HILMARfestivalen, Steinkjer

by browsingbeauty on December 11, 2011

short video excerpt; projection on two and a half tons of ice & on building; soundscape, fire

Thanks much for your wonderful hospitality: Johan Einer Bjerkem and Pelle Rygold (Hilmarfestivalen), Trond Olaf Skevik (Høgskolen i Nord-Trøndelag), and Christel Sverre (Kunstakademiet i Trondheim)!

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)

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browsing beauty in Norway

by browsingbeauty on October 27, 2011

HILMARfestivalen, Steinkjer, Norway
November 3-13, 2011

browsingbeauty steinkjer norway



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Workshop Kunstakademiet i Trondheim

by browsingbeauty on October 20, 2011

Kunstakademiet i Trondheim, NTNU
Hilmarfestivalen i Steinkjer
November 3 – 12, 2011

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.

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WKP Kennedy Gallery opening

by browsingbeauty on October 18, 2010

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!

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bb at the WKP Kennedy Gallery

by browsingbeauty on October 3, 2010

October 9th – November 4, 2010
Opening Reception:  October 9th, 1 PM

WKP Kennedy Gallery
(located at 150 Main St E, North Bay, ON – open Tues-Fri 11-5 PM, Saturday 12-4PM)


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Opening in Oshawa, Canada

by browsingbeauty on July 26, 2010

browsing beauty in Canada from Sigi Torinus on Vimeo.

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!

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browsing beauty opens in Oshawa tonight!

by browsingbeauty on July 9, 2010

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.

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The Beauty of Distance

by browsingbeauty on April 23, 2010

The Beauty of Distance

very much along the lines of our initial Sydney browsing beauty show (1997) which was all about beauty and distance! So exciting: check out:
Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age
May 12 – August 1, 2010 SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
Artistic Director: David Elliott
“[...] 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.”

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Was ist Schön?

by browsingbeauty on March 30, 2010

Was ist Schön?
Deutsches Hygienemuseum Dresden

March 27, 2010-January 2, 2011

curated by Doris Müller-Toovey: a critical survey of the current discourse on beauty

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Strange Beauty

by browsingbeauty on March 29, 2010

Darren Ching and Debra Klomp Ching
Klompching Gallery, New York

Call for Entries due May 18, 2010

“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.”

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