Underskog

August 22nd – September 7th 2014
Sat – Sun 2 – 6pm and by appointment
Exhibition opening Friday August 22nd 8pm with live-performance starting at 9pm


i guess
it sees
much like it looks or hopes to look
like it seems like
a lick like wraps two 
once through and mirrors, stalling an attention
like this
longing.

Olivia Dunbar’s poetry, installations, paintings, video and drawings picture our increasingly fragmented world. Patiently observed collisions (with people, things and literature) form the base for vernacular works that are averse to conventional methods of identification. In her practice she combines everyday/homely materials like bread and toothpaste with chemical spray paint, plastics, video projections and computer screens. Dunbar’s works excavate what is common between seemingly opposing worlds – culture/nature, physical/digital, subject/object, individual/masses – using humor and political positions to shift the viewer towards a different mode of perception.

At PINK CUBE Dunbar shows a video installation in which the full space is used. This installation challenges the status of the image and how media can be used in different realms; how images are dispersed by reflection, how they receive a story through their relation with text, and how they become concrete in relation to objects. A spectacle of visual thoughts.

Dunbar received an MFA from the Piet Zwart Institute and is currently based in Amsterdam where she is a resident at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. Recent presentations include As a body at Cooper Cole, Toronto, and read the room, you’ve got to at SALTS, Basel.


Henrique Saidel is a theater director, set designer, researcher and artist. His live-performances merge dualisms like original/copy, alive/inanimate, good taste and bad taste. A special interest for latex, blood and knives is combined with filthy meals as he investigates dominating tendencies in our web-based world: pornography and self-staging. This comes as a consequence of using his own body in performance, with focus on particular parts, skin and surface. Self-expression is taken to another level than most performance artists through multiple sculptural copies of himself. A shift of identities is explored through an infantile, non-verbal play. Mixed with an underlying adult humor it becomes unpleasantly physical and brutal.

His new performance-installation develops in dialogue with the pink space in terms of spacial qualities and highlights the bodily content and kitschy gender-associations of PINK CUBE’s wall-color. The spectator is led into a fantasy world of lusts and nightmares where human-sized dolls become alive, at least for a moment of time.

Saidel holds a Master in Theatre from Santa Catarina State University, BR. He was member of the performance-group Companhia Silenciosa (Silent Company) BR 2002-2012 and is currently a PhD student in Performing Arts at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, BR.


For Battle #16 we invited two artists working in different disciplines, both showing a specific and strong visual language, to challenge their own practice by inviting the other to the stage. The clash of these titans will be found in their powerful way of using the space, but also in their diverse and distinctive methods. Welcome!


Maaike Gouwenberg is a curator with a special interest in performative practices that flirt or overlap with theatre. She recently produced The Humans by Alexandre Singh, performed at Performa 13, NYC and 68th Festival d’Avignon, FR. In September Gouwenberg and Joris Lindhout start their own residency program Deltaworkers in New Orleans, US.


PINK CUBE is an intimate art space with a pink wall-paint containing body fluids. Run by artist Anja Carr since 2011, it is a non-neutral alternative to the sterile white cube. All PINK CUBE-shows are battles between two artists (-groups). The intention is to take advantage of the fusion between solo- and group-show in terms of focus and fruitful dialogue.

PINK CUBE
Grønland 18, Oslo (GPS: Grønland 12)
Entrance in the backyard by McDonald’s, past Goethe Institut to the right
Contact: [email protected] / +47 45220797 or see pinkcube.no for more information