Posts by Eivind Slettemeås

The music of Naaljos Ljom is called “traditional Norwegian microtonal electronic dancemusic”. They are known from noise bands as MoHa! and Ultralyd, touring largely in Europe and venues in USA, Asia and Australia. Now they are coming to Harpefoss!

Join us for a one-weekend speculative writing workshop at Harpefoss Kunstarena! The workshop is part of the exhibition The Host Rock and The Deep Time by Ana Brotas, Karina Sletten, and Viviana Cárdenas.   We invite 8 participants for an artist-led workshop about speculative writing on topics of mining, ecology, timescales, more-than-human perspectives, history, and…

the project The Host Rock and The Deep Time is an exhibition that looks at abandoned mines as speculation sites and unfolds in three settings: a soundwalk, a listening pavilion, and an interactive installation. In geology, ‘host rock’ refers to the rock surrounding the minerals that are considered valuable in our society, such as copper,…

Okulus is walkway and architectural structure for contemporary art projects, designed by Rintala Eggertsson Architects for Harpefoss Art Arena.   Okulus, meaning “eye” in Latin, refers to act of looking and observation, in this case nature through art as a forest observatory. The idea is to create an arena with the walkway as a frame…

The exhibition Nattfly by Anna Widén is the first project made specificly for the new open air gallery at Harpefoss Art Arena. Anna Widén presents a number of large and smaller kinetic scupltures made of natural materials, of which the visitors are encouraged to activate.  Coming from different locations, movement and sounds are appering to…

22. November   Arne Garborgs long poem Haugtussa was publised in 1895 and was Garborgs greatest success of all times. Through her musical composition of the the work, Øyonn Groven has integrated the full scale of instruments mentioned by Garborg in Haugtussa. Øyonn’s Haugtussa is unconsiderable the most compelling score ever made from this work,…

ÅPNINGSMARKERING Vi inviterer til avduking av siste del av prosjektet Håndverkets landskap på Sør-Fron ungdomsskule, fredag 9. juni kl. 13.00. Gjennom vinteren 2023 har elevene i 10. klasse håndsmidd elementer hos Tveit Smie på Hundorp, som deretter er satt sammen til en smijernskulptur som utgjør tredje og siste del av kunstinstallasjonen på Glasmestermoen i uteområdet…

19. mai kl. 19.00 Harpefoss hotell inviterer til konsert med Inger Hannisdal Ensemble, som første ut i rekka i arrangementserien Salong Fossen. Inger Hannisdal vant nylig Spellemannspris i kategorien Årets komponist, og sammen med et knippe fantastiske musikere kommer hun for å spille nykomponert og nyskapende musikk som blander skalaer fra arabisk maqam med påvirkninger…

om prosjektet Homo Bulla: en person er en tilsynelatende fast størrelse, men livet er skjørt og flyktig som en boble. Homo Bulla er en metafor som ofte tilskrives teologen Erasmus Roterodamus og refererer til menneskets skrøpelighet lik en boble (bulla), et gjentakende motiv i kunsthistorien. I Endre Aalrust sin utstilling er idéen om boblen noe…

Okulus is a landscape installation by Rintala Eggertsson Architects, which is located in the forest of the village of Harpefoss, located in the Gudbrandsdal Valley, on the north bank of the Gudbrandsdalslågen River in Norway. The facility is framed on one side by the Harpefoss Gorge and on the other by Norway’s main north-south railway…

Eva Bakkeslett/ Agency of Imagination.  Photo: Tomáš Hrůza about the project Artist initiated projects and platforms are increasingly locating in minor places, local environments and former industrial sites, as well as smal urban social spaces. These projects constitute a great variety of artistic practises that work closely with their environments, and exploration of possible collectives.…

Om prosjektet I februar mottok Harpefoss hotell den gledelige meldingen om at prosjektet Håndverkets landskap med Ola Sendstad er tildelt 150.000 gjennom Sparebankstiftelsens nyetablerte støtteordning Kunst på programmet. I samarbeid Sør-Fron ungdomskule skal Sendstad høsten 2020 etablere et uterom/installasjon i skolegården der elevene gjennom skal delta i både utvikling og utforming av byggverket. Håndverkets landskap tar sikte på å formidle tradisjonshåndverk…