Kunstnersenteret i Oppland

Oppland Arts Centre

Prosjekt: Flere Steder for Alltid

Project: More Places for Ever

Wiesesgt. 3

2601 Lillehammer

T +47 61256060

F +47 61262055

stede-a@online.no

www.stederplaces.com

PROGRAMME

Friday 15 August

10.00 Presentation - Maihaugen
11.00 Transition
11.10 Guri Lykken and Åshild Ulstrup: Stories from the Place
11.55 Christine Christophersen: Painting for My Land
12.55 Lunch
14.10 Transition
14.20 Gayatri Spivak: The Education of Gayatri Spivak
16.30 End
21.10 Opening party - More places for Ever - Kulturhuset Banken

For registration
www.oppland.no
or phone: 0047 61256060

Ingrid Book/Carina Hedén, Bo Meyer, Marianne Bramsen, Jussi Valtakari, Richard Layzell, Brian Catling, Kamin Lertchaiprasert, Inghild Karlsen, Ina Eriksen, BuckleBunnies (Siri Austeen, Søssa Jørgensen), Tina Mareen Buddeberg, Marit Arnekleiv, Jan Egge, Fredrik Haugen Pedersen og Kurt Johannessen.

at Lillehammer Art Museum 23 August — 5 October

www.lillehammerartmuseum.com

Nansen school 4 August — 13 August

www.nansenskolen.no

Youth projects at Oppland Arts Centre,
Lillehammer Art Museum and at Lillehammer cinema

What significance can and will art have in today's society? Has art become a product that we manufacture for an art consuming market? In August the site-specific art project More places for Ever will focus on these questions. Part of the project is the conference PLACES, which includes internationally renowned names on its list of speakers, like Gayatri Spivak and Okwui Enwezor.

The local and the global. History and fiction. Art and society. You and I. The themes of this conference are tightly connected to the concept behind the art project More places for Ever, with the common goal to raise a debate and challenge more people to think about and analyse art's function in the commercial society.

Richard Layzell is an English performance artist, who also works within commercial institutions. He uses the lecture situation as an arena for his performance art. The title of his lecture at this conference is THE ARCHITECTURE OF BELIEF.

Gayatri Spivak is a professor at Colombia University in the United States. She has had great impact on the theoretical development within art in our time, through her translations, articles, books, and lectures. She has become particularly known for her work on translating Derrida's work Of Grammatology, and for her work within literary theory and -criticism, especially in relation to the imperialistic project. At this conference she will speak about a project that she works on in India, her native country: a college of education for women without caste, with whom she keeps contact and has provided with financial support. Her lecture is entitled THE EDUCATION OF GAYATRI SPIVAK.

Okwui Enwezor is one of the world's leading experts on and intermediaries of African contemporary art, and holds a strong position on the international art scene as both art critic and curator. Enwezor was main curator at the international art exhibition Dokumenta 11, and has previously been artistic manager of the II Johannesburg biannual. His lecture is entitled TOWARDS A CRITICAL REVIEW OF DOCUMENTA 11.

Stig Sæterbakken is an author. In connection with the first gathering of artists in this project, Sæterbakken gave a lecture that would act as a theoretical platform. The lecture was on the concept of stageing, as an opposite to the contents of meaning. The lecture Sæterbakken will give at the conference is entitled GUEST+HOST=GHOST.

Ole Robert Sunde is an author. He has his background in two different cultures, as Sunde's mother comes from Egypt, and his artistic work ground is in Norway. He is invited to talk about his choice of artistic expression, and his lecture is entitled CAIRO, OF COURSE.

Guri Lykkjen. In connection with "The Place", and man's relationship with the place, we have invited ninety-year-old Guri Lykkjen for a conversation with Åshild Ulstrup. Guri Lykkjen will talk about her homeland and her experiences at and from the place; about the natural and the supernatural. The conversation is called STORIES FROM THE PLACE.

Christine Christophersen is an artist. She is a political activist in the aboriginal people's fight for rights in their own land in Australia. She coins the creative and artistic force with her political engagement, and uses her art directly in connection to political matters. The title of her lecture is PAINTING FOR MY LAND.

Per Bj. Boym is the director of the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo. He will give the introductory speech of the conference.

The speakers share the common traits of being fearless people who communicate first-hand knowledge with definite stands, who investigate their surroundings, and who use themselves in their investigations.

The conference and the art project aim at searching individuals; ordinary, outraged people; a general arts- and culture concerned audience; an art professional audience, opportunists, and people involved in the project More Places for Ever, like artists, students, teachers, and people within cultural management.

THE ART PROJECT MORE PLACES FOR EVER TAKES PLACE IN LILLEHAMMER, NORWAY, 14 AUGUST TILL 14 SEPTEMBER 2003.

More Places for Ever challenges the artists involved in relation to this approach to the problems. Lillehammer is a small trading town with great ambitions. By arranging a site-specific art project that involves artists, art students, schools, art institutions, the commercial community and administration, we hope to take the town into possession, and that this will lead to discussions, reactions and awareness.