What you see in this show is not necessarily what you get. Video Works includes a large number of artists working in a wide range of genres and styles.

Video is a fairly new and undefined medium in the history of art. Its references are closer to film, TV, music and mass-media. Artists and others connected to the field of art have used this potential to address contemporary themes in a contemporary way. Video is in itself a brad field, inspiring innovation ad a multiplicity of approaches.

The main ambition in this show has been to illustrate the variety and openness of recent video art. The word video is taken from the Latin "I see". Many of the video works on show are highly filmatic; wat on first viewing seems to be fiction may well prove to be documentary. Think of the Norwegian King Harald who was killed by the English at Stamford Bridge in 1066. His story was written down by Snorre Sturluson some 200 years after the event. In the 1970s, Judith Weir turned the story into an opera. And in 2002 Sofie Persvik transforms the opera into a video installation at Kunstnernes Hus.

Anikka Larsson, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Gitte Villesen, Jane&louise Wilson, Jannicke Låker, Sarah Morris, Sofie Persvik, Tracy Moffat