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Na(Cul)ture by Siv Lier (2025)
Tips of the Sung by Samuel Brzeski (2024)
Cities of the West by Bjørn-Henrik Lybeck (2024)
Rumours & Murmurs by Eleni leremia (2024)
Metodar for Nordøyane by Arild Eriksen (2024)
The Technological Twilight by Arild Våge Berge (2022)
Bergen Art Book Journal by Pamflett & Hand Saw Press (2022)
Jeg har mindre til felles med dette landskapet by Peter Dean (2021)
Forhandlingar by Arild Våge Berge (2021)
Hva vi lagde ved sjøen by Arild Eriksen (2021)
Vestland North Sea Blueprints by BAS (2021)
Europa by Bjørn-Henrik Lybeck (2019)
Pink Fingerprints by Sofia Eliasson (2018)
All is Lost by Kay Arne Kirkebø (2017)
Published by Madrid Publications
210x297mm / 226 pages
Digital Giclée
Edition of 100
978-82-691839-4-8
Over three million years ago, our ancestors used hammer stones to break other rocks into tools for cutting and killing. Today, we have a wide variety of specialised hammers, but despite their differences, most still consist of a head mounted on a handle, just like the hammer dating back more than 30.000 years, when we placed a stick on the hammer stone to increase force and comfort. The hammer is the oldest known tool and has always been part of human life. It illustrates how our desire to simplify tasks and shape environments manifests as designed objects. The hammer, perfectly fitting the hand, unites human and design, body with object. Yet I wonder, do we really know and appreciate the hammer, or do we take it for granted? This book explores the intimate and entangled relationship between humans and designed objects, represented by the hammer. To deepen my understanding of the hammer, I have explored it through various practices and used a wide range of techniques and materials, including (experimental) drawing, laser-cutting, ceramic works, and bricolage. I have also shared my process with others, inviting participation through exhibitions, workshops, and collections. I have engaged in conversations with and about hammers. I have built hammers, tied and taped myself to them, danced around with them, and even shared a bed with one. In this book, you will meet hammers that have a story to tell as well as hammers that do not (yet) exist. You will meet strange, broken, and useless hammers, as well as human hammers and hammer humans. I welcome you into my world of hammers.
– Siv Lier
(PHOTODOCUMENTATION
COMING SOON)
COMING SOON)
Published by Madrid Publications
210x297mm / 142 pp.
Digital Giclée
Edition of 100
978-82-691839-4-8
I am fascinated by the cycles of growth and decay that occur as nature and culture intertwine. An in-between space emerges that is difficult to label as purely natural or entirely human-made. In this space, objects no longer serve human needs; instead, they lead their own independent lives. Here, nature pushes back against human intervention, reclaiming what was once its own.
Alongside my artistic research, I have been observing my surroundings. This book presents a selection of the snapshots I have collected. Nothing has been added, removed, or changed to make the images more spectacular. I simply want to capture the resonance, dissonance, and absurdity I observe in these encounters between nature and culture as I cross paths with them.
– Siv Lier
(PHOTODOCUMENTATION
COMING SOON)
COMING SOON)
Published by Vibrational Semantics / Lydgalleriet
Offset
Edition of 300
978-82-691184-3-8
This collection of interdisciplinary texts from artist Samuel Brzeski brings together performance scripts for voice and video with newly composed texts for the page. Centering on the vibrations of the voice, the texts exist somewhere between signification and delirium, at times making more sound than sense.
We would be millionaires if we could sell dust
by Eleni Ieremia, Ruby Eleftheriotis and Victoria Durnak (2024)
Published by Hordaland Kunstsenter
Risograph printed with black and blue
Photograph inserts
Edition of 50
RUMOURS & MURMURS: An Archive Project is a curatorial project initiated by curator and writer Ruby Eleftheriotis in collaboration with Hordaland Kunstsenter (HKS). In this project Bergen-based artists are invited to explore and engage with HKS’s public archives, resulting in solo exhibitions woven from the archive, that are placed in conversation with existing material from the archive, or the structures of archives itself.
By activating the archive, RUMOURS & MURMURS creates space for a multiplicity of voices, opening pathways for re-imagining, re-reading, and re-organizing knowledge.
In treating the archive as alive, contingent and always in flux, this project values the ephemeral, conversation and collaboration as essential limbs to the archival body - aspects that also resist static forms of archiving.
RUMOURS & MURMURS invites us to consider not only what archives hold, but how we can contextualise and re-imagine ourselves and our work in relation to the archive. It invites us to embrace a circularity, to re-visit and re-contextualise. It is an ar- chive not of closure, but of possibility - its presence felt in whispering rumours and every new rumour it sets in motion.
(PHOTODOCUMENTATION
COMING SOON)
COMING SOON)
by Pamflett / Hand Saw Press
193 × 266 mm /
Risograph printed by Hand Saw Press
Published by Pamflett
Edition of ?
This publication was made on the occasion of Tokyo Art Book Fair 2022. Pamflett participated together with artists and collaborators Åshild Kanstad Johnsen and Siv Støldal, and the catalogue was made together with Hand Saw Press Tokyo, who also printed it in brown, fluo yellow and light teal. The publication was made possible through funding from OCA - Office of Contemporary Art Norway.
Published by Topos Publications
140x200mm / 144 pages
Offset
Edition of 300
978-82-691036-5-6
An essay written during the spring of 2021 is included in the publication. Dean reflects about the experience of his visit to Svalbard in 2016, as a professional artist and responsible adult, motivated by his first visit as a four-year-old child in 1995. The text questions the romanticizing of nature as something wild and untouched, and how he now is critical of his own travel back to Svalbard.
Peter Dean's artistry is about exploring people's relationship with nature and environmental issues. Reflecting on the ethical aspects of anthropocentrism. In encounters with his surroundings, he uses his own body and sensuality as a starting point for investigations and observations. The experience and collected material is presented through installations, printed matter, text readings and performances.
The production and materials used in this publication is eco-certified and climate compensated.
Published by Topos Publications
150x210 mm. / 72 + 20 pages
Digital Giclée
Set of two booklets
Edition of 30
978-82-691036-4-9
In 2019 Arild Våge Berge was commissioned to make a public artwork for the new building of Sogn og Fjordane Regional Court and and Sunnfjord and Ytre Sogn land consolidation court in collaboration with Art in Public Spaces (KORO), Norway.
For the making of the installation that now adorns in the foyer of the court building in Førde, the artist travelled through the county previously known as Sogn and Fjordane, now part of Vestland county. Berge collected items and made encounters with persons living and working in the region. The collected material was then used as components for the art installation.
The publication Forhandlingar (negotiations) is a photographic and textual account of the journeys Berge made around the county. The book also contains documentation of the archive of objects Berge built up during this period, and which were used to construct the sculptures and installations in the court foyer.
Published by Fragment Arkitekter
Offset
Edition of 300
978-82-691839-4-8
Based on the methods from What We Made by the Sea, the group carried out an artistic development project to create methods for regional development based on local human and material resources. We used a method known from the conversation groups at the end of the 19th century and methods we know today, such as bioregional weaving, and explored the local community on Skuløya/Flemsøya through conversations in a boathouse. As we have described the content on the back of the book:
“People are moving from the coast of Northwest Norway. Some are also moving back there. For generations, people on the Northern Islands have met in conversation groups to talk about small and large issues that are important in the local community. In this book, conversations are a method for exploring how actors and resources can co-create the Northern Islands in the future.
(PHOTODOCUMENTATION
COMING SOON)
COMING SOON)
Published by Fragment Arkitekter
Offset
Edition of 200
978-82-691796-2-0
The port cities are disappearing. It has been a long time since rope and barrels were made in the cities. It has also been a long time since the dock workers could afford to live there. In a series of conversations Fragment and collaborators looked more closely at the transformation of the cities, the knowledge about the past and the future. Contribution to the group exhibition “The Ocean” at Bergen Kunsthall.