PANSOCIALDEVELOPMENTCENTRAL & PARASOCIALAWAKENINGAPPARATUS is based on a series of doubled works, which deal with ideas around similarity, difference and repetition. The artist has been working with double works for a number of years, but at Kunstnernes Hus they are given a new dimension by being split up and displayed in two spaces. The exhibitions include a variety of artistic expressions: paintings, intaglio prints, textiles, photography, ceramics, everyday objects, mosaics, video, computer games and musical theatre.

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The Loneliness of the Index Fingers (Part III) will be performed simultaneously in both halls and twice during the exhibition opening. The piece 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, Langås-Røiland, Sindre Tronrud, Sunniva Langås-Røiland and Tiril Eirunn Einarsdotter.

Steinar Haga Kristensen (b. 1980, Oslo) works with a wide range of media and formats, including painting, sculpture, video, and performance. Kristensen often composes expansive and complex installations made up of a number of individual works, usually with a restricted set of themes. His practice is characterized by the repetitive reuse of his own artistic activity and motifs as a basis for new repetitions, across media and themes.

Haga Kristensen has exhibited at La Loge, Centre for Fine Arts - Bozar, and WIELS Contemporary Art Center in Brussels, Belgium; Witte de With in Rotterdam, Netherlands; Museum for Contemporary Art, KODE, in Bergen; Den Frie in Copenhagen, Denmark; and Trondheim Art Museum. He has had solo exhibitions at Centre for Contemporary Art FUTURA in Prague, Czech Republic; Passerelle in Brest, France; CAC (Centre for Contemporary Art) in Vilnius, Lithuania; Kunsthal Aarhus in Denmark; Établissement d'en face in Brussels; and at Kunsthall Oslo and UKS in Oslo.

The exhibition is curated by Ida Kierulf and supported by the Directorate for Culture, the Ingrid Lindbäck Langaard Foundation, the Visual Artists’ Remuneration Fund, the Irma Salo Jæger Institute, and the Bergen Center for Electronic Art.

Our summer exhibitions are made possible thanks to support from Sparebankstiftelsen DNB. We also thank the Bergesen Foundation for its generous support of the exhibition.