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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">We are excited to share news about an online exhibition addressing
current challenges for art’s place, meaning, and role in a world of rapid
inter-existential changes – now open on StreamingMuseum.org:<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">ART’S NEW NATURES</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">in Nordic Contemporary Art</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Theatrical monologue, virtual reality,</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">sound, and brainwave sculpture artworks</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">responding to the current realities</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">of social isolation and crises</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">On view at</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"><a href="http://streamingmuseum.org"><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)">StreamingMuseum.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">August 27 - September 30, 2020</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">With artworks by Æsa Bjørk and Tina Thorsteinsdóttir, Anders Eiebakke, Lundahl & Seitl, Anne Katrine Senstad and Jana Winderen</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">ABOUT</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Art’s New Natures highlights how art responds to recently changing
modes of human existence with social distancing and shifting realities of
commonplaces and public culture. In climates of uncertainty, lockdown, assembly
bans, the exposing of social inequities, and physical distancing, art evolves
with lesser ties to the ‘art object’ and with a greater emphasis to the
experience of art under the conditions of distance. Especially through digital
expressions, we see how art explores new modes of proximity through
storytelling and takes advantage of connective capacities of global and digital
infrastructures for affecting and upholding human inter-relationships and
social imaginaries. Art </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">reworks experiences of nearness and distance, what it means to be
closely connected or far apart. The artworks in this exhibition</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> emerge in response to contemporary
modes of interconnected existence, adaption, difference, and meaning making
through hybrid spheres of shared concern and resistance.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">INTERVIEW VIDEO</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">The artists explain in interview videos how technological
communication platforms bring opportunities to reach a broad international
audience that physical art spaces do not. But this also requires them to
consider how the nature of their art can be “democratic” in relating across
cultures and reflecting the complex state of the world. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">ARTWORKS</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Shield</span></i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> by visual artist Æsa Björk and musician / performer Tinna
Thorsteinsdóttir is an ongoing series of glass sculptures that began in 2015
and is being developed for digital presentation. “Certain events behave like
disruptances and expose what we, or our situation, are made of, like our Corona
situation right now.” Through EEG data of the artists’ brainwaves of emotional
states and projections of physical movement, resonate on the glass sculpture,
the work examines how emotional states affect the brain. “<i>Shield</i>
transmits the emotions of isolation and loneliness that exist during the
pandemic but are actually widespread.”</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">The Park</span></i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> (2020) by Anders Eiebakke depicts the experience of the
Corona-epidemic as an invisible threat. “It's a cinematic diary which contains
everything: melancholy and anxiety, beauty and brutality, fact and fiction,
both subtle and hard-hitting societal critique."</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">AmissingRoom</span></i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> (2020) by Lundahl & Seitl is an app that transforms our
smartphones to makeshift VR goggles through a physical process between two
people. It is a poetic score of moving, sensing and reflecting on
the absences created by the pandemic, such as the closing of museums and
theatres, but it is also the tangible presence of exploring the affordances of
reciprocity and the conditions for being together in times of physical
distancing. Passing through walls, into tunnels that travel through a
network of past exhibitions and museums, visitors interact with each other but
somewhat fail to coincide and share each other’s realities. By enacting the
artwork’s score, the two people are led to consider how they balance resilience
and resistance when adapting to a changing environment.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Anne Katrine Senstad‘s short film <i>UTOPIE/UTOPIA</i> (2020)
features acclaimed actor Bill Sage in a theatrical monologue performance filmed
in city and land scapes through their remote collaborative process necessitated
by the pandemic. The work is based on a chapter from French philosopher Roland
Barthes’ book <i>How To Live Together</i> and it’s concepts of
tolerance and the sovereign good as a place of utopia. Senstad and Sage draw
lines to the current human experience of isolation, societal and political
deconstruction through the absorption of Barthes structural novelistic lectures
on idiorrhythmy, and ways of understanding community, individuality and spaces.
Sage’s reading has been enhanced by composer JG Thirlwell’s sound treatment for
the digital experience.<span></span></span></p>
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land to hear the secrets of nature. <i>Surge</i> (2020) is included in a
collection of music produced by Touch, London, to support musicians unable to
perform live during the pandemic.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">STREAMING MUSEUM</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">The exhibition is presented at StreamingMuseum.org, which since
its launch in 2008 has presented programs of art and world affairs in public
spaces and venues around the world, and on its online platform. “In the current
world crises where the internet is essential for education, business, cultural
and personal communication, it's helping sustain artists’ livelihoods and more
artists are recognizing new possibilities of visibility for their art,” said
Nina Colosi, Streaming Museum founder and co-curator of the Art’s New Natures
exhibition with Tanya Ravn Ag.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"><span></span></span></p>
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Dynamics in Nordic Contemporary Art</i> (Intellect, 2019) edited by Tanya Ravn
Ag. From a globally connected Nordic perspective, the book examines how</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> the digital and
contemporary art co-evolve because </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">digital technology and culture change the life worlds,
imaginations, and tools of artists, the conditions for art’s production and
distribution, and artists’ sense of agency and capacity to affect the world and
tackle current urgencies. The program is the last chapter in the dissemination
series Digital Dynamics: New Ways of Art on how contemporary art is changing
with the digital through new environments, new modes of making, new kinds of
representations, and new natures in art.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Digital Dynamics: Art’s New Natures is presented by Streaming
Museum and curated by Nina Colosi and Tanya Ravn Ag. <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica">Tanya
Ravn Ag, <a href="mailto:tanyaravnag@gmail.com">tanyaravnag@gmail.com</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">The program is supported by Nordic Culture Fund and the Nordic
Council of Ministers.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"><span></span></span></p>
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