Andrea Sunder-Plassmann & Sigi Torinus, with Renate Hahn, Yun Kyung Hwang, Elizabeth Higson, Lena Johansen, Phoebe Knauthe, Markus Langseth, Katarina Marthinsen, André O. Richard, Håvard Stamnes, Eli Storbekken (vocals), Greg Curda (soundscape)
In this interdisciplinary workshop the two artists and founders of browsing beauty, Sigi Torinus and Andrea Sunder-Plassmann, will work with students of Kunstakademiet i Trondheim on developing individual and/or collective audio-visual, possibly sculpural works that will be presented during the Hilmarfestivalen in Steinkjer.
Thanks to Dermot Wilson (curator), Alex Campbell (Gallery Coordinator) and Natasha Landry (Education Officer) for making our time in North Bay fun, and for Lieann Koiwkoski (Director of Near North Mobile Media Lab) for her enthusiasm during setup!
Thanks to Gabrielle Peacock (Chief Executive Officer) for opening the show.
Special thanks to Linda Jansma (curator) and Jason Dankel (Preparator) for an exciting and wonderful time at the gallery! You absolutely rock! This has been our best setup ever. And thanks to Carl Lavoy (curator, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham) for bringing the show to Oshawa!
Opening reception: Friday, July 9th, 2010
This exhibition is presented in partnership with the Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, and the WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay.
“[...] the idea of distance expresses the condition of art itself. Art is of life, runs parallel to life and is sometimes about life. But, for art to be art (a medium of numinous, sometimes symbolic power), it must maintain a distance from life. Without distance, art has no authority and is no longer special. As art depends on the beauty of distance, beauty in art – a resolution of energy, thought and feeling in aesthetic form – depends on distance as well. Beauty itself can, at times, be terrible as well as alluring. Art can reflect the sweetest or strongest of emotions, it can also express the most traumatic events but, unlike life, nobody gets hurt.”
“It is through the ordinary that we are able to recognize the extraordinary or strange. Break down the conventions of beauty and look beyond the traditional to the unusual. Strange Beauty is found in the unfamiliar, evoking wonder and awe. Beauty is found in the unexpected.”
