13. de:LUX VII – Where will we grow from here? (NO/IS/FI)
Where will we grow from here?
2021
Interdisciplinary, site specific, collaboration project between three artists from Finland, Island and Norway. Our inspiration is found in the beautiful surroundings at Dikemark, the history of the place and people related to the area. The work is made from a wish to give people a suiting experience at the Factory Light Festival. Reflecting on the past in the present and on how we can be the change that we want for the future.
de:LUX er en plattform for å utvikle AV installasjoner i Norden. de:LUX er en serie kreative samarbeidsprosjekter skapt og drevet av Einkofi productions/Curated Place fra Island og blekksprut1 Productions/Factory Light Festival fra Norge. Samarbeidet startet i 2018 med premiere under Factory Light Festival i Slemmestad. Prosjektet er i stadig utvikling og inkludere nye samarbeidspartnere fra Danmark, Estland og Finland.
Konseptet går ut på at tverrfaglige team med nordiske kunstnere blir satt sammen for å skape stedsspesifikke verk til kulturarrangementer i Nord Europa, som factory light festival i Norge, Spectra festival i Scotland og Flash biennale i Finland.
Med kun 48 timer til rådighet skal kunstnerteamene skape unike kunstopplevelser med lys- og lyd.
Anton Kaldal (Iceland)
Anton is one of our experienced de:LUX artists!
Anton Águstsson is a Reykjavik-based composer, designer, and author exploring the synaesthetic intersection of sight and sound. Anton performs and produces his music under the name Tonik Ensemble and vocal collaborators on his 2015 debut album ‘Snapshots’ included Icelanders, Hörður Már Bjarnason, who has been part of the Tonik live set since 2012, Jóhann Kristinsson and Icelandic icon Ragnhildur Gísladóttir. His music explores the vast expanse of the electronic spectrum with the soundscape becoming a mix of electronics and the more organic live instruments. As a composer, Águstsson discovered early that color has a strong influence on the end result. The gap between sound and sight fades away when songwriting resembles more the process of painting on canvas.
Mina Paasche (Norway)
Mina Paasche (b.1988 in Lørenskog, Norway) is a interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Bergen, Norway.
Paasche combines art, cultural probes, ethnography and technology. Her work develops in a wide range of media including, film, video, sound, installation, painting, photography and live performances which have been exhibited at both national and international performance and media arts festivals, institutions and galleries. Through her works, Paasche often explores interdisciplinary collaborative projects. Working on projects about human and animal echolocation and the transportation of soundscapes, inclusive exhibition designs, dystopian predictions about the future, gender identity, refugee issues and topics around illness and identity.
Her work is part of private collections in Denmark and Norway. Selected references: The Spring Exhibition at Kunsthall Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2021), Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria (2020), Aarhus Artspace (2020), Gallery Monitor, Gothenburg (2020), Den Frie Utstillings Bygning, Copenhagen (2019, 2016), Rosendal Teater, Trondheim (2020), CPH:DOX Audio:visual (2019), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (2018), Carpark festival (2018), Plugout festival (2017), Mod.Strøm festivalen (2017).
Ilmari Pesonen
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Ilmari Pesonen is an up and coming Helsinki based visual artist and lighting designer. Especially with video Pesonen is interested in generative systems, real time visuals, and aesthetics lurking between organic and inorganic. Even though he mainly works with video and light Pesonen also has a background and an interest in audio. At the moment he is studying a Master’s Degree Programme in Lighting Design at University of Arts Helsinki.
