Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Thursday, February 22, 2007
ARTISTIC RESUME
- BA Stage Design, Norwegian Theatre Academy (Akademi for Scenekunst) , Østfold University, Fredrikstad (Høyskolen i Østfold)
- Fine Art Studies, Strykejernet Art College (Strykejernet kunstskole) Oslo and Barcelona
- Examen Philosophum, Examen Facultatum, University of Oslo (Universitetet i Oslo)
- General Subjects, Arendal Comprehensive School (Arendal Videregående)
- General Major and head of ”Brigade Ærna Dahl” (artistic co producer and architect), constructing Pink Army’s fortress on Yongstorget, Oslo. An ongoing performance & interactive installation, (Supported by the Norwegian Arts Council)
- Performer/ Visual Design"P.S.P.S.P.S.P & R.S.U."/”Red, Snow and The Wolf”,Henie Onstad Art Center & The Open Theatre (Ibsen Short Text Challenge), Oslo
- Set design/ installation/ performer Pink Army base exhibition, Sjokoladefabrikken, Oslo (Supported by the Norwegian Arts Council)
- Set dressing, Props & Costume; music video ”Ås to I Oslo” by Filmpilotene.
- Artistic leader, Set & Costume Design. Visual directing, ”Big Bag; Det Store Mysteriet” Ekhougen & Bjørndalen Produksjoner. Black Box theatre, Oslo (Supported by the Norwegian Arts Council)
- Costume design & Performer; ”Be happy.... Be veeeery happy” by Liliths Appetite, performance, Spasibar, Oslo
- Costume Design; ”Drive –In” by Claire De Wangen, Grynerløkka Oslo (Supported by the Norwegian Arts Council)
- Visual & conceptual design, "All I Know Is Tonight" for music video, Jaga Jazzist, Paradox Productions, Oslo
- Visual & conceptual design and artistic leader in coop. with Cathrine Bjørndalen/Ekhougen & Bjørndalen Produksjoner; "Glamour to kill" a horror-pop performance
- Set design and costume for Transitteatret, Bergens´ performance "Maybe it’s too nice?"
- Solo-exhibition "Spar Dame" at The Theatre Museum, Oslo.
- Costume for dance performance, "Alice" Katrine Bølstad/ LadyKnot, Black Box Theatre
- Performance for the 75-year anniversary of TONO, Trikkestallen Oslo
- Set design, location-tracker, Short Film "Underdog" director Petter Stornes.
- Live Installation for the opening of "Animerte dager" Nordic Animation Film Festival, Fredrikstad
- The Runaway Brides" performances & happenings with artist Jennie Bringaker
- Visual Design for"Vanntro", short film, The Norwegian Film school/ Ragna Lindboe
- Performance “Grrr...Stockholm" with fellow students from The Theatre Academy, Stockholm Cultural House
- Group exhibition with 3 other stage designers, Vestfold Art-senter, Porsgrunn International Theatre Festival.
- Design/Installation, "Limbo/krypten" 10 hour live installation with 10 actors and 3 visual designers. In the crypt of Oslo Cathedral during Oslo Church Music Festival 2002
- Government working grant for younger/ newly established artist (set & costume designers)
- Full project support "BIG BAG", EB Prod. Norwegian Art Council.
- Full project support "Glamour to kill". EB Prod. Norwegian Art Council.
- Ekhougen&Bjørndalen Production founded with Cathrine Bjørndalen
- Established "H4" artist collective and network. Spaces for production and presentation in Oslo. Head of board.
- Member of The Theatre Academy board.
- Member of the entrance jury at The Theatre Academy
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SPACIAL NECROFILIA & VISUAL DECADENCE
Some of my foto sets from Flickr
CHERNOBIL/PRYPIAT
September 2006
Is it decadence or sentimental perversion?
When people dissapear the spaces starts telling their own stories, about people. And when people remain away, time starts redecorating their homes, streets and shops. The stories of Prypiet were more than people, but one sad story is shadowing them all, keeping even the ghosts away. Still I find this tremendiously beautiful and magic. This must be one of the very few cities in the world where money does not want to live, and time gets to do whatever it wants. Still time is partly frozen at some days in late April 1986. The whole city is like a capture of theese days, slowly fading.
Time is one of my favorite artists!
plenty more pictures here
STILL LIFE?
Scientific naturalistic kitch & illutional interiour design for ghost animals.
Or set design for frozen plays about nature, staring dead actors.
Illutions caught in a dusty little box behind a window. The wolf will never get you.
More pictures here
NECROPOLIS
We think there is nobody else around. Its all so quiet. But we´re all wrong.
This place is crowded. They are all beneath us. Resting. Shhh...
Plastic flowers, stones and pictures remains much longer than you and I.
More pictures here
Is it decadence or sentimental perversion?When people dissapear the spaces starts telling their own stories, about people. And when people remain away, time starts redecorating their homes, streets and shops. The stories of Prypiet were more than people, but one sad story is shadowing them all, keeping even the ghosts away. Still I find this tremendiously beautiful and magic. This must be one of the very few cities in the world where money does not want to live, and time gets to do whatever it wants. Still time is partly frozen at some days in late April 1986. The whole city is like a capture of theese days, slowly fading.
Time is one of my favorite artists!plenty more pictures here
STILL LIFE?
Scientific naturalistic kitch & illutional interiour design for ghost animals.Or set design for frozen plays about nature, staring dead actors.
Illutions caught in a dusty little box behind a window. The wolf will never get you.
More pictures here
NECROPOLIS
We think there is nobody else around. Its all so quiet. But we´re all wrong.This place is crowded. They are all beneath us. Resting. Shhh...
Plastic flowers, stones and pictures remains much longer than you and I.
More pictures here
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
P.S.P.S.P.S.P & R. S. U
(Wolfs feet and Lisas script. Photo M. Ekhougen)
(Wolfs feet and Lisas script. Photo M. Ekhougen)
Two experiments based on the text "Rod sno & ulven" ("Red, Snow and the Wolf")written by young Norwgian writer and performance artist Lisa Lie ( Sons of Liberty ) for Ibsen Short Text Challenge, arranged by Det Apne Teater, Oslo, fall 2006. The experiments were directed by Cathrine Bjorndalen.
The first experiment was a six hour open rehersal/ performance at Henie Onstad Art center in Oslo (Henie Onstad). The frames of this experiment was the text witch was already rehersed, some props, the space and the time. All the images shown here is from this event.
The images was used in part 2, the actual reading at the theatre, projected on a backdrop with lines from the script, combined with a manipulated recording (radio theatre) and 3 live actors reading.
The first experiment was a six hour open rehersal/ performance at Henie Onstad Art center in Oslo (Henie Onstad). The frames of this experiment was the text witch was already rehersed, some props, the space and the time. All the images shown here is from this event.
The images was used in part 2, the actual reading at the theatre, projected on a backdrop with lines from the script, combined with a manipulated recording (radio theatre) and 3 live actors reading.
Following a car accident Red comes walking along the roadside.
Lisa B Lie´s text, subtitled "an adventorous splatter", is a magic scenic poem through the unreliable memories of Red on her journey towards death as the final expression of freedom.
Lisa B Lie´s text, subtitled "an adventorous splatter", is a magic scenic poem through the unreliable memories of Red on her journey towards death as the final expression of freedom.
Characters:
BIG BAG
Det store Mysteriet.
Shown in closed down Nidar Bergene Chockolate Factory, march 2006. Produced in cooperation with Black Box Teater, Oslo."With a touch of Pop Noir this is a fresh faced, genre looting performance that plays around with corporal, spatial and linguistic structures as well as messing with the building blocks of theatrical language. We are invited into a pre-apocalyptic universe crammed with secret passages, sliding walls and hidden doors where apparently lost characters struggle to stay alive - for ever, and to find or to be meaning."
Off and with Cathrine Bjørndalen, Marte Ekhougen, Per Willy Aaserud, Rasmus Jørgensen, Robert Kiss, Henning Eidem, Sassi Calvert, Line Karlstad, Peder Solvang, Elisabeth Magnus, Eivind Sten Johnsen, Helene Terjesen, Ken Theodorsen, Elisabeth Johnsen, Ivan Litsheim, Sigurd Johansson, Birgitte Huitfeldt, Kevin Barnes.
ALL I KNOW IS TONIGHT
Jaga Jazzist. Directed by Lasse Gretland/Paradox Productions
Based on a piece of the set design from Glamour to Kill, the Zombiecabin. The cabins interiour was changed, putting an extra torn down wall outside the previous, letting the wallpaper, lamps & embroideries come through & and covering the entire floor with 3 inces of dirt. Little details witch totally disapeared in the shooting, learning me another lession about the difference between set design for film/video, set design for theatre & insatllations.
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