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Open today 11-17 (Restaurant 11-22)

Opening: Steinar Haga Kristensen

PANSOCIALDEVELOPMENTCENTRAL & PARASOCIALAWAKENINGAPPARATUS
1 HOVEDBILDE Takmaleri Steinar Haga Kristensen Foto Øystein Thorvaldsen

We are pleased to invite you to the opening of a double exhibition by Steinar Haga Kristensen: PANSOCIALDEVELOPMENTCENTRAL & PARASOCIALAWAKENINGAPPARATUS. The opening night will also see the premiere of the newly written musical theatre piece The Loneliness of the Index Fingers (Part III).

Program

19:00 The exhibitions open

19:30 & 21:00 The Lonelinesses of the Index Fingers (part III) will be performed simultaneously in both skylights (approx. 20 min)

23:00 The exhibitions close

There will be a bar on both the first and second floor. The house will be open until 01:00.

About the performance

The Lonelinesses of the Index Fingers (Part III) is the last and concluding part of a musical theatre trilogy written especially for the artist's work, all of which stage ideal readings of art. The two previous editions were performed in Unge Kunstneres Samfund in 2009 and in Rådhustårnet's atelier A in 2014, respectively. The piece is produced in collaboration with composer Trond Reinholdsen and artist and composer Morten Norbye Halvorsen, and will be performed by the chamber choir Ensemble 96 in a duet with a virtual children's choir based on voice recordings from the Norwegian Opera's children's choir. The choir is accompanied by four Hardanger fiddle voices performed by Kenneth Lien, Sindre Tronrud, Sunniva Langås-Røiland and Tiril Eirunn Einarsdotter.

About the exhibition

In the exhibitions PANSOCIALDEVELOPMENTCENTRAL & PARASOCIALAWAKENINGAPPARATUS, Haga Kristensen explores ideas around similarity, difference, and repetition through a series of doubled works. The artist has previously worked extensively with paired works and doubling as an artistic method, which takes on a new dimension at Kunstnernes Hus, with works created for the paralleled architecture. The exhibitions include a wide range of artistic expressions: paintings, etchings, textiles, photography, ceramics, utilitarian objects, mosaics, video, computer games, and musical theatre.

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