Tori Wrånes is a performance artist, whose combination of voice and sculptural objects deforms presumed appearances to creates new constellations of sounds, costumes, props, architectonical and landscape elements. She was commissioned YES NIX by PERFORMA 13, New York, NY, USA, where she created an immersive visual concert together with an ensemble of musicians. From a forty person strong multi-levelled musical performance in an LA parking space that included bodybuilders, cyclists and accordion players on trolleys (SPIN ECHO, Art in the Parking Space, LAX Art, 2012) to staging a surreal concert in the trees hanging from her hair, Wrånes site- specific performances challenge audiences and singer alike. Wrånes was one of the participating artists of the 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014); the Colombo Art Biennale, Sri Lanka (2012); Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA, USA (2011); Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway (2011); Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (2008) and Palais de la Découoverte, Paris, France (2008), among others. Wrånes is a graduate of the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
Visitors 2014
Since 2009, Randi Grov Berger has worked as a curator for the platform Entrée, a non-profit exhibition space in Bergen. In this venue she has worked with numerous national and international artists, developing solo and group exhibitions, or presenting projects in the public space in collaborations with other institutions and curators. In the fall of 2013 Grov Berger was involved in Performa 13 in New York, NY, USA, as a coordinator for the Norwegian Pavilion 'Without Walls'. As part of the event she presented ‘Flag New York City’, a public art project involving sixty international artists who all created flags to be shown on public flagpoles (the project later traveled to Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway). For Performa 13, she also curated 'Object To Be Destroyed', a performance at Abrons Art Center with the Bergen-based artist Pedro Gómez-Egaña, involving New York dancers.