KUNSTMØTER ON TRAFO KUNSTHALL

Trafo Kunsthall invites students from 5th-8th grade in Asker to Kunstmøter ! The outreach program is created by and with artist and facilitator Finn Adrian Jorkjen and is supported by the DnB Sparebankstiftelsen .

What exactly is art? What does it mean to be an artist? Does a picture have to hang on the wall to be called art? Can art be eaten? Art can be weird and experimentation is a big part of that!

During his visit to Trafo Kunsthall The students will meet a contemporary artist who will present their artistry, the themes and issues they are working on, as well as a practical workshop where the students will try out a technique and work with different materials. The work they produce will be available for them to choose whether they want to take home or exhibit at Trafo Kunsthall after the end of the period. The students will also be given a tour of the relevant exhibition at Trafo Kunsthall by facilitator. Participation in the program is free.

Four artists are involved in the project:

Katarina Skjønsberberg (b. 1987, Oslo)
Skjønsberg works with film, photography and text. She investigates concepts such as solidarity, humanity through fieldwork, e.g. Palestine and human encounters. Skjønsberg observes and explores psychological and socio-political contexts. We get the opportunity to test out methods of storytelling through collage and photography.

Esra Duzen (b. 1983, Istanbul)
Duzen works with drawing, performance, textile, installation and sound. She works critically with the feeling of alienation through created myths and symbols, costumes and colorful textile works. We are invited to investigate ideas of utopia and the future through textiles/mask making.

Kachun Lay (b. 1989 Lillesand)
Lay's work is based around sculpture, digital animation and performance art. Rooted in ideas from ecopsychology and geology, he explores the human relationship with nature as a subject. He is currently working with cagliola, an ancient Italian technique for imitating marble, and will invite participants to practice “collective action painting”.

Sara Guldmyr (b. 1990 Sweden)
Guldmyr works with ceramics, installation and video. She transforms everyday materials to contain emotions and is often about interpersonal relationships. She weaves mock-written letters and models teeth out of porcelain. Her works are often about relationships, about intimacy and distance. Both interpersonal relationships and a human relationship to the present. Guldmyr's interest in time-consuming analogue techniques comes from an ambivalence towards the digital pace of our time.

Under the auspices of:

Finn Adrian Jorkjen (born 1990 in Arendal)
Jorkjen works primarily with performance, text and video. He cuts together, stages, remembers, moves and composes different situations. His work explores our relationship with mass media, questions of identity, and is driven by strong and ambivalent emotions. Jorkjen is a graduate of the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and the Trondheim Art Academy, NTNU. He is also a member of the performance duo "Koppen & Jorkjen".