SIVILFORSVARET/ The Civil Defense Project, 2017 - 2024. A long-term investigation of NATO and ways to deal with fear, greed and patriarchal culture in Four Acts. Click on the images below for more info about the different acts.
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The first phase of the project is underway and it has received support from the Foreign Ministry via the Norwegian Peace Council.
Woman Cleaning, 2014 - an ongoing performance series which started in Jerusalem in 2014. During a trip when Gitte Sætre and her father went on a mission to understand more of their relationship and the geopolitics of the region. Surprisingly, they wok up in an apartment belonging to Jehovah's Witnesses (they got the key to the place after the artist father flirted with the owner on the plane down to Tel Aviv). Gitte Sætre woke up with a clear idea to start to clean up; to clean away centuries of war, shame, and guilt. A helping hand- just as religion originally set out to do. She stole a wash rag from the kitchen in the Jehovah's Witness apartment, rented a car, and drove out into the military zone and cleaned an Israeli tank while her father was filming and trying to take care of the some what dangerous situation. Since 2014 Sætre has traveled the world cleaning with this wash rag. For more info click here
AreYouReady? /Web-TV Series in seven episodes all at: www.areyouready.tv/. Produced between 2019 - 2020 together with my partner Frans Jacobi. My favorite episode is nr 5, The Bullet. If you feel the need to think back on Covid Luck Down I recommend episode 4. Of course, I would like you to see them all, but it demands a certain timing and heartbeat. Click here
Magic of Seven a seven channel video installation against violence.
First showed at Kunsthall 3,14 in Bergen, 2016. Supported by Norwegian Art Council
Some images below and more info here
Soups&Stories 2012-2017. A dialogue based project in collaboration with the artist Katrine Meisfjord and different groups of people in the city of Bergen. The project also traveled to Iran, Russia and Palestine. Below some images but please visit the project website: www.meisfjord-satre.com/
Green Hijab Movement, 2015-2018 Green Hijab Movement, 2015-2018 Performative collaboration with Frans Jacobi (Frans Jacobi is a Danish artist, professor at the art academy in Bergen and her partner). They have done several works together. For more info about Green Hijab Movement. Click here
Luftskipet/the Zeppelin- a mobile gallery space design by MMW run by Gitte Sætre from 2006 until 2011. It was her master project, and the main idea was site-specific engagement through visual art.
