"It is amazing light, but there is not enough of it, rigt.."
We talked about the light in February in the British museum. Walking down a rock and Espen's path to his current practice. If you want to see his work go see his it at Kunstnerforbundet now! It is so worth it.
Also the 11th of Oktober a publication attached to the show will be released there. Go get it!
It was an absolute delight sitting down in his studio for this talk.
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As Norway opened up after a couple month of Covid 19 restrictions I finally was able to head over to Samoa's studio for a chat. On an exceptional warm summer day we talked about her artistic process of intense exploration.
Samoa Rémy is currently a PhD fellow in artistic research at KHIO (Oslo National Academy of the Arts)
We dig into the way she explores and approaches a wide range of subjects ranging from the scientific to the esoteric, from the symbolic to the historical. We talk about CERN and her residency there.
Enjoy our talk!
If you want to know more about Samoa's work go and check out her website.
In the last days of the 2020 Corona lock down I managed to convince my studio neighbor to sit down and have a chat with me.
Knut and I talk about his work and the studio. We talk about his side job at the graveyard and how that combines with his art practice. Some Corona rambling obviously gets into the mix as well.
Enjoy!
Check out his work at
http://www.knutbenjaminsen.com/
Together with Jan Christensen, Ragnhild Aamås, Hanan Benammar, Paul Paiement, Carl Berg, Max Presneill, Rike Frank and Merete Mortensen we had a conversation in preparation for a panel talk we held the 20th of October 2016. This accompanied an exhibition Merete and me organized at the National Academy of the Arts in Oslo where we were exploring the role of the artist as curator or the curator as artist. We were interested in the different positions and strategies of each participant related to their locale (Oslo vs LA)
This talk was meant to get to know each other and present ourselves so we wouldn't have to dive in cold on the public talk the day after.
Enjoy!
Jan Christensen joined me for a talk in my studio. We touched upon production strategies, collaborations, being an artist based in multiple locations, the internet and what the work in the back of the studio is. And yes, he answers that question at the end.
You can find his stuff on janchristensen.org/
