Nordic Sessions I, February 2020
Performance protocols Nordic Sessions # 1: Bureaucracy, Forms, Schematics, February 15. and February 16. at StartUpWorks, Nytorv 18, 4th floor, 9000 Aalborg (DK).
Artists: Jesper Olsen – Rikke Ehlers Nilsson – Scott William Raby – Sall Lam Toro – Kamilla Mez – Olof Olsson (score),
curated by Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen/performance protocols.
In 2020 and 2021 the platform performance protocols presents a series of Nordic events under the title Nordic Sessions. These are the first performance protocols offline events.
All events are locally anchored with an aim to bring together a palette of local artists working within the field of performative, instructionbased art.
The first performance protocol Nordic Sessions event took place in Aalborg on February 15. and 16. 2020 and had bureaucracy, forms, schematics as its theme.
The event was primarily participatory in its form, where most of the works invited the audience to take part. All the instructions and performances in this event were rooted in an
idea of bureaucratic processes, some mimiced them, others distorted them to the absurd. This was further emphasized by the location, where performance protocols as an art event moved outside
the traditional art frame of an art gallery and into a co-working office space.
About the participating artists:
Jesper Olsen (born in DK, lives and works in Aalborg) graduated from the Jutland Academy of Fine Arts 2009-14.
Olsen works in many different materials and styles, and often with a conceptual focus. http://jesperolsen.dk/
Rikke Ehlers Nilsson (born in DK, lives and works in Aalborg). She graduated from Sandberg Institute, MFA, Amsterdam, the Netherlands;
"George Enescu" Universitatea de Arte, Department of Photography and Video, Iaşi in Romania; and holds an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts, Odense. http://www.rikkeehlersnilsson.com/
Scott William Raby (born in the US, lives and works in Aalborg) is an artist, writer and researcher. He has a PhD in Practice-based research (Fine Art),
Goldsmiths, University of London and has exhibited his works internationally.
Sall Lam Toro (born in Portugal, lives and works in Aarhus, Aalborg and Copenhagen) is a performance artist who uses her body as a tool to transform places, and
works primarily with poetry, video and live art. Sall Lam Toro has a BA in literature and studies MA in Gender Studies at Aalborg University. http://salllamtoro.com
Kamilla Mez (born in DE, lives and works in Aalborg) is a conceptual artist and holds a BA in Art and Technology from Aalborg University.
She is also a co-founder of Art Room 1000fryd, Aalborg (DK). https://www.kamillamez.com
As part of the Aalborg event, an instruction from another Nordic artist will be offered for collaborate performance by the audience. This is created by:
Olof Olsson (SE, based in Copenhagen/DK) is a product of the charter tourism of the 1960s. His Dutch catholic mother and Swedish socialist father met on Mallorca.
In his youth Olof made attempts in journalism, documentary photography, and as a radio disc jockey. After having studied languages, philosophy and translation theory,
Olof studied visual art at Konstfack in Stockholm and the Royal Academy in Copenhagen. Between 1992 and 2007, Olof mainly made conceptual art.
Since 2007, Olof has been focusing on spoken performances – like lectures, speeches, and info comedy. http://www.olof.cc/
Program (PDF)
List of artworks (PDF)
Bureaucracy, Forms, Schematics – Aalborg (DK)
Olof Olsson score is handed out by Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen. Photo: Malte Steiner.
Rikke Ehlers Nilsson, How to Become a Culture City, 2020. Photo: performance protocols.
Kamilla Mez, særlige omstændigheder i hjemmet / Special Circumstances in the Home, 2020. Photo: performance protocols.
Scott William Raby, We Had Hardly Seen the Sea and Had Never Actually Travelled Around it, 2020. Photo: Malte Steiner.
Sall Lam Toro, BUREAUCRATIC EROS // ALAS POETIC EROS!, 2020. Photo: Malte Steiner.
Jesper Olsen, Vedrørende tilværelsen / Concerning Life, 2020. Photo: performance protocols.