WELFARE at HAUA
This year, we at Velferden welcomed you to OPEN DAY at HAUA! We moved the entire programme from Sandbekk Industrial Area down to the city center and filled the streets of HAUA with art, music and activity.
For this wonderful day of performance and music, we invited artists from Sweden, Denmark and Iceland to create engaging works that took place at various locations in the village!
In addition to two performances in the park, there were food and drink sales from Ingwildas Kafe, a cycling competition on Malmbanen for children and young people, a guided tour through the city center and a concert at Fridtun - the old cinema in Sokndal!
True to tradition, we set up a free bus from Stavanger for those who wanted to ride to our charming mining village in Sokndal.
PROGRAM:
13:00 Opening speech in the park
13:15 Performance Kristin Jonsson and Björn Hansson
13:45 Performance Örn Alexander Àmundasson
14:30 Steeplechase cycling competition on Malmbanen
( in collaboration with Heroes of Haua )
15:30 Guided walk with Tron Løvås from Parken to Fridtun
16:00 Concert with Oak and Shaw at Fridtun
16:45 Closing ceremony
ARTISTS:
Kristin Jonsson & Björn Hansson
Kristin Jonsson and Björn Hansson are from Bottna, Sweden, and are a duo that mainly works with performance and installations. They explore belonging and loneliness, rituals and challenging different states of mind, creating audiovisual experiences that explore how scenography and costume, sound and vibration can be used to influence movement and expression.
The duo has shown works at Ravnedans Kristiansand, Oslo International Theatre Festival, Teaterfestivalen i Fjaler, Meteor festival in Bergen, Black Box Oslo, Dansehallarna Copenhagen, Scenekunst Östfold, Praha Quadriennale in Slovakia and Luz y officious in Havana.
Örn Alexander Ámundason
Ámundason's works are simple in their form. They are small interventions that look like the remains of something else. The actual artwork has been removed and what you are looking at is the beginning of a new unfinished artwork before the next exhibition opens. The artworks are in an intermediate stage. They are like a spot on the wall that needs an extra coat of paint, or a small piece of fabric hanging on a peg waiting for a random passer-by to tear it down.
Örn Alexander Ámundason (b. 1984) graduated from Malmö Art Academy. Recent exhibitions and performances include Introduction to Percussion, Kling and Bang (2020) and Tickle, Arsenic in Lausanne (2020); solo exhibitions Crowd Show, Living Art Museum (2015) and Some New Works, Reykjavik Art Museum (2016); and Kunsthalle Exnergasse, The Armory Show and Platform Belfast.
In 2013, Ámundason received the Swedish Edstrandska scholarship. He runs the artist-run space Open and the exhibition project A Collaboration Monument.
OAK & SHAW
Kaja Mærk Egeberg and Tobias Shaw from Norway and Denmark make up OAK & SHAW, an ethereal indie duo with an eclectic expression that alternates between simple songs and pulsating beats, connected by porous yearning vocals.
At Open Day, they will perform brand new music from their debut album DISSOLVING, which will be released on Glorious Records this autumn. DISSOLVING dwells in a dystopian landscape where people are stuck behind their screens or drifting around randomly connected in a digital root system. The world as we know it is disintegrating and a new one must be born. The music deals with the paradoxical forces that pull us through life; farewell, closeness, hope and horror. Time flows unhindered through us, uncaring that it is an illusion. We try to navigate through it, while black holes burn out in space.
The duo consists of performing artists Kaja Mærk Egeberg (NO) and Tobias Shaw Petersen (DK), who are both trained actors from the Norwegian Theater Academy in Fredrikstad. In recent years, they have performed at Iceland Airwaves, Teater S/H and Folkehuset Absalon, among others, and written music for several performance and theater projects.
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2GpYUvR0xEjjavqXOfvYUo?si=zYLvRI1-TVCpzOT5KnLcgQ
Images from Velferden on Haua
photo © Olivia Vestbøstad Støle
