Prøverommet

Prøverommet visits Kabuso – August 22!

prøverommet brings together artists from across disciplines to present work in front of an audience for the first time. This event is also the first time that prøverommet collaborates with Kunsthuset Kabuso and will feature music, performance, storytelling and drag by the artists:
Pedro Riva and Julia Zasteva, Eirik Lillebøe Wiken, Koppen & Jorkjen, Dany Devero and MÅNIN.

Program:
12:00 Pedro Riva & Julia Zasteva (durational performance)
12:30 Eirik Lillebøe Wiken (storytelling performance)
13:00 Koppen & Jorkjen (multimedia performance)
13:30 Dany Devero (drag performance)
14:20 MÅNIN (musical performance)

About the artists and projects:

• Pedro Riva and Julia Zasteva
  Pedro and Julia present ‘A fruit is becoming ill in sugar’ – an experimental durational performance where a proud caterpillar, left alone to control the identity of nothingness, is found sneaking in the paraphysical inflammation of culture.
  Julia’s and Pedro’s projects are connected by the conceptual foundations of collage, structure, and language.

Julia Zastava is a Vienna based visual artist whose practice includes drawings, videos, sound, installations and performance. Her work revolves around processes of transition, questions of narration, ideas of the uncanny, unpleasant sensations and social surrealism. She studied ballet, multimedia directing and art. Her works have been shown in Europe, the USA, Latin America and the Middle East.
Pedro Riva is a Helsinki based artist focused on the dominant biopolitical discourse. His practice questions the perception and imagery of the self inside capitalist structures. He studied philosophy, theatre and art. For this project, Pedro has received additional support from the Nordic Culture Point in Finland.

• Eirik Lillebøe Wiken
  Ecological storytelling.
  Eirik Lillebøe Wiken is a writer and permaculturalist based in Kvam.

• Koppen & Jorkjen
  Koppen & Jorkjen present a work in-progress that builds on research about queer identity and the culture and history of gay bars in Norway.
  Koppen & Jorkjen is a Norwegian performance duo consisting of Henrik Koppen and Finn Adrian Jorkjen. They make ritualistic performances, installations and radio plays that becomes a part of their own ever growing and queer mythology.

Henrik Koppen is a Norwegian artist based in Velsvik, Volda working with performance, video, installation, music and sound. He holds a BA from Bergen National Academy of Art and Design. Koppen is often collaborating with other artists and musicians, and engaged in ongoing projects such as HITYAMAC and the performance duo Koppen & Jorkjen.
Finn Adrian Jorkjen is a visual artist who works with performance, text, and video. He cuts, stages, remembers, moves, and composes different situations together. His works tackle our relationship with mass media, questions about identity, and is driven by big ambivalent feelings. Jorkjen is a graduate of the Oslo Academy of the Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts in Trondheim, NTNU. He is also a member of the performance duo «Koppen & Jorkjen”.

• Dany Devero
  Dany Devero will present a short drag performance incorporating music, dance and costume.
  Dany Devero is local drag artist based in Øytese.
• MÅNIN
  MÅNIN plays music with an open and researching focus on sound and sounds, under the genre acoustic contemporary music / experimental jazz. The music consists of both improvisation and colouring of the present, as well as compositions that put the very small, unique sounds under a magnifying glass. In this project, they unite their individual and common approaches to music (i.e. popular music, folk music, jazz and improvisation), with a common interest in unique sound and sounds. It is about looking at music as a broad concept, where MÅNIN’s music mimics sounds around us, from both nature and city, both large and small.
  MÅNIN are Ane Bjerkan on vocals and Indian harmonium, and Camilla Hole on saxophone.

About prøverommet:
prøverommet is BIT Teatergarasjen’s autonomous sidekick, moving between venues, galleries and other places in and around Bergen.
This concept provides an opportunity for new voices, new material, thoughts and ideas to be tested out in an informal and dynamic alternative to the permanent institutions in Bergen. It’s existed alongside BIT Teatergarasjen’s seasonal program since 1998, always searching for the latest developments in the underground in the art scene.

prøverommet 2021 is supported by Bergen Kommune, Kulturrådet and BIT Teatergarasjen.
One of the projects for this event has received additional support from Nordic Culture Point.

Tickets: 50,- NOK