard Fiksdal, Marianne Kjærsund, Monica Emilie Herstad and Sean Curran among others.

In 2014 he choreographed and performed Green Tea in both Oslo and Trondheim. The same year he started developing his Texture and movement system, which he has presented at Contemporary Dance Workshop at The National M.K. Ciurlionis School of Art, Vilnius Contact Improvisation Festival (Lithuania) and Oslo Kontakt Impro. He has been practicing different somatic movements and martial arts since 2004.

Emma Bäcklund

Emma Bäcklund is a Swedish multi-disciplinary artist based in Berlin and London. Working with photography, performance, sculpture and writing she explores the body, its boundaries and consequences of its environment. She investigates social systems, power relations and cognitive impact on the physical body. While questioning preexisting structures, habit and gesture she strives to invent unexplored patterns of form, movement and thinking processes. The physical relationship is essential in her process of making and the photograph as a performative document explore elements of gesture. There are slippages between image, object and subject.

Emma received her MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art (2017) and her BA in Photography from London College of Communication, University of the Arts London (2015). Her upcoming solo exhibition Clench in Leeds (10 - 17 Oct ) explore contradictions in meaning between materials in relation to body, mimicry and power relations.

Tone Bjerkaas

Tone Bjerkaas, born in 1987, lives and works in Oslo and her birthplace Tromsø. Bjerkaas' works with clothing and textile based craft to explore the fields of fashion, art and political activism.

Bjerkaas is currently situated at VORTA atelier in Middelalderparken, where she is a member of EUFORISK the collective for experimental club culture, as well as working as designer for the art & public space project Detroit Kunsthalle. Last year she received a grant from SNN-stiftelsen to launch her first un-gendered clothing collection. Bjerkaas holds a BFA from Gerrit Rietveld Academie (2015) and is a MA candidate at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts due to graduate in 2020.

Noor Bhangu

Noor Bhangu is a curator and scholar, whose practice employs cross-cultural encounters to interrogate issues of diaspora and indigeneity in post- and settler-colonial contexts. She completed her BA in the History of Art and her MA in Cultural Studies: Curatorial Practices at the University of Winnipeg.

Her written work has appeared in academic and public journals, including Black Flash, gal-dem, Moveable Type: The University College London English Journal, Public Parking, Uncommon Sense, and C Magazine. Her curatorial practice includes projects: Overlapping Violent Histories: A Curatorial Investigation into Difficult Knowledge (2018), womenofcolour@soagallery (2018), Not the Camera, But the Filing Cabinet: Performative Body Archives in Contemporary Art (2018), and Digitalia (2019). In 2018, she began her PhD in Communication and Culture at Ryerson and York University in Toronto.

Lisa Andrine Bernhoft-Sjødin

Lisa Andrine Bernhoft-Sjødin is a curator, freelance writer, translator, producer, and occationally an exhibition guide and mediator.

She contributes regularly to the camera-based art magazine Objektiv Journal (OJ), her latest project; a review-series at OJ with ArtConstructs that runs through February 2020. The platform ArtConstructs launched the fall of 2018 as an IG account promoting futurity by combating white washing in the arts.

Lisa Andrine is also the programme curator for the inaugural contemporary art exhibition 2020 at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design.

Olivia Berkowicz

Olivia Berkowicz is a curator and editor based in Stockholm. She works at the intersection of critical visuality studies, contemporary art theory and psychoanalysis. This manifests in work exploring geopolitics and human geography. Her previous studies include an MA in Curatorial Studies and a BA in History of Art, at Stockholm University and Goldsmiths College, University of London respectively. For the former, she completed a thesis titled Ecologies of Care and Intimacy – Curatorial Practices in the Capitalocene. The work sought to explore curatorial methodologies of intimacy, relatedness and non-capitalist modes of production.

Recently she worked at Sörmlands Museum where she co-curated Mending a Broken World, a retrospective exhibition on the Hungarian-Swedish artist Lenke Rothman, with contributions by contemporary artists Alina Chaiderov and Gery Georgieva. She is one of the founders of Ferrara Residency, an international residency program in Ferrara, Italy. Since 2017, artists and researchers have been invited to explore forms of togetherness while reflecting on means of precarious and affective labour under capitalist conditions.

Image 1. Sensory Futures: Consciousness razing (2018), Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm. Photo: Emmeli Person

Image 2. Lenke Rothman & Alina Chaiderov - Mending a Broken World (2018-2019), Sörmlands Museum, Nyköping. Curated with Joanna Nordin. Photo: Valdemar Asp

Image 3. A Fluid Haze, Ferrara Residency (2018), Ferrara. Untitled degraded painting by Ruth Angel Edwards. Photo: Andrea Bighi

Image 4. Who Cares? Ferrara Residency (2017), Ferrara. Photo: Karolina Mikeskova

Anton Benois

Anton Benois (b.1979 Moscow, USSR) is a Norway-based Australian artist whose work collects found, made and commissioned objects within environments that trouble their worth. Benois' practice-based artistic research explores themes of provenance and dispossession, the ritualisation of the everyday and the universality of dissociative flows in the digital age. 

Benois graduated from the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art (NTNU) in May 2019. He has exhibited at Trondheim Kunstmuseum Gråmølna, Small Projects (Tromsø, NO), Kudos Gallery (Sydney, AU) and First Draft Gallery (Sydney, AU) with both individual and collaborative projects. His MFA graduate work will be shown as part of Statens Kunstutstilling Høstutstillingen in Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo, NO) in 2019. 

Image 1: 'Distant Relatives,' 2019, Trondheim Kunstmuseum Gråmølna (Trondheim, NO) materials: commissioned oil painting, 3D printed frame, bench, sound. Image Credit: Lili Zanetta

Image 2: ‘Come Inside Me,’ 2018, Tromsø, Norway. Site-specific installation using 57 recycled radios and fm transmitters in northern Norways oldest wooden kiosk. 

Image 3: ‘On a Clear Day you can see into Forever’ 2018, Video Still

Genevieve Bellevea

Genevieve Belleveau's relational practice informs her live performances, writing, video, photo, and new media investigations.

Her work has been featured in Frieze, Broadly, i-D, WIRED, The New Yorker, The Daily Beast, Playboy, PAPER, Bomb Magazine, Art21, Art Papers and Rhizome.org. She has shown at Moma PS1, Ekebergparken, DAM Gallery, Vox Populi, Transfer Gallery, Eyebeam, VOGT Gallery, Witte de With Contemporary, Garden LA, Murmurs, Art In General and Lilith Performance Studio, among others. She lives in Los Angeles, CA where she and her partner co-run Sacred Sadism,a conceptual BDSM tool company and social practice piece.

Image 1, Pressed Themba for Sacred Sadism, 2018.

Image 2, Seeking Arrangement live-streamed performance for "Girls Who Are Boys". 

Image 3, Elegy to the Dominator Model performance for "Soppen" festival at Ekebergparken, Oslo, NO, 2016. Curated by Tor Erik Boe and Jennie Bringaker.

Image 4, Pressed Elizabeth for solo exhibition "Circlusion" at Garden LA, 2018. Curated by Britte Geijer and Zachary Korol-Gold.

Siri Austeen

Siri Austeen is a Norwegian sound artist based in Oslo. Austeen is concerned with the relationship between sound, place and identity, working at the intersection of audio and visual art. Her interest in process-oriented art and extended vocal techniques in the early 80s became a bridge over to time-based media such as sound. Today her work focuses on the impact various listening strategies have on our reception of reality and the personal experience of an investigative and sensory self. Relations between individual, collective and ecological structures often form an underlying focus in her work. 

Sound and the act of listening relate to the passing of time, and accordingly to how time is spent. In her ongoing project, Sonic Propagation, the artist uses transducer technology to transmit sound by using various physical materials as membranes, allowing her to explore new approaches towards sound, place and reality. Austeen’s artistic practice is based on field recordings, site-specific installations, participatory projects, musical productions, performance and commissioned art projects. She is recently engaged in South North Sound Exchange, a commissioned art project at Sørumsand High School. She is part of Reality-based Audio Workshop – a collaborative project with Nordic sound artists.