Screen City Biennial

25/03/2025

A warm thank you to everyone who participated in the Screen City Biennial – Other Minds program at Stavanger kunstmuseum! Thanks to the artists Max Celar to curator
to the assistance performers and Isabella Bidmead. And last, but not least, to the wonderful team at the museum Dir. and curator for the collaboration!

The program was kindly supported by the City of Stavanger I Rogaland fylkeskommune I Stiftelsen Fritt Ord I Kulturdirektoratet

Stay tuned for more events this year celebrating the Biennial’s 10th anniversary ✨✨✨

Photos by Carlos H. Juica A.

21/03/2025

A warm thank you to everyone who participated in the Screen City Biennial – Other Minds program at Stavanger kunstmuseum last weekend! Thanks to the artists Viktor Pedersen, Ingrid Bjørnaali, Jenna Sutela, Patricia Domínguez, Lundahl & Seitl, Max Čelar /Untold Garden, to curator Daniela Arriado, to the performers Laida Rodrigues, Nina Bredal Haydjup and Isabella Bidmead. And last, but not least, to the wonderful team at the museum Hanne Beate Ueland and Helga Nyman for the collaboration!

The program was kindly supported by the City of Stavanger Kulturavdelingen I Rogaland fylkeskommune I Stiftelsen Fritt Ord I Kulturdirektoratet

Photos by Carlos H. Juica A.

11/03/2025

Read about curator and Screen City Biennial – Other Minds in today`s newspaper Aftenbladet. The biennial has presented expanded moving images in public space for over a decade, and this event marks the 10th anniversary with a program at Stavanger Art Museum this upcoming weekend (14-16.3) with works from Jenna Sutela, Patricia Domingue, Viktor Pedersen & Ingrid Bjørnaali and the duo Lundahl & Seitl. Some of the artists will be present and participate in talks during the opening on Friday eve.

Full program
www.stavangerkunstmuseum.no


text by Kjell Arne Knutsen | Photo by Kristian Jacobsen

07/03/2025

During the weekend of 14-16 March, Screen City Biennial and Stavanger Art Museum invites you to join a curated program of film screenings, live experiences and artist talks. The works were commissioned for the biennial edition 𝑶𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑴𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒔 and were shown at the Archenhold Observatory in Berlin in 2022.

Participating artists: 𝐋𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐡𝐥 & 𝐒𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐥, 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚 𝐃𝐨𝐦í𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐳, 𝐉𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐒𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐚, 𝐕𝐢𝐤𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐧 & 𝐈𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐝 𝐁𝐣ø𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐚𝐥𝐢

The biennale edition 𝑶𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑴𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒔, curated by 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐚 𝐀𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐝𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐕𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐒𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐨, looks into the liminal states of consciousness that arise in the symbiotic relationship between the human mind and that of other living and non-living matter—including plants, bacteria, fungi, and technology.

Screen City Biennial is dedicated to the expanded moving image in public space, featuring artworks that explore the relationship between the moving image, sound, technology, and urban architecture. This event marks 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐞’𝐬 𝟏𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲, and is the start of a tour of a series of selected works produced within the framework of SCB since 2015.

The program in Stavanger is curated in collaboration with Stavanger kunstmuseum and kindly supported by the City of Stavanger Kulturavdelingen, Rogaland Fylkeskommune Stiftelsen Fritt Ord Kulturdirektoratet

More info about the program and artists: www.stavangerkunstmuseum.no

We hope to see you there! ✨🍀✨

Image:
Patricia Dominguez, Matrix Vegetal (2022)

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31/01/2023

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a small flashback to “Capture” (2022) on view at the Archenhold Observatory in Berlin as part of the 2022 . The film was projected in a huge auditorium, the “Einstein Hall.” In this film work cherries play the role of elementary particles which are nonetheless colorless and tasteless. The film cites Chanda Prescod-Weinstein who, in “The Disordered Cosmos,” wrote: “Before Einstein’s equation and neutron stars comes sustenance. Eating.” Big thank you to and .saracino. With 16mm cinematography by , narration by and music by , 16mm camera with support by .rentals.amsterdam and all production by and thank you and .berlin

28/10/2022

Friday 4 November at 7 pm CET you should tune in to and curator in online conversation on "Capture" and "Chaos Theory" 💥 Join via zoom link in bio!!

Design: Metahaven



Metahaven’s newly commissioned film Capture was commissioned by Kunsthall Trondheim, Arts at CERN and Screen City Biennial, supported by KORO and Arts Council Norway. Arts at CERN is supported by UNIQA Fine Art Insurance, Switzerland. Capture has been realized with the generous support of NL Film Fund, and additional support from La Palma Escuela de Cultura e Instituto Canario de Desarrollo Cultural. The exhibition is supported by the Fritt Ord Foundation and Arts Council Norway.

19/10/2022

Final days to experience To See Without Man (2022) by Viktor Pedersen with Ingrid K. Bjørnaali at the Solar Physical Cabinet, Archenhold Observatory in Berlin

To See Without Man is a poetic attempt to make contact with the vegetal mind, in an effort to understand the plants’ modes of sensing their surroundings. Can mind-expanding symbiosis with plants lead us to a broader understanding of their ways of seeing, communicating, and remembering? Can the leaf as an energy-processing surface provide a practical tool to rethink extractive practices, those that are leading to an anthropogenic depletion of resources? Can photosynthesis provide a speculative framework to imagine a future in which the human body has learned to process starlight and has partly become vegetal?

Commissioned by Screen City Biennial
Supported by the Norwegian Embassy in Berlin / Norwegische Botschaft in Berlin

Photo by Daniela Arriado
Still images: To See Without Man by Viktor Pedersen with Ingrid K. Bjørnaali

19/10/2022

19/10/2022

Final days to experience Capture by Metahaven at the Albert Einstein Hall, Archenhold Observatory

An intimate, powerful moving image work about (in)commensurabilities between art and physics, Capture interweaves archival footage from CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) with lichens filmed in a forest near Trondheim, Norway, narrated by protagonist A. Lichens are a symbiotic association between a fungus and green algae or cyanobacteria) which, in the film, are praised for their refusal to be categorized as a single species. Capture suggests that the construction of particle colliders at CERN was an act of inscription, writing, or “burying a spaceship" into the earth.

Written, directed, and edited by Metahaven. Cast: Anita Ricci. Music by Espen Sommer Eide. Director of Photography: Remko Schnorr. Additional Photography: Metahaven and Kyulim Kim.

Co-commissioned by Screen City Biennial, Kunsthall Trondheim and Arts at CERN -with additional support from KORO and the Arts Council Norway /Kulturrådet

In Berlin, supported by Embassy of the Netherlands / nlkultur

Still images: Capture (2022), Metahaven
Photo by Daniela Arriado

18/10/2022

Final days to experience OPUS MORS - a sound installation by Jacob Kirkegaard at the Small Observatory in the garden of the Archenhold.

OPUS MORS crafts a complex space for an audible experience of the molecular modification of matter once life’s state of consciousness has ended. The body of work consists of four parts, each composed of sound recordings of the four environments that the human body could be surrounded by or exposed to in the immediate post-mortem: a morgue, autopsy, decomposition, and cremation. The work activates our mind’s resistance to the thought of death and bodily decay, resignifying the notion of human decomposition as a natural transformation (or re-composition) into another matter.

During the opening weekend, performed OPUS AUTOPSIA - a detailed and precise near-field sound recording of a complete autopsy, including the dissection of the body, the removal and slicing of the organs, and the recomposition and cleansing of the body.

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17/10/2022

The first chapter of the usually Norway-based Screen City Biennial (SCB), titled ‘Other Minds,’ makes its Berlin debut in the Archenhold Observatory

17/10/2022

Inspiring review of SCB Other Minds by for ✨✨✨🪐 —
Read the full text / link in bio