Contributors of MOMENTUM 2017:
Abigail deVille (US), Atelier Cyberspace (DK), Búi Aðalsteinsson (IS), H.R.
Giger (CH), Johannes Heldén (SE), John Duncan (US), Jone Kvie (NO), Jussi
Kivi (FI), Jenna Sutela (FI), Kapwani Kiwanga (CA), Kjersti Vetterstad (NO),
Levi van Veluw (NL), Linda Persson (SE), Mediated Matter (US), Museum of
Nonhumanity (FI), Olga Bergmann & Anna Hallin (IS), Patricia Piccinini
(AU), Patrick Jackson (US), Pinar Yoldas (TR), Public Dreaming (NZ), Ragnar
Þórisson (IS), Rana Hamadeh (LB), Rolf Nowotny (DK), Serina Erfjord (NO), Sonja
Bäumel (AT), Stathis Tsemberlidis (GR), Third Ear (DK/US), Trollkrem (NO),
Tuomas Kortteinen & Heikki Lotvonen (FI), Wael Shawky (EG), Ylva Westerlund (SE)
Since its inception in 1998, MOMENTUM has strived to present compelling works of art and outstanding artistic ventures in Norway and the Nordic context.
The biennial has since become established as one of the most exciting platforms for contemporary art in the Nordic region.
Curators 2017
Ulrika Flink (SE), Ilari Laamanen (FI), Jacob Lillemose (DK), Gunhild Moe (NO), Jón B.K. Ransu (IS)
ALIENATION
The creative practices featured in M9 reflect an expanded transdisciplinary
exploration. The practices will address alienation, focusing on the following
three areas:
1) Bodies, Objects and Technologies, 2) Ecology and 3) Structures and Societies.
The three areas are conceived as overlapping and interconnected and
manifest through the individual works and through the multiple connections
these works create. The Biennial addresses topical concerns of cultural and
geographical borders, biopolitics and social inequality.
The works featured in the Biennial resonate with the local context of Moss and furthermore branch out to instigate and participate in broader discussions.
With alienation as its theme, M9 will present diverse and conflicted ways of
experiencing, explaining and imagining the world anew. Alienation represents
a potential to expand the horizons of our current lives, to think and act
progressively and usher in change. Thus M9 wants to welcome the alien –
including the alien in us – without preconceptions of the familiar and foreign.
It wants to welcome the alien as a challenge to the present as well as a
promise of better, extraordinary futures.
Commissioner
Punkt Ø, Director Dag Aak Sveinar
Punkt Ø is the county gallery of Østfold. It runs both Galleri F 15 and MOMENTUM – Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art.
Venues
- Momentum Kunsthall in the historic city center of Moss. (It is housed in an old industrial and urban center typical of the region and situated by a river and close to a former paper factory that was closed down in 2012.)
- Galleri F 15 at Alby Mansion on the island Jeløy in the Oslo fjord. (The gallery occupies a historic mansion house on Alby, which also includes a garden.)
