Artist Statement
Agnes Nedregard is exploring how our personal and cultural luggage informs our interpretations of situations, places and people. She places the experience of being a human body at the centre of the work, charging her presence in the world with physical energy, psychological images, actions and symbols.
The unpredictability of communication in the real moment of a meeting, whether with a place or with her audience, is her starting point, to where she brings herself, dressed in absurdly charged costumes, objects, and sometimes video. The camera she uses to focus close upon the tactile meeting between body and surfaces, or to bring together unexpected combinations of elements. Sometimes they will compliment a live work, other times they become stand alone video pieces. Objects, substances and materials are arranged to create specific atmospheres, performative in themselves or as props for performative actions. She uses drawing as "storyboards" as well as documentation from events, for their hands-on quality and tactile properties.
The performance itself is where all these elements come together, and the various properties of performance as a medium are constantly under scrutiny in Agnes' work. Always adapting the work to the site, audience and situation at hand, these become dialogue partners in the unfolding of events where the final outcome is never known until it is over.
Frequently she enters collaborations with other artists, including Brazilian aerial acrobat Raquel Nicoletti, Scottish painter Moray Hillary, Scottish composer Harold Nono - and in the performance group FireBirds (2004-05), Molly Haslund (Denmark) and Anthony Schrag (Canada).
Agnes is available for workshops, lecturing and tutoring in performance art
- lecture performance on contemporary Nordic performance art
- presentation of individual arts practice as performance lecture
- introductory workshops in visual performance art
- advanced workshops - Performance as Encounter
- individual or group tutoring and mentoring, for students and professionals
Available for exhibitions and live performances
- individually
- in collaboration with Raquel Nicoletti (Suspended) http://suspended.carbonmade.com/
- in collaboration with Moray Hillary (Nedregard & Hillary) ENTRANCES catalogue by NABROAD - Nedregard & Hillary
CV & Education
Qualifications and training
2005 - Masters of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
2003 - Specialized art department, textiles, Kunsthyskolen i Bergen, Bergen, Norway
1999 - Art History, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Solo exhibitions
2012 - I thought we were the same person - Nedregard & Hillary with Torgrim Wahl Sund, NoOSPHERE Arts, New York City
2011 - Entraces, Nedregard & Hillary, Acme Project Space, London
2010 - Private World, Nedregard & Hillary, Collins gallery, Glasgow
2009 - Imploding, live performance/ exhibition, Stills, Edinburgh
2009 - Licking Wounds (with Moray Hillary), The White House, Glasgow
2008 - Ich bin der wohlbekannte Sänger, Der vielgereiste Rattenfänger, live performance/ exhibition, KoCA, Weimar
Group exhibitions
2009 - Characters, Saison Video, Atelier 13, Valenciennes
2009 - Tthe Whole Place is Dark and We See, Centrum Kultury Zamek, Wroclaw
2009 - Vestlandsutstillingen, various, Western Norway
2009 - Xtend III: Bodies In Flight, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell
2008 - ARTCONCEPT , International Festival , St Petersburg
2008 - Cinema B-open, Cinemateket USF Verftet, Bergen
2008 - In its wake, Elevator Gallery, Hackney Wick
2008 - Insanity, Victims, and Childhood, in Short , Gallery Aferro at Red Saw gallery, Newark
2007 - ‘FR8, Art on the Waterfront’, Harbor Boulevard at 1st Street, Berth 87 , San Pedro, Los Angelses
2007 - ‘Moving image’ , Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, Glasgow
2007 - ‘Tulca Live’, Nun's Island Studio, Galway
2007 - Moving image, The Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, Kilmarnock
2007 - The National Review of Live Art 2007 (ELEVATOR), Tramway, Glasgow
2007 - TulcaLive, Nuns Island Studio, Galway
2006 - "Too Much Freedom?", LA Freewaves' 10th Festival of New Media Arts, UCLA Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles
2006 - Cinema B-Open, Cinemateket USF, Verftet, Bergen
2006 - The house of a thousand pleasures, stre Skostredet 3, Bergen, Norway
2006 - Vestlandsutstillingen 06, touring exhibition, Western Norway
2005 - "Beijing/Glasgow", Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
2005 - TERMINAL- In Fraction, K7 Hangar, Oeiras, Lisbon
2004 - International Exchange Exhibition, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York City
Live/Performance
2012 - Carrying a man - collaboration with Raquel Nicoletti, FMALE route, Sierra art Center, Santa Ana de Real, Spain
2012 - Faza Lustra, Nedregard & Hillary with Marcin Kowalik, Jaggelonian University, Krakow
2012 - FEM 12, Centre Cultural la Merce, Girona, and others, Girona, Barcelona, Sabadell
2012 - Her/ Virkelig? (Here/ Really?), Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum, Førde
2012 - We are You and You are Us, FRICTION International Performance Art Festival, Uppsala Art Museum, Uppsala
2012 - You, me and the other - ME, PALS (Performance Art Links), Fylkingen, Stockholm
2012 - You, me and trhe other - THE OTHER, beautiful Lies, University Library Garden/XXL Gallery, Warsaw
2011 - Cabaret, Armazem 13, Lisbon
2011 - exist-ence, !Metro Arts & Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane
2011 - New Territories, Ramshorn, Glasgow
2011 - The North Stars: White, .NO, New York City
2011 - You, me and the other - YOU, Acción!MAD, www.accionmad.org, Madrid
2010 - Even out the Pressure, 7a*11 International Festival of Performance Art, XPACE, Toronto
2010 - exist-ence, White Canvas Gallery, Brisbane
2010 - Pilgrimage of the fool, Lincoln Art programme, Lincoln
2010 - Total Eclipse of the Sun, Ateliers Hoherweg, Dusseldorf
2009 - Art Contact, HIAP project room, Cable Factory C4, Helsinki
2009 - Beijing Open, OPEN Realization Contemporary Art Center, Beijing
2009 - Live Art New York: Scandinavian Performance Art, Scandinavia House and Grace Exhibition Space, New York City
2009 - Livetaide, Galleria 3h+k, Pori
2009 - Mutual Understanding, Platform at Kulturskafferiet, Vaasa
2009 - Storåsen, Storåsfestivalen, Storås
2009 - Visibility Project 5 (with Raquel Nicoletti), Galata Perform, Istanbul
2008 - Between sky and sea II, Herdla, Askoy/ Bergen
2008 - Closer to the Touch, EmergeD, Brunnenstrasse 185, Berlin
2008 - HOST, Market Gallery, Glasgow
2008 - Icebreaker, Kabelvag, Lofoten
2008 - Overveldet, oppslukt (overwhelmed, submerged), Stamsund International Theatre Festival, Stamsund
2008 - overwhelmed, submerged, Stamsund International Theatre Festival, Stamsund, Lofoten
2008 - Quarantine, Atelier am Eck, Dusseldorf
2008 - Scratch night, the Arches, Glasgow
2007 - Build a room, Stills, Edinburgh
2006 - Body Navigation, National Centre for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg
2005 - Mellom Himmel og Hav, Lyngh?ysenteret, Lygra
2004 - Private Parts, Market Gallery, Glasgow
Artist talks
2010 - Unfathomable, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen
2009 - Artist talk and workshop, MA Live Art and Performance Studies, Theatre Academy, Helsinki
2007 - kroppens tale/ the language of the body, Kunsthyskolen i Bergen/ Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Bergen
Workshops
2011 - performance art workshop, Nordland Kunst - og filmfagskole, kabelvåg
2011 - performance art workshop with Gøril Wallin, Kunstskolen i Bergen, Bergen
2011 - Performance as encounter, Performance Platform, Dundee Live, Dundee
2010 - performance art workshop, Kunstskolen i Bergen, Bergen
2010 - performance art workshop, Nordland Kunst - og filmfagskole, kabelvåg
2010 - Performance as encounter, FADO Performance Art Centre, Toronto Free gallery, Toronto
2009 - artist talk and workshop, MA Live Art and Performance Studies, Theatre Academy, Helsinki
2009 - performance art workshop, Bergen Architecture school, Bergen
2009 - performance art workshop, Kunstskolen i Bergen, Bergen
2009 - performance art workshop, Nordland Kunst og filmfagskole, Kabelvag, Lofoten
2008 - performance art workshop, Bauhaus University, Weimar
2008 - performance art workshop, Kunstskolen i Bergen, Bergen
2008 - performance art workshop, Nordland Kunst og filmfagskole, Kabelvag, Lofoten
2007 - performance art workshop, Bergen Architecture school, Bergen
2007 - performance art workshop, Nordland Kunst og filmfagskole, Kabelvag, Lofoten
Residencies
2010 - Acme WASPS Work/Live residency (with Moray Hillary), Acme Fire Station, London
2007 - Arist in residence, Stills, Edinburgh
Projects
2006 - Lab nights performance project, CCA, Glasgow
Other
2012 - artist of the month, VISP, Bergen
