Past Residents
Past Resident2015: OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Tori Wrånes
Tori Wrånes works primarily with performance: combining voice and sculpture. Wrånes’ use of costumes, props, architecture and sculptures deform her outward appearance and creates dreamlike constellations. Her recent works includes the commission Stone and Singer for the 19th Biennale of Sydney as well as Yes Nix for Performa 13 in New York. Her large-scale piece about sound on wheels, Spin Echo, was a concert in Disney Concert Hall parking structure in Los Angeles. A choir on bikes and bodybuilders pulled and spun around musicians on carts, creating spiral sound-drones. In Your Next Vacation Is Calling at Lilith Performance Studio in Sweden, Wrånes rearranged the interior space into a three-dimensional abstract painting. The slow movements of the participants, sound and colors created an abstract desert, evoking a floating chaos without words and seeming without logic.
Tori Wrånes lives and works in Oslo, Norway. Wrånes graduated from Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2009 and took part in the exhibition To Be Heard is to be Seen at Henie-Onstad Art Center in the same year. In 2013 she showed at Colombo Art Biennale in Sri Lanka and at the The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, Norway, in the exhibition I Wish This Was a Song – Music in Contemporary Art.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Kristina Matousch and Tori Wrånes
August 18, 2015
Tori Wrånes, Your Next Vacation Is Calling, 2014. Courtesy of the artist and Lilith Performance Studio, Malmo.
Susan Gibb
Susan Gibb is a curator who is interested in the conditions that shape artistic production. She often works in long-term engagement with artists on the production of new work.
Susan Gibb (born 1983, Sydney, Australia) is an associate curator at If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She previously ran the independent curatorial initiative Society and has held curatorial positions at the interdisciplinary art centers Carriageworks and Campbelltown Arts Centre, both in Sydney, Australia. Her recent projects include A Planet With Two Suns with Agatha Gothe-Snape at Kunstvlaai: Festival of Independents, Amsterdam, 2012 and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2013;The River Project, 2010; and What I Think About When I Think About Dancing, 2009; both at Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney. She regularly writes for art periodicals including ArtAsiaPacific, Art Monthly Australia and Photofile.
Agatha Gothe-Snape with Susan Gibb, A Planet With Two Suns, 2012, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist and Kunstvlaai, Amersterdam.
Residents from Australia
Past Resident2015: McKay Finnigan and Associates
Wanda Koop
Wanda Koop is a visual language researcher. The inspiration for Koop’s work comes from lived experience and a keen observation of the world. Koop’s focused process begins with the making of videos, photographs and numerous drawings on post-it notes. These components are merged into larger bodies of work that then transition into multidisciplinary installations. References to popular culture, the natural world, visual media, robotics and nanotechnology are present in Koop’s work. She is also continually paying homage to the visible spectrum, expanding her knowledge of color and how it relates to her visual vocabulary.
Wanda Koop lives and works in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Koop’s career has spanned three decades and includes numerous solo exhibitions, most notably a major survey of her work at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, in 2010 and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, in 2011. She has been the recipient of numerous national and international honors, including the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal; the Japan Fund Award; and the Order of Canada. She is also the recipient of honorary doctorates from the University of Winnipeg; the Emily Carr University of Art and Design; and the University of Manitoba. In 1998, Koop founded Art City as a storefront art center, bringing contemporary visual artists and inner-city youth together to explore the creative process.
Wanda Koop, View from Here, 2014, Installation, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
