Updated May 17, 2022
I am looking forward to show a new performance work - #influenced - in Bergen on May 28th. It is part of the event PAB Lokal, specifically performance protocols Nordic Sessions # 4: natural/cultural environments. This will be my first public non-digital/analogue performance since before the pandemic. It will be at Skomakerdiket between 13:00 and 16:00 on the 28th of May. Curator for the event is Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen.
More about the event HERE.
March 2022
I am exhibiting my recent video work "Work-Life Imbalance" (2022) at a group exhibition at Visningsrommet USF in Bergen, along with 26 other artists associated with the studio collective BLOKK, which is celebrating its 10 year anniversary.
Opening: Saturday March 12 12-18
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Sunday 12-18
Last day of the exhibition is Sunday March 27th.
For more info, see 10 Year Anniversary on BLOKK's website here:
August 2021
Happy to announce I will be joining the project "TOGETHER ELSEWHERE", a monthly streamed performance collaboration between PAB and PANCH (Performance Art Network Switzerland) this September. I will be performing with Ursula Scherrer.
TOGETHER ELSEWHERE is a new monthly performance series organized by PAB - Performance Art Bergen and PANCH - Performance Art Network Switzerland for online live streaming by Mediathek of the Academy of Art and Design (FHNW), Basel.
TOGETHER ELSEWHERE is a performance art project which two artists, one from PAB and one from PANCH, perform at the same time with the same materials and the same type of space but in their different locations.
The first and second previous performance streams in this series can be viewed here and here.
Recent activity:
2021
September
- «Together Elsewhere» Livestream performance with Ursula Scherrer. A collaboration between PAB, PANCH and Mediathek FHNW, Basel (CH). Curated by Pavana Reid.
- «IMAGINE» - PAB Open Session in front of Mareminehullet in Bergen.
- PAS Open Session near Lille Stokkavannet in Stavanger.
June
- PAS Open Session on Langøy, near Stavanger.
March
- «Artistic exploration: now within the comfort of your own home!» Performance for video for March equinox.
- March 8-13: PAB LOKAL - Opening Up / Closing In at Rogaland Kunstsenter in Stavanger. I have curated this event together with Anne-Marte Eidseth Rygh.
The exhibition is produced by Performance Art Bergen (PAB) PAB Lokal and is presented in collaboration with director of Rogaland Kunstsenter (RKS) Jane Sverdrupsen.
Participating artists presenting performance art for video:
Aino El Solh, Hanne Klaas, Isabell Spengler, Lena Chen, Magdalena Kallenberger, Maicyra Leão, Mikala Hyldig Dal, Olga Sonja Thorarensen, Linnea Langfjord Kristensen, Sidsel Christensen and Mustafa Boga.
February
I was glad for the opportunity to hold a workshop for children at Kunsthall Stavanger on February 28th, as part of Barnas Kunstklubb, where I taught my methods of performing in reverse and in various tempos and manipulating video footage of these actions afterwards. This spring's theme for these series of workshops is "humor in art". I was invited by Marie Midttun Skretting, who also assisted and helped organize the workshop.
2020
September
Happy to announce I will be exhibiting my new video work "Competition: How Does It Make You Feel?" at the group exhibition "Fra balkongen" (From the balcony) at Stavanger kunstmuseum, which opens on November 7th, 2020. The exhibition lasts until December 27th.
Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/6JS0M167G
(November 2nd: added facebook event, updated link and corrected opening date, updated CV, updated showreel on Home / about page)
August
I'm glad to announce I'll be part of the digital performance art event "Spill Yer Tea #4" by the DRIP Liverpool team:
https://www.facebook.com/events/346927522969537/
It will be streamed on thursday 20th of August. Go here to register for participation:
August 21-23: Finse Camp. Performance exchange meeting between Performance Art Bergen and Performance Art Oslo.
See the Home section for my most recent artwork.
2019 works section also expanded with more artworks.
Not much activity here for the past few months because of the effects of the Covid-19 lockdown and its crushing effect on art production.
Here's a short text written by a car (yes, you read that right) about my performance "Moving Home" from November 2019, which was a dialogue inspired by Ed D'Souza's Migrant Car, at the time located outside Kunsthall 3.14 in Bergen.
More about the Migrant Car project here.
The Contemporary Art Centre of Montenegro published a short documentary about the performance and dinner party installation I did with Hiroko Tsuchimoto in Podgorica, Montenegro in december last year.
Spanish TV program La aventure del saber covered the Accion!MAD 2019 festival which I participated in back in October 2019.
Skip to the 31 minute mark.
Current projects:
Since March 13, I've streamed 2 concerts from my living room (see below), resumed working on my satire / sound-sketch collaboration with Håvard Henriksen and competed a video which deals with competition, the emotions it sparks and the internet phenomenon of reaction videos.
Concert stream links:
Slim Kerk - Live: 2020 Stuck i Stuen vol. 2
Slim Kerk - Live: 2020 Stuck i Stuen vol. 1
Previous:
2020
January
-Kerk + Katerli - concert performance with experimental musician Ljubov Katerli at the Bergen Public Library, January 18 at 14:00-14:30.
2019
December:
-December 12-31: Duo performance and exhibition with Hiroko Tsuchimoto at Gallery Klub, Podgorica, Montenegro. Organized by The Contemporary Art Centre of Montenegro
November:
-Slim Kerk solo concert and Katerli + Kerk concert performance (with pianist Ljubov Katerli) at Bergen Art Book Fair 2019.
-"Moving Home" - a performance inspired by Ed D'Souza's moving installation "Migrant Car" in front of Kunsthall 3,14. Part of Oslobiennalen.
October:
-PAB Open Session: Draw at Herdla Museum with drawing class group Akt & Croquis
-Network meeting and performance in public space in Madrid during the Action! MAD festival.
-Impromptu REW FFW / Reversible performance in Alcampo City hypermarket in Madrid.
Documentation:
I am looking forward to show a new performance work - #influenced - in Bergen on May 28th. It is part of the event PAB Lokal, specifically performance protocols Nordic Sessions # 4: natural/cultural environments. This will be my first public non-digital/analogue performance since before the pandemic. It will be at Skomakerdiket between 13:00 and 16:00 on the 28th of May. Curator for the event is Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen.
More about the event HERE.
March 2022
I am exhibiting my recent video work "Work-Life Imbalance" (2022) at a group exhibition at Visningsrommet USF in Bergen, along with 26 other artists associated with the studio collective BLOKK, which is celebrating its 10 year anniversary.
Opening: Saturday March 12 12-18
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Sunday 12-18
Last day of the exhibition is Sunday March 27th.
For more info, see 10 Year Anniversary on BLOKK's website here:
August 2021
Happy to announce I will be joining the project "TOGETHER ELSEWHERE", a monthly streamed performance collaboration between PAB and PANCH (Performance Art Network Switzerland) this September. I will be performing with Ursula Scherrer.
TOGETHER ELSEWHERE is a new monthly performance series organized by PAB - Performance Art Bergen and PANCH - Performance Art Network Switzerland for online live streaming by Mediathek of the Academy of Art and Design (FHNW), Basel.
TOGETHER ELSEWHERE is a performance art project which two artists, one from PAB and one from PANCH, perform at the same time with the same materials and the same type of space but in their different locations.
The first and second previous performance streams in this series can be viewed here and here.
Recent activity:
2021
September
- «Together Elsewhere» Livestream performance with Ursula Scherrer. A collaboration between PAB, PANCH and Mediathek FHNW, Basel (CH). Curated by Pavana Reid.
- «IMAGINE» - PAB Open Session in front of Mareminehullet in Bergen.
- PAS Open Session near Lille Stokkavannet in Stavanger.
June
- PAS Open Session on Langøy, near Stavanger.
March
- «Artistic exploration: now within the comfort of your own home!» Performance for video for March equinox.
- March 8-13: PAB LOKAL - Opening Up / Closing In at Rogaland Kunstsenter in Stavanger. I have curated this event together with Anne-Marte Eidseth Rygh.
The exhibition is produced by Performance Art Bergen (PAB) PAB Lokal and is presented in collaboration with director of Rogaland Kunstsenter (RKS) Jane Sverdrupsen.
Participating artists presenting performance art for video:
Aino El Solh, Hanne Klaas, Isabell Spengler, Lena Chen, Magdalena Kallenberger, Maicyra Leão, Mikala Hyldig Dal, Olga Sonja Thorarensen, Linnea Langfjord Kristensen, Sidsel Christensen and Mustafa Boga.
February
I was glad for the opportunity to hold a workshop for children at Kunsthall Stavanger on February 28th, as part of Barnas Kunstklubb, where I taught my methods of performing in reverse and in various tempos and manipulating video footage of these actions afterwards. This spring's theme for these series of workshops is "humor in art". I was invited by Marie Midttun Skretting, who also assisted and helped organize the workshop.
2020
September
Happy to announce I will be exhibiting my new video work "Competition: How Does It Make You Feel?" at the group exhibition "Fra balkongen" (From the balcony) at Stavanger kunstmuseum, which opens on November 7th, 2020. The exhibition lasts until December 27th.
Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/6JS0M167G
(November 2nd: added facebook event, updated link and corrected opening date, updated CV, updated showreel on Home / about page)
August
I'm glad to announce I'll be part of the digital performance art event "Spill Yer Tea #4" by the DRIP Liverpool team:
https://www.facebook.com/events/346927522969537/
It will be streamed on thursday 20th of August. Go here to register for participation:
August 21-23: Finse Camp. Performance exchange meeting between Performance Art Bergen and Performance Art Oslo.
See the Home section for my most recent artwork.
2019 works section also expanded with more artworks.
Not much activity here for the past few months because of the effects of the Covid-19 lockdown and its crushing effect on art production.
Here's a short text written by a car (yes, you read that right) about my performance "Moving Home" from November 2019, which was a dialogue inspired by Ed D'Souza's Migrant Car, at the time located outside Kunsthall 3.14 in Bergen.
More about the Migrant Car project here.
The Contemporary Art Centre of Montenegro published a short documentary about the performance and dinner party installation I did with Hiroko Tsuchimoto in Podgorica, Montenegro in december last year.
Spanish TV program La aventure del saber covered the Accion!MAD 2019 festival which I participated in back in October 2019.
Skip to the 31 minute mark.
Current projects:
Since March 13, I've streamed 2 concerts from my living room (see below), resumed working on my satire / sound-sketch collaboration with Håvard Henriksen and competed a video which deals with competition, the emotions it sparks and the internet phenomenon of reaction videos.
Concert stream links:
Slim Kerk - Live: 2020 Stuck i Stuen vol. 2
Slim Kerk - Live: 2020 Stuck i Stuen vol. 1
Previous:
2020
January
-Kerk + Katerli - concert performance with experimental musician Ljubov Katerli at the Bergen Public Library, January 18 at 14:00-14:30.
2019
December:
-December 12-31: Duo performance and exhibition with Hiroko Tsuchimoto at Gallery Klub, Podgorica, Montenegro. Organized by The Contemporary Art Centre of Montenegro
November:
-Slim Kerk solo concert and Katerli + Kerk concert performance (with pianist Ljubov Katerli) at Bergen Art Book Fair 2019.
-"Moving Home" - a performance inspired by Ed D'Souza's moving installation "Migrant Car" in front of Kunsthall 3,14. Part of Oslobiennalen.
October:
-PAB Open Session: Draw at Herdla Museum with drawing class group Akt & Croquis
-Network meeting and performance in public space in Madrid during the Action! MAD festival.
-Impromptu REW FFW / Reversible performance in Alcampo City hypermarket in Madrid.
Documentation:
Recent activity continued:
-PAB OPEN - international performance festival at Hotel Terminus in Bergen, Norway. As part of the organizing team, I designed the poster, flyer and a 50-page booklet for the festival.
-Performance: "Toast Master" during the PAB OPEN festival seminar "Carbon Reflections".
-PAB Open Session in suite 510 of hotel Terminus.
September
-Contributed as a performing extra to Erick Beltrán's work "The Image of Power: Bergen Parade"
-PAB Open Session: Equinox in Nordnesparken in Bergen.
-PAB OPEN Session: Anonymous - Culture Night on Torgallmenningen in Bergen.
August
-Contributed as a performing extra to Every Ocean Hughes's performance "Help The Dead" at Cornerteateret, Bergen.
-PAB Open Session: Among the Trees near Blåmannsvannet on top of Mount Fløien.
June:
-PAB Open Session: Expansion at Galleri Kabuso in Øystese.
April:
-PAB Open Session: Lines outside Hordaland Kunstsenter. Part of B-OPEN (Annual public event where artist studios all over Bergen are open for the general public).