anne-marte eidseth rygh

The Art of Hospitality – TAOH- Residency at center for contemporary art Tou Scene, Stavanger, Norway.

The main aim of the residency is to strengthen the production of new media, visual and performance art. You are offered free accomodation for a period for up til 2 weeks all year round. Tou Scene is situated by the sea side with only 10 minutes walking distance to the city center. The building has traces from its history as a beer brewery and inspire to site relational and spesific work. The residency and turqoiuse bunkbed is situated in a project room 25m2 with a garage door to a big outdoor area. You share a kitchen and shower with 12 artists in neigbouring studios. As a guest you are welcome to show work but this is optional, our main aim is for you to have time to work on your production. We do however expect a self presentation for the network and audience at Tou Scene during your stay. www.touscene.com

APPLY: send a short description of your work 20 words with name, e-mail, web references and your preferred dates of stay. There is no deadine for applications and no additional funding for travel expenses.

Contact project manager: Anne-Marte Eidseth Rygh annemarte@touscene.com

TAOH  2012

We are happy to announce that the residency will be running in its 8th year. But a cut  in the cultural budget by 20%  leaves us to  run a program with less visitors this year.

03-10th of February Helen Pritchard (UK)

Helen Pritchard is an artist and researcher in the field of digital art and innovation. Her work often takes the form of site-specific projects which use digital technology as a creative tool for collaboration between people. Central to her work are ideas of co-research, co-production and co-operation. She is interested in how scores & software might be used as a collaboration tool and her work draws on, Performance Art movements such as Fluxus, Software Studies and Open Source methods for soft and hardware. In 2010 Helen was commissioned to develop Spirit Rally 1& 2 a polyphonic sound installation and performance event for Sonic Peripheries 4 (Bremen) and was the project curator for Performance Market in collaboration with Plymouth Arts Centre, Marina Abramovic Foundation and Live Art Development Agency. In 2009 Helen launched the project Drawing Exercises on SoundArt Radio, which was recently broadcast on the RADIA network and was artist in residence as part of Project Club at Spacex. In 2008 she was the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation bursary (for excellence in visual art) to attend the Digital Arts Residency at the Atlantic Centre for the Arts, Florida USA.  Helen has shown work internationally including Transmodern Festival Baltimore, (USA), Teak (Fin), UKS Oslo, (N), RKS Stavanger (N), Spacex (UK), Conical Gallery (Aus), ACA Florida, (USA) and National Review of Live Art (UK).  During 2011 Helen will undertake a residency and exhibition at the acclaimed contemporary art gallery Spacex (UK). She is currently PhD student in the HighWire Doctoral Training Centre at Lancaster University and an associate lecturer at University of Plymouth where she is a member of the Art & Social Technologies Research Group.http://www.helenpritchard.info/

04th-16 March Moray Hillary (Scotland) visual artist that works primarily within the confines of painting and sculpture, although I collaborate with performance artist Agnes Nedregard as Nedregard& Hillary. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, M.F.A, Painting, 1992. The Glasgow School of Art, B.F.A, Painting, 199.Morayhillary.wordpress.com Entrances theenvironment.vfolio.co.uk

23-25 mars NUMUSIC

june 10th - July 19th Audrey Seiler (U.S.A)
As an artist I am challenging the nocturnal and diurnal aspects of our world. The day-to-day challenges and routines of our lives blind us when it comes to the details of our fast pace lifestyle.  There is a disconnect from our brains and the mass amount of information we receive from the network. This doesn’t allow us to internalize what everything means so that we change our routine.  Everything feels like a dream that doesn’t affect us, an out of body experience of sorts.  My goal as an artist is to expose and explore thosedetails.www.aeseiler.net

17-30 september Julie Hoen (Norway) Has worked active with photography since 2001 and has exhibited since 2003. Media production, film and advertising has be reoccurring themes. I am also interested in urban space / traces of history. Spaces free of people, but yet marked by man with architecture or design, graffiti or garbage. I use several techniques in my work including polaroid, lomo or a broken camera. being teh project leader of the gallery, *kontoret*, in Oslo from 2005-2006 also expanded my interest of the city space & natureas parallel activities. I am also interested in research in terms of yoga and meditation and this practice is intricately linked to my creative processes. I teach yoga on a regular basis in Oslo. www.juliehoen.blogspot.com

01-07th of october Shi Pratt Dancer/choreographer. At the time being I am researching the actions and emotions that have to do with the relationship between people and their surroundings. The frustrations that can arise from not fitting in, the misunderstandings of first encounters and the resulting desire to be heard and/or seen, or oppositely, to hide from view. These ideas, feelings, emotions and situations will be incorporated into a language that presents the themes of the piece in a physical sense in discussion with the imagery. The themes will be portrayed in all aspects of stage work, being it dance, choreography, sound, scenography, costume and light design. https://webmail1.clsmail.net/src/webmail.php

12th-24 october Emilia Joseffson (Sweden)   Pianist, documentary maker and sound artist. At present working with a scenographer in Stockholm and doing freelancing for Swedens national radio program . The education was taken at  Musikhögskolan and Dramatiska Institutet.

TAOH 2011

We are happy to announce that the residency will still be running in its 7th year. But due to a cut in the cultural budget by 20 procent we have decided to run the programme with less vistitors due to the financial situation.

JANUARY
Emre Balik (Istanbul) sound technician and musician educated at the New school of music New York. The interest in Norwegain Black metal and its cultural background is a phenomena and Emre is in Stavanger for these resercah purposes. His contact person was Linda Røed a former student at the art school of Rogaland that introduced Emre for the various bands and cultural sites associated with black metal. www.norsksvartmetall.com

FEBRUARY
Ola Rodrigo (Norway) Currently a student at the Art School of Rogaland (KIR) who has access to the residency for a time and process based project with action painting. The situation of available artist studios is still critical in Stavanger and awaiting the situation to approve we have allowed the residency to function as an ad hoc studio to local art students and artists when not occupied by visiting guests.

MARCH
Eric Dyer (U,S.A) Funding member and co-artistic director of the Brooklyn based collaborative ensemble Radiohole. Radiohole collectively writes, designs, directs,builds and performs original work based on anything and everything. The company has created 10 original works since it’s founding in 1998 and has toured in the US and Europe. Since that time He has performed primarily with Radiohole but occasionally performs outside the group for example in Paul Lazar and Annie B. Parsons’ production Orestes, Ken Nitzel’s ‘Twas as well as with other downtown artists. He has been active in NYC’s downtown theater scene since 1991, working in various capacities; writer, director, designer, technician with artists such as Richard Foreman, The Wooster Group, The Builders Association, Richard Maxwell and Young Jean Lee to name a few. He is a graduate of Bard College. www.radiohole.com

MARCH

BANALITY DREAMS founded in 2005 by Signe Holtsmark (N) and Johannes Dullin (D/USA). Both studied physical theatre and theatrical creation at the Scuola Teatro Dimitri college in the Italian part of Switzerland. The works of Banality Dreams focus on performance as a form of play with structures, theatrical means, the combination of media and unusual artistic constellations. Central to the aesthetic research of Banality Dreams lays the search for a contemporary form of the comic, which draws its themes from our directly surrounding, feeding, moving, and manipulating sources. Hereby the comic is not understood as comedy, but as an art form, which plays with the tensions and borders between the banal and the profound, the absurd and the tragic, subtlety and platitude. It is said that truth lies in the comic. At which point does comic begin and when does it switch over into tragedy and vice versa? Why and when does a superficial gesture or situation become funny or absurd? Which deep human truth lies hidden behind it. www.banalitydreams.com

APRIL
Anna Borgman (Denmark) My work is primarily site-specific. I develop spatial structures, which react explicitly upon the surroundings. Through the installations I deal with essential experiences of the body. You can se work examples at www.borgman.dk

MAY

Jonas Snijider. Although based in Amsterdam, the Dutch artist Jonas Snijder work most of the time on many different places in Holland and abroad. By using charcoal and crayon on paper he is drawing in the open,trying to visualize the essence of an urban or natural environment. During his residence in Stavanger it’s his intention to focus on the waterfront.

JUNE
Linda Börnes (Norway) project leader of Proscen a representative organization for networking and information within independent stage arts, located in Western Norway.”Our primary focus at Proscen is cultural management and the role of the producer.  Our purpose is to improve the conditions within independent stage art through guidance, consulting and producer services, and as a representative for the field within the public sphere.” http://www.proscen.no/

JULY

Stephan Takkides (UK) My work mostly deals with place and landscape and spans media, including web-based projects, computer games and photography. I am currently working on a project that aims to notionally reinstate Doggerland: the land that used to exist where the North Sea now is. This is what attracted me to the TAOH residency and what I would like to work on while I am there.I am a Berlin-based artist, originally from London. I studied at the Chelsea College of Art in London and am currently undertaking a MFA (masters) programme with the Transart Institute (a low-residency programme based in New York and Berlin).This is the website of the Doggerland project: http://doggerland.net My other work on my main website: http://vokzal.info

JULY

11-24 Monica Winther educated at KHIB in Bergen 2006. Born in  Sandnes but has been living in Oslo and Bergen for the past 10 years. She is currently working with photo and film in a project that centres on myths and traditional story telling versus the contemporary etihcs of massmedia. She primarily wants to work with the landscape surroundings of Stavanger.

AUGUST to NOVEMBER no activity due to 20 procent cut in funding.

DECEMBER
Mikel Cumiskey. Photographer (U:S:A) I have been studying at an arts school in washington state and my main interests are color analog film processing and print development as well as digital applications and printing. My inspiration stems from a need to participate with others. I am fascinated by you (us) – I like the way people move and I have always been puzzled by just about everything concerning existence. To elaborate a bit on my technique. in the past i mainly used medium format cameras and 120 color film. lately i have developed an interest in using smaller format cameras and digital cameras. at present i am using an olympus XA a small, compact rangefinder. with this camera i take 35mm color pictures. then i scan the negative and upload them to the web. print output can happen in several ways. analog prints require time, money and difficult materials to use with a fair amount of chemistry involved but the process is rewarding while being trecherous. Other interesting methods include silkscreening images onto paper and other objects.

TAOH RESIDENCY 2010

THE 6TH YEAR OF RECEIVING GUESTS AT TOU SCENE .

Njord Solberg (Stavanger, Norway) January

Student at Rogaland Kunstskole (KIR 2010) and active member of Folken and the photographers club. Njord used the 3 weeks residency for developing a project and preparing for an exhibition. He recently finished a project cycling from Stavanger to Drammen with a self made bike.

Anita Hillestad (Oslo, Norway ) February

Paying a re-visit from last year to further and strengthen her network in Stavanger. An artist who works with video, photography, installations and more. I am currently working with Dantes Imigrant Reading of a Comedy. I will work with a video collage.In Stavanger lives a good friend of mine that is an asylum seeker. I will like to spend time with him and his wife and film them for juse in my work. The work will be a interpretation over the chapter Envy in Dantes Comedy.http://www.anitahillestad.org/

Melissa Moore (U.S.A) March

Melissa Moore (1975) is a self-taught installation/sound artist, musician,and sculptor born in Washington DC and is now based in Baltimore, MD. Moore’s sculpture and installation work involve creating invented spacesthat challenge typical notions of orientation in space, confinement/extension of space, isolation, and the exposition of hidden spaces in the form of portable architecture. She is currently working on a “forest intervention” research series where she uses materials, constructed objects, and mirrors to create multi-dimensional space within the context of nature. She is also continuing her PLMS (Pataphysical Life-Mind Society) studies/work in a new semi-clandestine site called “Earth Measure”. The location is a secret “outdoor grove gallery” meant for exchanges and research with the public. The first of this series of work is located in Baltimore, MD. Moore will continue her research throughout Baltimore and other sites in the US and Europe. She curated and exhibited work in *The Unfolded Crystal: Seduction of the Hyperreal* at the Stamp Gallery at University of Maryland 2009 and *The Art of the Set-Up*; “PLMS: study site K” at MAP (Maryland Art Place) in Baltimore, MD. Moore has exhibited and performed throughout the US, Canada, and Europe. She was the recipient of 2008 Individual Artist Grant from Maryland State Arts Council.

Lejla Muhic (Slovenia) April

Performer and coreographer. Acting in people theatre in Sarajevo in diffrent dance places 2008 „Kulin Ban“ director Erol Kadić choreographer Rijad Ljutovic Waterdance from egzisting dance ensemble 2007 „Sarajevo Waterdance“ , choreographer Belma Čečo , performing in Bosnia and Herezegovina places. Working as a asistent, dancer, and make up artist this ensemble. Performing in Ambra Senatore presentation in Sarajevo 2009 ” I am there”, ” Latino Drive ” Lejla Muhic choreographer for NDAcademy presentation off short cuts Ljubljana 2009 , festival „ Zvrk“ Sarajevo 2009. Performing in dance peace“ Volta“ in Sarajevo presentation off work with Pathsformal, Belgrade festival „ Kondenz“ video/ dance labaratory piece presentation “6 and 7 position“ contact lela_muhic@yahoo.com

Amir Mobed and Mehrdad Afsari. (Theran) May

Amir Mobed was born in Tehran in 1974. An Installation and environmental artist which began making sculptures as early as 1989, and studied fine arts in Tehran’s Azad University of Art and Architecture (1995-2001). After a fairly long practice in sculpture, he created his first installations in 1999. In 2001 he won the third prize in the Third Tehran Sculpture Biennial. In addition to many solo exhibitions, mainly installation, Mobed has participated in many important local exhibitions like Tehran’s Second and Third New Media Exhibitions (2003, 2004), First, Second and Third Tehran Biennial of Sculpture (1997, 1999, and 2001), “Spiritual look”, and “Iranian Garden”, Both held in Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, (2003, 2004), as well as international exhibitions like: New Art Biennial in Doha, Qatar, 2004 and “Iranian Sculpture in Mexico”, Mexico City, 2006. Amir Mobed seeks new definitions of volume and space, time and vision in his diverse body of work. Trying to reach a new aesthetic through multiplication and repetition of elements, he has made various experiments with different materials. Diversity of the materials is Mobed’s particular characteristic. Plaster; iron sheets, sometimes rusted, clay, mirror, candles, apples, flowers, disposable dishes, human hair, ice and his own body.In his installations and environmental works, he is especially interested in the concept of the living spaces. He brings about total changes in the visual qualities of the environments, usually by assembling great numbers of reproduced pieces, containing different cultural-social allusions in each case. These works raise issues about the relation between art, society and the environment we are living in. He usually makes his installations in the open air to be able to touch the public and the passers-by, not just those who intentionally come to the museums and galleries to see the artworks. Also, often tries to involve the viewers in the process of creating the piece. www.amirmobed.com

Ruth Hege Halstensen (Norway) June

Ruth Hege Halstensen (1980) is an independent curator and art historian based in Oslo. She is working with experience and participation related issues in the art field. Halstensen is working on a performance programme and is visiting the TAOH residency and Stavanger to learn more about the live art scene in the city. ruthhege@gmail.com

Jazanin Mirzabyki (Iran) July

“The main action of my art is communication. An artist needs to travel to develop the sense of communication, being in spaces, community and new places. A site in Stavanger Norway compared to my country Iran is one perspective I would like to develop” Currently Jazanin is working on a project which is called “An Iranian Looking to America”. A project presenting places, nationalities and different cultures in order to express impressions and visual points of view. Jazanin has received prizes for his photographies at the Iranian photo biennale and the Theran museum of contemporary art. He has a bachelor and master degree from The Art and Architecture faculty, Azad University Tehran. www.mehrdadafsari.ne

Annika Ostwald & Stian Westerhus (Sweden/Norway) August

We wish to perform our performance Blixter Gravity initially made for “Troops of quiet love and disaster” at Marienborg Kunstnerkollektiv Trondheim. The performance was made in a raw industrial building and that is why we whould like to develop the second part at similar locations and Tou scene.Blixter Gravity is focusing on the magnetic life forces. In a pendula the movement and dynamics creats a potensial energy. This energy from gravity is also a resistance a pluss always represents a minus and Blixter Gravity dwells in the juxtapositions opening doors as well as closing them.www.annikaostwald.com

Chris Wright (UK) September

“My practice aims to create a dialogue between space and place, specifically non-place, borders and the liminal using installation, expanded sculpture and site-specific work.Taking the non-place as a ‘neutral’ theoretical concept and the border as an explicitly political concept, I aim to create a discourse that crosses boundaries physically, mentally and socially using ideas from philosophy, social culture, anthropology and psycho-geography. In the era of globalisation, I feel an interdisciplinary approach is important because it maps onto the cultural nomadism of contemporary art that extends far beyond one’s native culture and language.Although realized through a variety of media, I frequently use light as a metonym for specific locations and use photography and video extensively both as a means of documentation and as a medium. The photographic evidence of the experience of space not only exposes its sense of identity but also pertains to the residues of existence that occur outside of the space. It references an archaeological approach that I feel is often present in my work whilst, contradictorily, I try to create a ‘visual white noise’ that overrides its innate identity and moves beyond the socio cultural aesthetics that are inherently present.My working methods often use location as foundation and the role of the flâneuse to observe and reflect. The freedom gained from this intimate sense of the inherent identity of place means that it is often impossible to predict an outcome as it would limit and bind. However, there is a distinct theoretical basis to my work which explores the themes posited by continental philosophers and cultural theorists rather than being a direct ‘translation’ of their ideas.www.chriswright.co.uk

Signe Holtsmark and Johannes Dullin (Norway and U.S.A) October and November

Banality Dreams was founded in 2005 by Signe Holtsmark (N) and Johannes Dullin (D/USA). Both studied physical theatre and theatrical creation at the Scuola Teatro Dimitri college in the Italian part of Switzerland. In 2008 Raliza Nikolowa (D/BUL) joined BD as dramaturg. In 2009 Banality Dreams was joined by the performers Franz Rogowski (D), Jorma Spitz (CH), Federico Dimitri (I) and Johanna von Gagern (D/USA), Graphic designer Kleon Medugorac (D) and Light designer Tomas Ness (D). Banality Dreams also collaborates regularly with the film-collective Authentic Boys. (www.authentic-boys.com). The works of BD focus on performance as a form of play with structures, theatrical means, the combination of media and unusual artistic constellations. Central to the aesthetic research of BD lays the search for a contemporary form of the comic, which draws its themes from our directly surrounding, feeding, moving, and manipulating sources. Hereby the comic is not understood as comedy, but as an art form, which plays with the tensions and borders between the banal and the profound, the absurd and the tragic, subtlety and platitude. It is said that truth lies in the comic. At which point does comic begin and when does it switch over into tragedy and vice versa? Why and when does a superficial gesture or situation become funny or absurd? Which deep human truth lies hidden behind it?www.banalitydreams.com

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This year we donated a bike to an art collective in Brooklyn NYC. 242 Green Street. Happy bikers roam the street with the inscribed contacts details of TAOH residency and yet again we extend our network. We already have visitors from NYC lined up for a visit to Stavanger next year and hope to be able to accomodate them.

TAOH RESIDENCY 2009

Related news is that Stavanger cultural council have bought a building at Tou Scene that in a few years time will house new artistst studios for visual artists. This will lead to an vibrant environment that hopefully also will benefit our visiting guests. TAOH this year has its 5 years jubileum.

Ashleigh Burskey (USA) 16th-31st of January

A multimedia artist currently living and working at Ox-Bow School of Art & Artist Residency in Saugatuck, Michigan USA. For the first couple of weeks in Norway I will be staying with my family in a port town called Jørpeland. I am extremely eager to connect with my strong roots there as I am mostly Norwegian. My work has most recently been evolving around Norwegian needlepoint and folk art designs. I am so excited to be immersed in what has influenced my most recent work. One would describe my work as a psychedelic interpretation of vintage Norwegian needlepoint design, another may describe it as “quilty”. Please visit my website : http://ashleighburskey.com/

Elisabeth Ross (MEXICO) 24- 31st of March

There is a multi-media approach in Elisabeth work, there is overall an expressed desire towards simplicity and directness. The focus of Ross’s art, straddling as it does, the contemporary world with a consciousness of previous parallel and historical cultures is a testament to continuity in a fractured world, and is a direct challenge to the pervasive monoculture of globalization. By simplicity, she means simplicity of form and execution, but also simplicity of expression which belies the density of cultural reference. She also decided to avoid being classed as a ceramicist, with all the technical specialisation which this implies, paring down unnecessary technical acomplishment in order to communicate directly. Creating an inclusive, rather than exclusive gallery-culture art, she lets an audience into her world on several levels. Ross attempts to retain the spontainety of invention within a frame of reference which remains true in the meaning and intent of tradition and ritual. Read more about her work on http://www.elizabethrossmx.com

Ryan Parteka (ICELAND) 01st-16th April

The artists work is somewhere between horror and science reality; a dystopia drawn from our history of progress. In a world that is ever increasingly binary, Parteka explores the liminal space in between. The narrative sculpture and environments that Parteka constructs are a cross over of many disciplines; including custom electronics and fluid pumps, multi-channel sound, drawing and etching, and traditional sculptural casting of select materials: pharmaceutical-starch, sea- salt, and surgical-steel to name a few, underline the principle of everything imploding into biology. His time-based work uses real-time geological information. For example, several pieces in The Netherlands are based on real-time tidal information; while a piece in Reykjavik uses one thousand years of the sun’s position, and another tectonic plate movements. Parteka refers to these as films, since the essence of these pieces are light moving in time. website: http://this.is/ryan

Michel Simonsen (Canada) 19th -27th May

In past works, I directed a short narrative-documentary-experimental 16mm film called viaduc fucké (it means, literally, fucked up bridge…), which is about a viaduct in Montréal’s east end that had been abandoned for a while before being demolished. That film was part of a temporary multimedia intervention/installation I created for an event called “Fresh Paint”. It was held at the outdoor location where Dare-Dare (an artist-run multidisciplinary art centre) has foot: the “Park with no name”, an empty space located under an overpass. I am also part of A.T.R. (in French, it is the acronym of Ridiculous Terrorist Act), an artist collective with variable geometry. The concept of this project is elaborated around live interventions that have for mission to unstabalize the daily life, to take as hostages/participants involuntary spectators that have found themselves by chance in the spatio-temporal frame of the performance (such as scenes and kids games, protests of nothing, immobility). The terrorist act stems from the surprise effect for the spectator and the ridicule of the action proposed by the performers. In recent years in Québec, we have participated at the 3rd Performance Art Biennale in Rouyn-Noranda and Lachine’s 1st Street Theatre Festival. I have also just completed a 52 minute documentary type film called projet Dow, which is about the huge buildings of a brewery, abandoned for more than fifteen years right in Montréal’s downtown area, for which a new life will inevitably be needed. projet Dow [the Dow project] is an abandoned brewery presented from the inside by Richard, who dwells in it. An uncommon journey, through which we discover another way to inhabit the city, to live off its leftovers. It is a documentary on what is there that we don’t notice, a visit of the shadow.

21 JUNE -05 Juli Winnie (Hong Kong)

Winnie Soon (a.k.a siusoon) is an artist and media specialist with a background in digital media and technology. She holds a Master of Arts in Media Cultures with Distinction in School of Creative media, City University of Hong Kong. She has received a Thomas Fowler scholarship in United Kingdom and is currently pursuing another Master of Science in Digital Art and Technology in University of Plymouth, UK.Her media art piece ranged from mobile video to screen-based interactive media, had been exhibited in Korea Mobile & DMB Festival Fest (2005) and Gtuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for expanded media in Germany (2006). The latest interactive visualization work- ‘colorTrend’ has been shortlisted and exhibited in Hong Kong, IFVA. (2008)Having extensive commercial experience of creative industries in Hong Kong, siusoon has managed various multimedia projects in prestigious and leading-edge media and telecommunication companies (sina.com.hk, CSL, and PCCW Limited – now TV), including online media, mobile media and Internet Protocal Television. She gained rich product, technical and market knowledge especially in entertainment & lifestyle projects, for example online search campaign, multimedia content download, instant messaging, interactive infotainment application, video streaming, surveillance & High Definition TV etc. Siusoon is interested in the feedback and response interaction between our body, environment and culture influence. Explore remediation of media by various technologies and medium as an interface in the field of media art.web address: http://siusoon.com/

Anita Hillestad (Norway) 03-18th of july

I am an artist who works with video, photography, installations and more. I am currently working with Dantes Imigrant Reading of a Comedy. I will work with a video collage.In Stavanger lives a good friend of mine that is an asylum seeker. I will like to spend time with him and his wife and film them for juse in my work. The work will be a interpretation over the chapter Envy in Dantes Comedy. In my stay I also look forward to film the nature and also have quiet and possibility to consentrate about my work.http://www.anitahillestad.org/

AUGUST MICHAL KRYSL (CZECH REPUBLIC)) 23 August -5th September

“Anymous performance” art project for urban & internet public spaces. http://anymous.com/TV. The performer – make an effort to enter the public place with help of his corporeality, based on interactions, visual projections, interventions, sinks to the flowing universum and he multiplies his present time inside it – supports psychogenesis of place, time and space. The face of these actions/performances is shaped as intervention to ordinary life in the streets. Coincidental bystanders participate on these actions often without knowing they are perform in an art clip. They become to be an integral element of these actions and they help form development of performances by this way. Effort of these actions grounds in variegation of public place – with help of visualisation, satire and different interventions..Staying allows realization of all actions inside the town – in the streets, on different places and time. Actions are organized in the centre of the town, which attracts many accidental people – they are the right audience for this type of art. Idea is establish an art feast day, which will be full of unexpected sitautions and participates on mood and impression of the town.The actions are recorded by digital technology, the plan is to create web presentation and multimedia DVD´s present all previous actions which were made during the residency staying.

OCTOBER NICKOLA POTTINGER (JAMAICA,NYC)

Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Interest in the live aspects of the arts: I create drawings that reflect a fabricated subconscious world. I use the drawing method to transcend my subconscious and represent my subconscious as a stage for self invented characters and self invented abodes. I make costumes that represent characteristics of my make believe characters and place them in fictional places in time. My goal is to use drawings and self installment ( characters, all of whom are I in costume, in a self constructed space represented in photographs and video) to explore contemporary themes and historical moments. Fragments of stories told and imagined, pop culture, and music lends to the foundation of my work. My interest in the live aspects of art has to do with presenting imagery and thoughts that provoke question and doubts of what my work represents. I seek to contend with viewers about my ideas and imagery.It is so important to me that there be an audience to contend ideas with in a live environment. I am drawn to the public art assembly that Tou Scene advocates and I am positive that my work will benefit and thrive in such an environment. I would define the live aspects of art as being performative, thought provoking and thematicaly detached and attached to all objectives of my work. www.nickolapottinger.com

NOVEMBER ULRIKA BENGTSSON (SWEDEN) 01-14 November

Mitt arbete består av fördjupning av det formella samt problematisering av det estetiska. Jag arbetar med relationen mellan yta och djup i mitt måleri, samt hur färg kan ha en dubbel roll i fråga om representation och perception i det samma måleriet. Där representation står för det jag har lärt att jag ser och perception står för det jag upplever att jag ser.T.ex. mönster och upprepningar kontra illusionen av motljus och tunna hinnor/transparens. I och med valet av makroperspektiv och växter kan jag röra mig mot abstraktion samtidigt som jag behåller den organiska delane av uttrycket. Abstraheringen är viktig för att hålla spänsten i det formella santidigt som det organiska uttrycket gör att innehållet -den estetiska, problematiken, inte går förlorad. Den estetiska problemställningen ligger i valet av motiv (närbilder av blommor), färgklang och storleken på måleriet. Jag har därmed aktiverat sitautioner med kroppslighet och skönhet och tabuer. När jag förstorar blommornas könsorgan: kronblad och andra “kroppsdelar”, markerar jag det sexuella.http://ulrika.no/

DECEMBER Michel Simonsen (Canada)

Revisiting from earlier this year to further his work.

TAOH RESIDENCY 2008- STAVANGER IS THE EUROPEAN CITY OF CULTURE 2008 and we hope our guests will benefit from the cultural activity the year represents. TAOH is supported by Stavanger Cultural Council.

NEW TAOH RESIDENCY-MEXICO NR 8 – A former visit from one of our guests has led to an extended network. Gustavo Alvares Luego who came to visit TAOH in 2007 was intrigued by the project and set out to create another bunk bed residency in his home town. He has now established a residency in Mexico by a donation from Anne-Marte E.Rygh. Bed 8 is installed in Gallery Arte Accion at Cosmos Factory Chihuahua Mexico. Contact project manager Gustavo Alvares Luego for more information: performancear@gmail.com

GUESTS AT TAOH 2008:

January 0th-27- Dario Kavara (N/Herzegovina)

Performance Artist living in Oslo. Born in Mostar, Herzegovina, a city that seperates east from west. The result of a intercultural marriage embraced by communist movements, well knowingly seperated from the new democracys growth. Kavara, witnessed the creation of a nationalsitic lebensraum and race segregating projects endorced by the Bosnian state, a refugee of ethnical cleansing. The work is political using mixed techniques he performs subjects of changes or repeats real time and action. Homepage http://www.dariokavara.com http://www.dariokavara.com/>

January 23-26 Guttorm Nordbø (Norway)

Visual artist that in collaboration with invited musicians will perform a visual happening/impro at tou scene. He works with video projects, live drawing on overhead and slides. The happenig was first shown at the launch TARASARUS at the Henie-Onstad Art centre Oslo. Psychodelic rock influenced impromusic with a band also inspired by Miles Davis, Black Sabbath and Soft Machine.. Nordbø is also a member of the artist collective GRUPPE X.

February 15-18 MCs: Skolestil and TønnePål (Norway)

At the time living in Copenhagen and Oslo originally from neighbor city Sandnes, which the band name also relates its origin too except they are so far from a school brass brand you could possibly come, as this proves to be the dirtiest and nasty hip hoppers we know. Texts on local dialect that ll make you laugh//blush//get provoked//ignorant//The band Skolekorps got many fans when some of their songs where played at the National radio on the programme untouched (NRK Urørt) but the station chose to censor 2 of their songs www.myspace.com/skolekorps

March 25th – 3rd of April Mariela Limerutti (Argentina)

Mariela participates in the project TW1: 8 international artists are invited by the project TOU WORKS and wil during their stay develop artistic distrurbances and comments in the street Pedersgata that joins city centre to the east and Tou scene. Read more at www.touscene.com/touworks

April 05-19 Henrik Hedinge (Sweden)

During the residency I would like to develop further interaction and participation exploring various fields depending on site, audience and material. Usually working with famous performances as basic material, combining with what is very local such as for example the local kitchen or language. Most of the work, the audience in included in the activities as during the performance art residency in Italy last year I Improvised choir singing with text trouves. Email:henrik.hedinge@gmail.com http://www.henrikhedinge.org

April 25th-30th- John Cunningham (Norway/UK)

I would describe myself primarily as a visual artist, and it’s the object that is my first concern. The performance is an act where I may invest some other dynamic into objects. A list of materials over the course of a performance takes on meanings. I see performance as an enacting of something that is mainly intuitive. I am currently working with thoughts and ideas that I feel are best worked out through performance. The ideas I am playing with- most simple put are concerned with the primary purpose of art- a mode of being human. I take what is commonly seen as the current institution of high arts definition s and seek to create an alternative point of view and perhaps model. I also look to open the performance/work, not to enclose it in a conclusion, but have it open to question and extension. John Performed live painting at TOU NIGHT in 2006 and is here again this year to further his work. cunninghamjp@hotmail.com

May 14-21st Dot Howard and Emma Benneth-(UK)

Our video work both advances and stands in dialogue with our individual performance practices. There are points at which our ideas, approaches and personalities coincide somewhat, like a shared experience or important joke.Emma puts tights on a camera and the things it sees have a melancholy bluish tinge. Dot’s camera peeps through a paper bags “eyehole”. Brambles snag at the tights stretched over the lens and anxious, frantic noises occur as it’s pushed back and forth through a cat flap. So far these things have occurred separately, if our cameras meet and explore an unknown space together for a while, fantastic things could happen. For us, our cameras don’t just document actions, time and places. They are the subjects of our work. They move in and out of the two worlds: production and post-production. Making video work is a compromise of what we want to do and what we feel the camera insists it does in the space that surrounds it. The camera performs. Otter-mole cam is the beginning of something we’d like to develop, it allows humans a glimpse of the world supposedly from the point of view of a creature, gaining access to a private world of burrows, undergrowth, and the undersides of cars. Web Presence: www.dartington.ac.uk/outhere07, www.nomad.org.uk www.thesehorses.com

June 11th – 15th of June TW1 Mariela Limerutti (Argentina) www.touscene.com/touworks

June 17-30 th June Triny prada (France)

Painter, video maker and performer. Moves through life outside the beaten path.So literally at times, that she almost met death in a traffic accident some ten years ago. After a long convalescence, she came back to her art practice. More than ever, the thin thread that had retained her life was now the spinal column of her art. Drawing comes first, then a canvas into which the thread draws with an utmost precision the faces of composers she gets inspiration from : Bach, Stravinsky, Philip Glass, John Lennon … Performance comes next : the crushing and mixing of pigments into oil, and the gesture. From the tiny piece of tarlatan to huge 2×2 m. pieces painted both sides, the gesture is accurate, the move dazzling, colors projected on the canvas to fill it with more and more significant signs… She makes videos like paintings and her paintings are like video: you have to get into it, spend a little time to savour the ‘elan vital’ that belongs to her : it’s food for thought. As she says, her art is her life, and her life is her art ! (Gabriel Soucheyre, Director of Videoformes Clermont Ferrand, France) http://www.trinyprada.com/ contact triny.prada@gmail.com

July 01-14th Vik Lai (China)

Vik and Bee to Bee group presents “Chinese Whispers – A Box on Travel. It is a box with collective works of artists from different countries. And, this box will be exhibited in different countries.This box is about the intimacy between friends crossing the boundaries of virtual reality and real distance.This box was just finished its’ traveling in Hong Kong. “21m2″ in Stavanger will be the next station. Our webpage is:-http://www.frombeetobee.net/ vikphoto@gmail.com

August 01-14th John Pritchard (UK)

Architect, doing research on Helen&Hard Geo Park

September 16-21st Nick Underwood (Italy)

Attending the Trans Europe halls meeting www.teh.net

October 4th-28th- Natasha Wheat (Chigago)

Wheat’s current projects explore the space between incarcerated women and the free public. She has been engaging women in various prisons around the United States to have a letter exchange with her, in that she explains her physical space to them, and they in turn explain their physical space to her. As of yet, the form of the work exists in a series of drawings attempting to depict the spaces of the other. Wheat will use her time at Touscene to further explore the intellectual, social, and political context that shapes this work. www.messhall.org

November 16th-23rd Revital Cohen (Israel)

Develops critical objects and provocative scenarios exploring the juxtaposition of the natural with the artificial. Her work spans across various mediums – from physical installations to photography and video – and includes collaborations with scientists, animal breeders and the British National Health Service. Revital’s work is narrative based and revolves around speculative applications of Biotechnology. Her most recent project explores the psychological consequences of medical procedures through the creation of medical devices which employ designer-animals as providers of external organ replacement.
www.revitalcohen.com <http://www.revitalcohen.com>

Tuur Van Balen (Belgium)

Designer and researcher. Through designing and experimenting with new interfaces for biotechnologies, he creates objects or interventions that explore the cultural and political implications of our interactions with new technologies. Tuur’s projects balance speculation and anchorage in reality. He collaborates with scientists, from the social scientists at London based think tank Demos to the synthetic biologists at Imperial College. Tuur’s recent work deals with the relationship between cities and technology. ‘My City = My Body’ explores a new biodiversity as a result of local City – Body ecologies, grounded in a story about tap water and waste water infrastructures. www.tuurvanbalen.com <http://www.tuurvanbalen.com>

Revital and Tuur live and work in London. They will use their time at Touscene to begin work on a new project exploring the idea of biological archeology, while participating in a BiotechArt workshop run by Symbiotica.

December 01-14 of November-Mandra Waback (Sweden)

I like to make art that I like to see myself. I try to communicate personal narratives, where body and mind functions as both subject and object. Freedom is essential to my life and to my work. I don‚t compromise, I only negotiate until I get what I want. The world. Is Mine. Mandra Wabäck was born in 1970 in Stockholm, Sweden. She graduated from the Swedish School of Photography in 1989 and moved on to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, where she graduated in 1994 from the audiovisual departement. After several solo and group exhibitions in Holland and abroad, she decided to continue and explore filmmaking. In1997 she got selected to the Dutch Film and Television Academy, where she graduated in 2001 as a filmdirector. Mandra is currently mixing various disciplines in her work, both as a visual artist and as a filmdirector. www.mandrawaback.com

THE ART OF HOSPITALITY – RESIDENCY 2007

Last year we had the pleasure of receiving 20 guest artists and I am happy to announce that TAOH residency will continue to receive guests this year due to the support of Stavanger cultural council. If you wish to meet the visiting artists then Sundays at Tou Scene is a good time as self presentations are being held in the cafe, these events are free and a great chance to get to know who they are and what they’ve been up to during their stay in Stavanger. We are priviliged to welcome the following artists:

14-27th of january Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond (Austria)
we have been working together since 1999 on a permanent basis. Our work shifts through the fields of photography, experimental film and installation and our aim is not to express experience derived from the world, but to form experience in the trace of dialectic between perceiver and perceived. We are interested in visualizing thoughts and their traces. How and what does one see, if you are thinking of something new or if you are forgetting something? We are interested in the stream of thoughts correlative to the stream of perception.We want to visualize what happens in front of your inner eye when the images of thought and perception are flowing into one another.In our work the thoughts and their flow create an “I”, which moves through the surrounding world. This “I” is the spirit of our common improvisation. It defines an „interface“ http://www.anderwald-grond.net/ Fadder Agnes B. tiffon

15-28th of February Gustavo Alvarez Lugo (Mexico)
I work with the force of the action, each performance has its own dynamics. I use the energy that is freed of the act that is executed. I prefer to perform outdoors as a form to take the performance art outside the museum or gallery, demonstrating that it can exist beyond its walls; creating the possibility of interacting with the common passer-by, causing “the unsuspected spectator”. This way the piece turns out to be a provocative act, in where no body knows what it will be, exept the sense of expectancy between performer and spectator, being born a bow of co-dependency to take the work until its limits. On the other hand the open space offers the opportunity to increase the variety of tools for the creation of performative pieces, as well as the free handling of the space. diabolo_666mx@yahoo.com fadder anne-marte eidseth

01-1o march Peter and Stefan Mitterer (Norway)
Sex Tags is a collaboration between Peter and Stefan Mitterer, they work with many different approaches, strategies and media, in the field of fine arts. By running two record labels, Sex Tags Mania and Sex Tags Amfibia, they fusion, intervene and juggle between the club/music scene and the art world. Positioning their projects differently each time, they manage to develop and renew their artistic concept in a innovative way. Sex Tags focuses on the participation and discussion rather than the materialistic value of an art project. In their projects the audience often gets a chance to interact, and then participate in a dialogue with the project and situation that has been or will be created. www.sextags.com fadder Kim Nilsen.

16-30 th of april- Theresa Grimaldi (Italy/UK)
Educated with an MA in Visual Performance currently investigating
puppets, collection, the act of scribble through the animated other glove
what the work explores/ exploring the inner/outer/other personality through
the act of scribble on carbon paper to mark re-mark remark. Carbon copying
paper Puppet friends to help her Magic encyclopaedia to let her know
What she knows again. Grimaldi has been working with acclaimed artists like Catherine Grimaldi, Yinka Shonibare,Lone twin, Uninvited Guests DNA Theatre Co, theatre rites, Sisters Grim, Guillermo Gomez Pena, Xiaoqian & Liu Ding, and propellor. Her work has been shown at ICA London, Tate Britain, the New Walsall Art Gallery, Dartington Gallery, Tablet Gallery, London, Surface gallery Nottingham, Norwich Gallery and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Contact t.grimaldi@dartington.ac.uk

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14-27th may – Alexander Gerner (Germany)
The german artist Alexander Gerner is based in Lisbon (P) since 2000. He works in between writing, directing, visual art and science alone and in collaborations since 1998. His works have been presented at Kampnagel Hamburg, Mousonturm Frankfurt, Marstall München, Spiel.Art Festival, Mladi Levi (Ljubiljana), BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen), CCB (Lisbon) among others. In 2003 he visited the first portuguese documentary film course in Lisbon. His documentary „Fugir atras do olhar” was presented at DocsKingdom Meeting 2005 (Serpa/P). Since 2006 he is a FCT grand holder researching on an Philosophical investigation of Attention in science, theatre and art, at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the Lisbon University (CFUL)

14-27th may – Iver Findlay (USA)
Findaly has been making performances in New York for over 10 years in collaboration with a diverse number of well known theater companies. He has been involved as a director, performer, and designer for all of the Collapsable Giraffe‚s multimedia performance work since co-founding the Williamsburg, Brooklyn based company in 1995. The company is known for creating chaotic performance events over the last 10 years and was awarded an Obie by the Village Voice in 2003. He was co-creator and director of their most reccentperformance “Letters from the Earth”. Since 2000, he has been a company member of the internationally renowned company, The Wooster Group, as a designer, technician and production manager for Poor Theater (video), To You, The Birdie! (sound), Brace Up! 2003(video) He has also recently worked with the Riot Group as a sound designer for Switch Triptych. Projects for the coming year include Pee Pee Maw Maw (Collapsable Giraffe-direction),Carbon Copy Building(Bang on A Can-video), Fluke (Radiohole-video),and a collaboration with Marie Nerland.

14-27th of may – Marie Nerland (Norway)
Based in Bergen, Norway. Has been working with performance, from 1999-2004 with her own performance group display http://display.bek.no and since 2005 with different collaborative projects. Her work has been presented at BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen),Teaterhuset Avantgarden (Trondheim), Mladi Levi, Bunker ( Ljubliana), the artgenda biennale 2002 in Hamburg, at Centre for Performance Research (Wales) among others. She has a master in theatre from the University of Bergen and has also studied theater at the University of Antwerp and at the State University of New York. In 2006 she received the State of Norway´s one year workgrant for artists. She is co-editor of the Norwegian Performance Journal 3t www.trete.no and is working as a producer at BIT Teatergarasjen, where she is currently on leave.

01-14 June Adam Geczy (Australia)
Working in the area of video,performance-based work,live photography and
installation. Lecturer/professor in Installation and Performance at the main art academy in Sydney College of the Arts. I have had an strong interest in Scandinavia – spesifically relating to two residencies in Finland, 2004 and 2005 and would like to further this work during my residency at Tou scene. I am certainly interested in Tou scene as a site and would like to offer a discussion with regard to my work with a focus on Aboriginal art and performance. I would also be enthusiastic to set up a small exhibition, with a performance-basd video work. Bio: Most recently a live performance at the Live Art Festival in Beijing (October 2006) and a collaboration with one of Australia’s leading performance artists, Mike Parr a Fluxus-based artist. My Education is an 1997 (1993-6) Ph.D., Department of Art History and Theory, The University of Sydney(Thesis title: ‘Marcel Proust: from painting to literature’; supervisor: Prof. Virginia Spate) 1992 Honours (First Class), Art History and Theory, The University of Sydney 1988-90 Bachelor of Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney. Email: adamgeczy@gmail.com

03-17 July Clare Thornton (UK) and Jan Steinum (Norway)
Clare is an Interdisciplinary Artist/Curator – working with textile, text, soft sculpture, video and live art.“I am ideas led and my creative interests are eclectic – I like to create projects that connect with the people and places I am working with/in. In the past year or so I’ve researched and made work about: birdwatching/urban wildlife, semaphore signaling, home(lessness).I am interested in the narrative and sculptural potential of the body and the social, political and performative possibilities of craft…I am currently engaged in trying to translate into the ‘soft’ medium of fabric or stitch my physical/mental journeys and my passion for research. I am curious about cross-disciplinary working and border crossings, and how artists and scientists communicate their ideas and findings about the world they live in.” http://www.du-store-verden.no/artister/artist.php clarety2005@yahoo.co.uk

Jan Steinum is a visual and performance based artist. His work consists of sculptures, videos and performances. He wishes to visualize different aspects of sexuality in his work, particularly gay sexuality. Besides working with exhibitions, he has also showed short movies at several film festivals in Europe.Jan Steimum, lives and work in i Oslo and is Educated from fra Academy of Fine Art, Praha Tjekkia (2000-2001), Academy of Experimental Dance Theatre ”butoh”, København (1996-1997), Statens Håndverk og Kunstindustri Høyskole, Oslo (1995-1996), Kunstakademiet I Trondheim (1990-1995), University of the Arts, Praha Tjekkia (1993-1994), Kunsthøyskolen I Reykjavik (1993). <j-steinu@online.no>

Clare and Jan have previously collaboarted in the performance group Mr Helium and the Holy Gliders and will again parttake in a collaboartaion during this first work period and come back to Tou Scene to perform at the 14-19th of august.

16th of july-29th Sylvie Marchand and Lionel Camburet (France)
Sylvie is an author and film maker who aslo brought together the Gigacircus art group around her art work :Video creators, performers, infographists, computer programmers, authors of DVD, web pages, sound compositions, scenographers.From this collaborative potential numerous international performances were born; installations, interactive devices on network projected into a public area. Perfectly polyvalent, the artists imply themselves on international grounds ; From France the group artistic creations spread through Europe, Northern and central America, Mongolia, Africa… Lional works as a sculptor and photographer and along their trips, they enlarge their vision of the world..” it is a desire to meet a living nomadic culture who looks for ways to survive in the knowledge of nature… Fadder Agnes B Tiffon

July 3o- 12th of August Lisa Newman and Llewyn Maire (U.S.A)
Lisa is an intermedia performance artist and executive co-director/ founder of 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts. Her work is an ongoing exploration of languages – written, verbal, physical, and undefined. Lisa endeavors to create new territories within the “audience/performer” dynamic, and these previously assigned roles become vague, malleable; participants are eager to be pushed as well as to push back. The results are a form of communication that has yet to be given a name. Over the last 12 years she has written and performed over 15 solo works in addition to participating in several collaborative performances with the the gyrl grip, Rev. Rafik Legbara, Sardonik Grin, Human Sculpture, and Technician. In 1996, she performed “Experiments in Lion Taming” in the 10th annual Cleveland International Performance Festival. Her media arsenal includes paint, photography, multi-media installation, video, text, fire installation, her body and anything else that seems appropriate.

Llewyn Maire (Mc cobb) has been working in collaborations with lisa and together they have exhibited work throughout the “United” States, Canada, and Europe (w/ gyrl grip) for over 20 years. they explore spoken word, install-actions, culture jamming, and daily life. The work in social services, and the arts, focuses on advocating, and creating resources for those who find themselves disconnected to services due to their real or perceived gender identity/expression, and/or sexuality. Thriving in the liminal spaces of gender , culture life and death. It seeks to expose challenge and explore the constructs of identity, the meditation of socio cultural expreiences and the functions of power. www.gyrl-grip.net | www.panzen.net | www.2gyrlz.org | www.outsidein.org

August 20-31 Mona Saunalathi (Finland)
Mona is based in Tampere, Finland and started performing in 2000 and have since been criss crossing music, stand up comedy performance art she describes herself as performance artist and comedienne she has been performing erotics lotterys, tango and children workshops in home for elderly, railway stations and fancy galleries “My aim is to cross over social borders and my own and my fellow being’s limits. I as well take the audience as a part of my performance: sometimes they are on the background, sometimes they assist. Colour, form and space are very important to me. Sometimes my performances are dream-like surprising happenings that end to a surrealistic vision, where I combine lights, movements, canvases, sound and colours. I always use environmental-friendly or recycled materials, even something I have found from a garbage bin. As a result of my performance may become installations or small pieces of environmental art. The secret of my performance is a fight against authorities in a paradox way. There is always someone who commands and people obey. I fight against this by asking people to do silly things in my performances. Until now they have obeyed me. If they some day stop obeying I have reached my goal and can’t do any performances more. Mona Ratalahti. www.saunalahti.fi/~monar

01-14 september John Bosco Ngendakurio (Africa)
John was born in Burundi 1980 and as a 13 years old he experienced that society round him was falling apart in the bloodiest civil war in modern times. In 1994 he managed to escape to a United Nations refugee camp across the border in Tanzania. This enormous camp was to be his home for the next 9 years. In 2003 he was sent to Norway. Today John is living in Australia working on a documentary with Piraya film at Tou scene. The time spent in Stavanger will be used to develop this project. Fadder Bjarte Mørner Tveit

Priya Mistry (UK) A multidisciplinary artist working experimentally in the fields of live art, performance, mixed media and fine art/ visual art forms. “ Work formed is adventurous, innovative live/performance art with a style that plays with and challenges audiences. To continue working diversely I am open to collaborations, always looking for new ways of generating experimental expression. Furthermore I hold a commitment to the discussion of contemporary arts practice in order to lifts it’s profile and spread practice amongst young people and build audiences.” Priya has been working with akcknowledged companies as Blast Theory, extensive information on her artistic practise on her website http://www.whatsthebigmistry.com/

1-14 November Yoshinori Niwa (Japan)
I have graduated from Tama Art University department of moving image and
performing arts (BA) in 2005, is a physical performance artist who often
incorporates animals, plants, and the environment into his work. Niwa¹s
aim is to explore how to live with others, especially those of other
cultures and social classes. Niwa has performed works in Britain,
Canada, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, and
Slovakia. In addition to his performance work, Niwa is curator and
festival organizer. Niwa is currently coordinating an international art
festival titled “Artist as Activist” in Tokyo.http://www.niwa-staff.org/
http://www.artistasactivist/org/ and http://www.tsfaf.org/

16-29 November Joanna Brown (UK)
I am a theatre-maker and writer based in Totnes in Devon, England. I
graduated with a BA (Hons) in Theatre from Dartington College of Arts in
2007 and work within the fields of live art, performance and theatre. I work
both collaboratively and as a solo artist exploring themes of journeying and
navigation using dance, text, movement and music and the Japanese aesthetic
of Wabi-Sabi to create experimental non-narrative work. I am a member of
Deer Park Theatre Company who make both studio and site based work. At
present I am collaborating with the artists Simone Kenyon and Tamara Ashley
on a publication that they are making to document a one- month walk they
undertook last August on the Pennine Way and I am also working on a solo
show entitled “we will mend on the highways”.

December: TAOH Stavanger and Anne-Marte E. Rygh donates a bunk bed to an art and culture centre in Rome, Italy. Another place is now opening its doors for artists to visit in the name of hospitality. See their website for more information www.ozu.it and contact Katerina Trabert.

THE ART OF HOSPITALITY RESIDENCY 2006

January- Råfilm – Sascha Fulscher & Alex Reitch (Sweden)
From the network of Trans Europe Halls (www.teh.net) This contact was established and two filmmakers from the culture centre Meijeriet in Sweden came to see what Tou Scene was like and to stand the test of winter. They held a presentation of their films and inspired us with their thoughts on what a culture centre can and should be. They left a collection of films to the archive and engaged in communication with the independent film company resident at Tou Scene – Piraya film. Fadder Bjarte Mørland. Read more on sascha and alex at http://www.statementblues.com/

Mark Greenwood (UK) Performance artist influenced by artists such as Beuys, Robert Morris, Paul McCarthy and Andre Stitt, Greenwood’s performance work builds on the symbiotic exchange between body and object. Notions of the absurd, futility and durational task like activity are explored from a minimalist, post industrial and Thatcher ravaged experiences rooted in the north of England. Greenwood subjects the body to a number of imposed durational experiments where extreme elements play a major role in articulating the vulnerability and anxiety of the human condition in the context of corporate manipulation and environmental pollution. The body becomes a site where the iconography of human crisis and the vulgarity of political injustices collide and distort. Mark donates a CD to the archive with photos from his performance ”Baby Blue” and ”gasmask-Christ” documented by Fadder Helge Olav Øksedal. The meeting between mark greenwood and helge olav øksedal www.zang.no resulted in a collaboration.

March: Alexia Anastasiadis (South Africa/UK) Interdisciplinary artist from South Africa present made objects and texts in a spatial environment. ”I call the central object/text/image/performer in a piece my Agent. For me the quiet process of making or writing is when my dialogue with my work takes place. That time is my chance to imbue a piece with joy and meaning. After that, I just have to trust my agent; the viewer will sense the conversation that has already taken place. Perhaps there is a connection between this way of working and the theme of muteness which has been present in much of my work over the past few years.”

Ellan Parry (UK) She is interested in design as a system of editing; changing the meaning of a piece, a space or the body of a performer by altering its context, which can be sympathetic towards the original material, or brutal. Although this process has an established place in traditional theatre, many performance artists are reluctant to relinquish control over the presentation of their material or their body, as this raises issues of vulnerability and ownership. At Tou Scene themes related to boats and archaeology are investigated. They donate a video of the project to the archive. www.ellanparry.co.uk Fadder: Vibeke Fuglesang.

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April - John Cunningham (N/UK) I would describe myself primarily as a visual artist, and it’s the object that is my first concern. The performance is an act where I may invest some other dynamic into objects. A list of materials over the course of a performance takes on meanings. I see performance as an enacting of something that is mainly intuitive. I am currently working with thoughts and ideas that I feel are best worked out through performance. The ideas I am playing with- most simple put are concerned with the primary purpose of art- a mode of being human. I take what is commonly seen as the current institution of high arts definition s and seek to create an alternative point of view and perhaps model. I also look to open the performance/work, not to enclose it in a conclusion, but have it open to question and extension. John Performed live painting at TOU NIGHT cunninghamjp@hotmail.com Fadder: anne-marte eidseth

April – Jan Martin Smørdal (Norway) Composer and jazz guitarist education from the Norwegian Jazz University member of Ny Musikk . Jan is concerned with music in relation to notes and impro and has been doing his thesis on this subject with the mentor Lasse Thoesen. Jan has made music for short films and for Oslo jazz festival, commissioned work for Magnus Loddgard, Morten B. Engebrektsen and arranges everything from choir composition to records NavyElectre (Chewinpine), Hilde Marie Kjersem (Curling Legs) and Christer Knutsen (Frode records). His main project is Acoustic Accident, an ensemble in the threshold of jazz-/contemporary (AIM-records). Debut as guitarist on Florebius (Jazzaway recirds) januar 2006, www.smordal.net Fadder Liv Runesdatter

April - AKT-S: BED-IN, 18 houer durational action: AKT-S – performance artists based in Stavanger repeat elements of an action performed in 1969 by Yoko Ono and John Lennon. The couple stayed in bed for two days and invited press and audience for an intimate discussion, the action was called BED-IN. The purpose of repeating the action is to show to simple actions, which might evoke constructive political engagement. Friday–Saturday: AKT-S will stay 18 hours in the guestroom/residency. To discuss actions that may influence the everyday scene and open a dialogue with a broad political context. By inviting people that we don’t know for a discussion and rest in one room we hope that this act and the hours of sleep may give the discussion an intimacy and influence how we reflect on the topics discussed when waking up together the next day. Initiaters are anne-marte eidseth rygh, susanne christensen, agnes btffn and anne klovning.

May – May-Irene Aasen (Norway) Photographer. ”I do not take my camera out on festive occasions to prove that the big events took place. I look rather for moments in the so-called grey and boring everyday life. I photograph atmospheres and moments that are of interest to me, the ones that tell little stories, stories which the viewer might add things too from his or her own experience. The exhibition is called ”THE BOYS” and is an assorted black and white photography’s chosen from the book with the same title. The photos are self-copied and hand processed the old fashioned way in the dark room. Good old craft. “My idea of making this book is more then the sentimental documentation of one of Norway’s biggest rock bands, one of which I was a member. But because I was always taking photos the moments represent something more profound then the family album. The photos reflect an environment, a time period, a Norwegian rock bands reality – On the road with Jokke & Valentinerne” More info at www.gruppe-x.no . www.jokke.nu Fadder Geir Egil Bergjord.

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June- Jade Boyd (Australia) Multi media artist which recently completed a Bachelor Degree with First Class Honours in Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts in Australia (majoring in Electronic and Temporal Arts). She has just concluded a show (The `Summer Destruction Show´) at Seilduken, Oslo. The work of Jade Boyd is concerned with the creation of atmospheric and cinematic spaces using new (digital) as well as `old´(analogue) media that often results in film, video, sound, installation and/ or photographic works. Recent works have been concerned with the ethereal nature of the image in film and how this is mediated through digital production methods. Themes of travel and history are in focus; landscape imagery is used in a way that gestures towards imaginary territories or dreamscapes, as in the Romantic landscape. The experience of unfamiliar territories and the kinds of transient and half-remembered imagery scenery that is often the experience of travel, are themes that can determine the content and ideas behind the work produced. Scenery captured from behind a layer of glass and in motion has an un-sharp or hazy aesthetic, almost as in a dream. There is a sense of being one layer removed from the scene. These themes are applied equally to the industrial or urban landscape as to the sublime. The use of low-resolution image-capture devices can result in a similar visual distortion and a feeling of uncertainty as to what is occurring within the imagery. Contact: jadeboyd001@yahoo.com.au Fadder Hege Tapio

July – Alexandra Merculewitch (New York) Singer, at home in both a traditional song structure and improvisation. She often tests the line between experimental or extended vocal techniques and traditional forms, pulling the sounds from her imagination. Her current focus has been improvisation where she is able to access the intersection of the unrelated and the Unexpected. The creative process becomes the final piece allowing the viewer to witness the artist’s journey. Recently, she has turned her attention to the body and it’s connection to the voice finding great inspiration in the modern dance community of NYC and collaboration with choreographers. Alex arranged a jam with several local musicians and introduced them to the possibility of an international electronic live feed jam www.share.dj and alex@harpuna.com Fadder Pål Asle Pettersen

August – Gillian Wylde (UK) Visual artist based in London. Working with Live performance, electricity, video, and writing like. Main research interests and focus Little investigations/ excavations and or moments/activities- the temporal instances of ‘performativeness’. The near timing and the duration of things. Editing as a metaphor and desire, the exchange, chance and encounter of things and un-things as if like a mongrel. Tender crossovers/borders between the live and the mediated. Materiality and its pretty object. Comedy vs. trauma = traumedy. During the residency I will do a workshop and work in progress in the electricity room, exploring notions of electricity and the phenomena of “Nisse”. contact: wyldegillian@hotmail.com Fadder Anne-Marte Eidseth

August – Sarangut Chutwongpeti (Thailand) Graduated from the Department of
Fine and Applied Arts at Chulalongkorn University Thailand in 1996.
Since graduation he has been working as a media artist with Cyber Lab at the Centre of Academic Resources. Sarangut takes interest in revealing unexplored facets of experience and work with techniques such as video, performance, installation, graphics and design and produces pieces of new media arts. Extract of CV: Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), ImaginAsia Project, The Arthur M.Sackler Gallery,usa), ZKM Project, (Institute for Visual Media, Germany) The Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre; The Kunstakademiet Trondheim (Norway),Luleå Winter Biennial; The Beeoff/Splintermind; The Royal University College of Fine Arts (Sweden), Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, (FI). Her work has been selected by international committees among them sitting Marina Abramovic.
http://www.chutiwongpeti.info Fadder Heidi Anett Haugen

September – Katerina Trabert (Germany) She makes theatre/performances that often are like collages made of found and self-made text, movement, projections and music/sound. Rather than telling a straight story, they locate around a specific theme and invite the viewer to make his own associations and interpretations. Simple, everyday-stories, fictional biographies, images, words, sounds and moods create touching, deep and rich performances that move something in its viewer and encourage him to see his life and the relationships with others in a fresh way. Katharina aims to break down barriers that set audience and performer at a distance to each other and to establish a strong bond between the two parties. http://katharinatrabert.tripod.com/

Nicolas Underwood (UK/Italy) Musician and photographer working with a varied range from classical to contemporary electronic music. He will participate in a jam with local musicians during the Nu Music festival and also collect the photographic material for a new exhibition. Nicolas is a founding member of an artist community and art centre called OZU (officina Zone Umane) monteleone Sabino Italy. www.ozu.it

September – Simone Kenyon and Neil Callaghan (UK) Simone Kenyon has been making performance work since 1998. in the UK and Europe with various companies such as Fiona Wright, Francisco Camacho, Stacked Wonky Dance and Reckless Sleepers. She is currently a member of the theatre company Deerpark and is an associate artist of uninvited guests. She recently founded Brief Magnetics, with Tamara Ashley and they are collaborating with six other artists on a 270mile walk and performance journey along the Pennine Way (The back bone of England‚). Neil Callaghan has been presenting work with different constellations since 2000. He has been working with foreign affairs e.f. in Frankfurt, Germany and for many years toured street theatre performances across Europe with Lighthouse Theatre company. He has worked towards pieces with choreographers Emilyn Claid and Tess De Quincey. He is also an associate artist of Uninvited Guests. As well as being a founder member of propeller, who are currently engaged in a series of long-term long distance research projects around ecology and perception. This residency will mark the early stages of the artist’s collaboration, working towards a performance exploring intimacy and distance, intensity and longing, arrival and departure. Fadder Thor Erik Bøe

October Loan Tp Hoang (Norway) Educated at Nordic Black Theatre in Oslo 2001. She has since participated in a number of dance and theatre productions primarily within modern dance and avant-garde expression like the CrotonicX Exhale Performance Group, Opera Omnia and choreographer Sølvi Edvardsen. Loan is also working as a choreographer and stages her own work. During her residency at Tou Scene she is performing in a Molitrix Scenekunst danceproduction. Fadder Linda Birkedal

November - Jørgen Larsson (Norway) Composer and artist, founder of Bergen centre of Electronic Art. He is educated from the Griegacademy in Bergen and Trondheim Art Academy. Over the last years he has, besides being active in the electronic art scene been engaging himself in relation to the public space through projects involving graffiti. http://www.nossral.org/index.htm Fadder Kevin Thomsen

November – Bjørnar Habbestad (Norway) Flutist, improviser and sound artist – working with different forms of new music; partiture, improvisation and installations. He is educated in music, arthistory and philosophy in Bergen, London and Amsterdam. He has made several solo concerts, chamber and ensemble musician in Norway, England, Holland, Belgium, USA, Italy, France, Austria and
Switzerland. Habbestad is one of the founders of N-Collective – an Amsterdam
based collective of new music ensemble. http://www.n-collective.com/
Habbestad and Larsson is presenting work cooperation with i/o/lab. www.iolab.no Fadder Hege Tapio

Desember- Jørn J. Burmester (Germany) Performance artist, writer and founder of a live art network in Berlin. Specialized in Performance lectures on video documentation. Founder and worker with performance –labels prodesse & delectare. He is invited by AKT-S in Stavanger, which is in the process of founding a live art network for Norwegian performance artists. See the Berlin web-network at www.liveartwork.com/stammtischb Fadder Anne-Marte Eidseth Rygh

TAOH RESIDENCY- THE HISTORY AND ITS GUESTS

2005

Stavanger, Norway: A beer factory is converted to a new centre for contemporary Arts. The official Opening of TOU SCENE takes place in april 2005 and in this occasion the G.U.N ladies donates a bunkbed to encourage an artist residency.

The donation of the bunk bed: The bunk bed was installed in scene 2 for audience to view at the opening of Tou Scene. Representing the project was invited members of G.U.N ladies Hanne Rangul and Camilla Øyhus which made a symbolic ritual in handing over the bunk bed project: Turquoise drinks and a piece of round bread was given to the director of Tou Scene, a representative of the board, a representative of the Tou artists and to the minister of culture Valgerd Svarstad Haugland. The project leader Anne-Marte Eidseth was given an umbraco key as a symbol for sustaining the residency.

G.U.N ladies on why they export bunk beds: “In order to help finance exhibitions and projects with artists from abroad, we came up with the idea of transforming part of a gallery into living quarters for visiting artists, complete with a bunked, kitchen and shower. Following on from this we decided to export bunk beds to other artist-run spaces. In return for a bunkbed we asked for an exhibition. With the project -the art of hospitality- we hope to spread the spirit of hospitality globally as well as creating new opportunities” The Turquoise bunked has been donated over a succession of years to the following artist run spaces:

BED 1: SPAIN, Museo Siencio y arte, Valencia 2001 donated to Carlos Mallol.
BED 2: RIGA donated to NOASS 2001 www.noass.lv
BED 3: ROTTERDAM gallery ROOM www.room.luna.nl
BED 4 NEW YORK donated to Tribes Gallery in New York, 2003 www.tribes.org
BED 5 FINLAND donated to Åbo akademien / nifca 2004 www.arte.fi
BED 6 NORWAY donated to Tou Scene 2005, www.touscene.com

BED 7 ITALY donated by Tou Scene to OZU Italy. 2007 www.ozu.it

read more at WWW.GALLERYGUN.NO

GETTING READY TO WELCOME OUR GUESTS:

OCTOBER 2005: The residency is made ready to receive guests: The turquoise bunk bed is installed in a 25m2 project room and The Art of Hospitality receives 5.000 Nok from Stavanger City Council to build the interior of the residency. Artists at Tou studios later donate means to install a kitchen and Tou Scene provides a shower and a washing machine in a neighbouring building.

THE FIRST GUESTS AT THE RESIDENCY 2005:

September -Lisbet Bodd and Asle Nilsen (Norway) the founders of an enduring Norwegian performance company through 20 years. VERDENSTEATERET: At Tou Scene they showed “Concert for Greenland” a performance/installation, where rusty mechanics meet new technology on the backside of a video-shadow-theatre. ”The background for the project is a journey made to Greenland and north-Atlantic islands. ”The ambivalent impressions we often felt during our stay in Greenland has changed into deep fascination.” “Concert for Greenland” reflects this journey on several levels simultaneously. On the first level it mirrors the actual trips. But the structure and artistic expression of the performance is more like images and sounds from the subconscious experience of these Nordic journeys, rebuilt through unreliable memory. On another level it’s an expedition through a sound-scape, through language and visual transformations. Participants in “Concert for Greenland”. Asle Nilsen, Lisbeth J. Bodd, Håkon Lindbäck, Piotr Pajchel, Petter Steen, Ali Djabbary, Per Flink Basse, Corinne Campos, Øyvind B. Lyse, Lars Øyno, Morten Pettersen, Bergmund Skaaslien, Trond Lossius. http://www.pluto.no/doogie/verdensteatret/kg_info.html

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FADDER: From this point on each guest is personally welcomed by an artist resident in stavanger. A voluntary arrangement called FADDER.

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October- Stine Jørgensen (Denmark) A performer with focus on body movement, improvisation and theatre. ”From this stage my next inquiry is how the body reacts to the site. I use contact improvisation as a place of research and for generating material in dialogue. A good swim is a good start” Bio: Dartington College of Arts. MA Performance and Cultural Location in Contemporary Europe. Recent performances have been in England, Spain, Denmark and San Francisco.

Sonja Pregrad (Croatia) Dancer, studied at the European Dance Development Centre and School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. Works with and teaches improvisation/ movement/ voice/ writing/ visual art. Has been collaborating with Magpie company the last year. Themes are corporality, physicality – the animal-state, articulation, and writing. Contact stine jorgensen ztyeva@yahoo.com Fadder anne-marte eidseth

November: Aipotu/ Andreas Siqueland (N) and Anders Kjellesvik (Norway)
Invited to the program with the project Tramps: A walk from Oslo to Stavanger…….” On november 17th we left our studio in Oslo heading for our exhibition place in Stavanger. We followed the popular route -Sørlandstrekket- used by Tramps up to the mid 60s. Today this route has been taken over by the main roads E 18 and E 39. Large parts of the way there are no sidewalks and traffic is dominated by trucks and busses. Calculated length of the route today is about 750 km including detours. The distance was divided into 20 legs of 30 – 40 km per day. We walked with reflectors and minimal amount of equipment. Due to the season we had sleeping bags and therma rests. We had a limited budget of 50 kroners per day for food and no mobile phones. Our meals were devoured at the local supermarkets along the way. A day leg could take up to 11 hours to complete. Several stops were made each day to ask people for water. Housing was based on people’s generous hospitality. We slept mostly inside private homes, but also in a farmhouse, a public toilet, and a garage and under the open night sky. It could take hours to find a place to sleep. Due to a leg accident, half the trip was made on a children’s bike and a lady bike that were donated to us along the way. ” The walk and social encounters were documented with video and shown at the beer halls of Tou Scene. Curated by Rakett. www.rakett.org More info on the artists www.aipotu.org . Fadder Kim Nielssen