CHROMA II

For the group exhibition CHROMA II Volt are presenting new works by artists Azar Alsharif, Erik J. Worsøe Eriksen and Johannes Heldén; author Hildegunn Dale; and musicians Mari Kvien Brunvoll and John Hegre.

The CHROMA project is inspired by British artist, writer and filmmaker Derek Jarman’s book Chroma – a book of Colour (1993). Jarman worked and experimented with a range of different media including film, photography, writing, the diary format, collages and gardening. Chroma consists of a mix of observations, quotations and meditations on life and colour. It contains of 19 essays on the primary colours as well as white, black, grey, silver, gold, shadow, light and translucence.

Azar Alsharif is a visual artist, who graduated with a BA in Fine Art from the Art Academy at Bergen National Academy of the Arts in 2011. She works primarily with collage, installation and sculpture, drawing on a range of materials and techniques. She usually uses found imagery as her point of departure. Recent exhibitions include the group show No One Should Call You A Dreamer at Galleri F15, Eyes On Your Instruments at One Night Only, Reshuffling Forest (Hellebou Vol. 3) at Holodeck and Out Of The Blue And Into The Black at Bergen Kjøtt (all 2011).

http://www.azaralsharif.com

Mari Kvien Brunvoll graduated from the Grieg Academy in Bergen in 2010. She uses her voice as a bass, drums, for the mediation of texts, and as abstract soundscapes with the help of electronic devices such as samplers and effect boxes. She also enjoys supplementing her musical expression with string instruments such as the kalimba and zither, as well as using bells and other percussion instruments. Kvien Brunvoll has had a number of vocal/electronica solo performances over the last five years, and has held concerts across Europe, in India, and in Norway, including at the Ekko Festival in Bergen, the Arts Festival of North Norway, Oslo Jazz Festival and Molde International Jazz Festival. In addition to her solo projects, Kvien Brunvoll is also part of the trio Building Instrument together with Øyvind Hegg-Lunde and Åsmund Weltzien and the lo-fi pop duo Tim Tyg with Johanne B. Svendsen. She also works collaboratively with Stein Urheim, and in 2011 they released the album Stein & Mari´s Daydream Community on Jazzland Recordings. She also works with cross-disciplinary projects, including installation and performance art.

Hildegunn Dale is a writer. Her literary debut was a collection of poems entitled Solkant published by Samlaget in 2003. Samlaget also published her children’s book Skugge over Grønskarvet (2007) and the poetry collections Elvedraumar (2004), Sea, say and see (2006) and Armane mine handlingar (2011). Fjell-Øygarden was published by H-press in 2008. Dale holds an MA in Literature from the University of Bergen, and has attended Skrivekunstakademiet in Hordaland. She is based at Misje, outside Bergen.

John Hegre is a musician and composer from Bergen. He has been working as a technician, sound designer and musician since the late 1980s. He is part of several bands and constellations of musicians including Jazkamer, Noxagt, Golden Serenades, Public Enema, Rehab, Kaptein Kaliber, Bjørn Torske Band, and Bergen Impro Storband. Hegre also works with theatre and performance. His album releases include A Nice Place to Leave (2003), Colors Don't Clash (2006) and Ballads with Maja S. K Ratkje (2006), all on Dekorder.

Johannes Heldén is a writer and artist based in Stockholm. He has published the books Burner (2003); Det Underjordiska Systemet (2005); En Maskin Av Ljus (2006); Primärdirektivet / The Prime Directive, online Afsnit P (afsnitp.dk); Bug Bomb (2007); Väljarna/The Electorate (2008), online for Bonnier Lyrik; Science Fiction (2010); Entropi (2010); and Entropi Edition (2010). As an artist he works with both sound and images, and he released the CD Title Sequence on iDEAL recordings in 2010. Heldén holds a MA in Fine Art from Valand School of Fine Arts in Gothenburg (1999-2004). Recent solo exhibitions include The Archive at Stene Projects (2011) and Index of Lights in the Sky at Kalmar Konstmuseum (2011). He has shown previously with Volt in the form of the solo exhibitions A Better Tomorrow in Bergen (2008) and The Shape of Things to Come in Moss (2010).

http://www.johanneshelden.com

Erik J. Worsøe Eriksen was educated at Vestlandet Art Academy. He was one of the people behind Galleri Otto Plonk in Bergen (1995-1998). After that, he organised several large, independent exhibitions with Per Gunnar Eeg-Tverbakk and Eivind Furnesvik including Naust at Øygarden (2000). Eriksen was part of the artist collective Pelikan (with Eeg-Tverbakk and Sletnes) who organised their own exhibitions and social art events including Disk at BIT Teatergarasjen (1998), Bibliotekaren at Hordaland Art Centre (1999) and I Kunstnernes Hus at Kunstnernes Hus (1999). CHROMA II is his first exhibition of his own works since Pelikan disbanded at the end of the 1990s. Eriksen is currently involved in several of his own photography and art projects, as well as a collaboration with Yngvar Larsen, Darker#2, and an international street photography project with ten different photographers from all over the world.