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Art News:
Live Action New York 09:
Scandinavian Performance Art
Friday, November 6 -
Monday, November 9, 2009
All performances @ 7
pm, FREE
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 Live Action NY '09
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Program:
Friday, November 6, 7 pm
Roi
VAARA,Finland
Mimosa PALE, Finland
Kurt JOHANNESSEN, Norway
Elin
WIKSTRÖM, Sweden
Pekka
KAINULAINEN, Finland
Saturday, November
7, 7 pm
Irma OPTIMIST, Finland
The
Icelandic Love Corporation
Jane Jin KAISEN,
Denmark
Eric ANDERSEN,
Denmark
Stein HENNINGSEN,
Norway
Monday, November 9, 7 pm
Stein HENNINGSEN,
Norway
Hans T. STERNUDD,
Sweden
Joakim
STAMPE, Sweden
Agnes NEDREGARD, Norway
Pekka
KAINULAINEN, Finland
New York, October 15, 2009 - Live
Action New York 09: Scandinavian Performance Art
is a new visual performance art event that showcases 15 major and emerging
performance artists at Scandinavia House on November 6, 7 and 9, 2009. Live Action New York
09 is the natural outcome of a recent reemergence of performance
art in the five Scandinavian countries; Denmark,
Finland, Iceland, Norway,
and Sweden.
The curatorial criteria of
Live Action New York 09
is to showcase different tendencies and generations of artists to present a
broad qualitative selection of what can be described as the new
Scandinavian scene of performance art.
>From pioneers of
performance art, like Fluxus legend Eric Andersen (Denmark),
to some of the most exciting young artists like Mimosa Pale (Finland), Live
Action New York
09 is set to be an intense and exciting event going beyond the
mainstream.
It is a one time
experience that will be appreciated by those who are keen to discover this
highly experimental and avant-garde art form, for an audience who feel a
necessity to be in line with what can be described not only as the avant-garde,
but as an alternative scene in contemporary art
In its first edition, Live Action New York 09: Scandinavian Performance Art features 15
major and emerging Northern European visual performance artists like the
legendary Fluxus artist Eric
Andersen (Denmark), as well as internationally recognized
artists like Roi Vaara,
Irma Optimist,
and Pekka Kainulainen
(Finland); Kurt Johannessen (Norway),
the Icelandic Love Corporation
and Elin Wikström
(Sweden).
Alongside these key figures in Scandinavian
performance art, Live Action New York 09
will present some new emerging and thought-provoking artists, like Jin Jane Kaisen (Denmark), Agnes Nedregard and Stein Henningsen (Norway), Hans Sternudd and Joakim Stampe (Sweden) and Mimosa Pale and Johanna Ketola(Finland).
Live
Action New York
09 mixes different tendencies and generations of
Scandinavian performance art in what will be an intense and exciting event
going beyond the mainstream.
Live
Action New York
09 is here and now, it's ephemeral, it has attitude,
it's fleeting and one time event, it is experimental and avant-garde, and it is
free of charge. Don't miss out.
Live
Action New York
09: Scandinavian Performance Art is presented in collaboration with Gallery
A50, Nordic Performance Art and Infr'Action - Festival International d'art
Performance, the Nordic Culture Fund, and Nordic Culture Point.
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Scandinavia
House: The Nordic Center in America
58 Park Avenue (@ 38th
Street)
New York,
NY 10016
Tel: 212.847.9779
Website: www.scandinaviahouse.org
Email: info@amscan.org
Press contact: mhellman@amscan.org
Organizer website: www.liveactionnewyork.org
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American-Scandinavian Foundation | 58 Park Avenue | New York | NY | 10016
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