UPDATED 15. MAY 2012

lena langvand samuelsen

emilija skarnulyte

david laiso

consequence sequence

18. - 20. MAY 2012

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Jari Silomäki

Room With a View

4. - 13. MAY 2012

PHOTO FROM THE SERIES "MY WEATHER DIARY, 2009

OPENING FRIDAY, 4. MAY 2012, 8PM

JARI SILOMÄKI, is a Finnish artist based in Helsinki and a graduate of the University of Art and Design (TAIK) Department of Photography, Helsinki. He will come to Tromsø and exhibit his new installation work called ROOM WITH A VIEW.

Room With a View is an installation consisting of text, photographs and video. It places the individual to the historical events of his/her era.

The centrepiece is the textual work One moment, Two pictures, in which Silomäki has collected moments and thoughts of unknown individuals from historically significant events. Such events include e.g. Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass), the invasion of Normandy, Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassination of president John F. Kennedy and dissolution of the Soviet Union.

In the photographs these moments are present as pictures inside pictures. They are a part of a portrait Silomäki has taken of three individuals from different generations. Third part of the exhibition is the video work, starring an elderly person. They are slouched, as if being flogged. On their back we can see reflections from the history of the last century and its icons.

This exhibition is made possible with the support of the Finnish-Norwegian Culture Institute (FINNO).

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Low Lives 4

Live Stream and Live

performance at

Small Projects

Performances by Nuria Guiu Sagarra

Small Projects will be projecting the live stream of performances happening around the world on day 2 of the Low Lives 4 Networked Performance Festival on 28. April from 9pm to 12am. We will also present the 5-minute performance of Nuria Guiu Sagarra- which she developed especially for Small Projects after she fractured her foot while performing 3 weeks ago,- live in the space and online beginning at apporoximately 9:40 pm.

The 2-day event can be followed on the internet live by clicking the link provided on the top right of this website.

This event is made possible with the collaboration and support of RADART and the Vårscenefest (Spring Stage Festival).

Nuria Guiu Sagarra

for Low Lives 4 and

Vårscenefest 2012

Small Projects have chosen Nuria Guiu Sagarra to represent the gallery in the upcoming Low Lives 4 Networked Performance Festival, which is also the contribution of Small Projects to the Vårscenefest 2012 in Tromsø.

Born in Barcelona, Spain, Nuria began her career as a dancer with the Batsheva Dance Company and continued with the Carte Blanche Dance Company. She has also worked freelance and has done several solo projects, such as Fast Food - Fast Love, La Gotera, Have a Nice Trip, Wonderland Falling Tomorrow, and others.

Usually using a particular character and story as a starting point and beauty and innocence as a framework, Nuria takes a fairy tale atmosphere and blurs it with distorted dark layers to break its purity. For the Small Projects event, she will perform Sing Me In.

This project is made possible in cooperation with Råd Stua theater house, Tromsø.

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«Vårscenefest» – Spring Stage Fest – is a performing arts festival initiative by RadArt and the Rådstua Theatre House.

We invite you for the second time to the performing arts festival Vårscenefest in Tromsø. The theme for this year's festival is the role of the audience.

The unique and vivid encounter between the stage and the audience is very much the hallmark of the performing arts. Many of the artists in this year's Vårscenefest are concerned with intensifying this encounter. By performing in unusual spaces and by enabling interaction, discussion and communion that stimulates the imagination. Vårscenefest 2012 provides the audience a unique opportunity to experience the winner of last year's Hedda Award winner for best performance: The Eternal Smile (Det eviga leendet) by Verk Productions, to see a refreshing Finnish and controversial performance about humanism with nude dancers, enjoy a recitation by the enormously talented jazz soloist Mari Kvien Brunvoll, become enthralled by documentary theatre about growing up in a treatment institution by the award-winning Fabula Rasa, discover Tromsø's hidden gem Alfheimteatret, party with The Strange Mara and The Three Thoughts, join the artists for brunch on Labour Day (1st of May) or have a taste of some of the other snacks the festival has in store for you.  (radart.no)

Small Projects is collaborating with RADART and Kurant for this festival. For the full program, please click here.

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Exit GråSone

Aslaug Magdalena Juliussen     

Arnold Johansen / Charo Calvo

Performance by Mara & Mr. Oyster Catcher

Aslaug Magdalena Juliussen - I utstillingen vises en gulvbasert installasjon med tittelen HornSpinne (2006–12). Arbeidet, som kan forstås som en tydelig bærer av arktiske referanser, består av pelsdekte (kastrerte) oksereinsdyrhorn festet til en sphereform kledt med ulike tekstile fibre. Med eksperimentelle materialsammenstillinger er intensjonen å frembringe visuelle forestillinger der livet i nord ses med nye øyne. Jakten på materialer og kombinasjonen av organiske materialer og eget håndverk, danner grunnlaget for undersøkelser av kulturelle kodekser og kulturlandskapets historie. Juliussen bor og arbeider i Tromsø.

Arnold Johansen / Charo Calvo - Billedkunstneren Johansen og lydkunstneren Calvo viser et videoarbeid som er sammensatt av Johansens bilder og video, og Calvos lydkomposisjon. Video 6:30 minutters loop. Verket er opprinnelig en del av forestillingen Nordområdebevegelsen (2011) www.haugenproduksjoner.no Et dokudrama i et bevegelig rom av og med dansekunstneren Liv Hanne Haugen, som bor og arbeider i Tromsø. Johansen bor og arbeider i Hammerfest. Calvo er fra Spania, men bor og arbeider i Brussels

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OPEN CALL

FOR SMALL

PROJECTS AT

LOW LIVES 4

NETWORKED

PERFORMANCE

FESTIVAL

DEADLINE 26.MARCH, 11 PM

LOW LIVES 4 Networked Performance Festival Event Dates: 27, 28 April 2012

Open call for proposals Deadline:26 March 2012

Now entering its fourth year, Low Lives is an exhibition of live performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time at multiple venues. The project celebrates the transmission of ideas beyond geographical and cultural borders. It does this by facilitating intergenerational and multicultural dialogue through visual languages, new technologies, and contemporary expressions. Low Lives offers local and global audiences a critical and contextual frame from which to consider live performance in both the physical and virtual space.

Low Lives asks, what does it mean to be human at a time when the separation between humans and machines is increasingly diminishing? The artists included in Low Lives work in a wide variety of media including video, performance, installation, conceptual art, sound art and web art. The themes they tackle are widely varied and involve classical human concerns of time, space, mind, body, spirit, sexuality, identity, race, gender, intimacy, private vs. public space, cultural systems, communication, and the space between art and life.

The Process

• Artists broadcast their performances through live video streaming networks such as Ustream.tv.

• Performances are presented one after the other. All of the performances are fed through one channel.

• Online chat allows artists and online audiences to interact by commenting on, celebrating and critiquing the work as it occurs around the world.

• Presenting Partners project the live performances in their venues in front of a live audience.

Small Projects will present 1 artist who will do a 5-minute performance in its gallery space in Tromsø , which will then be b broadcasted live on the net as part of the networked festival. We therefore encourage performance artists in various disciplines, especially those already based in Tromsø to send a proposal including a short description of the performance, yourself, CV, images if possible. Send the proposal before 11:00 pm on March 26 to this address:

APPLICATIONS (AT) SMALLPROJECTS (DOT) NO

http://www.lowlives.net/

soup&talk

by

denise winter & costantino zicarelli

13. march, 5-8 pm, grønnegata 23, tromsø

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OPENING FRIDAY, 9. MARCH 2012 8PM

denise winter

&

costantino zicarelli

+

performance by

eva-maria

9. - 18. MARCH 2012

LANDSHAPE by Denise Winter

Denise Winter is a German artist (graduate of Dresden and Düsseldorf Art Academies) who is a frequent visitor to Tromsø where she has been doing photographic research for the past 3 or 4 years. In a similar research in 2011, she turned a boat's small observation tower, known as the "crows nest", into a Camera Obscura, and captured the landscape, horizon and mountains the boat passed along its course. The result can be viewed at the Small Projects gallery.

BLACK NOISE / UNTITLED VOID by Costantino Zicarelli

Cos Zicarelli is an artist based in Manila, The Phiippines and a graduate of the University of Santo Thomas Fine Arts program, and he has spent the last 2 months at the KinoKino artist residence program in Sandnes. Zicarelli imprints in “Black noise/untitled void” his predilection towards the ominous as he remarks on the tropes of black metal and drone music. Taking from the genre's minimalist sequences, Zicarelli evokes its menace through a diffusion of imagery.

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Art Video Exchange-Norway and Small Projects has organized an International Video Exchange in Tromsø from 2. - 4. March, 2012, and have invited fourteen artist/curators from thirteen countries to participate in a public screening, discussion and a curator symposium. We also invited the French artist Justine Emard to create a video project with the use of new technology and mobile devices like iPhone, iPad, etc. related to the symposium.

A network initiative between artist/curators, Art Video Exchange (AVE) organizes opportunities for video artists and promotes the production and circulation of international video programming. AVE works to foster a greater appreciation of video art and an exchange of ideas between artists, curators and audiences worldwide.

Art Video Exchange Norway and Small Projects have invited collaborators from the Nordic/Balkan, Central/South Europe, America, Asia and Middle East. Participating countries include: Philippines, Germany, Lebanon, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, USA and Poland. Small Projects have also invited the students of the Academy of Contemporary Art Tromsø to present a 30-minute program.

The artist/curators will each present a 30-minute program of video work from their countries and discuss these programs to a public audience. In addition, a symposium will be arranged where the curators will meet to discuss the challenges facing the contemporary video artist/curator. Issues of format and screening praxis, and the wider definition of video art in today’s technological environment.

Participating artists/curators: Artist/Curators:

Claro J. Ramirez (Lopez Museum, Philippines), Claudia Reinhardt (Art Video Exchange, Germany), Eli Souaiby (Art Video Exchange, Lebanon), Enrico Tomaselli (Magmart International Art Film Festival, Italy), Gintarė Matulaitytė (Art Video Exchange, Lithuania), Igor Bosniak (namaTRE.ba project, Bosnia & Herzegovina), Jonas Nilsson and Eva Olsson, (Art:Screen Fest, Sweden), Julie Sparsø Damkjær (Denmark), Kristin Scheving (700IS Reindeerland, Iceland), Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson (USA, *Michał Brzeziński, Poland) Mona Bentzen (Art Video Exchange, Norway), Students of the Academy of Contemporary Tromsø.

This project is made possible by the Art Video Exchange and with the support of the Nordisk Kulturfond, Kulturkontakt Nord, Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA), The U.S. Embassy Oslo, Tromsprodukt, and Norsk Kulturråd (Arts Council Norway).

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Small Projects at the

Supermarket Art Fair

2012

Photos from the fair.

Supermarket Art Fair, the non-profit art fair initiated and organised by artists was held this past weekend at the Kulturhuset in Stockholm. Small Projects participated for the second year in a row, this time exhibiting the works of Kristine Halmrast, Margrethe Pettersen, Dylan Miner, Sigurd Gurvin, Eric L. Zamuco, Joar Nango and the performance of Ane Sagatun.

The participation of Small Projects is made possible through the support of the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) and the Norwegian Embassy, Stockholm.

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OPENING FRIDAY, 10. FEBRUARY 2012

NÁGGÁRVUOĐAS,

BEALUŠTUSSAN

IN DEFIANCE,

IN DEFENSE

dylan miner

10. - 26. FEBRUARY 2012

DYLAN MINER'S TEXTS ARE TAKEN FROM

SARA MARGRETHE OSKAL'S BOOK

Váimmu Vuohttume / Å Vogge Eit Hjarte til Ro (2006)

Small Projects starts the year with

DYLAN MINER     

Small Projects is proud to announce the exhibition of the Artist-Activist Dylan Miner. Dylan Miner is a border-crossing Métis with roots in the historical aboriginal communities of Slave Lake, Alberta; Red River, Manitoba; Drummond Island, Michigan; and Penetanguishene, Ontario. He holds a PhD in history of art from the University of New Mexico, USA, and is presently a professor at the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University and coordinates the Michigan Native Arts Initiative. He is also a curator at the MSU Museum.

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OPENING THURSDAY, 17. NOVEMBER 2011

URBAN NATUR: utstilling og film                      nord-norges arkitektforening

margrethe pettersen

faith morgan

17. - 20. NOVEMBER 2011

torsdag/ fredag
17:00 - 21:00
lørdag/ søndag
13:00 - 17:00

Utstilling, Margrethe Pettersen:
From this process new metaphors emerged and old ones are tested for value
”Definisjonen av ugress; plante som er uønsket på en gitt plass, har inspirert meg til tanker rundt hva som får vokse og gro mer generelt, om det så er arkitektur i byplanlegging eller hva som kommer med
i historieskrivning.” Kunstneren inviterte tidligere i år til en annerledes byvandring i Tromsø ”Vandring blant vekster i tid og rom” som motiverte oss til denne utstillingen. Vandringen kan igjen oppleves!

Film, directed by Faith Morgan, 2006 (56min)
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
This film tells of the hardships and struggles as well as the community and creativity of the Cuban people after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Cubans show how they transitioned from a highly mechanized, industrial agricultural system to one using organic farming methods and urban gardens. Cuba is the only country that has faced such a crisis- the massive reduction of fossil fuel.
(www.powerofcommunity.org)

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7. NOVEMBER 2011, 7PM

soup&talk

by

kalle hamm & dzamil kamanger

read more >

OPENING SATURDAY, 5. NOVEMBER 2011, 8PM

AFARYAN             kalle hamm &     dzamil kamanger

5. - 13. NOVEMBER 2011

Kalle Hamm, Dzamil Kamanger
AFARYAN PROJECT

Afaryan Monolog, Afaryan Memories and Notes on the Wall comprise an art project that uses memory to tell the story of Upper Afaryan, A Kurd village in Western Iran. The work is based on interviews with former villagers and documentation from the village’s ruin. It traces the history of Upper Afaryan, from its feudal formation more than 400 years ago to its abandonment in the aftermath of the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, in a pastiche of documentary film, photographs and recollections of former villagers that have been recorded both in Iran and in Europe.

Working from the premise of individual interpretation, the project casts the village as both hell and paradise. Those with connections to the village perceive it in different ways. Some recall fond memories, while others see it as a place to leave at the earliest possible opportunity, often depending on their station on the hierarchy of village life. For some, it is an oasis, albeit on that is best remembered. Others are eager to return and rebuild.

Using place as cultural touchstone, the project demonstrates how individual recollection shapes collective memory. In doing so, it reveals the arbitrary nature of history, and shows us those same attributes at work among members of the village diaspora as they go about their daily lives. As the artists note: ”It is a generally acknowledged fact that history is written by the victors. The memories of individual people can therefore provide different perspectives to those of mainstream documented history. In some cases they can provide the only source for gaining insight into a collective experience. We all have a right to our own history.”

This exhibition is supported by the FRAME - Finnish Fund for Art Exchange, and the FINSK-NORSK KULTURINSTITUTT.

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OPENING WEDNESDAY, 19. OCTOBER 2011, 8PM

SANNSYNLIGHETER beate c. rønning, merete dille & sara christensen

19. - 28. OCTOBER 2011

SANNSYNLIGHETER

Beathe C. Rønning, Merete Dille & Sara Christensen

English below

I jakten på virkeligheten, dukker det opp scener og former, som fordi de er der og finnes, må sies å være virkelige, men allikevel ikke sorterer under samme virkelighet som stolene på et ligningskontor, og brosjyrene ved skranken. Det er ikke science fiction, vi snakker om.

Det er et sylinderformet, fylt objekt sydd av et rødt håndkle, en rutete duk, badeballer og glidelåser. Med mer. Snor og tennisball. Forseggjort og fargesterkt. Formen blir trukket sammen av en bagasjestropp, som om den har permanent mageknip.

Eller, du finner en handleliste og lurer på hvem som handlet dette. Var det en gammel dame som skulle ha druejuice og mariekjeks? En ungkar, en ingeniør? Hva er forskjellen på en fordom og en forestilling?

En ung mann sitter i åpningen til en grotte, mens tåka driver gjennom grantrærne utenfor, fargene er avstemt. Han er alene, og han synger. I falsett.

Kan det være en dom felt på forhånd, som lengter etter å bli opphevet? Virkeligheten er ikke til å unngå, men den kan utvides og strekkes. Enten i materialebruk eller innhold. Verkene i utstillingen ser om dette går, og om det har noe for seg.

PROBABILITIES

Beathe C. Rønning, Merete Dille & Sara Christensen

In the hunt for reality, scenes and forms appear, and because they are there, they must be real, but not the same kind of real as the chairs in the tax office and the leaflets by the desk. We are not talking about science fiction.

We are talking about a stuffed cylindrical object, made from a red towel, a checkered tablecloth, swim balls and zippers. And more. Cord and tennis ball. Well made and colourful. The form is being pulled together by a luggage strap, as if it has permanent stomach cramps.

Or, you find a shopping list and wonder, who bought this? Was it an old lady who wanted grape juice and biscuits? A bachelor, an engineer? What is the difference between prejudice and imagination?

A young man sits at the opening of a cave, while the fog moves through the pine trees outside, the colours are balanced. He is alone, and he sings. In falsetto.

Could it be a judgement already made, that longs for it´s repeal? The reality is inevitable, but it may be expanded and streched. In ways of using material or in it´s content. The works in this exhibition tries to see if thats possible, and whether it makes sense.

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OPENING SATURDAY, 01. OCTOBER 2011, 8PM

DEATH OF THE MYTH sigurd gurvin & marie askeland gundersen

1. - 7. OCTOBER 2011

DEATH OF THE MYTH
Sigurd Gurvin & Marie Askeland Gundersen

Nymfen Echo tar endelig igjen, mens Narcissus
reflekterer over tidligere spirituelle reiser.

Marie Askeland Gundersen kjenner på sine ultra-femenine sider med kjetting og wifebeater. Hun er dritt lei av å bare være crazy, men hva skal hun da gjøre? Meditere? Fuck off! Don`t fucking tell me what to do!! Iscenesettelse etter musikk.

Sigurd Gurvin leter etter spirituell oppmuntring. Etter å ha blitt pappa smelter gutterommet og atelieet sammen. Et rom hvor en kan dyrke seg sjølv og romantisere over det tidligere utopia. Fascinasjon for hester som løper langs strandkanten og et selvportrett setter stemningen for en ladet kveld.

Begge er avgangsstudenter ved Kunstakademiet i Tromsø.

Velkommen!

åpner 20:00
performance fra 21:00
Fredag 01.10.2011
www.smallprojects.no

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