The artists who are invited to Sumu A.i.R. program by the support Nordic Culture Point 2010Ju

June 2010:

Guro Gomo, Bergen, Norway
http://gurogomo.org

November 2010:

Birger Storaas, Bergen, Norway
www.birgerstoraas.com

October-December 2010:

Fideelia-Signe Roots, Tartu, Estonia
http://fideelia.future.ee/

Guro Gomo (NO) /
Birger Storaas (NO) /
Fideelia-Signe Roots (EE)

Out of Joint
19.11.–5.12.2010

Opening on Thursday 18th November at 18.00
Welcome!

This year, three artists have worked at the Sumu Artist-in-Residence programme of the Artists´ Association Arte in Turku, sponsored by the Nordic Culture Point. They are now presenting the fruits of their labour at Titanik Gallery.

Guro Gomo will present reproduced Finnish paintings inside golden frames with video projections cast on to the canvas inside the frames. The projections will be accompanied by a sound collage to add to the atmosphere inside the gallery. Her aim is to illustrate how a looped segment based on a narrative projected towards the paintings reliefs a traditional image from its state of lifelessness by introducing changing atmospheres in the work itself. Her work “Kunst og publikum” (Art and Spectator) will challenge the spectator’s perception of art by combining traditional motifs with modern techniques.

Birger Storaas presents two videos in the exhibition. ”Whiteout” is a video from 2008 from a project experimenting on different ways of “killing” or deforming toy-soldiers. The idea was to enter a child’s mind, and explore a destructive way of playing. The video is an presentation of the result. “Skies N’ Guns” is a new video where Storaas is exploring videogames and their capabilities of presenting the reality in its “in-game” world. A world where the player, through his character, gets the feeling of being able to explore possibilities and manifest and create ideas and thoughts formerly limited to his mind. A dialogue occurs between the limitations and possibilities of the game and the fantasy and imagination of the player.

Fideelia-Signe Roots' project is about artists’ life in capitalist society. The aim of her work is to create a dialogue in Turku between decision-makers, art audience and artists about artists' current role. When she met local artists she noticed, that they meet the same challenges as her. Why they keep making art? Why does the artist herself?

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The artists who are invited to SUMU residence by the support of the Nordic Culture Point 2009


Ellen Sofie Griegel

Ellen Sofie Griegel was born in 1975, Trondheim, Norway. She recieved her Master of Fine Art in 2007 from Bergen National Academy of the Arts.
She lives and work in Trondheim and during the last two years she has mainly worked with interactive light-installations. In addition, she also work in the field of video, drawing and performative actions.
She is interrested in communication, motion and material, and intrigued with how we experience the world in which we are living.

The project 'Myriagon' shown at Gallery Titanic/ Sonic Sunrises (3-13/12 2009), is in continuation with the project 'Tule Lähemmäs/ Come Closer' , developed during my six week recidency period in Turku/SUMU jan/febr 2009.

In the 'Myriagon' project I've replaced motion-sensors and led-lights with small speakers/sound and projection/light.
In geometry a myriagon is a polygon with ten-thousand sides, and in 'Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions', Chief Circle is refered to as a myriagon. This is one of the main characters who enlightens our perception of the world.
The installation consists of a large projected paper-sphere, and sound through miniature speakers.The images used for projection is originally shifting sunlight through a window, and the sound is recordings of breath.

www.ellensofiegriegel.com

1.10. – 31.10.2009 in SUMU
Janna Holmstedt, Sweden



Janna Holmstedt’s work is conceptual and often narrative in form. It involves image, text, sound, installations and interventions, as well as collaborative and web based projects. In her work, questions related to identity and the different strategies we acquire to define ourselves in relation to others and our environs are repeatedly explored. She often use voice-overs in combination with moving images – or constructed situations – to create multi-layered narratives. The stories told, fictional and documentary, are related to what you see, but also the situation you are in while listening. At SUMU she will produce a audio-visual installation, based on a phenomenon called ”Environmental Dependency Syndrome”.
Holmstedt lives in Stockholm.

http://www.jannaholmstedt.com



Richard Widerberg is a sound and media artist living in Gothenburg Sweden. He is in his work investigating the physical, spatial andlocative dimensions of sound, listening and environment. Related to his sonic works are works that deal with mobility, interaction and social exchange. Richard is also an active musician and develops and plays with new musical interfaces. He is an active member of the Gothenburg based Dånk! collective who organizes projects and events around sound, music and technology. During the Sumu residency he will develop his Sunrisescape project which simply is sonifications of sunrises.

www.riwid.net
www.daonk.org




Ursula Nistrup is a visual artist working with sound, architecture and acoustics.
She has initiated several collaborations with musicians, architects and people working in the field of human behavior. Each individual project or collaboration aims in challenging the boundaries of human perception, as a way to reconsider the spaces we occupy, and highlight the relationship between sound, architecture, and social process.
Nistrup's conceptual approach can be seen as an organized inquiry into the aesthetics of sound.

The work she will be developing during the SUMU residency will take as a starting point the city of Turku and therefore the final project will not be known till relations closely considered by the artist disclose themselves through the residency period.

She is based in Copenhagen and Los Angeles.

www.nistrup.com