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. 

Teju Adisa-Farrar

Teju Adisa-Farrar is a Jamaican-American writer, poet and geographer whose work centers on ecological resilience and cultural equity. She uses geography as an artistic and creative medium. Her work is interdisciplinary with a focus on connecting the dots, speculative geography, and human relationships to space, place and identity. She is interested in mapping and documenting Black (read: alternative / resilient / ecological) futures. Teju uses a transnational, uncolonial lens that is informed by culturally resonant moments. Her practice is research-based and integrative… participatory observation, conversation, listening and different ways of seeing / being. Teju’s work is multi-sensory, meaning she employs whichever senses can best negotiate and articulate what she’s trying to grasp or explore.

Teju took part in Residency 17, Climata developed with Lasse-Marc Riek and the Goethe Institut.

Lasse-Marc Riek

Lasse-Marc Riek uses field recording as a means to capture and explore acoustic ecology, bio-acoustics and soundscapes. Since 1997, he has operated internationally, staging exhibitions and concerts, releasing recordings, and delivering lectures and workshops. Diverse venues have hosted his performances: galleries, art museums, churches and universities. His work has featured on public media, including public radio channels.

He has received scholarships and participated in artist-in-residence programs in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He is co-founder of the label Gruenrekorder, which since 2001 has concentrated on soundscapes, field recordings and electro-acoustic compositions and works in these contexts with artists and scientists on an international level.

More information at: www.lasse-marc-riek.de

Cori Ready

Cori Ready (b.1980, USA) is a hospitality activist, conceptual event director, artist and designer based in Oslo. Since 2005, Cori has created and hosted events that incorporate art, design, and commerce in the United States and Europe.

As an artist working towards the concept of radical hospitality, she relies on aesthetic and critical engagement, bringing people and spaces together in the spirit of inclusion and invention, hilarity and humility. Through these events, installations, and experiences, she invites and explores generosity, culture and community.

Image 1: Cori Ready, Light Fruit Bondage at Speak Easy Studio, May 2019. An investigation into unwelcome/welcome space. Oslo, Norway.

Image 2: Cori Ready, South Lake Union Park Opening. Seattle, USA. 25K people attended this event. Ready worked together with upwards of 50 community groups, donors and civic organizations to make it happen. Photo by Tonhya Kae Photography.

Margrethe Iren Pettersen

Margrethe Iren Pettersen (NO) is a florist, has a BA from the Academy of Contemporary art in Tromsø and an MFA in Art and Public Space from Oslo National Academy of the Arts. In her practice, she often works site specifically, investigating ecosystems and their complexities. By drawing attention to the characteristics and coexisting life of plants and organisms of different places, she aims to challenge the modern perception that divides culture and nature.

Her Sami roots and the oral tradition of knowledge production in the north, are themes she has brought into her work and research recently.

Pettersen participated in Residency 17, Climata developed with Lasse-Marc Riek and the Goethe Institut.

Sarah Pettitt

Sarah Pettitt (b.1978, UK) is an artist based in London and New York. Her work interrogates painting’s history, materiality and presentation, embracing process-orientated methods to construct surfaces which seek to evoke empathy. Her research includes examining pre-modern artistic modalities, and the notion of the absent body, to explore non-visual representations of pain. Recent works attempt to fuse the environment and body as a sites of silent anguish.

She has exhibited across the UK, Europe and the USA. In 2013 she was awarded the Clare Winsten Memorial Award and in 2016 was invited to be Honorary Materials Research Associate at the Slade in conjunction with University College London on a research project The Tyranny of Surface. In 2018 she co-curated a special project with Norte Maar at the artist-led art fair SPRING / BREAK, New York. She holds an MA in Fine Art Painting from the Slade School of Art (2013) and BA in Fine Art Painting from Norwich School of Art (2000).

Marte Aas

Marte Aas (b. 1966, NO) is a photographer and filmmaker based in Oslo. Aas´ main area of interest is the intersection between contemporary image culture, history, technology and landscape. Her work attempts to address underlying structures and gestures that form political and ideological narratives. Different subjects of interest are realised in the form of films, photographs and installations, folding them into non-linear and layered narratives. Her work often starts from a contemporary or historical narrative. Research is processed through different formats and media, although the work always remains strongly grounded in the theory and material qualities of photographic practice.

Aas is educated at The School of Photography at The University of Gothenburg and has had a number of exhibitions and screenings in Norway and abroad. Her last major exhibition was Francine (was a machine) at Kunsthall Trondheim in 2019. Aas has published several books and catalogues including Marte Aas – Photography and Film, 2010, Torshovtoppen, 2008 and On the Subject of Body and Space, 2013 and is also one of the founding members of the independent publishing house Multipress.

Jonathan Armour

Jonathan Armour is a trans-media artist who is fascinated by the human body, the person within and the skin which mediates between us. His practice which revolves around instinctive exploration and scientific experimentation often touches upon age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and body adjustments. Born in Coleraine (NI), a first degree in engineering steered his early career into IT and business, but life-events provoked a Foundation Course in Art in 2012-3 which led straight to an MA in Fine Art from 2013-15, marking the birth of his creative career.

Armour often works collaboratively with his subjects to explore aspects of them which usually confront aspects of himself. Invoking a range of media across drawing and oil painting, digitisation, direct body work to time-based digital work, he brings an off-piste approach to examining the human condition. His work has been exhibited widely in the UK, Europe, Australia and USA.

Trinley Dorje

Trinley Dorje is a Toronto-based mixed-media artist. Her artworks are visual, anthropological explorations of the human experience which are inspired by her previous work in anthropology and her current career in healthcare. She intends her art to encourage discussion around racial, gender, and sexual biases and provide an opportunity for reflection into the importance of humans taking responsibility for their place on the Earth. Her work has been exhibited throughout North America and Europe. She has been featured on CBC Arts: Exhibitionists television series and published in magazines, medical journals and on book covers. Her artworks are included in the permanent collections of Toronto General Hospital, The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, and The Rotunda Hospital in Dublin, Ireland.

Saleh Kashefi

Saleh Kashefi (born Tehran, 1999) is an Iranian filmmaker. He has made 12 short films which have been included in over 100 film festivals around the world and have won 26 awards. His first feature film, Mammad, is one of six projects selected by Cannes Film Festival's Cinefondation Residence.

Kashefi writes; “Being judged by others is a big issue in Iran and I have made many films on this topic. The human body and its significant place in society has always fascinated me—especially as I come from a country where we always hide our bodies and are ashamed of them.”

LAB

Louis Alderson-Bythell is an artist working under the name LAB. LAB engages with the relationships between human and non-human ecologies, genetics and biological technology, environmental observation through deep time, bio-politics, and the interplay between stability and plasticity in ecological systems. These areas are used as lenses to explore, interrogate and showcase the poetry and interdependence in more-than-human systems and to build critical narratives around them.

LAB works with living matter, and has previously worked with Costume, Performance Art, 3D Scanning and digital fabrication technologies, having exhibited in group shows at Kunsthal Charlottenborg – Spring Exhibition (2020) at Art Night London (2018), Rotterdam Art Week (2018) and Fashion Clash Festival (2019) with Schuit Collections and at MOMA NY for the Biodesign challenge (2017).

Adam Peacock

Adam Peacock (UK) is a post-disciplinary artist, architect, academic and consultant living in London. Adam’s experimental lens, The Validation Junky, developed on his MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art (2012-14), focuses upon investigating the effects of the internet upon contemporary identity expression and self-perception within photographic communication; straddling fashion academia, experimental architectural methodology, fine art practice, consumer psychology, genetic technology, cybernetic theory, and social anthropology. The most notable project developed under his lens, The Genetics Gym, primarily developed within the 2016 Design Residency at the Fashion Space Gallery at London College of Fashion, was featured in the BBC Radio 1 Stories documentary DNA+ Beauty (2018), and was presented as the opening keynote speech at the 2018 Product Innovation Apparel conference in Milan. The project has been exhibited at the Science Gallery Melbourne and Science Gallery Dublin as part of Perfection (2018-2019). It was awarded the Robert Garland Treseder Fellowship at the University of Melbourne (2018), and published as a chapter in ‘Crafting Anatomies: Archives, Dialogues, Fabrications’ by Bloomsbury (2020).

Erika Stöckel

Erika Stöckel (SE) holds an MFA from Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO). Her work has been shown Norsk Billedhoggerforening, Oslo, Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter, Svolvær, Galleri MAP, Oslo, Galleri Nos, Stockholm, and Galleri Konstepidemin, Gothenburg among others. She writes about her practice:

“My thought process is rooted in the physicality of my own body - at the pool, in the mirror or in bed. In previous work swimming pool changing rooms have been a dominant inspiration. Thoughts take form in ceramic sculptures often presented together in installations. My aims are to question the mainstream notion of beauty, and to empower bodies generally considered non-normative. Through my ongoing work I am researching structural mechanisms behind the oppressed body, starting from the practice of eugenics on Sami people in the 1930’s, and facial recognition technology in use today.”

Lior Tamim

Lior Tamim is a project-based artist living in Tel Aviv-Yaffo. His works are performative actions of body, sound, and space. The works are site-specific and often examine existential states, transcend conventional limits of self-construction, and blur the distinction between art and life. His performances are often rooted in transformation. He often transforms himself into different characters, fully adopting their way of life. In recent years, he has lived as a hunter, a soldier, a nomad, and a body-builder. 

Tamim has exhibited his works in The 7th Biennale for Drawing in Israel; at the Givon Art Forum in Tel Aviv; Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater in Tel Aviv; Academiae Biennial in Italy; State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, among others. In 2015, Tamim was an artist in residence at Triangle Arts Association in New York. His upcoming solo show at Givon Art Forum is an architectural intervention based on sound and technology. Tamim holds a BFA in photography from Parsons School for Design, NYC (2015) and an MFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (2019).

Bobby Yu Shuk Pui

Bobby Yu Shuk Pui is a visual artist who was born in Hong Kong and is now living in Oslo. Her conceptual artworks, sculptures, and performances create scenarios that break audience passivity by borrowing/hiring others’ bodies, their utterance or skills.  Her China-Hong Kong bi-cultural background inspires her to always see things from an alienated perspective. She often transforms roles / identities / appearance in her daily life. Her works act as simple games, ‘dragging’ complicated interpersonal relationships. Her interest in the female body and gender politics has recently led to research into scientific fortune telling using big data, and the idea that genetic engineering offers possibilities to determine the future—and the risks these subjects hold.

Bobby received a BA from Hong Kong Baptist University. She is currently studying MFA at Oslo National Academy of Fine Art (2021). She has exhibited her works at Listhus Gallery (Iceland); A Place Gallery & Studios (Florida); Youkobo Art Space Gallery (Tokyo); Swatch Art Peach Hotel (Shanghai); Parasite,100ft. Gallery, starprojects, 1a Space, Tomorrow Maybe Gallery (Hong Kong). Bobby has completed residencies at 3331 Art Chiyoda (Tokyo), 435 Art Studio (Taiwan), Listhus Space (Iceland), and Athena Standard Residency (Athens).