Visitors 2021

New York

1 Sept – 15 Aug 2022

Skaus

Nomadic Art Project

Skaus is a nomadic art project, a hosting and occupying platform. It’s existence relies on continual change and therefore its conditions are irreproducible. The project is accumulative by nature. It is a support structure that instigates encounters between sites, artists, institutions, social infrastructures and the audience. Skaus is instigated by Håvard Sagen, Markus Bråten and Mari Kolbeinson.

Skaus embodies all previous contributions and represents an ever-changing multi-authored artwork that is not geographically anchored. We explore different forms of collaboration, working towards an informal and shared authorship. The intention is to draw lines of flight, accumulating and moulding works, opening up narratives.

The pilot season of Skaus took place at Rogaland Art Center and a development lot in Stavanger, Norway. Two identical wooden structures were built on site. These structures and their surroundings served as the physical framework for the pilot season of Skaus. From February to October, 2020,10 invited artists and artist collectives led the work on each designated site for a period of 3 weeks, producing 5 parallel art exhibitions. The material displayed during the opening was never removed, but became a part of Skaus, and a starting point for the next invited artist.

Stakeholders: Linda Lamignan, Andreas Amble, Ingeborg Kvame, Ingrid Furre, Edvine Larssen, Héloïse Delègue, Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen, Benjamin Hickethier & Byverksted
Advisor: Apichaya Wanthiang
Convenors: Håvard Sagen, Mari Kolbeinson, Markus Bråten

1 Sept – 30 Nov 2021

Marie Nerland

Artist/Curator

Marie Nerland is an independent curator and artist based in Bergen, Norway. She is the founder of Volt, a long-term curatorial initiative that commissions and presents new projects by contemporary artists. Past projects have taken the form of exhibitions, time-based media, sound art, performances, as well as publications, lectures, seminars, workshops and reading circles, all taking place in a wide variety of different locations and in public realm. With Volt she has commissioned art projects by artists such as Erick Beltrán, Mette Edvardsen, Every Ocean Hughes, Rabih Mroué, Signe Lidén, Maia Urstad, and many others. Upcoming projects are with among others Xaviera Simmons, Kiluanji Kia Henda and Daisuke Kosugi.

She is the editor of The Imaginary Reader (Volt, 2016), the anthology 25 (BIT Teatergarasjen, 2010) and Ferdsskriveren (BIT Teatergarasjen, 2003), co-editor of four issues of
the Norwegian Art Yearbook (Pax Forlag, 2010-2013), and co-editor of 3t, a Norwegian journal of contemporary performing arts (1997-2007). She has studied political science, comparative literature, and holds a master degree in theatre studies from the University of Bergen and an MA-level degree in curatorial practice from the Bergen Academy of Art and Design. Since 1999 she has been working as an artist in different collaborative performance-based projects.