Posts by Eivind Slettemeås

CONCERT may 2024 INTEROBJECTIVE SOUNDSCAPES is the title of a new project of Sigurd Hole that explores different ways of experiencing music and sound. The main title, Interobjective soundscapes, is inspired by a nascent philosophical movement called object-oriented ontology, and more spesifically by the writings of Timothy Morton. Object-oriented ontology rejects the privileging of human…

Okulus is walkway and architectural structure for contemporary art projects, designed by Rintala Eggertsson Architects for Harpefoss Art Arena.   Okulus, meaning “eye” in Latin, refers to act of looking and observation, in this case nature through art as a forest observatory. The idea is to create an arena with the walkway as a frame…

The exhibition Nattfly by Anna Widén is the first project made specificly for the new open air gallery at Harpefoss Art Arena. Anna Widén presents a number of large and smaller kinetic scupltures made of natural materials, of which the visitors are encouraged to activate.  Coming from different locations, movement and sounds are appering to…

Selma French is a Norwegian singer, composer and fiddle player. Her music reveals an admiration for Norwegian and English folk music, as well as containing an airy energy from somewhere unknown.   The debut album «Changes like the weather in the mountain», consisting of Selma’s songs wrapped in electric guitar, wurlitzer, fiddles and some high…

The music of Naaljos Ljom is called “traditional Norwegian microtonal electronic dancemusic”. They are known from noise bands as MoHa! and Ultralyd, touring largely in Europe and venues in USA, Asia and Australia. Now they are coming to Harpefoss!

Join us for a one-weekend speculative writing workshop at Harpefoss Kunstarena! The workshop is part of the exhibition The Host Rock and The Deep Time by Ana Brotas, Karina Sletten, and Viviana Cárdenas.   We invite 8 participants for an artist-led workshop about speculative writing on topics of mining, ecology, timescales, more-than-human perspectives, history, and…

the project The Host Rock and The Deep Time is an exhibition that looks at abandoned mines as speculation sites and unfolds in three settings: a soundwalk, a listening pavilion, and an interactive installation. In geology, ‘host rock’ refers to the rock surrounding the minerals that are considered valuable in our society, such as copper,…

22. November   Arne Garborgs long poem Haugtussa was publised in 1895 and was Garborgs greatest success of all times. Through her musical composition of the the work, Øyonn Groven has integrated the full scale of instruments mentioned by Garborg in Haugtussa. Øyonn’s Haugtussa is unconsiderable the most compelling score ever made from this work,…

Opening Welcome to the unveiling of the final part of the project Crafted Landscape at Sør-Fron Youth School, Friday, June 9 at 1:00 p.m. Throughout the winter of 2023, 10th grade students have hand-forged elements at Tveit Smie in Hundorp, which have then been assembled into a wrought iron sculpture that forms the third and…

19. mai kl. 19.00 Harpefoss hotell inviterer til konsert med Inger Hannisdal Ensemble, som første ut i rekka i arrangementserien Salong Fossen. Inger Hannisdal vant nylig Spellemannspris i kategorien Årets komponist, og sammen med et knippe fantastiske musikere kommer hun for å spille nykomponert og nyskapende musikk som blander skalaer fra arabisk maqam med påvirkninger…

Okulus is a landscape installation by Rintala Eggertsson Architects, which is located in the forest of the village of Harpefoss, located in the Gudbrandsdal Valley, on the north bank of the Gudbrandsdalslågen River in Norway. The facility is framed on one side by the Harpefoss Gorge and on the other by Norway’s main north-south railway…