Visningsrommet USF Verftet, Bergen 2020. Curated by: Ase Møller-Hansen, Roger Gjerstad og Frans Jacobi. Produced by: Anti-War Initiative
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catalogue pdf below present all the artists which attended the group show and all the different act (a dummy for a book we are making)
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My Art work presented in the exhibition was a documentary from a performance I did earlier at Bergen Kunsthall. I reenacted the official ceremony celebrating Norway’s newly bought F-35 firefighter. Row of chairs made the audience face the stage, imitating the event at Lockheed Martin's headquarters in Texas (the world's largest defence equipment manufacturer company. The room was left in dim light until the Norwegian and American national anthem filled the room followed up by rolling out an F-35 firefighter onto the stage. Slowly I enter the room with a large ladder and start to wash. Admiral Haakon Bruun-Hansen, Minister of Foreign Affairs Ine Eriksen Søreide and other representatives from the Norwegian and American governments and military.I was cleaning throughout the whole celebration of the take over-making the audience listen to what was actually being said. ' We in the United States Senate know that we can trust Norway,they are always the first country to support our plans'.
We have a long-standing record of great achievements, our latest was Libya'.
The anti-war exhibition as a hole presented 24 artists all thematically related to War and Peace. the exhibition was structured as a continuous story, spread out between 2 images, one from the past and one from the present. The first image was a small drawing by an unknown artist depicting a soldier in the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s. He exudes an optimistic determination, a positive fight for the community. Back then we believed in the battle of good against evil. That the young men went to war to defend the positive community, society. he was the vanguard of the good society that defended itself against fascism. The exhibition's last photo is a newspaper photo of the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in the United States, where we see the abuse from society itself. The war has been internalized and the struggle has become a national struggle for survival.
The exhibition's many works of art were staged between these two images and inscribed in a unified exhibition narrative, written for the occasion by visual artist and professor Frans Jacobi.
Each work of art was characterized in a different way by the war history of the last 90 years, with particular emphasis on the wars in the Middle East and the relationship between war and capitalism. But there was of course also space given to Peace and the forms of peaceful resistance which in recent years have seen the light of day in surrounding shadows. The exhibition brought together a wide spectrum of artists. From Street Art to political performance, from expressive figurative painting to documentary photography, from poetic video art to pure agitating propaganda.
It was supported by. Bergen Kommune, Freds-stifelsen, IKFF and Norwegian Art council.
The exhibition's many works of art were staged between these two images and inscribed in a unified exhibition narrative, written for the occasion by visual artist and professor Frans Jacobi.
Each work of art was characterized in a different way by the war history of the last 90 years, with particular emphasis on the wars in the Middle East and the relationship between war and capitalism. But there was of course also space given to Peace and the forms of peaceful resistance which in recent years have seen the light of day in surrounding shadows. The exhibition brought together a wide spectrum of artists. From Street Art to political performance, from expressive figurative painting to documentary photography, from poetic video art to pure agitating propaganda.
It was supported by. Bergen Kommune, Freds-stifelsen, IKFF and Norwegian Art council.