Ecophilia –find your nature

Our home planet needs our care and love. This is what Ecophilia is about. And you cannot avoid it. Nature is all about your lifeworld. Where you live, how you live and how you love it.

Ecophilia reflects not only a necessity, but also a deep desire to connect with nature. But what is nature really? Except for some ecological dreamscapes?

Meta.Morf – manifesto & people

Artistic and scientific research are continuously challenging and changing our perspectives on life, often implying new philosophical and existential questions.

Biotechnology, nanotechnology, neuroscience and new communication and computer technologies are examples of fields that expand the boundaries of artistic practice, which in turn can…

EXHIBITIONS

be-coming tree

Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst

ECOPHILIA
May 6 – August 14, 2022

ANNIE HÄGG / FRANK EKEBERG / JATUN RISBA / MAREN DAGNY JUELL / MARIA CASTELLANOS & / ALBERTO VALVERDE / MARIUS PRESTERUD

Curators: ZANE CERPINA / ESPEN GANGVIK

Trøndelag Senter for Samtidskunst

ECOPHILIA
May 19 – July 31, 2022

AI HASEGAWA / ANNIKE FLO / DISNOVATION.ORG / JAKOB KUDSK STEENSEN / LEENA SAARINEN / STEPHANIE ROTHENBERG / THE CENTER FOR GENOMIC GASTRONOMY / THOMAS THWAITES / YANG ZHICHAO

Curators: ZANE CERPINA / ESPEN GANGVIK

ARTIST CONVERSATIONS

SCREENS revived and revisited, 1997 – 2022

Cinemateket Trondheim June 17, 2022

An illustrated talk, screening and concert to celebrate the 25th anniversary of electronic arts festival SCREENS, the forerunner of META.MORF.

INGER LISE HANSEN / JEREMY WELSH / KAIA HUGIN / LENE GRENAGER / MICHAEL FRANCIS DUCH / PIYA WANTHIANG / TIJS HAM / VIBEKE JENSEN / ØYVIND BRANDTSEGG

Curator and moderater: JEREMY WELSH

FeLT

Investigating the Futures of Living Technologies

K-U-K – Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst, May 7, 2022

FeLT in collaboration with a selection of artists participating in the Ecophilia exhibition at Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst and TEKS.studio, invite you to reflect and debate on topics raised by the artworks in the exhibition: questioning relations and connections that occur between human beings, other living beings and machines in our time of ecological crises.

ANNIE HÄGG / FRANK EKEBERG / MAREN DAGNY JUELL / MARIA CASTELLANOS / MARIUS PRESTERUD

Curators and moderators: KRISTIN BERGAUST, HEGE TAPIO

sissel_m_bergh

Art as research

Kunstmuseet Nord-Trøndelag June 16, 2022

Kunstmuseet Nord-Trøndelag invites you to a conversation with the artists Sissel M. Bergh and Ellen Sofie Griegel. The conversation is based on the artists’ approach to art as exploration and research.

Screening:
#TJAETSIE (WATER) KNOWKNOWKNOW / 2017 / SISSEL M. BERGH

Conversation:
ELLEN SOFIE GRIEGEL & SISSEL M. BERGH

Curator and moderator: FRIDA MARIE EDLUND

PERFORMANCES

Let’s Talk About Dolphin Sex

Dokkhuset May 21, 2022

Let’s talk about dolphin sex features real life stories about dolphin sex and the humans they love. Told live in a one night stand sensational performance lecture.

KIRSTY KROSS

Curator: ZANE CERPINA

How to Read Water

How to Read Water #4

Heimdal kunstforening May 28 & 29, 2022

I’d not be surprised if there were as many stories about the sea as there are grains of sand washed up on its many shores. Those stories have come to change in recent years however. Not so long ago, the sea was considered too large to ever be claimed by any nation, now it has been mapped, measured and divided, but it’s also threatening to swallow up whole countries and completely upend the way we live our lives. There is no escaping that the sea, and water, will claim even more space in future stories.

ANNA THU SCHMIDT / HANNE DAHL GEVING / MINA PAASCHE / THEA ELLINGSEN GRANT

Curator: DANIEL VINCENT HANSEN

SCREENINGS

SCREENS revived and revisited, 1997 – 2022

Cinemateket Trondheim June 17, 2022

An illustrated talk, screening and concert to celebrate the 25th anniversary of electronic arts festival SCREENS, the forerunner of META.MORF.

INGER LISE HANSEN / JEREMY WELSH / KAIA HUGIN / LENE GRENAGER / MICHAEL FRANCIS DUCH / PIYA WANTHIANG / TIJS HAM / VIBEKE JENSEN / ØYVIND BRANDTSEGG

Curator and moderater: JEREMY WELSH

sissel_m_bergh

Art as research

Kunstmuseet Nord-Trøndelag June 16, 2022

Kunstmuseet Nord-Trøndelag invites you to a conversation with the artists Sissel M. Bergh and Ellen Sofie Griegel. The conversation is based on the artists’ approach to art as exploration and research.

Screening:
#TJAETSIE (WATER) KNOWKNOWKNOW / 2017 / SISSEL M. BERGH

Conversation:
ELLEN SOFIE GRIEGEL & SISSEL M. BERGH

Curator and moderator: FRIDA MARIE EDLUND

Radical Compromise

Planetariet @ Vitensenteret i Trondheim, April 28, 30; May 3, 12, 20, 21; June 11

Radical Compromise highlights the issue of European energy in the context of the global environmental crisis. The film comments on the situation through a visual abstraction achieved by using aerial footage combined with electron microscope images of rocks, photogrammetry and digital 3D manipulation of locations.

The Radical Compromise project consist of:
Producer DANIEL ČERVENKA, Signal Production and Planetum (Planetarium Prague) / Visual artist MAREK ŠILPOCH / Composers TRAUMA & ERROL VITRO / Digital artist PAVEL KARAFÍAT / Planetarium Prague’s chief dramaturge, producer and artist MARTIN FUCHS

Curator: LARS PEDERSEN

CONCERTS

Eirik Havnes & Lars Ove Fossheim

ALT SOM LEVER SKAL DØ
Dokkhuset May 18, 2022

Alt som lever skal dø (Every living thing will die) is a performance that asks, and even attempts to answer, a lot of answerless questions. 

The performance is a commissioned work under the auspices of Jazzfest and TEKS – Trondheim Elektroniske Kunstsenter as a combined closing and opening concert for JAZZFEST 22 and Meta.Morf 22, respectively.

Stine Janvin

FAKE SYNTHETIC MUSIC
Dokkhuset May 20, 2022

Fake Synthetic Music is a concert performance, an artistic method, a record release and an ongoing exploration of the voice as instrument.

Omni Anima

VASSVIK

VASSVIK MEETS OMNI ANIMA /
A FOOT IN BOTH WORLDS

Dokkhuset, May 20, 2022

VASSVIK MEETS OMNI ANIMA
In this evening concert the Sami musician and throat singer Torgeir Vassvik will merge and transform his singing with the interactive Omni Anima holophonic sound installation. The result is a spectacular transformation of Dokkhuset into an immersive and visceral sound chamber, resonating with the magic of Sami Joik.

A FOOT IN BOTH WORLDS
With his band VASSVIK the circumpolar Sami sound poet Torgeir Vassvik develops new visions of the animistic Joik, the vocal art of the Sami indigenous people of Northern Europe. He embeds it into an Arctic avant-garde sound. It is rooted in folk, classical, jazz and impro music.

Sonotopia

Gisle Martens Meyer

SONOTOPIA – A MEMORY OF SHADOWS (EXTINCTION SYMPHONY)
Dokkhuset May 21, 2022

In an overgrown post-apocalyptic landscape, a cautious figure explores broken detritus, lost media, and memory fragments from the ruins of a familiar civilization. Small sounds, tones, and videos gently flicker and glitch to life among the giant mobile phone tombstones and scattered clusters of dead screens and tablets.