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04: VIDEOART/SHORTFILM PROGRAM06: WORDS FROM THE CURATOR08: AMELI JAKOBSEN10: ANJA CARR12: ARJA WIIK-HANSEN 14: BIRD HEARTS / FUGLEHJERTER 16: CHRISTOPHER NIELSEN 18: FURRIES 20: GAR HONORATUS 22: JONAS GRENI 24: KÄRLEK&ÄVENTYR 26: KIRSTY KROSS 28: LINNÉA JOHANSSON 30: LIVA MORK 32: MADELEN LINDGREN 34: MATILDA BJÖRKNE 36: MOM & JERRY

38: MERETE DILLE 40: NATURE SUFICE 42: NAVAK 44: OLAVALO 46: RANDI O. SOLBERG48: SARA RÖNNBÄCK50: SILVER 52: SIMON DIAZ COMPAGNET 54: STIG MARLON WESTON 56: THE TEXTFUKKERS 58: TOR JØRGEN VAN EIJK 60: ULF KRISTIANSEN 62: TRUE SOLVANG VEVATNE 64: YOUR MAMMAS FAVORITE PRODUCTIONS

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VIDEOART PROGRAM

Friday/Saturday (looped)

Title: Year: Run Time: Mom & Jerry - The world is a cruise (2013) 09.34 min Madelen Lindgren - Blind note - silent step (2015) 02.43 minKirsty Kross - The Cult of the Realistic Rainbow (2009) 03.21 minText Fukkers - On the style site (2015) 06.26 minArja Wiik-Hansen - But this is the story of those who don’t (2014) 04.16 minUlf Kristiansen - I feel you (2012) 05.16 minTor Jørgen van Eijk - Surviving (2007) 08.02 min

SHORTFILM PROGRAMFriday

Title: Director: Run Time:Fuglehjerter Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel 25.00 min

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Saturday

Norsk kort

Title: Director: Run Time:15:05 bull.miletic 04.00 minAmasone Marianne Ulrichsen 14.00 minBølgeslag Kristian Pedersen 02.00 min Det gode livet, der borte Izer Aliu 30.00 minKaja Gunnufsen – Faen ta Thea Hvistendahl 05.00 min Fallet Andreas Thaulow 15.00 minHermans hjerte Anne Kristin Berge 08.17 minIshavshanda Are og Sturla Pilskog 10.50 minJa, vi elsker Hallvar Witzø 15.00 minKompis Mads Eriksen 10.03 minMoulton og meg Torill Kove 13.00 minMå, bare må Eirin Handegard 01.00 minNålebyen Kaspar Synnevåg og Henrik Uhlving 03.00 minPolaroid Julia Elise Schacht 10.52 minRulletrappen Christopher Nielsen 09.47 minSámi Bojá | Samegutt Elle Sofie Henriksen 09.30 minSing lingeling Aaslaug Vaa 13.00 minSubtotal Gunhild Enger 18.30 min Tre Dalmatinere Ingrid Stenersen 12.00 minUten deg Marius Myrmel 12.00 min

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Words from the CuratorWhen I was asked to curate the artprogram at Sommerøya this year, I was thrilled and honored. I had no idéa what I threw myself into, but was determined to pull it of the best way possible. I wanted to make a kick ass exhibition.

Unexperienced as a curator, and with no budgets, I set of getting in touch with various artist, in addition to encourage artists to apply. It´s a difficult job, asking artists to work for free, and not something I encourage in general, being an artist myself. But in spite of the conditions, I was overwhelmed by all the goodwill and enthusiasm amongst the artists. Almost everybody was eager to contribute.

It´s been a long proses, and I am very proud of the program we are now presenting.

29 different artist and art collectives are showing a wide range of different art practices, from videoart, performance, photo, contemporary dance, painting, graffiti, installations, screenprint, cartoons, crowdfunding project and sculpture, in addition to the shortfilm program.

It has been important for me to create an inclusive program witch involves artists from every level of the career ladder. From well established names, newly educated and emerging artists, to art students.

I did not want to have a theme or any other restrictions for the artworks, focusing on art that would suit an outdoor festival, in addition to stimulate and amuse our audience. Many works reflects that artists, like people in general, are concerned about the environment, and several pieces has political undertones. Please take your time to consume the arts and see if you can comprehend what it is really about. There might be more to it than you will notice at first glance.

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I would like to give a special thanks to Petr Svarovsky, for doing the video editing for the videoartprogram, and to Podium for helping us with equipment to screen both the videoartprogram and shortfilmprogram. I could not have done any of this without your generosity. In addition of course to the rest of the Sommerøya team, witch all have been working very hard to make this festival happen.

I wish you all a great festival at Sommerøya 2015, and I hope you enjoy the artprogram, as well as the music, and that you will get a new perspective of what is going on in the artscene today!

Cecilie LindCurator Sommerøya

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Ameli JakobsenSculpture

Ameli Jakobsen is an Oslo based artist, and works with a wide range of different mediums. She does photography, design clothes, paint, makes installations and sculptures. She has had numerous exhibitions nationwide.

Jakobsen has always had a close relationship with nature, and is fascinated by and in-terested in the relationship between nature and humans. With her surreal and politically environmental language, her sculptures and installations explore just that. Do we as people consider ourselves holier than the earth itself?

At Sommerøya she is contributing sculptures consisting entirely of natural recycled materials, including book paper and bark from dead trees. “I find it exciting to create life using just waste of nature.” Jakobsen is conscious in her material choices, and use bark from forests she knows and can relate to. She is also inspired by the Norwegian Æ-entrepreneur, Alexander Nässelquist, who makes skateboard after the vision “Norwegian trees are more than firewood / Norsk tre er mer enn ved”. By using live models she gives her sculptures a sense of human presence and a soul.

Contact: amelijakobsen.com

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Anja CarrPerformance: Spirit Talk

Anja Carr shows the live-performance Spirit Talk produced especially for the Sukkerbiten area. It includes two new characters in fake leather and latex costumes based on the 80’s toy My little pony. One of them has the logo of Sukkerbiten on its butt, the other one a pentagram. With a wigi board and The Norwegian National Opera in the background they will try to get in touch with pony spirits.

Carr’s works are based around performances in intimate and theatrical installations or settings. They follow a dream-like logic where colors are bright and there are no set limits between time and space, bodies and objects, humans and animals. In the works she stages herself or others, such as bodybuilders or people in fursuits from the subculture of cosplay. She investigates the vulnerable distinctions between genders as well as the child and adult spheres. Her handmade costumes transform mass-produced figures like Ninja Turtles or Donald Duck inside an adult world described as dark, repulsive or tragicomic. Apart from the live setting the performance-characters appear in large-scale photography, video and sculptural works.

Recently Carr’s works have been shown at places like NOoSPHERE Arts (New York City), Miami Performance International Festival (Miami), POPPOSITIONS Art Fair (Brussels) presented by Noplace (Oslo), the Agency Gallery (London), Le Générateur (Paris) and Trøndelag Centre for Contemporary Art (Trondheim). In January 2011 she founded PINK CUBE - a pink exhibition space in Oslo painted with a wall-paint containing bodily fluids. PINK CUBE presents works by artists from different generations and parts of the world.

Thanks to Hannah Brookman and Merete Dille.

Contact: anjacarr.com

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Arja Wiik-HansenVideo: But this is the story of those who don’tPhoto/perfomance: That’s the truth of distance

Arja Wiik-Hansen works with photography, video and sound. Her work is lingering and vulnerable with an underlying darkness. The videos and their titles give hints that something is brewing, will happen, or maybe it already did. Her blurred and misty works don’t give any answers, while searching for a reflection on absence, longing, sorrow andmelancholy. Wiik-Hansen is interested in relations, how people meet - or how they don’t. Time, memory and feelings always play a key role. The female characters have a tendency to be in a dreamy sphere. In her recent work she investigates the fine line between strong and fragile. Her videos are always shown in loops, and can be seen as moving photographs.

Contact: arjawiikhansen.com

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Bird Hearts / FuglehjerterShort film

Benjamin and Maya share a life and an apartment in the center of Oslo. On the occasion of Benjamin’s 26th birthday, Tobias, Benjamin’s younger and more successful brother, comes to visit for the weekend. During a late night dinner party with friends, Maya tells a story about a sexual experience she had in Brazil. As a consequence, Benjamin’s insecurities and vulnerabilities begin to surface.

Director: Halfdan Ullmann TøndelProducer: Martine SolbergPhoto: Daniel WarrenClip: Jonas Ekroll BakkelundSound/Sounddesign: Odin Eggen BrekkeFirst AD: Michael NysæterB-photo: Erik NordengLight: Emil GurvinB-sound: Mats Støten, Thomas Nielsen, Magnus NygaardScenography: Maren SaediMakeup: Lillian Julsvik EmelieScript: Halfdan Ullmann TøndelCast: Andre Sørum, Stine Sørensen, Steinar Klouman Hallert, Eline Grødal, Trine Wiggen, Axel Aubert, Elisabeth Heradstveit, Martin Osvold, Hanna Dahl UllmannCasting: Luise NesComposer: BendikProd.ass: Lisbeth Lambrecths, Cathina Fossum, Kaja Westerhagen, Kaja Crompton, Kari Haugan, Vetle Strøm, Ole henrik Bach

Contact: [email protected]

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Christopher NielsenSilkscreen: Misfornøyelsesbar

Christopher Nielsen has recently launched a new crowdfunding project, Misfornøyelsesbar ”Psychedeliastube”.

The Misfornøyelsesbar, or Discomfortbar, will appear in the old buildings of Prinds Christian August Minde in Storgata 36 in Oslo. The history of these premises reveals a story of preserving people with anti social behavior, needy mobs, poor people and mentally ill persons, in Chrisiania in the 1800s. Christiania bedlam was situated in the side wing of the premises witch are ment to house the Misfornøyelsesbar. Misfornøyelsesbaren will shamelessly draw lines to the unique history of the building - Bedlam. Asylum. Pandemonium.

Sommerøya will give you a teaser of the Misfornøyelsesbar at Sukkerbiten. It will also be possible to invest in Christopher Nielsens crowdfunding, by buying his handmade prints. There are only 180 of them in total, signed and numbered, hand-printed by Christopher himself. For Sommerøya he has also made a few exclusive hand colored prints. Be the first to get one.

Contact: misfornøyelsesbar.no

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FurriesFeelgood

The furry fandom is a subculture interested in fictional anthropomorphic animal characters with human personalities and characteristics. Examples of anthropomorphic attributes include exhibiting human intelligence and facial expressions, the ability to speak, walk on two legs, and wear clothes. Furry fandom is also used to refer to the community of people who gather on the Internet and at furry conventions

We have invited a group of Furries to join us at Sommerøya, to hang out and create a good atmosphere.

Contact: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_fandom

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Gar HonoratusGraffiti, arts, decoration and more


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Jonas GreniPainting and performance

Jonas Greni is a Norwegian artist from a small town outside Oslo. Jonas is a versatile artist that works in many different techniques and styles, though he normally stays in the figurative world of paintings.

In this series you are presented works where the old egg tempera tradition is mixed with the new 21 century spray paintings (or action paintings...) Inspired by the great painters as much as music.

Spring 2015 he graduated from 2 years at Einar Granum Kunstfagskole.


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Kärlek&ÄventyrGraffiti

I have always, from I was a little kid, been addicted to painting and drawing. In my teen years I painted graffiti for a couple of years. Then my focus shifted to oil and acrylics on canvas. A little over a year ago my interest for graffiti was again revived. My inspiration comes from the religious and psychedelic aspects in life. This is expressed mostly through portraits with a vivid pallette and a surrealistic twist.


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Kirsty Kross (2009)Video: The Cult of the Realistic Rainbow

Kirsty Kross edited by Lucy A. Roberts

Filmed on an empty beach and in a secluded rainforest in Byron Bay, Australia, “The Cult of the Realistic Rainbow” moves backwards and has a low tech, retro feeling evocative of Super 8 home movies of the 1960s and 70s. Byron Bay is the centre for hippy culture in Australia and the film, starring the artist, Kirsty Kross, exaggerates the manic joy and naive positivity of the hippy movement which has filtered down into contemporary New Age and self-help cultures which focus on the quest for perfect happiness- a kind of emotional uto-pia. Many of us have grown up in the shadow of the 60’s and 70’s legacy- claimed to be the wildest, most hedonistic and most free period in the west in recent history. Yet were they really and could this legacy be another nostalgic mirage?

“The Cult of the Realistic Rainbow” nevertheless conveys a great sense of spontaneity, freedom and sensual pleasure of being naked in nature and questions notions of appro-priate adult behaviour and female nudity in performance art. We might be cynical about hippies, yet the sheer joy of being naked, painted blue and swimming in the ocean cannot be underestimated.

Contact: kirstykross.com

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Linnéa JohanssonCartoons

This year Linnéa took the media with storm. Everyone from Britney Spears to Huffington Post wanted to share her drawings of superheroes and princesses doing totally ordinary stuff. Spiderman at the toilette, The Hulk as an adolescence father or Disney Princesses with leukemia. People are people, and we can´t live up to all the ideals.

She also made a hype with her entreaty ” Åpna Din Bergsprekk - Det er på tide å ta fitta tilbake.” Worth checking out.

At Sommerøya there will be Supersoft Superheroes and Super Strong Princesses, crayon and DIY (Do It Yourself).

On her blog, you can download her drawings for free and color them together with your friends;

Contact: limpan.org

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Liva MorkInstallation: Eat me, beat me

A big green ball hangs from the top of a simple wooden construction formed like a pavillion. Visitors may enter the pavillion and lay down beneath or walk around the ball. The ball measures approximately one meter in diameter and the entire surface is covered by fresh green cress. The cress emits a characteristic smell and the tactile surface is eatable.

“Eat me, beat me” is a sitespesific installation made by Liva Mork for Sommerøya open air art and music festival. Functioning like a “hideout” for the festival participants it can create a stage for reflections beside all the other rich experiences on festival.

By using cress and other plant material Mork focuses on our relationship to nature and ecology. How do we interact with the Earth in order for it to be a liveable place for future generations? Do we fight the Earth or do we live our lives in a sustainable manner? Is the Earth made for us or are we just a small piece in the big puzzle?

Cress is simple to grow and it is very nutritious. It only needs watering for about a week and then it is ready to harvest. Cress makes it possible for anyone to grow their own food, it can be done by anyone, anywhere.

Liva Mork is a visual artist working with installation and performance. She has shown her works at the Annual Autumn Exhibition, Skulpturarena Öst, Sound of Mu, One Night Only and Galleri BOA. Liva Mork graduated from the National Academy of Fine Art, Oslo in 2004.

Contact: livamork.com

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Madelen LindgrenVideo og performance: Silent step -blind notes

The project started as a collection of reflections around human senses. Our senses have been necessary to develop a greater understanding of each other. Communication between people has evolved, and is currently evolving, and appears differently in its forms and manners. The repeated essence in each language is how we use your mouth to speak, ears to listen, and eyes to observe the bodylanguage. This way, we manage to exchange complex thoughts and opinions. But how would a conversation be performed if the ability to see, speak and listen was gone? Can a wordless conversation based on our instinct or talent express more than what our language can reach?


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Matilda BjörkneInstallation: Grandmother

I use the distance time have given me from the place I grew up. The nostalgic memories and lost memories. How places and people change when you are no longer present. How nature take over human constructions when they are not taken care of any more, just like our minds change over the years. The body still remember, but the feeling and perception of things change and becomes to something new.

The memory is plastic, it is changing all the time. For every time you recall a memory the brain creates a new passage to it. This passage makes the memory unstable, leading to that the memory changes into a new memory, connected to the last time you remembered that memory. So in the end I believe that the memory is not a memory it is more like a fairy tale or a story about yourself.

The starting point of this project is me and my grandmothers relationship, our shared mem-ories and experiences. I desire to preserve a generation memory that is disappearing, but when the memory is an unstable source and different people perceive and remember the same situation differently, it makes me wonder what is the truth?


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Mom & Jerry (2013)Video: The world is a cruise

Mom and Jerry consider themselves living nomadic pieces of art. They see their surroundings, wherever they are, as the stage for their everlasting protest and rebellion against established values, political correctness and snobbery. As artists, provocateurs and outsiders, Mom and Jerry attempts to criticize and mock the excluding, elitist, hierarchical structure of the high art machinery. By acting out the privileged classes spoken and unspoken prejudices against the non-educated masses´ perception of high culture, Mom and Jerry ridicules and questions the validity of the establishments´ defined moral values, as well as the matter of good and bad taste.

Living their lives in late capitalist society, where the economic, abstract forces makes daily life unreal, and where the individual itself is the operating tool for the techno-marketing power, artists like Mom and Jerry can be seen as recycling machines in the monstrous, virtual city of garbage.

Contact: momandjerry.com

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Merete DillePainting Misfornøyelsesbar

Through drawings and sculpture I create my own fictional landscape. Studies of plants and flowers get an erotic twist or every-day happenings and feelings get excaggerated into gloomy or humoristic scenes.

Contact: meretedille.com

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Nature SuficeInstallation

This art-collective is Marius Mathisrud, Isak Wisløff, Kristoffer Zeiner Christiansen and Jonas Bråten.

At Sommerøya Nature Sufice will create installations that will draw your attention to the environment witch is surrounding you. You will be aware of what you are surrounded by and moving through.

Marius Mathisrud, 1987, from Oslo, lives and works in Den Haag, Holland, where he also attend the sculpture dept. at The Royal Academy of Arts.

ISAK WISLØFF, 1980, from Oslo is studying at The National Academy of The Arts in Oslo.

Kristoffer Zeiner Christiansen, 19872012-2015 Oslo National Academy of the Arts2015-2017 Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam Holland (studio for immediate spaces)

Jonas Bråten, 1987, is an eminent craftsman. He is a carpenter, construction worker and fireman.

Contact: cargocollective.com/kristofferzchristiansen, mariusmathisrud.no, [email protected]

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NavakContemporary Dance: FLY HIGH No lie.

Excerpts from new production.Choreography by Agnes V. Naur Kiss.Dance by Kristin Brathagen and Zofia Jakubiec.

Navak Contemporary Dance Company was founded in 2009 by dancer, choreographer and artistic director Agnes V. Naur Kiss and consists of six female dancers. The Oslo based company visits festivals with new performances every season. With an critical eye on the society Navak present productions on an high artistic level.

On their repertoire the performances Sea level rise/Dancing with waves 2013/2014, Over 2013, Do you read me? 2011/2012, Der Traum Vom Fliegen 2011/2012, and I insist 2010/2011.

Follow our latest project (In)Visible/children in asylum:

Contact: navakdance.com

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OlavaloGraffiti

The young artist Olavalo from Norway was for a long time regarded as a misunderstood genius, until it turned out this was a misunderstanding. After having studied art for five years he now work with painting, drawing and graphics. Olavalo have participated in several exhibitions, solo and together with other artists. His work is often a mix between abstract and figurative style with bright colors and various paintingtechniques.

Contact: olavtokerud.com

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Randi O. Solberg Painting

The painting called ‘Mauerpark’ shows my favorite place in the neighborhood Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin, where I lived for four years. The name of the park comes from the Berlin Wall which was built in 1961, and which for so many years divided this local area, the Berlin city and even Europe and the world in East and West. Berlin fascinates me with its urban expressions, its local global history and with its lesbian stories from the 1920ies. In this painting I unite the wall, the graffiti, the old East German Trabant cars (the ‘Trabi’) and the view of the TV tower (Fernsehturm) on Alexanderplatz. To me, ‘Alex’ is the Berlin symbol which would show up from almost any angle, - over the Wall, beyond buildings and parks, and greet me ‘good morning’ or ‘good night’ with its blinking light.

When I’m painting, I try to express atmospheres, moods, emotions, reactions and thoughts. From everyday life in Berlin, Frankfurt, New York and Oslo. From crossing borders. From my work for human rights for LGBT people internationally and in Norway. From challenging churches’ and religions’ monopoly of ‘Eternal Truths’, and from my work for equality and against discrimination. From Life itself with its many big and small challenges and joys.

Everyone and everything has more plurality and diversity in it than you can see at the first glance. Reality is Plurality is Diversity.


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Sara RönnbäckInstallation: Kapellet

My grandfather died last fall. He was old and never quite recovered from a bout of pneumonia, so I guess it shouldn’t have come as a shock, but it did. It was as if my mind was overwhelmed by my body, muscles crushing my chest, and I was overcome with the feeling of standing before an infinite abyss.

Death, strange how something so natural can seem so foreign. If there’s one thing we know for certain, it’s that we will all die.

I heard that it takes 1,000 years for plastic to disappear, and it doesn’t disappear completely, but breaks up into tiny particles. Scientists have recently discovered bacteria that feed on it. Depending on the circumstances, this metal will last for 50 years, maybe 100. Sugar would dissolve in the course of a few rainy summer days, and the dough has already transformed into something new.

I work on performative sculptures. I explore meetings of materials that in some cases confirm each other and in others create a contrast, like the yeast dough and the wood, or the delicate sugar and the hard steel. I see my sculptures as bodies that emerge from my interaction with the material. The large scale forces me to use my entire body in order to get the work done, muscles of which I was previously unaware make themselves known throughout the process. I invite you as a spectator to share this bodily experience of my work, as you are standing here now. The sculptures turn away from all that is static and embrace transience, the sugar is slowly melting toward the ground and some of the walls are visibly bulging, the dough is decomposing day by day.

My grandfather lived to be 92 years old.

Contact: sararonnback.com

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SilverObject

Silver is not just an artist but a brand, active in exploring the grey area between art, science and technology since 1994. The brand’s creative projects in recent years have been participatory, interactive, networked and mobile. They focus on computer algorithms and their connection to human behavior. Silver has exhibited in various museums, galleries and media festivals in Europe and worldwide, most recently at the FILE festival 2005 in Sao Paolo, the Venice Biennale 2007, and the Ars Electronica 2007 in Linz.

Contact: silver.tf

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Simon Diaz CompagnetGraffiti

Snork One

Grew up in Oslo and got into the Norwegian hip hop scene after discovering Public Enemy and NWA. After a trip to Chile he saw how people used murals to declare their resistance against the dictatorship. The music and these murals made much impact in his political conviction. He has always believed in graffiti as an important vote against the established system, and that people should never stop asking themselves if everything is ok, because it isn´t. He did throw ups and silver pieces along the Oslo metro lines with several Oslo writers in the late nineties. In 2000 he moved on to do television graphics and motion design. Because of hard work he had a longer break from the graffiti arena. In 2010 he got back to paint again after an inspirational trip to Berlin. Today he works as creative director in a design agency and when there is time, he develops art and graffiti projects.

K. Ouram

Is originally from Chile, and started painting in the early 2000 after moving to Spain. In the beginning he drew wild style most for fun, but when he started to explore the art of extrude graffiti letters he started developing his own 3D style. Today he mixes these two favorite styles.

He has always been painting with his Spanish graffiti crew. They paint regular walls, commercial jobs as storefronts and graffiti exhibitions. Today K. Ouram is living in Oslo.


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Stig Marlon Weston Photoinstallation: Sommerminner – Memories of Summer

I am interested in how we sense and perceive the reality before it is explained to us in a subjective manner. Is it possible for photographers to recreate the truth, or to depict or clarify the subjective interpretation? Often photography is used as a medium to share the photographers view on the world with others. As a contrary, I am instead trying to explain to myself how I see the world.

”Sommerminner” is a series of photos of flowers from former summers, showing colorful memories with vague contours. I fell in love with the flowers in a botanical garden one summer, and missed them immensely the following winter. The next summer I went back, and to my shock, they looked very different from what I could remember. The flowers from last year will always be the most beautiful, and that is what I am aiming to immortalize with this project.

I fancy the vague closeness unsharp pictures give, witch allows the memories to flow. The series holds 50 pictures. On Sommerøya they will be displayed as a carpet-installation, spread out on the ground, for the audience to walk on or lay down on, to let the images surround them.

Contact: weston.no

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The Textfukkers Music video: On the Style Site

The Textfukkers is an art theoretical band. All lyrics are based on real theoretical texts, most of them used in Norwegian art education. These texts get simplified and transformed into traditional pop/rock-songs with rhymes, rhythm, flow and other clichés. On stage The Textfukkers adapt the formula of the rock concert using costumes and stage effects, and mix it with the traditional lecture, using overheads, projectors and equipment from the classroom. The goal is art theory to the people.

Text Fuckers was formed spring 2007 and has through the years been working with different exhibitions, performances, musicvideos and cd/mp3 releases.The members are Marte Hodne Haugen, Espen Lomsdalen and Marthe Walthinsen.

The musicvideo and the song “On the style site” describe the art-scene in the 90´s, where an art-theoretic goes to a relational aesthetics exhibition. She is disappointed there is no art of style and shape, only social transaction. But suddenly she sees something to be exited about. It is a lamp.

The song is based on the book “On the style site, art, sociality and media culture” written by Ina Blom.


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Tor Jørgen van Eijk Video: Surviving, 2007

Audio sampled off youtube, in composition text is supplemented to emphasize the dialog.With minimal visual intervention to the original audiorecording, this work addresses the fundamental problem of poverty.

The works of the Norwegian video artist Tor Jørgen van Eijk create a visible intersection between past and future of video art. Instead of digital perfection he is focusing on the original analogue roots of the media. In the outcome his videos are reminiscent of paintings, minimalistic expressions that holds the spectator in a meditative state of fascination.

Contact: [email protected] / www.youtube.com/tjvaneijk

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Ulf KristiansenVideo: I feel you

A chilling poetic tale about obsession and death in the tradition of the Canterbury Tales, The Decameron and all the romances that have narrators, like Tristan and Isolde. It is a complex integration of those old traditions, linked to modern times when movies began, and brought into the 20th century with animation. Michael Chang´s gentle voice is a contrast to the sense of suspense and horror of the damsel being stalked by the villain.


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True Solvang VevatneSculptures

Hunt for something that will bring the ordinary to an extraordinary level. Find peculiarities and unexpected elements that will enrich an object, a person or a story. Take that peculiarity or element and make it dominant. Make it all-consuming. If this doesn’t work, change strategy. Avoid the mundane at any cost.

Contact: truesolvang.com

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Your Mammas Favourite ProductionsGraffiti

Your Mammas Favourite Productions are Meter and Res. Together they have 50 years experience with graffiti, and are established as some of Oslos foremost contributors of professional graffiti.

As one of the largest crews, Your Mammas Favourite has painted many of Oslos walls. Last year they participated in making the worlds largest Giffiti.

You might have seen their works in the backyard at Haust, Fisk & Vildt, Seeds or at Nedre gates kindergarten? Check the videolink below. They also attended Sommerøya 2011 at Langøyene, where they painted a 100 sqm wall.


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Sommerøya Kunst receives support from Film & Kino

Special thanks to Petr Svarovsky for video editing and Podium Gallery/podiumx.no

Design: ROK MEDIA / rokmedia.no

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