PROGRAM FOR L-I-V-E-A-R-T-O-U 2005

Producing a live art programme for an emerging scene and for an audience perhaps new to this art form is challenging and exiting. It demands a programme that can innovate in unison. We aim for a humble start that will give us knowledge about the scene, artists and audience.

The launch 29th -30th April 2005
The project which will be launching the L-I-V-A-R-T-O-U represents an energy and hospitality that we wish to function as a relay for and to continue. The project is called THE ART OF HOSPITALITY and is a Turqoise bunkbed/residency donated to the following network bodies:
BED 1: Museo de Siencio y arte, Valencia 2001 The bunkbed was exhibited and later donated to Carlos Mallol. A Performance and seminar "Why we export bunkbeds" was held at the "International Artist Space", Para-site Art Space, Hong Kong 2001.
BED 2: NOASS in Riga, 2001 www.noass.lv Gallry F-15 exhibited one bunkbed in the garden for 3 mnd.A presentation was held.
BED 3 Tribes Gallery i New York, 2003 www.tribes.org
BED 4 Åbo akademien / nifca Finland 2003 nifca made a residency inspired by the bunkbed. www.arte.fi .The bunk bed was also presented in the gallry Titanik. Finland
BED 5 Donated to TOU SCENE, Stavanger 2005.

Friday the 29th of April. GUN LADIES: The Art of Hospitality
Hanne Rangul and Camilla Øyhus, make a presentation of their project together with the Curator Anne-Marte Eidseth Rygh. The bed will be installed in the project room and become a residency for Performance and Live Artists. TAOH RESIDENCY. Opens 16th of september 2005.Saturday 30th of April Hanne Rangul and Camilla Øyhus presents ”Art from the people”
A video presentation in the café on the Gun ladies project ”Art from the People” This project build on the The TV concept Idol. The project created an opportunity for people (attending an international theatre festival in Stamsund) to decide from a selection of artists which artist they preffered as an ART-STAR. The project was documented to a 45 minutes documentary and together with the winners art work the project was shown at this years Autumn exhibition In Oslo as a part of Ståle Sørensens mobile gallery. www.gallerygun.no

Friday 16th of July: Performance : Agnes Nedregård (N)
Agnesd will be presenting a Site Specific solo performance. Agnes makes performances and videos based on the physicality of the body. She investigates the body’s ability to communicate with space as well as the potential of expression in the physical language of bodily effort. She is a member of Fire Birds, a Glasgow based group working/playing site specifically with climbing, choreography and interactions with objects,
Buildings and people.www.firebirds.com

Sunday 11th of September:Performance: Kenny McBride (UK)
Kenny McBride’s works generate contextually engaged performance, installation, architectural intervention, and lens-based work. They operate within the architectonics and pathology of mediated and lived experience to approach the image as a physical space and inhabit alienation, hallucination, being and becoming visual phenomena.He is Director of Performance Art in Context research project, and editor of new contextual art e-zine. "In answer to the world as it has been given me, artistic production is both a manifestation of my humanity and a social action. Reverberation begins long before and continues long after the act."
www.agora8.org

Saturday 16th of September Performance Rita Marhaug (N)
A cental performer in Norwegian Performance Art Scene.lecturere at Bergen Art Academy. In her work she is concerned with the challenge to adress questions of the feminine representation and identity. Marhaug has amongst other things chosen to higlight this problematization by bringing her own children in arranged scenetic situations. At Tou Scene she will further this piece. By directly adressing her audience Marhauh shows a strong wish to engage the viewer, to let the art pice step in to an active state of mind.

KAPITTEL TOU
FRE 16 PERFORMANCE DAY
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18.00 Åpning av TAOH residency- I Prosjekt rommet.
Ett tilbud for kunstnere med virke I performance Art til og gjeste Tou Scene for opptil 2 uker. Presentasjon av prosjektets historikk og nettverk ved 5 byer, Velkommen: Valencia, Riga, Rotterdam Åbo, New York.
Presentasjon av AKT-S En gruppe regionale kunstnere har formet en forening som ønsker å jobbe for å synelig gjøre Norsk performance kunst. Initiativet er I samarbeid med AKT-B I Bergen. Er du nyskjerrig på denne kusnt formen er dette en sjanse til å orientere seg. Div bøker og informativ lyd installasjoner er tilgengelig.

19:00 –20:00 PERFORMANCE– Ølhallene og prosjektrommet. Full pakke: En unik sjanse til og se arbeid av flere sentrale Norske performance kunstnere:
Rita Marhaug, Susanne Christensen, Anne Klovning, Agnes Btiffon, GilbertandGrape med flere

kl 20 JOHN CAGE OG DET GRENSELØSE
Bill.100 / 60
Dobbeltkonsert: John Cage’s musikk for preparert piano og tekster fra “Indeterminacy” framført av Else Olsen og Michael Duch/Tom LøbergI samarbeid med Ny Musikk Rogaland