Visitors 2006

Geir Haraldseth is the director of Rogaland Kunstsenter. Haraldseth holds a BA in Fine Arts from Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design and an MA in Curatorial Studies from Bard College. Previous positions include curator at the National Museum of Art, Design and Architecture, Oslo, and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo. Haraldseth has contributed to several journals and magazines including the Exhibitionist, Kunstkritikk, Acne Paper, and Landings Journal. His work as an independent curator focuses on the links between art and the luxury goods market and he has curated shows at GucciVuitton, Miami; Vox Populi, Philadelphia; Fotogalleriet, Oslo; Landings Project Space, Vestfossen; the National Museum of Art, Design and Architecture, Oslo; Stavanger Kunstmuseum, Stavanger; Teatro de Arena, Sao Paulo; and Akershus Kunstsenter, Lillestrøm. He published 'Great! I've written something stupid' in
2012, featuring a selection of his curated projects and writings, published by Torpedo Press. Upcoming publications include Collective Good, Collaborative Efforts and Luxury Face.

Ole Martin Lund Bø was awarded the artist residency to proceed with the development of his work which involves a recontextualization of the authoritarian elements of power rhetoric that is being used in political, religious and commercial mass media. Interested in the construction and the surface of mass communication, its rhetoric and visual language, Bø expresses an investigation of the architecture of the content as shaped by aesthetic norms and traditions.