PODIUM

IGNAS KRUNGLEVICIUS. VERNISSAGE
— PODIUM. FRIDAY, 27 JANUARY, 2012. 19.00

“The strategic intervention in the field of vision has been organized primarily around the regulation of the relationship between beings, images and language. (…) The claim of legal iconology is that the stakes behind the close link between law and vision are high. Subjectivity is created in the field of vision, to be a self is to be seen. I look from one position but I am looked at from everywhere. The ‘social gaze’ looks back at me from the place of the others and inscribes otherness in the midst of self. It is not the look of any particular other, but the visual, photographic action of otherness which places me within a field of vision as I turn towards others and look at them.

The operation of normative systems (religion, morality, increasingly law) interposes a ‘legalscreen’ between the subject and the social gaze, filtering the objects of vision and determining the way in which we see and are given to the world to be seen. The screen is a collection of authoritative images and material practices which offer a repertory of approved representations through which social identity is inscribed. It determines how each of us is given to the world to be seen, as handsome or ugly, pleasant or nasty, polite or boorish.” — Costas Douzinas

Ignas Krunglevicius studied composition at the Norwegian music academy in Oslo, where he lives and works. In 2010/11, his works were exhibited at Ursula Blickle Stiftung, YoungProjects at Art Platform LA, National gallery of art, Vilnius, Oslo Kunstforening. Krunglevicius was nominated for the “Nam June Paik Award” and received the contemporary art prize “Sparebankstiftelsen DnB NOR”. His works have been performed in various festivals, “Warsaw Autumn” and “Ultima”, Oslo, among others.

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Oslo sett fra Ekeberg
Arne Vinnem

Podium inviterer til utstillingen Oslo sett fra Ekeberg av Arne Vinnem lørdag 8.oktober kl 13.00.

Oslo sett fra Ekeberg er en tittel som mer enn antyder at er dette en utstilling om Oslo. Men heller enn et portrett av byen, brukes de lokale og svært så spesifikke betraktningsposisjonene som utgangspunkt for en utforsking av dokumentarisk kunstproduksjon.

Gjennom å reprodusere og beskrive funnede objekter, et postkort med et panoramabilde av Oslo og en ramponert rasteplassbenk, skildres tablåer hvor turistens estetiserende blikk møter bybeboerens forsøk på å vinne tilbake eierskapet til omgivelsene sine.

Den fotografiske og dokumentariske metoden spiller en sentral rolle i prosjektene. Gjennom å oversette metodene til forskjellige språk, som skulptur og tekst, tydeliggjøres materielle og språklige valg i møtene mellom original og replika.

Arne Vinnem (f.1978) har i de siste årene jobbet med prosjekter hvor stedspesifikke og dokumentariske elementer blir brukt for å belyse møtepunkt mellom individet og kommersialiserte uttrykk, og for å fokusere på hvordan visuell retorikk benyttes i forhandlinger mellom subjektet og samfunnet.

Vinnem har deltatt på en rekke utstillinger i inn- og utland, blant annet ved Open Art (Örebro), 4235 (Tromsø), Galleri Rostrum (Malmö), Giant Bowl (Oslo), Christiansands Kunstforening (Kristiansand), GalleriUSF (Bergen), Kortfilmfestivalen (Grimstad), Rathaugallerie (Munchen), Tegnebiennalen (Oslo), UKS (Oslo) og De Appell (Amsterdam). Dette er hans første soloprosjekt i Oslo.

08.10.11-16.10.11 / Åpningstider kl.12-16 / Podium / Hausmannsgate 34 / 0182 Oslo

29. september · 19:00 - 23:30

CONFESSIONS (2010, 59 min.)

A collection of eight confessions, hand written
and court transcripts, of convicted criminals.
It is then reduced to only those sentences
where the criminal is talking about his or hers
own emotions.The perpetrators personal
landscape of guilt is revealed with no descriptions
about the actual criminal act. The most extreme act of violence
contains something that we can all recognize
in ourselves; the inner psychological patterns of reasoning
and justification, remorse and/or the lack of it.

Videomusic piece from Ignas Krunglevicius,
where you will meet some of the
most disturbing people who ever walked the face of the earth.

CV/Contact/Press:
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WWW.MERERECORDS.COM

Supported by Arts Council Norway