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NORDTING
A nomadic people's parliament of the North, a party for the periphery, a separatist movement for the Arctic colony: NORDTING came with a bang in 2014 and has been with us ever since.
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Arctic [Un]Limited
Arctic [Un]Limited is a tourist shop / art space / place of gathering in downtown Tromsø/Romsa. Conceived and designed by Jérémie McGowan and Amund Sjølie Sveen. Produced by NORDTING.
Open in Tromsø/Romsa 15.01.2024 - 15.06.2024
Make the North Great Again!
A long-term public awareness campaign for the circumpolar North, in the form of a large outdoor light installation displayed and moved around in the arctic.
FRISINN 2020/22
Lifting the legacy of a workers club in Stavanger (NO) from the 1940-ies, FRISINN2020 is filling the hall of Folkets Hus (House of the People) with music, dancing, sing-alongs, lectures, food, boxing and tombola.
Economic Theory for Dummies
We need to understand the economy in order to have an opinion about it. We need to be able to separate politics from laws of nature. We need a crash course, we need Economic theory for Dummies (2013).
Brains, Bytes & Bach
Like grains of rice filling every gap, or like a virus spreading across the globe, digital data is invading all parts of our lives. Brains, Bytes & Bach is a performance lecture about the digital world, using an analog powerpoint.
MELTING
Political analysis, fragile music played on wine glasses, and a slowly rotating canvas that fills the space with poetic weightlessness: MELTING is a performance lecture made together with the band Slagr.
Slagr
The band Slagr is Anne Hytta, Katrine Schiøtt and Amund Sjølie Sveen, playing contemporary nordic folk music for hardanger fiddle, cello and vibraphone/tuned glasses.
Deconstructing IKEA
A performative work of music for solo percussion performed on five IKEA plates. As the sound is gradually constructed, the instruments are gradually deconstructed (2005).
COMMONISM
A performed conversation, a dialogue between two artists that asks questions about nationality, internationality, art and politics. Can COMMONISM be the answer? By Andy Smith (UK) and Amund Sjølie Sveen (NO).
The Norwegian Way
A dive into the self image of Norway, the problem of the oil, the possible connection between money and happiness, and an exploration of what possibility art has to change the world. Performance lecture (2011).
Sound of Freedom
A performance about the physics of sound, the rhetoric of weapon production, acoustic bazookas, the ability of war to create meaning, and children songs used for torture (2011).
Rising Water
Rising Water (2009) places the ocean in the middle of the city through moving the shore line, the sound of waves breaking at the shore, into the urban landscape. This would be the new beach if the Greenland ice cap would melt.
The (Oil) Fountain of Youth
A fountain ejaculating oil from the top of the world – to celebrate 20 years of political focus on the Hight North, 40 years of Norwegian oil adventure, and possibly the last breath of modern civilization as the world drowns in a pool of CO2.
Concept proposal (2013).
Barents Liberation Army (BLA)
A proposed liberation army for the Barents Region (2015): As an anti-colonial movement, BLA is offering freedom and happiness to its people through enlightenment and actions.
Horisont
A permanent sound work exhibited at Diehtosiida, the Sami University College in Kautokeino (NO/Sápmi) (2009).
USB – United States of Barents
A solo performance lecture that investigates questions of local, global and northern identity, similarities and differences in the arctic, and the universal love of IKEA (2006).
Dager under
Music/sounddesign and loudspeaker-installation for Days beneath, a play by Norwegian playwright Arne Lygre, staged by Ferske Scener at Hålogaland teater in Tromsø (NO).
Tour de Arctic
An interactive sound installation at the top of the world: If you pedal, there is sound. The faster you pedal, the faster the tune.
Hut#6: MiniBo
A site specific, collaborative, interdisciplinary project that explores themes of sustainability and waste, home, real estate, survival, civilization, and man-made ´nature´.