Updated April 1st, 2021
April 1st:
Added the video / performance work Reversible: Coop Obs! Jekta to the 2011 section under works.
Recent activity:
2021
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:
April 1st:
Added the video / performance work Reversible: Coop Obs! Jekta to the 2011 section under works.
Recent activity:
2021
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).