TAOH gjester 2008

TAOH RESIDENCY 2008- This year STAVANGER IS THE EUROPEAN CITY OF CULTURE and we hope our guests will benefit from the cultural activity the year represents. TAOH is supported by Stavanger Cultural Council.

January 0th-27- Dario Kavaro Performance Artist living in Oslo. Born in Født i Mostar, Herzegovina, a city that seperates east from west. The result of a intercultural marriage embraced by communist movements, well knowingly seperated from the new democracys growth. Kavara, witnessed the creation of a nationalsitic lebensraum and race segregating projects endorced by the Bosnian state, a refugee of ethnical cleansing. The work is political using mixed techniques he performs subjects of changes or repeats real time and action. Homepage http://www.dariokavara.com <http://www.dariokavara.com/>

January 23-26 Guttorm Nordbø (N) Visual artist that in collaboration with invited musicians will perform a visual happening/impro at tou scene. He works with video projects, live drawing on overhead and slides. The happenig was first shown at the launch TARASARUS at the Henie-Onstad Art centre Oslo. Psychodelic rock influenced impromusic with a band also inspired by Miles Davis, Black Sabbath and Soft Machine.. Nordbø is also a member of the artist collective GRUPPE X.

February 15-18 MCs: Skolestil and TønnePål. At the time living in Copenhagen and Oslo originally from neighbor city Sandnes, which the band name also relates its origin too except they are so far from a school brass brand you could possibly come, as this proves to be the dirtiest and nasty hip hoppers we know. Texts on local dialect that ll make you laugh//blush//get provoked//ignorant//The band Skolekorps got many fans when some of their songs where played at the National radio on the programme untouched (NRK Urørt) but the station chose to censor 2 of their songs www.myspace.com/skolekorps

March 25th - 3rd of April TW1 8 international artists are invited by the project TOU WORKS and wil during their stay develop artistic distrurbances and comments in the street Pedersgata that joins city centre to the east and Tou scene. Artist in residence is Mariela Limerutti (Argentina) Read more at www.touscene.com/touworks

April 05-19 Henrik Hedinge (SE) -Interest in Performance art: During the residency I would like to develop further interaction and participation exploring various fields depending on site, audience and material. Usually working with famous performances as basic material, combining with what is very local such as for example the local kitchen or language. Most of the work, the audience in included in the activities as during the performance art residency in Italy last year I Improvised choir singing with text trouves. Email:henrik.hedinge [at] gmail [dot] com http://www.henrikhedinge.org

April 25th-30th- John Cunningham (N/UK) I would describe myself primarily as a visual artist, and it's the object that is my first concern. The performance is an act where I may invest some other dynamic into objects. A list of materials over the course of a performance takes on meanings. I see performance as an enacting of something that is mainly intuitive. I am currently working with thoughts and ideas that I feel are best worked out through performance. The ideas I am playing with- most simple put are concerned with the primary purpose of art- a mode of being human. I take what is commonly seen as the current institution of high arts definition s and seek to create an alternative point of view and perhaps model. I also look to open the performance/work, not to enclose it in a conclusion, but have it open to question and extension. John Performed live painting at TOU NIGHT in 2006 and is here again this year to further his work. cunninghamjp [at] hotmail [dot] com

May 14-21st Dot Howard and Emma Benneth-(UK) Our video work both advances and stands in dialogue with our individual performance practices. There are points at which our ideas, approaches and personalities coincide somewhat, like a shared experience or important joke.Emma puts tights on a camera and the things it sees have a melancholy bluish tinge. Dot's camera peeps through a paper bags "eyehole". Brambles snag at the tights stretched over the lens and anxious, frantic noises occur as it's pushed back and forth through a cat flap. So far these things have occurred separately, if our cameras meet and explore an unknown space together for a while, fantastic things could happen. For us, our cameras don't just document actions, time and places. They are the subjects of our work. They move in and out of the two worlds: production and post-production. Making video work is a compromise of what we want to do and what we feel the camera insists it does in the space that surrounds it. The camera performs. Otter-mole cam is the beginning of something we'd like to develop, it allows humans a glimpse of the world supposedly from the point of view of a creature, gaining access to a private world of burrows, undergrowth, and the undersides of cars. Web Presence: www.dartington.ac.uk/outhere07, www.nomad.org.uk www.thesehorses.com

June 11th - 15th of June TW1 read more at www.touscene.com/touworks

June 17-30 Triny prada (France) painter, video maker and performer. Moves through life outside the beaten path.So literally at times, that she almost met death in a traffic accident some ten years ago. After a long convalescence, she came back to her art practice. More than ever, the thin thread that had retained her life was now the spinal column of her art. Drawing comes first, then a canvas into which the thread draws with an utmost precision the faces of composers she gets inspiration from : Bach, Stravinsky, Philip Glass, John Lennon ... Performance comes next : the crushing and mixing of pigments into oil, and the gesture. From the tiny piece of tarlatan to huge 2×2 m. pieces painted both sides, the gesture is accurate, the move dazzling, colors projected on the canvas to fill it with more and more significant signs... She makes videos like paintings and her paintings are like video: you have to get into it, spend a little time to savour the ‘elan vital' that belongs to her : it's food for thought. As she says, her art is her life, and her life is her art ! (Gabriel Soucheyre, Director of Videoformes Clermont Ferrand, France) http://www.trinyprada.com/ contact triny.prada [at] gmail [dot] com

July 01-14th Vik Lai is and Bee to Bee group presents "Chinese Whispers - A Box on Travel. It is a box with collective works of artists from different countries. And, this box will be exhibited in different countries.This box is about the intimacy between friends crossing the boundaries of virtual reality and real distance.This box was just finished its' traveling in Hong Kong. "21m2″ in Stavanger will be the next station. Our webpage is:-http://www.frombeetobee.net/ vikphoto [at] gmail [dot] com

July 18-31 Molitrix Dancers invited by LINDA BIRKEDAL. Names unconfirmed

August 01-14 Molitrix Dancers invited by LINDA BIRKEDAL. Names unconfirmed

August 29th - 30th TW1 read more at www.touscene.com/touworks

September 01-14 Kate Robertson (Scotland) -My work deals with issues relating to collective experience of politics, authority, control, expression and futility. My work is often amusing and involves objects or gestures as a metaphor for these issues. I am currently exploring sculptures, interventions and performances relating to the idea of public space, and would like the opportunity to spend a concentrated period of time focusing on one project. My current work is particularly centered around anarchist expression in the context of contemporary capitalism. Examples of past work can be view at:
http://www.katevrobertson.com/

September 16-21st Trans Europe halls www.teh.net

25september-8th of october-Manda Waback (SE) I like to make art that I like to see myself. I try to communicate personal narratives, where body and mind functions as both subject and object. Freedom is essential to my life and to my work. I don‚t compromise, I only negotiate until I get what I want. The world. Is Mine. Mandra Wabäck was born in 1970 in Stockholm, Sweden. She graduated from the Swedish School of Photography in 1989 and moved on to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, where she graduated in 1994 from the audiovisual departement. After several solo and group exhibitions in Holland and abroad, she decided to continue and explore filmmaking. In1997 she got selected to the Dutch Film and Television Academy, where she graduated in 2001 as a filmdirector. Mandra is currently mixing various disciplines in her work, both as a visual artist and as a filmdirector www.mandrawaback.com

October 14th-28th- Natasha Wheat (Chigago) Wheat's current projects explore the space between incarcerated women and the free public. She has been engaging women in various prisons around the United States to have a letter exchange with her, in that she explains her physical space to them, and they in turn explain their physical space to her. As of yet, the form of the work exists in a series of drawings attempting to depict the spaces of the other. Wheat will use her time at Touscene to further explore the intellectual, social, and political context that shapes this work. www.messhall.org

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