CONVERSATION WITH TORHILD AUKAN | LKV 2013


outdoor living has shaped her relationship with life and art


WHERE
We visit her in her atelier at LKV, where we lectured some days ago. It feels like coming home, to a large warm building full of artists at work. We arrive and get a cup of warm tea, it is a rainy day, we crossed the city walking with our umbrellas. Now we sit in the room Torhild uses as office.

PHILOSOPHICAL STATMENT

What Torhild explained as first statement is her sensual way of experiencing nature, the surroundings. The idea of being part of nature. The body as research, the existence as an investigation field, and the art as a tool of expression. The philosophy behind this statement makes us think in certain nordic existentialism, where there is no clear limit between nature and philosophy, a scratch into spinozian pantheism. We watch a film she did some 20 years ago, and we get the idea. Black and white elements of nature, and the presence of the body, the body of him, and her own. The film is short and shows the statement. A poem.

ORIGIN
Torhild spent many years living outdoors. Outdoors meaning out in the nature, in the forest, where she lived in a cabin, before having her kids, and with her kids. That outdoor living, has shaped her relationship with life and art. Most of her works are recognizable because of the repetitive pattern she has taken for the representation of the idea. The so called technique or method.

METHOD
Photography is a starting point of most of her works, the look, the idea, the capture of time. Then that capture is transformed in the dark room, a room of silence. The work takes the size of the wood plates she has used as canvas. Norwegian wood. The use of pigments, chemicals and light exposure makes the image appear on the wood. The cyanotype is always blue, a blue close to the Klein Blue, adding the faded image of the photographed body coming out, and the graphic pattern of the wood.

NOW
The body fading is now her own, we see the evolution of the idea, from the small scale with many images, to large size, with a single one. Torhild has recently travelled to China as resident to produce works, and is making evolutions on her concept, making it clearer and sharper.
This conversation is part of the STRUCTURAL BASIS of FROZEN HEAT, 
ONLINE ARTSHOWS (2014-2015) upcoming art series curated by LLLL
as satellites of LAPIEZA ART SERIES.


http://www.lkv.no/k-torhild-aukan.htm
http://utdanning.no/tema/yrkesintervju/kunstner
http://www.trondheimkunsthall.com/Sitter-bleken-aukan/
http://www.stolav.no/kunst/galleri-kart-gastro-aukan.htm


RELATED VITAMIN 025 (I/-)

El nombre de Brakhage se ha convertido prácticamente en sinónimo de cine experimental, y aunque la larga lista de sus innovaciones -que incluye un montaje vertiginoso, casi cegador, y la manipulación de la película con pintura, collage, incisiones o raspaduras- explique en gran medida esta reputación, es la densidad intelectual y el carácter no-narrativo de su cine, casi abstruso, lo que en muchos sentidos ha caracterizado al cine experimental de vanguardia, no tanto para el especialista como pára el público que se atreve a adentrarse en las peligrosas aguas del cine no comercial. No obstante, a pesar de lo variado de sus atribuciones, Brakhage es definitivamente un pintor. Comenzó pintando el celuloide en 1961, en la segunda parte de Dog Star Man, que trata el nacimiento de su segundo hijo, y en Thigh Line Lyre Triangular, también de 1961, que incluye el nacimiento de su tercer hijo. Lo que le motivaba era presentar o replicar lo que él llamaba "visión hipnagógica". El diccionario define hipnagógico como "relacionado o asociado con el estado que precede al sueño", pero Brakhage lo describe como lo que vemos al cerrar los ojos. En una conversación de 2000 con Bruce Kawin, compañero suyo en la Universidad de Colorado en Boulder, señala lo siguiente: El espectador puede cerrar los ojos y no mirar la película, y, aun así, al mismo tiempo seguir viéndola en su cabeza. Se llama visión hipnagógica. Cuando cerramos los ojos, todos nosotros poseemos un de la luz". Sus imágenes son translúcidas, aunque a veces se difuminan y parecen los titilantes luminosos de las calles. En muchos de sus escritos y entrevistas, el director afirma que sus filmes tratan sobre "la luz". Autores que han escrito sobre Brakhage apuntan que cuando habla de la luz se refiere a los objetos en sus películas y subraya que lo que es importante no es el objeto en sí, sino la luz que refleja.

Stan Brakhage es un pintor. 

CONVERSATION WITH PONTUS KYANDER - TKM DIRECTOR 2013



LLLL ART AGENCY STRUCTURAL CONVERSATIONS NORWAY
PONTUS KYANDER DIRECTOR
TRONDHEIM ART MUSEUM
NOVEMBER 2013

WE BRING YOU THE COFFEE

We sit in the headquarters office for a couple of hours. We drink coffee and talk about the task of being the museum director.

Background

Pontus Kyander is an Art Critic and Historian. Pontus worked as a documentary filmmaker for years. Pontus travelled around the world with a camera visitng artists. The task was to record them at their workspaces. The films were productions for a Swedish culture TV magazine. During those years, Pontus got familiar with artists all around the world.

Curatorial
Pontus Kyander curates the content of the museum and the museums satellite art spaces. The curatorial concept is based on the duality local-international. The international links, and the knowledge of the art world rythm, that Pontus has built during years, are the key fundaments of the ongoing shows. Besides the internationalization of the museum, the director has the task to include local artist, norweigian artists, artists from Trondheim, to equilibrate the mood and the rol of the institution.

So, the idea is to have a fresh international artscene to be seen in the city, 
and a selection of the most relevant artists in the city and region.http://trondheimkunstmuseum.no/
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontus_Kyander
http://www.kunstforum.as/2012/12/not-your-average-museum-director/

RELATED VITAMIN 023 (I/-)

La magia de una palabra -DADA- que ha puesto a los periodistas ante la puerta de un mundo imprevisto, no tiene para nosotros ninguna importancia. Para lanzar un manifiesto es preciso querer A.B.C., fulminar contra 1, 2, 3, impacientarse y aguzar las alas para conquistar y esparcir a grandes y pequeños a, b, c, firmar, gritar, jurar, arreglar la prosa a manera de evidencia absoluta, irrefutable, probar su non plus ultra y mantener que la novedad se asemeja a la vida así como la última aparición de una cocotte prueba lo esencial de Dios. Su existencia ya ha quedado probada por el acordeón, el paisaje y la palabra dulce. Imponer su A.B.C. es algo natural -y por consiguiente lamentable. Todo el mundo lo hace a guisa de cristalbluffmadona, sistema monetario, producto farmacéutico, pierna desnuda que convida a la primavera ardiente y estéril. El amor por la novedad es la cruz simpática, es prueba de un mimpotacarajismo ingenuo, signo sin causa, pasajero, positivo. Pero esta necesidad es tan vieja como otras. Al dar al arte el impulso de la suprema simplicidad: la novedad, uno es humano y verdadero respecto de la diversión, impulsivo, vibrante para crucificar al tedio. En la encrucijada de las luces, alerta, atento, al acecho de los años, en el bosque. Yo escribo un manifiesto y no quiero nada, digo sin embargo ciertas cosas y estoy por principio contra los manifiestos, como también estoy contra los principios (decilitros para el valor moral de toda frase -demasiada comodidad-; la aproximación fue inventada por los impresionistas).Yo escribo este manifiesto para mostrar que pueden ejecutarse juntas las acciones opuestas, en una sola y fresca respiración; yo estoy en contra de la acción; a favor de la continua contradicción, y también de la afirmación, no estoy ni en favor ni en contra y no lo explico porque odio el sentido común.

Manifiesto Dadá / Ttristan Tzara (1918)
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tristan-Tzara/107939495893975?rf=112432142102872#


Anto Lloveras Lapieza Relational Art Series Marisa Caminos Pontus Kyander Tristan Tzara Trondheim Kunstmuseum
  — con Pontus Kyander y Anto Lloveras.

CONVERSATION WITH BRIT DYRNES | ATELIER ILSVIKA - HUB - TRONDHEIM | 2013



LLLL ART AGENCY AT
ATELIER ILSVIKA | HUB TRONDHEIM
art, design, fashion, architecture

BRIT DYRNES guides us through ATELIER ILSVIKA, a HUB sitting in a remodeled factory space in the neighbourhood of the same name in the outskirts of the city of Trondheim. About three years ago a group of artists, architects and designers, leaded by BRIT DYRNES, negotiated with a local bussinesman, owner of the building, to make a nice working space. They did, and started to use the space as daily office. There is a large space with kitchen and big table to have meetings, and everyone has a fixed place in the building, depending on the need of space of each one.

We walk for an hour with BRIT visiting the different working areas, and we got to know the spirit of the HUB, a crossdisciplainary mood across the spaces. We talked to several people, mostly woman. The last one to join the ILSVIKA is a young fashion designer who just arrived from New York. We enjoyed meeting painter and drawer Anne Kristin Myrseth, that showed us her artist books. Very interesting also the talk with Randi Bakken, coach and entrepreneur. She explained the great potential of sharing knowledge with uppcomers, making their ideas possible with visions and market oriented ideas.

At last, Brit gave us a full review on her artworks and site projects, public art and installations. She likes to collaborate with other artists, and loves to run the management of ILSVIKA. This year they have launched a new idea named NORTH CULTITUDE, a project that will enlarge  the spam of the HUB to other HUBS  across the northern regions. We would like to present our ideas soon in ILSVIKA, in one of the open Fridays, where people Can have a drink after work and enjoy the lecture.

These conversations are part of the STRUCTURAL BASIS of FROZEN HEAT,
ONLINE ARTSHOWS (2014-2015) upcoming art series curated by LLLL
as satellites of LAPIEZA ART SERIES.
http://www.atelierilsvika.no

RAKE BONUS - CONSTANT DECAY - CROSS CONVERSATIONS - CAMP ZERO - TRONDHEIM 2013


RAKE BONUS SPACE. 

THE CONSTANT DECAY ART PROCESS


LLLL UNSTABLE ART AGENCY AT
VERNISSAGE AT RAKE BONUS SPACE
THE CONSTANT DECAY ART PROCESS
SATURDAY

Interesting process for the Trondheim Art Scene. The takeover of a building that might be demolished soon. Most of the art agents were there. Some wine and absenta to drink. Trygve Ohren and Charlotte Rostad have curated around 20 artists to dynamize the process. A big sausage was hanged out at the facade (Claes Oldenburg revisited) one of the artists painted a white room with blue dots by throwing a ball during hours to the walls, as public performance. The glass dots have an abstract plastic look, glass as canvas. In the house some rooms were programmed with video-installations (in several rooms, multichannel conversations, a parallel talked drama on tv sets). A memory writing wall where visitors throw comments, a junk dj room, and a food-restaurant piece ( Matta Clark revisited), where two of the artists offers dinners for free this month with the leftover food from local supermarkets. The couple live in the house and have a web page where you can register for the 6-9 pm meal. Their apartment has been furnished with third hand stuff by the artists Ylva Cecilie Vestrheim + Elisabeth Søiland (Heim&Land) who recently came back from Bergen where they presented the new step of their book binding piece. We will come around this week again. Another nice piece was a falling sand little hill. Quick talks in crowded corridors with Fredrik Shetelig Dean of the Architecture School at the NTNU, that spoke about the future boulevard that will come when the building is demolished. Hilde Bøkestad the new headurbanist of Trondheim City Council, that we met, has new challenges for the outcomes of the City of Trondheim. We also met Gro Rødne, who has been bussy with the latest eddition of THEWOODWAY, now to be seen in town. We filmed the 2008 edtion, launched by Professor Fedrik Lund with international guest critic Tony Fretton Architects. We are now very curious about this month process, and spoke with Ann-Cathrin Hertling (Wild at Art) and Pontus Kyander (Director of the Trondheim Museum of Modern Art) that will be on alert during the process and develop a text on the narratives that might happen.Anto Lloveras Lapieza Relational Art Series Trygve Ohren Charlotte Rostad Rake Visningsrom Claes OldenburgYlva Cecilie Vestrheim Elisabeth SøilandHeim og land arkitekterFredrik Lund
http://kitchendialogues.com/make-a-reservation/

CAMP ZERO / RAKE CONSTANT DECAY 2013


CAMP ZERO / RAKE CONSTANT DECAY 2013
WE TALK AND SMOKE AROUND THE BRICK FIREPLACE
CIGARS AND CIGARETTES
WE TALK ABOUT THE GREAT MOOD WE HAVE HAD THIS MONTH

COLD SATURDAY AFTERNOON
SITUATION CAMP ZERO
FIRE AND MUSIC AT RAKE CONSTANT DECAY
ART BY KITTY HERTLING


http://rake.trondheim.no/visningsrom/index.php?%2Fconstantdecay%2Fconstant-decay%2F
http://www.wildatart.no/

RELATED VITAMIN 031 (II/-) 

6. No colors. "Color blinds." "Colors are an.aspect of appearance and so only of the surface." Colors are barbarie, unstable, suggest ¡¡fe, "cannot be completely controlled," and "should be concealed." Colors are a "distracting embellishment." No white. "White is a color and al¡ colors." White is "antiseptic and not artistic, appropriate and pleasing for kitchen fixtures, and hardly the medium for expressing truth and beauty." White on white is "a transition from pigment to light" and "a screen for the projection of light" and "moving" pictures.

7. No light. No bright or direct light in or over the painting. Dim, late afternoon absorbent twilight is best outside. No chiaroscuro, "the malodorant reality of craftsmen, beggars, topers with rags and wrinkles."

8. No space. Space should be empty, should not project, and should not be flat. "The painting should be behind the picture frame." The frame should isolate and protect the painting from its surroundings. Space divisions within the painting should not be seen.

9. No time. "Clock-time or man's time is inconsequential." There is no ancient or modem, 'no past or future in art. "A work of art is always present." The present is the future of the past, not the past of the future. "Now and long ago are one."

10. No size or scale. Breadth and depth of thought and feeling in art have no relation to physical size. Large sizes are aggressive, positivist, intemperate, venal, and graceless.

ad reinhardt
12 rules for a new academy
1961
  — con Lapieza Relational Art Series y Anto Lloveras.


TRONDHEIM ARTCENTERS | 2013 - TSSK BLUNK RAKE


TSSK - EDVINE LARSSEN - THIS IS NOT A THEATER

LLLL ART AGENCY 
AT 

TSSK 
EDVINE LARSSEN 

THIS IS NOT A THEATER
THIS IS NOT ARCHITECTURE
IT IS A SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATION
BY EDVINE LARSSEN FOR TSSK


http://www.samtidskunst.no/events/edvine-larssen-unforgettable-vision-of-darkness/
http://www.sjobygda.no/project/edvine-larssen/

VITAMIN 002 (I/-)


If space-junk is the human debris that litters the universe, junk-space is the residue mankind leaves on the planet. The built (more about that later) product of modernization is not modern architecture but Junkspace. Junkspace is what remains after modernization has run its course or, more precisely, what coagulates while modernization is in progress, its fall-out. Modernization had a rational program: to share the blessings of science, universally. Junkspace is its apotheosis, or meltdown... Although its individual parts are the outcome of brilliant inventions, lucidly planned by human intelligence, boosted by infinite computation, their sum spells the end of Enlightenment, its resurrection as farce, a low-grade purgatory... Junkspace is the sum total of our current achievement; we have built more than all previous generations together, but somehow we do not register on the same scales. We do not leave pyramids. According to a new gospel of ugliness, there is already more Junkspace under construction in the 21st century than survived from the 20th...

Rem Koolhaas JUNKSPACE

Rem Koolhaas is the founder and director of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), a Rotterdam based firm concerned with contemporary architecture and urbanism. Since 1975 OMA has been involved in numerous projects ranging from private residences to large scale urban planning. As a result of several projects, notably the Villa dall'Ava overlooking the Eiffel Tower, Nexus Housing, and the planning of Euralille, a business and civic center hosting the major high speed train hub in the north of France, OMA has had an enormous impact on contemporary architecture and urban issues throughout the world. In the 21st century OMA is active throughout Europe and the United States including a series of museum projects. OMA has a branch in New York and an associated office in Hong Kong, OMA Asia. A new branch, AMO, has been established with a primary focus on research. AMO will collect forces from media, finance, technology and art to consult in the architectural thinking where strategy and concept have a higher importance than realisation.

https://www.facebook.com/OMA.AMO?fref=ts

Paula Lloveras Lapieza Relational Art Series Marisa Caminos Edvine Larssen Trøndelag senter for samtidskunst OMA Fakultet for arkitektur og billedkunstAnto Lloveras

BLUNK - ANNIKA VILHELMSON - PERFECT CAMOUFLAGE


LLLL ART AGENCY
AT blunk
ANNIKA VILHELMSON

Annika Vilhelmson has installed a white piece in the white space. The piece is a piece of WHITE PAINTED WALL PAPER on the wall, white on white. Perfect camouflage in the first room. The WHITE PAINTED WALL PAPER jumps to the floor in the second room, showing the INVISIBLE trick. The installation is a wall-floor piece. We talk with the artist on site, quick interview and feed
Annika Vilhelmson is a swedish artist, from Stockholm.
Blunk is a student-artist run space with yearly open calls

http://www.annikavilhelmson.se/
http://www.galleriblunk.com/

RELATED VITAMIN 034 (IV/-) 

Al utilizar su televisor, sus 
libros, sus discos, el usuario de la cultura despliega así una retórica de prácticas y de "trampas" que se emparenta con una enunciación, un lenguaje mudo cuyas figuras y cuyos códigos es posible inventariar. A partir de la lengua que se le impone (el sistema de la producción), el locutor construye sus propias frases (los actos de la vida cotidiana), reapropiándose así de la última palabra de la cadena productiva mediante microbricolages clandestinos. La producción se torna pues "el léxico de una práctica', es decir, la materia mediadora a partir de la cual se articulan nuevos enunciados en lugar de representar un resultado cualquiera. Lo que realmente importa es lo que hacemos con los elementos puestos a nuestra disposición.

El uso de las formas
Nicholas Bourriaud
Postproducción
2000

https://www.facebook.com/nicolas.bourriaud.7
Anto Lloveras Lapieza Relational Art Series Marisa Caminos Galleri Blunk
  — con Anto Lloveras y Lapieza Relational Art Series.

RAKE 


LLLL Art Agency visiting all Art Centers in Trondheim - a basic task as curator is to know the real scene we move in. We are getting in the mood for the new Online Art Series - 2014 and 2015 Rake is an Artist Run Space that shows Contemporary Art, curated by Trygve Ohren and Charlotte Rostad. Last week we checked the work of Janna Thöle-Juul (DE) and Iselin Kleiva (NO) while having some wine and warming up by the fire. Nice talks with Artist Sissel Berg (NO), we visited in her Studio some months ago and Artist Brit Dyrnes (NO) at Ilsvika, who has already invited us to visit the Ilsvika Hub.


CONVERSATION WIH STIAN AND LUTZ | OSLO




Each piece is the result of the setup and the desire of exploring the art-game


LLLL ART AGENCY | OSLO
CONVERSATION WIH STIAN AND LUTZ
Grünerløkka - ARTIST RUN SPACE  

Stian and Lutz are artists. They both develope artworks on their own and have a series of pieces that come out form their active conversations. These CONVERSATION pieces are artworks they produce as duo, and come from the active collision and carving on the idea they start upon. The formal result is unstable, the process idea rules the game they play as storytellers. Each piece is the result of the setup and the desire of exploring the art-game
http://www.stianadlandsvik.net/
http://lutzrainermueller.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grünerløkka

The conversation is part of the STRUCTURAL BASIS of FROZEN HEAT,
ONLINE ARTSHOWS (2014-2015) upcoming art series curated by LLLL
as satellites of LAPIEZA ART SERIES.

LLLL ART AGENCY - CONVERSATIONS SUMMER 2013


Escenario inestable construido de manera procesual. Queda definido como marco-obra.
Paula LLoveras at work, Meat by 
Tomoto, Lote Socioplástico, Aluminios by Eduardo Cajal

LLLL ART AGENCY
SUMMER 2013

With Anto LLoveras that arrived from Mexico City after 6 months.   We had great talks and walks in hothell madrid setting up the basis for our new Art Agency enterprise - LLLL - A NEW CURATORIAL BASED ON CROSS CONVERSATIONAL ACTIONS.

DESAMARTE - PILAR GONZÁLEZ ESPAÑA - MADRID 2013 ___________ #775 ENSAYOS POSICIONALES



Pilar González España (1960) se dedica simultáneamente a la composición poética, la recitación, la traducción y la enseñanza. Es sinóloga y poeta. Es actualmente profesora de lengua y cultura china en La Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Ha publicado El Cielo y el Poder (Hiperión, 1997), Una mano escondida en un cajón (Germanía, 2002), la obra Transmutaciones (Torremozas, 2005, Premio de poesía Carmen Conde 2005). Retráctiles, (Torremozas, 2011), Tiene tres obras publicadas en Francia, Acuarelles (libro de artista, editorial Al-Manar, París, 2012, Retráctiles (La Malle d´Aurore, Tarbes, 2012,), Je veux que les mots me sauvent (Al-Manar, Paris, 2011). Ha traducido y publicado a algunos de los más grandes poetas y filósofos chinos de la antigüedad: Zhuang Zi, Li Qingzhao, Wang Wei, Lu Ji, Si Kongtu y Tao Yuanming. Tiene en su haber un largo recorrido como recitadora y lectora de poesía. Suele acompañarse de músicos o video-artistas en sus recitales. Ha participado en numerosos eventos poéticos, como el Festival de Poesía del Mediterráneo Voix Vives de Al Jadida, Marruecos (2013), Templo Gulou de Pekín (2012), Centro Cultural Conde Duque de Madrid (2012), Casa Asia (2011), Festival de Poesía Internacional de Qinghai (China, 2010), Festival de poesía de Hangzhou, (China, 2010), Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid (2011, 2010, 1994), Teatro Español de Madrid (2010), Festival de Poesía Voix Vives de Sètes en Francia (2010), el Centro de Arte Reina Sofía de Madrid (2010), la Casa Trostki en Ciudad de México (2010), Museo Würth en la Rioja (2010), Feria del Libro en Pekín (2009), Teatro María Guerrero (2008, 2009), Teatro Utopía de Bordeaux (2008), el Festival de Poesía de Lodève en Francia (2008), el Colegio de España en París (2000), la Casa Encendida de Madrid (2004) o el Ateneo de Madrid en varias ediciones.




SOCIOPLASTICS
BY
ANTO LLOVERAS

YAN NAZCA - TOMATE Y PAN


Huele a mar y a niebla de mediodía. Entre las manos el frío y un tomate húmedo encontrado en la calle a primera hora de la mañana. Tiene su propia hendidura como si hubiera sido ya mordido. Media barra de pan y el jugo del Paraíso se deshacen en mi boca. Camino con Anto las calles adyacentes a la plaza de la Luna. Cuantas veces habremos quedado a horas inciertas en este lugar sitiado por la policía? Las putas merodean y son la carne de Eva y su juicio. Este invierno es insobornable. No claudica ante la fragilidad de los cuerpos. Vemos nuestra imagen reflejada en escaparates a los que no llega ni un átomo de luz. Zancada viril. Recorro con una sola mano las escamas de los templos y su mercancía. Leo a Vladimír Holan con el espíritu contenido. Cae la lluvia sobre el papel. Pies violáceos al llegar a casa. Ducha caliente y un intrépido sueño se apodera de mi.