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osloBIENNALEN FIRST EDITION 2019-2024, Reader 2019. New, Ongoing, Complete
Description
In this publication, you can find all the art and film projects launched by osloBIENNALEN FIRST EDITION 2019 - 2024 during its inaugural year of 2019. Read about the biennial, the participants, as well as the art-, film, - and public outreach projects. Each project is accompanied by essays about each project.
Participants and projects in the 2019 reader include:
Adrián Balseca (EC); Marcelo Cidade (BR); Jonas Dahlberg (SE);Oliver Godow(DE); Katja Høst (NO); Javier Izquierdo (EC); Michelangelo Miccolis (IT/MX); Alexander Rishaug (NO); Knut Åsdam (NO), Mikaela Assolent (FR); Benjamin Bardinet (FR); Julien Bismuth (FR); Carole Douillard (FR); Ed D’Souza (UK); Mette Edvardsen (NO); Jan Freuchen, Sigurd Tenningen, Jonas Høgli Major (NO); Hlynur Hallsson (IS); Mônica Nador and Bruno Oliveira (BR); Rose Hammer(NO/ES); Lisa Tan (US/SE). Completed works by October 2019 by: Gaylen Gerber(USA); Marianne Heier (NO), Michael Ross (USA); Øystein Wyller Odden (NO).
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And Their Spirits Live On
Author: Marianne Heier
Publisher: osloBIENNALEN FIRST EDITION 2019-2024 and Motto Books
Language: English
Pages: 109
Size: 28 x 21 cm
Weight: 612 g
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 9782940524648
Price: €15.00
Description:
This book is published as part of Marianne Heier's project for osloBIENNALEN FIRST EDITION 2019-2024.
Marianne Heier performed her project And Their Spirits Live On, first at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan and then at Oslo’s former Museum of Contemporary Art.
How can a centuries-old plaster cast of a two thousand-year-old sculpture speak to us today? Plaster copies of ancient Greek and Roman sculptures have formed the basis for much of the history of art. Right up until modern times artists in the western tradition learned to draw and shape works from such models.
When the National Gallery was built, the central building housed a collection of these classical plaster casts. Marianne Heier has chosen to make a performance among the plaster copies at the Academy of Art in Milan where she herself studied, and later in the empty bank premises which until recently housed the Museum of Contemporary Art – drawing attention to the potential power in these figures. They are archetypes that we still refer to, although we are often unaware of this.
Heier’s performance takes the form of a museum guided tour in which she takes the role of guide, situating the plaster sculptures in wider histories. Using texts taken from classical mythology and political resistance movements, she shows the potentially radical possibilities of the sculptures. The mythology from which these classical figures are taken is full of critiques of power, gender issues and identity politics that perhaps suggest a need for civil courage in the political climate of our own times.
The performance was co-curated by osloBIENNALEN curators and Alessandra Pioselli and was done in collaboration with students and employees at the Project School in Oslo.
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Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine. A book on reading, writing, memory and forgetting in a library of living books
English
536 pages
Softcover, 17 × 22.5 cm
ISBN 9788867493876
€ 22/ $ 25
Edited by Mette Edvardsen, Kristien Van den Brande, Victoria Pérez Royo, Runa Borch Skolseg
Texts by Mette Edvardsen, Kristien Van den Brande, Johan Sonnenschein, Bruno De Wachter, Sébastien Hendrickx, Lizzie Thomson, Sébastien Hendrickx, Victoria Pérez Royo, Jon Refsdal Moe, Bojana Cvejić, Melanie Fieldseth, Jeroen Peeters, Lara Khalidi, Emiliano Battista, Thomas Bîrzan, Susanne Christensen, Olivia Fairweather, Laurence Rassel
Description:
The project Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine starts as a group of people who dedicate themselves to memorizing a book of their choice. Together they form a library collection consisting of living books. The “books” pass their time in libraries reading, memorizing, talking to each other, going for walks outside, prepared to be read by a visitor. The readings take place as intimate one-to-one encounters where the “book” recites its content to the reader. Over time the project grew into a library collection of more than eighty living books in twelve different languages across Europe and beyond.
The project developed into a bookshop, a publishing house and an exhibition format, and hosted workshops, lectures and talks and, eventually, a book. The publication brings together eighteen text contributions from artists and theoreticians with a varying degree of proximity to the project. Their reflections touch on memory and forgetting; on the practice of learning by heart and its corporeality; on reading, re-reading, reading aloud, reading for oneself and for others; on writing, re-writing and translating; on invisible and impossible literatures; on alternative temporalities and their respective economies; on archives, libraries, bodies and other sites for conservation; on the problems of authorship and originality; on immateriality and its discontents; on the equivocal borders between reality and fiction; and on the strange and unforeseeable dynamics of people and stories coming together, disseminating and unexpectedly crossing paths again. The second part of the book is a visual essay that documents the processes of memorizing, reading and re-writing.
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Y (59°54’54,76”N 10°44’46,03”Ø)
(2LPS)
Author: Alexander Rishaug
Publisher: osloBIENNALEN FIRST EDITION 2019-2024, Motto Books
Language: English
Pages:
Size: 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.9 cm
Weight: 680 g Binding: -
ISBN: 9788269020472
Availability: In stock
Price: €30.00
To acquire a physical copy of the LP's including publication visit Motto Books. The double LP can also be bought at Tronsmo Bokhandel, Filter and Baklengs in Oslo, and at Mondo Books in Tromsø. Click here to read more about the project.
Product Description
The H-block, or Høyblokka as it is called in Norwegian, was the Government Quarter’s main building. The was building was completed in 1958. Architect Erling Viksjø was inspired by the French modernist Le Corbusier, and set out to create an elegant, monumental but sober functionalism.
On 22 July 2011 at 15:25:22 (CEST), a car bomb was detonated outside H-block. The car, a Volkswagen Crafter, was parked just outside the main entrance. The bomb killed eight people and injured a further two hundred. It also left a deep crater in the ground and caused major damage to the building, which nevertheless remained standing.
The terrorist then travelled to Utøya island outside Oslo, where the Labour Party Youth Wing, AUF – Arbeiderpartiets Ungdomsforening, held its annual summer camp. Disguised as a policeman, he killed sixty-nine innocent young people and injured another sixty-six before he was stopped by the police Delta Force Group seventy minutes later.
During two nights in October 2017, sound artist Alexander Rishaug was granted permission by Statsbygg (Norwegian Directorate of Public Construction and Property) to enter Høyblokka and record the sound of the vacant building. All the interior, furniture and equipment had been removed, leaving the building completely empty and abandoned, like a ghost in the middle of Oslo city centre.
Equipped with a directional microphone, two DPAs, and a set of contact mics, Rishaug began to explore and monitor the building’s acoustics, vibrations and resonance. Y (59°54’54,76”N 10°44’46,03”Ø) is a sonic portrait of the Government Quarter, an investigation of Høyblokka’s psychoacoustic state, at a point in time between past and future, before it is renovated, refurbished, and put to new uses as a political and administrative centre. In the title of this soundscape, the Y represents the Y-block and the coordinates (59°54’54,76”N 10°44’46,03”Ø) locate the H-block and the Government Quarter.
The album and art project is part of and co-produced by osloBIENNALEN, FIRST EDITION 2019 – 2024, curated by Eva González-Sancho Bodero and Per Gunnar Eeg-Tverbakk. osloBIENNALEN is initiated and financed by the City of Oslo, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Norway.
The project could not have been realised without the funding and courage from URO / KORO and Bo Krister Wallström.
Recorded inside Høyblokka, Oslo:
29 October 2017, 05:38PM–11:45AM
30 October 2017, 03:30PM–06:47AM
Recording assistant: Ilay Bachke
Mixed and edited by Alexander Rishaug at SinZen Studio, Oslo, 2018 – 2019
Mastered by Helge Sten at Audio Virus Lab, Oslo
Mastercut by Helmut Erler at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin
Design by Blank Blank / Petri Henriksson and Sandra Stokka
Photos by Arne B. Langleite and Alexander Rishaug, October 2017
Cover photo by Teigens Fotoatelier circa 1960, Dextra Photo/NorskTeknisk Museum.
Backside photo by Arne B. Langleite
Copy Editing by Martin Berner Mathiesen
Booklet printed by Livonia Print Ltd.
Vinyl pressing by Optimal Media
Vinyl manufacturing by handle with care
The dialogue with Statsbygg regarding the recording sessions in Høyblokka were coordinated by Charlotte Hagelund and Jan Christensen.
Thanks to 22. juli-senteret for their trust and support and for granting permission to record during closing hours.
Thanks to Ebba Moi for endless love and support, Per Henrik Svalastog for critical feedback, Statsbygg for granting permission, DSS – Departementenes sikkerhets- og serviceorganisasjon for guiding us safely around the building.
Co-published by osloBIENNALEN, Agency for Cultural Affairs, City of Oslo and Motto.
OSLO PILOT— a project investigating the role of art in and for the public space—laying the groundwork for Oslo Biennial First Edition
2018
English, Norwegian, Arabic, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
608 pages
Softcover, 17 × 24 cm
ISBN: 978 88 6749 342 5
€ 32
Edited by Eva González-Sancho Bodero and Per Gunnar Eeg-Tverbakk
Texts by Lida Abdul, Kim Henning Andreassen, Merete Joelsen Aune, Mark Bain, Amy Balkin , Lene Berg, Dineo Bopape, Barbara Browning & Yve Laris Cohen, Pavel Büchler , Alice Creischer & Andreas Siekmann, Dora García, Mette Edvardsen, Marte Eknæs, Cassius Fadlabi, Jan Freuchen & Sigurd Tenningen, Alberto Giacometti, Félix González-Torres, Matthew Goulish, Johan Grimonprez & Catherine Bernard, Lina Viste Grønli, Ane Hjort Guttu, Flaka Haliti, Thomas Hirschhorn, Liv Kristin Holmberg, Jonas Ib F.H. Jensen, Farhad Kalantary, Mike Kelley, Karl Larsson, Mara Lee, LIGNA, Minouk Lim, Lotte Konow Lund, Inger Wold Lund, Metahaven, Henri Michaux, Juan Muñoz, Miriam Myrstad, Maurizio Nannucci, Maria Nordman, Douglas Park, Matthew Rana, Martha Rosler, Allen Ruppersberg, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Lisa Tan, Lisa Torell, Vibeke Tandberg, Jan Verwoert, Annee Grøtte Viken, Andy Warhol, Haytham El-Wardany, Stephen Willats, Pamela Wye, and Knut Åsdam.
To make art in and for the public domain today is to engage with the precariousness that both defines and threatens our experience of it. OSLO PILOT (2015–17)—a project investigating the role of art in and for the public space—laying the groundwork for Oslo Biennial First Edition brings together 38 previously published texts spanning the past 80 years and 19 commissioned texts exploring art in public spaces and spheres. It also includes an edited transcript of the symposium, organized by OSLO PILOT in the fall of 2016, “The Giver, the Guest, and Ghost: The Presence of Art in Public Realms.” The publication embodies the idea of the city as a prerequisite and basis for work, and focuses on the conditions of public space as a field where many agencies, identities, and interests meet and are made visible.
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Y-BLOKKA - Photographs by Katja Høst
Foreword: Tone Hansen
Authors: Jan, Digerud, Kjetil A. Jakobsen, Per Gunnar Eeg-Tverbakk, Line Ulekleiv
The Y-block is history. Photographer Katja Høst followed the building's last year with her camera. In the book, we present around 60 photographs of the Y-block's decay after the terror in 2011. The book has 4 essays that concentrate on telling about the architecture, art and the historical backdrop around this iconic building. Tone Hansen writes in the preface: The texts in this book are not a neutral summary of a historical event. Rather, they describe the loss we have seen unfold, while the photographs provide visual documentation that helps us to recall. The book also contains texts in English.
The publication is supported by: Fritt ord, Kulturrådet, Oslobiennalen, Bergesenstiftelsen
Bilingual edition: Norwegian and English
ISBN: 9788293140689
Price: 449 NOK
Editor: Inger Schjoldager
Graphic design: Rune Døli
Translation of the texts into English: John Irons
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