MOMENTUM 6 BIENNIAL 2011
18 Jun - 02 Oct 2011
The 6th Momentum Biennial
18 June - 2 October 2011
IMAGINE BEING HERE NOW
Curators: Aura Seikkula (Helsinki, Finland), Christian Skovbjerg Jensen (Copenhagen, Denmark), Marianne Zamecznik (Oslo, Norway), Markús Thór Andrésson (Reykjavík, Iceland), Theodor Ringborg (Stockholm, Sweden).
The 6th Momentum Biennial, held in Moss, Norway, is predicated upon a conviction that the complexities of orientating the world depend on factors of memory and imagination that inevitably transpire within time and space. Indeed, we tend to emphasize the latter when considering human experience, but for each individual time and space expands back and forth, up and down and even sideways (to whatever elements each person takes into consideration at any given moment). The inherent present of each individual not only extends to momentary impressions but to his or her past as well as their expectations of the future, owing to the fact that we have the ability to imagine being somewhere else entirely, in any other place at any other time.
In extension to the two venues that usually house the Biennial, Gallery F15 – a historic countryside villa, and Kunsthall – a former brewery in the city center, the exhibition engages The Solberg Tower – an empty high-rise near the city of Moss. Furthermore, projects intervene in the exhibition infrastructure at unexpected hours and sites throughout Momentum. One of those events will be an itinerant performance program presenting itself around the Nordic region in the fall. A prelude to what might occur in Moss, the release of an introductory reader published by Mousse Publishing will take place in Venice during the Biennale opening, in which writers, artists and thinkers introduce the exhibition. Indicatory of an exhibition venturing to pin down, stretch and animate the experience of time in standstill, motion and reverse the Reader parallels the multiple layers of presentation and expressions characterizing the exhibition. Additionally, a subsequent catalogue will be published near the end of the Biennial, exploring what, where and when was experienced.
Artists:
Øystein Aasan
Caroline Achaintre
Harpa Árnadóttir
Michael Baers
Margrét H. Blöndal
Paolo Bottarelli
KP Brehmer
Elina Brotherus
Heman Chong
Bruce Conner
Jason Dodge
Aleksandra Domanović
Leif Elggren
Luca Frei
Ellie Ga
Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir
Hamza Halloubi
Magnús Logi Kristinsson
Matti Kujasalo
Oliver Laric
Karl Larsson
Ann Lislegaard
The Long Now Foundation
Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio
Katarina Löfström
Daniel Medina
Naeem Mohaiemen
Maria Miesenberger
Ulrike Mohr
Eadweard Muybridge
Simon Dybbroe Møller
Rosalind Nashashibi
Ioana Nemes
Finnbogi Pétursson
Prinz Gholam
Raqs Media Collective
Mandla Reuter
Nikolai von Rosen
Hans Rosenström
Andreas Siqueland
SEX TAGS
Simon Starling
Fiete Stolte
Superflex in collaboration with The Propeller Group
Ines Tartler
Roi Vaara
Kjell Varvin
Bettina Camilla Vestergaard
Wooloo
George Young
18 June - 2 October 2011
IMAGINE BEING HERE NOW
Curators: Aura Seikkula (Helsinki, Finland), Christian Skovbjerg Jensen (Copenhagen, Denmark), Marianne Zamecznik (Oslo, Norway), Markús Thór Andrésson (Reykjavík, Iceland), Theodor Ringborg (Stockholm, Sweden).
The 6th Momentum Biennial, held in Moss, Norway, is predicated upon a conviction that the complexities of orientating the world depend on factors of memory and imagination that inevitably transpire within time and space. Indeed, we tend to emphasize the latter when considering human experience, but for each individual time and space expands back and forth, up and down and even sideways (to whatever elements each person takes into consideration at any given moment). The inherent present of each individual not only extends to momentary impressions but to his or her past as well as their expectations of the future, owing to the fact that we have the ability to imagine being somewhere else entirely, in any other place at any other time.
In extension to the two venues that usually house the Biennial, Gallery F15 – a historic countryside villa, and Kunsthall – a former brewery in the city center, the exhibition engages The Solberg Tower – an empty high-rise near the city of Moss. Furthermore, projects intervene in the exhibition infrastructure at unexpected hours and sites throughout Momentum. One of those events will be an itinerant performance program presenting itself around the Nordic region in the fall. A prelude to what might occur in Moss, the release of an introductory reader published by Mousse Publishing will take place in Venice during the Biennale opening, in which writers, artists and thinkers introduce the exhibition. Indicatory of an exhibition venturing to pin down, stretch and animate the experience of time in standstill, motion and reverse the Reader parallels the multiple layers of presentation and expressions characterizing the exhibition. Additionally, a subsequent catalogue will be published near the end of the Biennial, exploring what, where and when was experienced.
Artists:
Øystein Aasan
Caroline Achaintre
Harpa Árnadóttir
Michael Baers
Margrét H. Blöndal
Paolo Bottarelli
KP Brehmer
Elina Brotherus
Heman Chong
Bruce Conner
Jason Dodge
Aleksandra Domanović
Leif Elggren
Luca Frei
Ellie Ga
Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir
Hamza Halloubi
Magnús Logi Kristinsson
Matti Kujasalo
Oliver Laric
Karl Larsson
Ann Lislegaard
The Long Now Foundation
Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio
Katarina Löfström
Daniel Medina
Naeem Mohaiemen
Maria Miesenberger
Ulrike Mohr
Eadweard Muybridge
Simon Dybbroe Møller
Rosalind Nashashibi
Ioana Nemes
Finnbogi Pétursson
Prinz Gholam
Raqs Media Collective
Mandla Reuter
Nikolai von Rosen
Hans Rosenström
Andreas Siqueland
SEX TAGS
Simon Starling
Fiete Stolte
Superflex in collaboration with The Propeller Group
Ines Tartler
Roi Vaara
Kjell Varvin
Bettina Camilla Vestergaard
Wooloo
George Young