Margaret Tait: Happy Bees
22 May – 4 June 2020
Lex Brown, How to Find Belief in Life Again (2020)
In addition to our exhibitions, projects and educational activities at Kunsthall Stavanger, we are inviting you to experience art at home through our digital channels. During the outbreak of COVID-19, we are bringing you art through our digital channels and banner art on our building, under the umbrella title #FROMKSTOYOU.
For #FROMKSTOYOU: Digital Projects we are broadcasting video works on our website that can hopefully ground and inspire, and bring joy and calmness at this moment in time.
Ely Kim, Boombox, 2009
Boombox (2009) was part of a 100 days project while artist and director Ely Kim was an MFA candidate at Yale University. Born out of a prompt to do one thing each day for 100 days, Ely chose dancing, something he loves to do, but was terrified to document on video. Each day, and within a different mundane space, Ely activated these spaces with his body, literally
In addition to our exhibitions, projects and educational activities at Kunsthall Stavanger, we are inviting you to experience art at home through our digital channels. During the outbreak of COVID-19, we are bringing you art through our digital channels and banner art on our building, under the umbrella title #FROMKSTOYOU.
For #FROMKSTOYOU: Digital Projects we are broadcasting video works on our website that can hopefully ground and inspire, and bring joy and calmness at this moment in time.
Ely Kim, Boombox, 2009
Boombox (2009) was part of a 100 days project while artist and director Ely Kim was an MFA candidate at Yale University. Born out of a prompt to do one thing each day for 100 days, Ely chose dancing, something he loves to do, but was terrified to document on video. Each day, and within a different mundane space, Ely activated these spaces with his body, literally creating the room and space for him to exist.
Lex Brown, How to Find Belief in Life Again, 2020
How To Find Belief in Life Again is a 36 minute audio essay with tools for listeners to reconnect to a feeling of belief in a time of uncertainty. Though it is non-religious and compatible with any belief system, it was specifically written for those who "do not believe in anything" and want to build an everyday sense of spirituality by focusing on the power and patterns of nature.
Margaret Tait, Happy Bees, 1954
Tait, who has described her work as film poems, lets one of her often used subjects take centre stage in Happy Bees; nature and its transformative power. The film can be seen as a poetic interpretation of island life, of childhood, preservation, change and remembrance. Depicted in the film is Tait’s brother's children. In a voice-over towards the end of the film we hear Tait declare: “The children are not far away, the children live here”.
Stine Janvin, Beautiful People, 2020
The videowork Beautiful People (2020) is an excerpt from the performance SOLD (a dog and pony show). Stine Janvin has made a visual presentation and a composition consisting of five voices, all performed by Janvin.
