AFTERLIFE
Martinka Bobrikova/Oscar de Carmen
9.12.2015-10.1.2016
Foto: Victor Mazon
Norsk Billedhoggerforening har den glede av å presentere kunstnerne Martinka Bobrikova og Oscar de Carmen med utstillingen Afterlife i Prosjektrom Carl Berner
Utstillingen åpner 9.desember og blir å se fram til 10. januar.
Åpningstider: som t-banen
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afterlife
proof of life after death .. the purpose of life .. the reincarnation of surplus food from supermarkets
Utstillingen åpner 9.desember og blir å se fram til 10. januar.
Åpningstider: som t-banen
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afterlife
proof of life after death .. the purpose of life .. the reincarnation of surplus food from supermarkets
AFTERLIFE
The project offers the possibility to use expired food in energy production. As part of our process, we developed a pilot project where we observed that fruits and vegetables produce small amounts of electricity through an electrochemical reaction. This was acheived by inserting two different types of metal, copper and zinc, in each of the fruits in the installation. These fruits produce small amounts of electricity when they are connected in series and operate a small screen. From this moment our focus was aimed at finding ways of putting conservation of energy into practice; this is first law of thermodynamics, which states that energy can not be created or destroyed, only transferred from one form to another. Thus, our installation is also a way to visualize an analogue synthesis, where energy is transferred from fruit and vegetables to a small plasma screen, creating a symbiosis.
The installation is conceived as a social critique of the existing consumer society and a proposal for an alternative and further use of fruit and vegetables which are regarded as superfluous and unsellable by supermarket chains.
www.madefromwaste.org
The project offers the possibility to use expired food in energy production. As part of our process, we developed a pilot project where we observed that fruits and vegetables produce small amounts of electricity through an electrochemical reaction. This was acheived by inserting two different types of metal, copper and zinc, in each of the fruits in the installation. These fruits produce small amounts of electricity when they are connected in series and operate a small screen. From this moment our focus was aimed at finding ways of putting conservation of energy into practice; this is first law of thermodynamics, which states that energy can not be created or destroyed, only transferred from one form to another. Thus, our installation is also a way to visualize an analogue synthesis, where energy is transferred from fruit and vegetables to a small plasma screen, creating a symbiosis.
The installation is conceived as a social critique of the existing consumer society and a proposal for an alternative and further use of fruit and vegetables which are regarded as superfluous and unsellable by supermarket chains.
www.madefromwaste.org
Bobrikova & de Carmen’s practice, which is often community based, aims at setting up new social ecosystems. By revolving around the mechanisms and context by which power creates systems of value, they seek to intervene on the border between art and current topics of contemporary life in order to bring about the proposition of the transitory and the utopian.
Both artists hold MFA from Nordic Sound Art programme and Malmö Art Academy, Sweden. From 2012 they have undertaken nomad life participating in several residencies such as Nida art Colony in Lithuania, Latent Spaces in Singapore, LKV in Trondheim or MeetFactory in Prague.
Recent solo exhibitions includes: Superfluous Identity IV, Babel Art Space, Trondheim; Superfluous Identity III, Entrance gallery, Prague; Do It YourSelf at Trailer Gallery in Umeå, SE; Superfluous Identity I, Klubovna Gallery in Brno and Superfluous Identity II in Galerie KIN Jidelna in Prague (2015); PDP/AV1 at ANX/ Atelier Nord in Oslo, NO (2014); In Process at TEA- Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, ES and Urban Hunter, Nitra gallery, Nitra, SK (2013).
They were part of group exhibition in venues and projects such as Tbilisi Triennial and Prague Quadriennial(2015); Post-PopUp at CCA, Centre Contemporary Art Singapore, SG; Høstutstillingen, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO; Skånes Konstförening, Malmö, SE; City Gallery Bratislava, SK (2014); Karlin studio, Prague, CZ; Rake, Trondheim, NO (2013); Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, DK, KURANT, Trømso, NO (2012); Singuhr, Berlin, DE (2011); Center of Contemporary Art - Tbilisi, Tbilisi, GE; Röda Sten, Gothenburg, SE; City Museum, Gothenburg, SE (2010).
Utstillingen er støttet av:
Both artists hold MFA from Nordic Sound Art programme and Malmö Art Academy, Sweden. From 2012 they have undertaken nomad life participating in several residencies such as Nida art Colony in Lithuania, Latent Spaces in Singapore, LKV in Trondheim or MeetFactory in Prague.
Recent solo exhibitions includes: Superfluous Identity IV, Babel Art Space, Trondheim; Superfluous Identity III, Entrance gallery, Prague; Do It YourSelf at Trailer Gallery in Umeå, SE; Superfluous Identity I, Klubovna Gallery in Brno and Superfluous Identity II in Galerie KIN Jidelna in Prague (2015); PDP/AV1 at ANX/ Atelier Nord in Oslo, NO (2014); In Process at TEA- Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, ES and Urban Hunter, Nitra gallery, Nitra, SK (2013).
They were part of group exhibition in venues and projects such as Tbilisi Triennial and Prague Quadriennial(2015); Post-PopUp at CCA, Centre Contemporary Art Singapore, SG; Høstutstillingen, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO; Skånes Konstförening, Malmö, SE; City Gallery Bratislava, SK (2014); Karlin studio, Prague, CZ; Rake, Trondheim, NO (2013); Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, DK, KURANT, Trømso, NO (2012); Singuhr, Berlin, DE (2011); Center of Contemporary Art - Tbilisi, Tbilisi, GE; Röda Sten, Gothenburg, SE; City Museum, Gothenburg, SE (2010).
Utstillingen er støttet av:
