KYSTEN Troms Fylkeskultursenter Artist Residency Norway

Artist Residency production 2023 

Performance/Video Production in the Arctic - A Re-Engagement of RADICAL LIGHT within its origin: 

A new collaborative work was created during my artist residency at KYSTEN - Troms Fylkeskultursenter in Tromsø, Norway, 2023 located in the arctic north, over 300 kilometres (190 mi) north of the Arctic Circle at 69°40′58″N 18°56′34″E  - The reinterpretation of the original performance with Marita Isobel Solberg, on the nature of infinite light in the northern hemisphere, its essence and resonance on the human system that also served as an inclusion for my experimental documentary film project Radical Light as Film.Solberg's performance is also a revisit to our intertwining paths since 2007, and resurrection of Solberg's performance Joiking Light, in my monumental light sculpture installation RADICAL LIGHT, at Kai Art Center, on the perceptual and cognitive processes of space, light, sound and our relationship with the interconnected being, where presence within an artwork and through the performative transmission of art is a dedication of ones energy to the human and universal organism.  

Marita Isobel Solberg has previously created performance work for my monumental spatial neon sculpture installation Radical Light at Kai Art Center in Tallinn, Estonia, January 20 - April 20, 2020 (extended to July due to the pandemic), with sound by acclaimed composer JG Thirlwell, where her fpremormance work is entitled Joiking Light. We were both part of Nordic Delights festival in Soho, London in 2018, curated by Vassiliki Tzanakou. Marita is also included in my book The Norwegians Volume II, published in 2010, with texts by art critic, author and Editor in Chief of Kunstkritikk Scandinavia, Kjetil Røed and director of Kunsthall 314, Malin Barth. Special thanks to Trond Ansten of Bar du Nord for technical film support (Sol & Sten).