VEI - Saturday, August 7, 2021, OPEN DAY at Velferden
Saturday between 12:30 - 17:30 we invited to a full day programme with a speech by Inghild Vanglo from Fylkeskommunen, presentations and exhibition of our residency artists' projects, live music by Days of August and Sokndal Musikkorps in the workshop, Lønsj and coffee food by master baker Ingvild, and bazaar with annual sale in Velferden led by the eminent alumni artist Aleksander Andreassen!
ABOUT ROAD
The theme of our summer project for 2021 was VEI, and for three weeks we hosted writer Eivind Hofstad Evjemo and visual artists Line Anda Dalmar and Kenneth Varpe. Together, we explored different approaches to VEI based on physical roads and development projects in the local area, but also roads in a transferred metaphorical sense.
As humans, we love systems, routines and established infrastructure. We thrive on established pathways, from the way signals travel along neural pathways in the brain, creating actions and ideas, to how we physically move through the world. Fortunately, we're wired to constantly receive new impulses that challenge us to step aside - to take a different path than the regular route we usually follow. Our ideas, our curiosity and our urge to evolve as a civilization take us both back on overgrown paths and forward on new roads into unknown terrain.
Sandbekk as a disused and dilapidated industrial area, and Velferden as an art center, are now at a crossroads, where stories are redefined through new ways of navigating, using and thinking about place. Our programme, our guests and our audience go back and forth in this area, and together we create new neural pathways in Sokndal.
ARTISTS:
Kenneth Varpe is a visual artist from Klepp on Jæren, who currently lives in Copenhagen. In recent years, he has worked with painting, where he explores the relationship between motif and material, between depiction and that which is depicted. Kenneth has a bachelor's degree in painting from Gray's School of Art & Design in Aberdeen, and a master's degree in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art & Design in London.
Line Anda Dalmar is a visual artist from Stavanger who lives in Trondheim. She works with sculpture, drawing, sound, woodcuts and moving images. Her work is site-sensitive and often starts with field studies in, for example, desert, glacier home or flat agricultural terrain. Line holds an MA from Konstfack in Stockholm (2010) and a BA from Bergen National Academy of the Arts (2008).
Eivind Hofstad Evjemo is an author from Levanger, living in Oslo. In his books, he is interested in the interaction between community and individual, collective and loneliness. He is interested in the potential of literature to give form to experiences and memories that are perceived as "language-less". For him, writing is a way of reaching out to the world; the text is a transition point between the inner and the outer. Eivind holds a degree in literature from the University of Oslo and is a curator at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design.
PICTURES
Photo © Hans Edward Hammonds
