Tides

Performance with Asa Shimada at Yamamizuki, Shimanto, Japan.

Music by Hiroki Ikeda.

The music was mixed from sound improvisations performed by Hiroki and myself. 

The movement was improvised and lead by the music.

The Meal

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A collaboration between Hidemi Nishida, Asa Shimada and me. Hidemi invited us to be part of his project titled "The Meal" at the land art festival Rokko Meets Art in Rokko Mountains, Kobe, Japan.

One dining table and two chairs in the middle of a pond.

Over 3 weekends (October/November 2014) 3 performative pieces are shown.

An old green house was used as a work space and as a sound installation for the audience to enter and experience.

Materials collected from the surroundings and later used for the costumes.

Possible materials and objects for the performance.

Hidemi building the raft that was used for transport in the pond.

Asa interviewing a passer by.

Viaggio.

An old school in the mountain which is now the home and working space for a community of artist and musicians. Here we were lucky to live during the making of our project.

The view from Vaggio.

Performance Improvisations

Culture night 2014 at Festplassen in Bergen.

Members of PAB (Performance Art Bergen) meet for one hour of improvisations.

Only rule: Bring a chair. 

Photos by Kobie Nel

Tampopo

Tampopo was a one day project in Lydgalleriet, Bergen, and part of a one night art and music event called Line Art Fest.

Tampopo is the name of dandelion flowers in japanese; one of the words that I learned during this collaborative project with Asa Shimada, Hidemi Nishida and Ojas Grøn. 

Materials: 80 timbers of wood and 40 meters of cotton.  

Time: A few intensive days and 7 hours inside the gallery space.

  The project turned out to be very much about communication, collaboration and improvisation.

The construction was a space that the audience could enter and retire from the rest of the event.

The space was filled with the smell of burned wood and the sound of fire. 

In process - Fragments of Conversations

                                
                             

This installation was part of the exhibition Work Study (Exercises in Creating a Short Circuit) Part 2 in Room 8, Bergen, 3rd - 13th of April 2014. The exhibition was made possible by Sabine Popp and invited artists were Clare Reynolds, Kate Lynch, Carl Fedarb and myself.

Fragments of conversations. Text and sound. 

‘In Process’ is based on conversations with people from Stoke-on-trent and looks at descriptions of motion and time in different types of work. Personal stories have been translated into fragmented text pieces, which again have been transformed into new sound recordings. I'm interested in the consequences of efficiency in large scale production and in my project I'm questioning the situation of the individual and the risque of becoming objectified or dehumanized.

Two examples of texts pieces

             

                                                                       

A Voice and Something Else

A unique practice-based conference format investigating what might be in the voice beyond words 24th - 26th Jan 2014

Group II. Beyond the Voice.

What is in the voice that goes beyond words?
To what extent are practices of listening and the voice political?
How does the voice and listening challenge notions of 'being together'?
What might be in the voice that makes us unique?
What does our voice give away about ourselves that operates at the limit of our control?

                                        

Workshop in Kabelvåg, Lofoten, Norway

Collaboration with Elisabeth Færøy Lund og Eleanor Clare.

The workshop was a preperation to the conference A Voice and Something Else which took place in Aberystwyth, Wales, in January 2014.

We spend the week doing different exercises with the intention to get a better understandment of the voice.

Some of the key words have been communication and language; also how to translate from one form of expression to another. One of the days we spend in silence in order to feel how it is to be voiceless and I found that it is both releiving and frustrating. We tested out many ways of commucating through movement, sound and listening.

The amazing nature in the surrounding area gave a great energy to the workshop.     

I found that the verbal language is a way of processing everything one does and thinks. This way one could say that we create a distance to what we experience. The verbal language is a way of rationalizing, understanding and explaining.

In and Out of Tune

A durational performance at PAB Open (performance festival arranged by Performance Art Bergen) in an old prison in Bergen. In collaboration with Elisabeth Færøy Lund and Eleanor Clare.

   
                       

                                                                                                                                                             

Three individuals in three cells are shifting between internal and external focus. They are tuning into their surroundings by practicing attentive listening and intuitive vocal response.

The audience is invited to ring the bell, which will bring the three individuals into tune.

Once a day they will come together to share a meal and will at this time only focus on the action of communal eating.

One of the cells.

The bell.

The meal.

Unplace

Unplace from Sofie Knudsen Jansson on Vimeo.

This performance was part of my exam project and took place at our degree show at Usf Verftet in Bergen. A series of different actions were repeated for two hours. 

Unplace from Sofie Knudsen Jansson on Vimeo.

Video shown in monitor.

Topographies of the Obsolete

In Process. Second workshop at Spode factory, March 2013

In Process from Sofie Knudsen Jansson on Vimeo.

Performance on the opening of the show ´The Site is the Question´ at Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent. Part of the artistic research project called Topographies of the Obsolete, organized by Bergen Academy of Art and Design.

Exploring movement and repetition. 

Experiment at the factory: One day of stamping papers  (approximately 7 hours). 

Movement to the Sound of Inaudible Music

Performance in Galleri Bokboden, student gallery in Bergen.

In collaboration with Asa Shimada.

 

Dancing in an empty room.

 

 

 

Two speakers were placed outside of the gallery.

The sound was the sound of our movement and breath. 

 

 

 

The performance lasted two hours and stood for two days.

 

 

 

Sound of Inaudible Music

Sound of inaudible music from Sofie Knudsen Jansson on Vimeo.

Please come in...

Please come in

Relax

Look carefully

Sit down

Listen

The framed photographies are stills from the project "This is not a dream"

Sound installation.
Improvised abstract sounds from a sound performance workshop held by artist Fast Foward (See and listen to the video documentation !).
(At the end of the workshop we were located in a room for 5 hours.
We brought along objects and instruments and for 5 hours we were making sounds with whatever we could find and think of.
The recordings are quite interesting and very "uncontrolled")

The sound was a curious contrast to the homely, intimate atmosphere.