Nykkjen Belar te Heiemo: The Bale of Charm
My work is a journey into the mythological world. Seduced by Jung and his protégés, I have begun to understand this type of expedition as an allegory of psychological exploration. I am lead by mythological characters and motifs, such as the Phoenix, Nøkken, the Moon, or the Unicorn. I hunt down the earliest references to these beings in literature, folk tales and music, keeping alert for their appearance in contemporary society (i.e., in my own experience). I see it as being of great significance when and where these figures appear. I wish to capture these moments in writing, and through performance explore their archetypal nature.
Eleanor Clare (b.1978, Guildford) lives and works in Bergen, Norway. She received an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martin’s, London (2011). Recent exhibitions include Performance Art Nå #1, Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen; Fama-Fame, ASC Gallery, London and GHostings IV, The Platform Theatre, London. Recent publications include NEVERODDOREVEN, Büro Für Problem/Deuxpiece; June Twenty-First, Apis Press; Unholy Passage, Grafter’s Quarterly and Approaching Materials, FeltActs.
http://www.eleanorclare.com/
SALT: variation 1.1 - I am (thinking of) You
Anne Pajunen is a singer, composer, and performance artist whose work combines acoustic and electronic sounds with live, interactive video. Her performances often explore the 4th wall, playing with the boundaries between artist and audience. Pajunen has performed throughout Europe, Asia, and North America and received commissions from Swedish Radio, Norrlandsoperan and Folkoperan. Her latest project, SALT: variations, premiered in September 2015 and can be seen at www.annepajunenconcept.com
Singularity
Mathematician Irma Optimist started doing performance art in 1989. Since then she has performed at dozens of festivals, museums and galleries all over the world. During the beginning of her career, she was famous for the ironic and parodying aspects of her performances. These were directed as criticism of the prevalent masculine concept of art. Many of the works were interactive and simultaneous, based on mathematical dynamics of chaos.
In most of her work, Irma Optimist has been very personal, discussing the conditions of identity, femininity, death. Gender, locality and nature have been her themes. The works themselves are transformations, in which the existence of the artist is connected to ritual and live installation.
In Finland Irma Optimist has been nearly everywhere and out of Finland she has performed in the festivals, in the events and also invited to do the solo performances.
Irma Optimist has also acted as a curator and brought many well-known international performance artists to events she has organised in Finland. Since 2000, she has been involved in organising Là-bas, a permanent forum for living art and experimental culture. This project has succeeded in realising the ideas of contemporary theory concerning non-hierarchical strategies of organisation and rhizome-like networks. The forum continues to operate as a situation-specific and site-specific continuum both in Finland and internationally. The experimental space Studio Là-bas is located at Cable Factory, Helsinki.
Irma Optimist has got in Finland 2012 the Lifetime Achievement Award of Finnish Art Society and 2013 the State Prize of Art. In 2013, the students of Turku School of Economics voted her Teacher of the Year.
About to make a performace
Born 1979 in Oulu, Finland. Lives and avoids working in Tampere at the moment. Has made performances from the beginning of this millennium. Organizes happenings and festivals concentrating on performance and live art (PERFO!, Perf-festivals and such…)
Things I know about my performances:
Some people think that they are funny.
Some people think they are personal.
I try to pay regard to audience.
I try to pay regard to myself.
Every performance is different from the previous ones.
Things I don't know about my performances:
If I really want to be funny.
If I really dare to be personal.
If i do it more for the audience or for myself.
If there is some common theme I haven't found yet.
Paris Walks
My performances are based on my experience as a visual artist and an actor/dancer, I express myself in a visual and physical way. That means that my presence and energy in the room during the performance is essential together with the visual elements, like videos and objects.
I am also a writer of poems and short texts and in some performances I use the spoken word and my voice almost like a singer.
PARIS WALKS is based on what I saw and found during a 6 months stay in Paris in 2013. Like a diary and a walk through Paris through my eyes. The texts and videos run through my body.
http://www.kjetilskoien.no/