OVERSETTELSER
Bomuldsfabriken kunsthall
17th january 2015

Oversettelser is the second of LEMURs happenings created for Bomuldsfabriken kunsthall.

When artists collaborate across forms of expression, we interpret, translate, explain and misunderstand each other, often with very fruitful results. Because in this process we negotiate. We search for meaning in what is different and try to understand our own art through that of others. In such processes, new layers of meaning are constantly emerging, like parallel stories, intertwined.

When LEMUR invites colleagues and the Arendal region to the happening Oversettelser – Translations – , it is precisely to search for, investigate and provoke situations and experiences we cannot imagine before they take place. Pupils and kindergarten children meet musicians, dancers, installations, sound and video artists, all in order to create meeting points between the performative and the spatial.

So – to translate is not to reproduce perfectly. To translate is to be open to listening, hearing and sensing the unknown – without letting the fear of misunderstanding or misinterpretation stand in the way of new experiences.

Lemur is Ensemble-in-Residence at Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall and has since 2010 curated the concert series PB1898, which takes place seven Saturdays a year. In 2012, the ensemble also produced the happening Happy Birthday, John Cage! which brought together more than 200 performers in all the rooms of Bomuldsfabriken.

Artists

Øyvind Brandtsegg + Axel Tidemann
Lotta Melin
Trond Lossius + Jeremy Welsh
Jon Halvor Bjørnseth
Eirik Havnes
Isak Anderssen
Atle Selnes Nielsen
LEMUR
Dahlske upper secondary school
Villa Matilda
Steiner School in Arendal
Arendal Culture School