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
Published as a part of Siv Liers PhD. project in design at Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design / KMD
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)
(PHOTODOCUMENTATION
COMING SOON)
Published by Madrid Publications
210x297mm / 142 pp.
Digital Giclée
Edition of 100
978-82-691839-4-8
Published as a part of Siv Liers PhD. project in design at Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design / KMD
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
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
Swiss bound, hardcover
Offset print
Edition of 300
978-82-691036-3-2
The artist has been working with photography for more than a decade. His practice as a photographer is greatly influenced by the traditions of straight photography and of photojournalism from the forties, fifties and sixties. Employing a formal and non-staged style of photography, he carries the legacy into contemporary practice.
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 Bergen Kunsthall
In autumn 2020, the master research and design project “Explorations in Ocean Space” at the Bergen School of Architecture (BAS) investigated Vestland’s long and oscillating legacy of relations to the sea. This is an exemplary maritime region where contracts and exchanges have been forged with the ocean throughout history. However as one of the world’s most industrialised seas, the North Sea has been described as being virtually dead, while a bright future is envisioned for the burgeoning Blue Economy. “Vestland North Sea Blueprints” aims to capture these contradictions through spatial research from a range of perspectives in a newspaper format, seen as a potential atlas to introduce Bergen’s oceanic context in the exhibition at Bergen Kunsthall. It serves as a data backbone and a starting point for further exploration. How have human spaces and histories been entangled with the sea in the Bergen region and how do we assess the current situation? The research is organised around the five major maritime industries that have been vital to the local economy: fishing, oil and gas, shipping, tourism and renewable energy. But it also traces the global trajectories of these industries and how they have moulded space, culture, regimes of control and produced specific narratives. The project aimed to make a critical appraisal of Bergen’s relation to the sea, to reveal fault lines, disjunctions and to identify emerging spaces of renegotiation. Each section of the newspaper relates the most relevant findings in an individual way.
This newspaper was published by Bergen Kunsthall on the occasion of the exhibition “The Ocean”, 28 August – 31 October 2021, in collaboration with the research and design course “Explorations in Ocean Space II – Vestland North Sea Blueprints”, Bergen School of Architecture, Autumn 2020.
Curator: Axel Wieder (Bergen Kunsthall)
Teachers: Nancy Couling, Vibeke Jensen
Assistant: Julia Morrissey
Edition of 1500
Photo: Bergen Kunsthall / Thor Brødreskift
Photo: Bergen Kunsthall / Thor Brødreskift
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.
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)