Sunday 10 October18:00 Performance by Glue

Curated by GilbertandGrape

Venue:21 m2 gallery, Stavanger, Norway, Director Kenneth Varpe

Glue´s 2 weeks stay in Stavanger has been part- funded by Finnish- Norwegian cultural fund and Nordic council of ministers Sleipnir travel grant.

GLUE

Finnish artists Maija Hirvanen and Leena Kela have formed a collaboration named Glue. Glue has worked (s.2002) around popular culture phenomena such as super heroes and rock/pop lyrics. The works have emerged in public areas/arenas such as rock’n roll- and city festivals, public parks and city centres. The project has taken forms in live art, interactive public art and video. Both artists are based in Finland and have presented their work mainly in Eastern Europe, Berlin, Uk and Finland

“we have been concerned by the ideas of culture/nature.
Our personal/communal/cultural underlying identities within the myths of the Finnish country-side and world-wise ‘marginal’ mental and geographical location in the edge of Europe have shaped the choices of ideas in making the work”.

MAIJA HIRVANEN ( FINLAND )
mhirvanen@hotmail.com
Degree atTurku arts academy 2003.Maija is an interdisciplinary artist and a performance artist, whos work often culminates around research concerning the humans body/mind relations. Maija’s practise in movement, dance and physical culture interacts with conceptual and textual approaches and the language of ideas.

LEENA KELA ( FINLAND )
hanneleena@hotmail.com
Degree at Turky arts Academy 2003 Leena is a visual artist who works with photograph, video and performance. Central themes to her work have been the bear myth in Finnish mythology and the Northern identity. Leena shows her work in various contexts from public art to galleries.