de:LUX @ Spectra Festival 2020

Post Cambrian Existence

Post Cambrian Existence – Alexander Salvesen

Location: Kirk of Saint Nicholas, Aberdeen

Created as a part of de:LUX Nordic platform during a 48h period at location as a part of SPECTRA Light Festival in Aberdeen, Scotland
https://www.spectrafestival.co.uk/

BIOS:

Ísidór Jökull Bjarnason (Iceland)

Ísidór Jökull Bjarnason is an Icelandic musician and artist that craves to explore human perception. He is currently studying New Media Composition at the Icelandic University of the Arts. He has been taking part in the Reykjavík music scene for a few years now as a solo artist under the name Aftenging. At the same time he has been exploring how to convey the emotions of the music through visuals and lighting and blends that into his solo performances as well as doing VJ work.

Spotify: Aftenging

Alexander Salvesen (Finland)

Is a Helsinki based artist who primarily works with light in different forms, either through usage of pigments or by working with light itself. In his works he likes to emphasize colour, space and shape, and especially their relations to each other and to the viewer. He is interested in the manipulation of our perception and likes to, through his works, inspire the viewer’s mind to reflect on their own senses and suggest a moment of serenity by just being present in the moment. Salvesen finds inspiration outside in the nature and from its yearly phenomena, but also in present political and socio economic situations and the ongoing climate crisis. In the performing arts, Salvesen mainly concentrates on lighting design for contemporary dance, performance art and theatre.

alexandersalvesen.com

Elly Stormer-Vadseth (Norway)

Elly Stormer Vadseth is a Norwegian/American interdisciplinary artist, researcher and educator based between the Oslo Fjord,NO and Boston,USA. In her practice she explores Ecology, environmental narrative(s), eco feminisms, weather and the transformative potential in movement.

Through embodied research methods and technology, she makes performative works that seek to question, subvert and animate relationships between human and more than human, matter, other animals and organisms. Informed by studies in post-humanism, she frequently explores, imagines and research intuitive and sensorially responsive processes.

www.esvkunst.com

Produced in Association with Curated Place (Great Britian), Einkofi Productions (Iceland), Factory Light Festival/blekksprut1 Asker (Norway), LUX Helsinki (Finland), and Reflektor Festival Frederiksberg (Denmark). Supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers.