Performance





Launching 1
Documentation of a performance
Box with a lid, 46 x 30 x 30 cm, 12′ balloons, 44 x 3 cm tube, plastic bags in different colors,
“needle” to stick with.
PAB open arranged by Performanceart Bergen. Bergen old prison, Norway 2013















Photo: Bjarte Bjørkum


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Launching 2
Documentation of a performance                         
Plastic bags in different colors, 12′ balloons
PAB open arranged by Performance art Bergen. Bergen old prison, Norway 2013















Photo: Bjarte Bjørkum

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Out in the blue
Documentation of a performance/ Time: 10 – 15 min
Paper roll/ wallpaper of 5-10m, and a chewed candy
Møllebyen literaturfestival, Moss, Norway 2013




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Tandem balloon 3
Documentation of a performance/ 2013/ with Anders Kjellesvik
Two aspects of the same case. Tree sculpture, varying size.
Vestlandsutstillingen, Norway 2013















Photo: Andrea Gjestvang

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Tandem balloon 2
Documentation of a performance/ 2012/ Time : 15:00

Two big balloons, one inside the other, are blown up. End at different points of time.

MOMBI 2012,  Madstun, Lienvegen 50, Fall minicipality, Oppland county



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Rowing in circle

Documentation of a performance/ 2012/ Time: 2 days of 4.5hours each

The front of the rowing boat is fastened by a rope to a reef. You are using an oar on the inside, to make the boat orbit round the reef.

Five Thousand Generation of Birds, Fitjar, Norway, 2012


Photo: Erik Reitan

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A bit blockish

Performance about 15 min.

Loose steps sticking to the shoes with gaffa tape.

Wuthering Hights, Ola Narr parken, Oslo, 2011  
Photo: Sara Christensen. Solveig Syversen


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The sound from the grey mass

Documentation of performance. 
Details about sounds and means that the body apply.

Fail again, fail better, BOA, Oslo 2011 
Photo:Runde Sandnes


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Balance

Foto/ Documentation of performance

21×30 cm


0 Budget, What if Artist Group, Hong Kong, 2010




























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Bottlemail

Object. Small Coke bottle of plastic.

Found a bottle in the Geirangerfiord. Mailed  it at the post office to Agnes Btffn in Stavanger with a postcart and a letter inside.

Project Bottlemail by Agnes Btffn. 2010















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Along the rock bed

Five fence poles, one and a half metres long, stand in a row in the ground, 2 meters in between. The poles were mounted perpendicularly with the sharpened part against the rock.

Kunstbruk Lauvhaugen, Valevåg, Sveio, Norge, 2010


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Along the horizon

A person is guided to walk along a land profile. The position of the camera decides where the edge of the terrain is to become. Communication takes place from the position of the camera either by shouting or by use of a cell telephone. The direction is adjusted according to the messages.

Kunstbruk Lauvhaugen, Valevåg, Sveio, Norge, 2010


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Cooling down

Documentation of performance.
Performace on the opening. duration: Half an hour


The performance deals with fluid, gravity and movement.

Open Art, Örebro Kunsthall, Örebro, Sweden 2009 
Photo: Tori Wrånes


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Mandarin in a bottle


Documentation of a performance/ 2008/ Time : 17:15

About removing a Mandarin into a bottle.



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From one time to another – Holes in clothes/The peasant student

Documentation of a performance/ 2009/ Time : 10:00 and 07:00 in Loop

Two videos shown parallelly, upright in about a full bodysize. One of the projections shows Hans Skard reading the poem about the peasant student in a city setting, and how he handles coping with the bourgeaise surroundings. The other  projection  shows myself cutting holes in my cothes, however not more than I’m still covered.



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Test

Documentation of a performance/ 2009/ Time: about 05:00.

About combining materials ( gaffatape & glass) and about hanging it up on the wall.



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Gaffawalk

Documentation of a performance. 2009. Time:05:00

In this performance I let the correlation between gaffatape and the dirt on the floor, regulate the sound of footsteps.



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Following the seam

Documentation of a performance / 2009 / Time: about 05:00
About describing spesific parts of a piece of clothing.



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Corrections nr 20


Documentation of a performance / 2008 / Time: abouth 02:00

About moving water above the head



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Right Left

Documentation of a performance / 2009 / Time: about 07:00 min
About moving an object – in this case a camera – by soundwaves




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Colaline

2008

More than 100 Cola cans are built up in a more than 10 meter high roadcutting. It´s on the road E 37 north of Førde in Sveio, Norway. The cans fit presicely to the remaining parts of the drillingholes in the wall.





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Eg treng… (I need…)


Documentation of performance. 2008/staged photo.(20×30) / time: about one hour

I am sitting by a small table having a book on it and start to write in the book. I stop writing and put the pen without covering it into the breast pocket of my shirt. At once the ink starts to leak into the textile of the shirt.



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Lufttransport 2 (Airtransport 2)

Documentation of performance. 2008 /Time: 07:00

An ordinary white garbage bag (about 12 liter) is wrapped nicely together and put into the chest pocket of my suit -where the handkerchief uses to be. A gum string is in another pocket. I take in use both mentioned objects by mixing them. I use them over my head as a construction for collecting air. By plaicing the gum string at the opening of the bag and not lower than just over my mouth. I use a spical breathing technique and fill up the bag with air. The bag is then transported as it stays trough the public and out of the room. The light in the room ads greater experience to the peace.



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Going to bed with one arm.

Documentation of performance.2007 / Time: 05:00
The documentation was shown, on a monitor, in the installation (on the bed).

An ordinary bed, necessarily equipped, and a hook in the wall beside The hook has a clothanger on. I’m dressed in a black suit and an assistant links me to the hook. A black strip bound’s my left hand. I undress with one arm and stay in bed for about one minute. Then I get up and dress myself and get loosened.




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Walking on paper

Videoperformance. Loop. 2007 /Time :02:00

Walking back and forth on rolled paper in Paris with a busy road and the Seine in the background.




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On the hedge

Documentation of performance.Video made from stills. 2006 /Time: 00:44

By using two 2 m long and 0,70 m wide wooden plates I am moving my body lying on my backside This is happening on top of a 20m long hedge. In turns, the plates are pulled over my body and the body is pushed over the plates.



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Trying to play the national anthemon the hot water tap

Videoperformance. 2006. /Time: 01:23

The hot water tap was worn out and gave a irritating sound because of viberation. It could produce different tone heights depending on the steam of water.(It has been shown as a loop with a 20sek break.



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Harley

Videoperformance. Loop. 2005 /Time: 00:38

It’s about blowing air in the cheek and thereby making a simmer sound as from an engine. The action was filmed and the small blow part is cut out and copied several times and then made into a loop.




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Tandem balloon

Documentation of performance. 2004 /Time: 02:05

Two balloons are mixed together to one. Two openings. One in each end. Cooperation is needed to get it functioning.



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Decorations of a Christmas tree blind full.

Documentation/video of performance. 2004 /Time: 04:48

To decorate a Christmas tree with cowered eyes.


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A man with a big Coke in a small world.

Documentation of performance. 2003. /Time: 04:27

A person sitting enjoying a one and a half litre Coke from a glass in the left hand. The right hand is placed in a simple paper construction like of a house and after a while the hand will put the house on fire. Most of the Coke is used to put out the fire.




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