MÆKUR

Installation / Sound System / Radio Laboratory / Performance

Bergen Kunsthall, Norway 2018

MÆKUR is an ongoing collaboration between Maia Urstad, Eva Rowson and Anton Kats.

As a contribution to the exhibition On Circulation, at Bergen Kunsthall, MÆKUR conceived an open radio laboratory/residency that explored a variety of listening protocols with visitors to the exhibition. During the collaboration, each of the artists constructed a sound system using everyday objects found in the gallery and composed a series of sound and rhythm pieces that were presented as a concert at the end of the exhibition.

The residency unfolded in conjunction with the symposium ‘On Maintaining Circulation’ – part of a series of commissions entitled ‘Who’s doing the washing up?’, developed and curated by Eva Rowson. As part of the 2018 series of live commissions at Bergen Kunsthall, ‘Who’s doing the washing up?’ explored feminist organising practices, modes of communication and the structures that support them.

Combining their collaborative practices and interests in forms of communication technology, the ways in which stories are circulated, recorded and archived, the residency and symposium explored questions such as How does the technology at our disposal determine which stories and histories are shared? Who gets to design it and who gets to use it? Whose voices are left in and out? Who does the washing up?

Supported by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe Programme.

Further Links:

On Circulation
Landmark Residency
Maia Urstad

Concert Light: Ana Jorge
Sound Jonas Skarmark
Photography: Thor Brødreskift