Eli Klein Gallery / New York
Open Call
– The call is closed –
By June 30 there were delivered 241 submissions for the exhibition(s), 55 for the conference, and 86 for the concert/performance category. Notification of acceptance will be during Sep. 2021.
Meta.Morf 2022 • Ecophilia
Trondheim international biennale for art and technology,
April 1 – July 31, 2022.
We are seeking suggestions for the Ecophilia conference, exhibition and concert program.
The exhibition opens May 19, 2022, the conference and concerts are taking place on May 21-22, 2022.
Ecophilia can be defined as our deep desire to connect with nature. But what is nature? And what is ecophilia in the age of the Anthropocene? When borders between nature, human and technology have become blurred, even obsolete?
How is ecophilia manifested today? Fighting climate change? Giving legal rights to non-humans? Advocating the devolution of the human species – for the better of the planet? Or should a true ecophile love and care for a nature transformed with all its strange new habitants? What about saving plastic Christmas trees, protecting artificial landscapes and putting genetically modified organisms in the list of protected species?
How do the many varieties of ecophilia affect nature? And what happens when our relationship with nature turns into an ecosexual fetish? Can one be too much of an ecophile? Do we even need to be in nature to be ecophiles? Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises to solve all the environmental crises just by running numbers. Now technoecophile’s love for nature can be amplified through screens, apps and endless gadgets.
Meta.Morf 2022 – The seventh Trondheim international biennale for art and technology – manifests a critical take on mankind’s relationship to nature. The biennale will, through conferences, exhibitions and performances, critically question what it truly means to be an ecophile in the age of the Anthropocene?
The program for the Ecophilia conference, exhibition and concerts is composed both by artists and speakers selected through open calls, as well as directly invited by the biennale organizers.
Main curators:
Zane Cerpina, Project manager, TEKS
Espen Gangvik, Director, TEKS
Meta.Morf 2022 advisory board:
Erich Berger, Director of the Bioart Society, FI
Michel van Dartel, Director of V2_, Research Professor at CARADT, NL
Jurij Krpan, Artistic Director of Kapelica Gallery, Kersnikova Institute, SL
Ursula Münster, Associate Professor and Director, Oslo School of Environmental Humanities, UiO, NO
Hege Tapio, NOBA (Norwegian BioArt Arena), FeLT Futures of Living Technologies, OsloMet), NO
You may apply in all categories with as many projects as you like.
Conference
DEADLINE: JUNE 30, 2021 @ 12am CEST
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: August 30, 2021
We are seeking presentations that can take place during the “Ecophilia” two day conference on May 20 and 21, 2022. Meta.Morf covers a participation fee, as well as travel and accommodation expenses during the conference.
Submit your suggestion here: https://forms.gle/2n5ME8EPyDq5UnJU6
Questions can be directed to Zane Cerpina: zane@teks.no
Exhibition
DEADLINE: JUNE 30, 2021 @ 12am CEST
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: August 30, 2021
We are seeking artworks and projects to be exhibited at the “Ecophilia” group exhibition taking place from May 19 – July 31, 2022. Artworks need to be shipped to Trondheim by mid April 2022 and will be returned by late August. Meta.Morf covers fee, freight, travel and accommodation expenses during the setup of the work/installation.
Submit your suggestion here: https://forms.gle/5UadGPhYWNDPpGBw9
Questions can be directed to Espen Gangvik: espen@teks.no
Concerts / Performances
DEADLINE: JUNE 30, 2021 @ 12am CEST
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: August 30, 2021
We are seeking contributions for performances to take place during the Meta.Morf biennale 2022 on May 19, 20 and 21, 2022. Meta.Morf covers a participation fee, as well as travel and accommodation expenses.
Submit your suggestion here: https://forms.gle/4xcdPtzoR2PwrNkLA
Questions can be directed to Espen Gangvik: espen@teks.no
Let’s Talk About Dolphin Sex
Meta.Morf 2022 – Ecophilia / Dokkhuset / Conference May 21 / Curator: Zane Cerpina
Let’s Talk About Dolphin Sex
Kirsty Kross [AU/NO]
My cousin claims to have had a relationship with a female dolphin for several years on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, Australia. Then a friend of a friend was a screenwriter for a popular teen, oceanic, drama series which involved research at Seaworld about dolphins and, of course, their very active sex lives. Apparently there is a reason why tourists must wear a wetsuit while swimming with dolphins… Then a friend of mine that took a lot of hallucinogens claimed to see aliens transforming into a pod of dolphins at Byron Bay that later tried to seduce him.
“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
Kirsty Kross is an Oslo based artist originally from Brisbane, Australia. Her work focuses largely on humans’ relationship to the attention economy and growing ecological uncertainty. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Art History from the University of Queensland and a Masters Degree of Art in Context from the Berlin University of the Arts. Kirsty Kross has exhibited and performed at Bergen Assembly, Høstutstillingen, KUBE og Jugendstilsenteret, Tenthaus and PINK CUBE as well as Clockwork Gallery, Parkhaus Projects and Galerie Crystal Ball in Berlin. She will perform at “Jeg kaller det Kunst”- the opening exhibition of the Norwegian National Museum in 2022.
Photo for talk: Public Domain image from needpix.com
Header Graphics: Public Domain image from needpix.com
Jeremy Welsh
Jeremy Welsh
Screens @ Cinemateket Trondheim
Jeremy Welsh is a Bergen-based artist and was a professor at the art academies of Bergen and Trondheim between 1990–2020. His works have been shown internationally since the early eighties and are in public collections including The National Museum, Oslo, and Trondheim Art Museum. He has curated numerous exhibitions in Europe and North America, has published many texts on video and electronic art, and has realised several public art projects in Norway and The UK.
During the 1980s he was exhibitions and projects manager at London Video Arts (now The Lux) and was curator and artistic director at The Film and Video Umbrella, a leading UK agency for artists’ film and video. He is currently working on audio visual concert projects with a range of Norwegian contemporary musicians.
Anniken Storhaug
Anniken Storhaug
By Drawing The Waves I Saw The Sea Where The Waves Gathered @ Dropsfabrikken
Anniken Storhaug [NO] has worked as an artistic director and gallery owner at Galleri Dropsfabrikken for four years. Prior to that, she worked as a communicator and curator at Trondheim Art Museum for six years. Storhaug has extensive experience as an art consultant and consultant within Norwegian contemporary art.
Anniken has a master’s in art history from NTNU and PPU from OsloMet.
Lena Katrine Sokki
Lena Katrine Sokki
Anxiety @ Babel visningsrom for kunst
In her art practice Lena Katrine Sokki [NO] has been engaged in a number of collaborative projects within the frame of relational art. The artist duo Lena Katrine & Heidi-Anett has been the central part of her work and together with Heidi-Anett Haugen (b.1985), they have explored the symbiotic and parallel conditions of being two artists behind one artistic expression. Since 2018 she has been the project leader of the artist run gallery Babel visningsrom for kunst, Trondheim. As a curator Lena Katrine Sokki is concerned about the conditions for artists working in the contemporary field.
Marie Veie Sandvik
Marie Veie Sandvik
Kraft @ Nils Aas Kunstverksted
Maria Veie Sandvik [NO] (b. 1977) is a curator, critic and project manager for Kraft and MFA2 at Nils Aas Kunstverksted and the Olsok exhibition 2022 at Stiklestad National Cultural Center.
Sandvik has a cand. Philol. degree in art history from the University of Oslo, and founded Galleri Maria Veie in Oslo in 2008 with a focus on young contemporary art. Since 2014, the gallery has presented performative pop-up projects such as Abgesang des Posthauses at Berlin Art Week 2016 with Trondheim Voices and Goro Tronsmo and Liv Kristin Holmbergs Paralysens Liturgi in collaboration with composer Eirik Havnes, the festival OnlyConnect and Nidarosdomen in 2021. Sandvik has previously curated TOMROM for Norwegian Art Associations in Larvik / Sandefjord in 2015 and I hear you at the Art Museum Nord-Trøndelag in 2018.
As an editor, Sandvik has published a number of publications; Take your TIME for Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum (2021), Silver Linings. Clouds in art and science for Stavanger Art Museum (2020), Gustav Vigeland + Nidaros Cathedral. Two national icons (2019), Criticism for an absent reader (2018), and the magazine Kunstforum 01/2019 about Nordic artists in Berlin. Her own texts include Scores for Daily Living about Emma Waltraud Howes’ art (K Verlag 2020) and Social Democratic Harmony. Norwegian syncretistic church art in the UN Security Council Chamber for the anthology Von der Repräsentation zur Intervention. Die Vereinten Nationen im Spiegel der Kunst (Wallstein Verlag 2021).
Portrettfoto: Chris Erlbeck
Prof. Dr. Alex Murray-Leslie
Prof. Dr. Alex Murray-Leslie
MFA 2 Graduation Exhibition @ Trondheim Academy of Fine Art (different venues)
Alex Murray-Leslie [AU/NO] is Professor of Digital Performance, Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Norwegian University of Science and Technology and co-founder of Chicks on Speed (COS). COS was founded 22 years ago by Murray-Leslie and Melissa E. Logan as a collaborative group modelled in many ways on artistic movements framing diverse practices, interventions and experiments, akin to the Bauhaus, the Situationist International, Fluxus or the KLF. The groups´ work cross-pollinates performance art, teleprovisation, pop music, fashion, film and new musical instrument design. Her collaborative and solo works have been presented internationally across a range of contexts and venues, from major museums, to rock ’n’ roll tours, to global fashion shows. Alex is currently leading a 4 year artistic research grant: RTAI (Real-time Telematic audiovisual improvisation) supported by the Norwegian Artistic Research Program out of Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Faculty of Architecture and Design, NTNU.
Lars Pedersen
Lars Pedersen
Radical Compromise @ Vitensenteret i Trondheim
Lars Pedersen [NO] (1985) is a chemist and educator that got thrusted into the strange world of immersive media when he assumed the role of planetarium manager in 2017.
Planetariums and dome cinemas act as enticing canvases that can showcase what’s well-known in new and exciting ways and show things that wouldn’t really make sense on a flat screen. His greatest joy is introducing this technology to guests and collaborators and to push the boundaries of what’s expected of a planetarium in a science center setting.