ARBEIDS STIPEND!!!
Endelig! Jeg har fått etårig arbeidsstipend fra Bildende Kunstnernes Hjelpefond. Det er første gangen jeg får arbeidsstipend etter 20 år som kunstner og jeg var nær ved å gi opp. Endelig kan jeg fordype meg i den delen av mitt kunstnerskap som jeg ellers må legge på hylla av mangel på tid og penger. Og […]
ECOCULTURES 2012
Participating in a panel at the conference Ecocultures 2012, 17-18th April, together with Oleg Koefoed, Natalia Eernstman, Karen Blincoe and Lucy Neal. We will explore futures thinking, artistic practice and imagination in relation to learning for sustainability. We will address questions such as: Do we have to plan from or for the future? How we foster futures […]
Nurturing Nature
Nurturing Nature March 20 – April 15 2012, Freedman Gallery, Reading, Pennsylvania, US Based on an exhibition held at the Osilas Gallery, Concordia College, N.Y., last spring, the artists included use the natural environment as both subject and material in their exploration of the creative process. Sustainability, endangered species, and the beauty, utility, and diversity […]
Nurturing Nature
Nurturing Nature March 20 – April 15, Freedman Gallery Based on an exhibition held at the Osilas Gallery, Concordia College, N.Y., last spring, the artists included use the natural environment as both subject and material in their exploration of the creative process. Sustainability, endangered species, and the beauty, utility, and diversity of nature are all […]
Bread as Poetry
In Vadsø Museum on the 9th of January 2012, in the very North of Norway, to give a talk about bread and showing my film Alchemy – the poetics of bread. The bread traditions in this particular area are based on sourdough made from rye flour and originates from Finland.
The Magic Tablecloth
After one intensive week of filming in Nikel, Northern Russia, and another week of editing day and night my new film The Magic Tablecloth is now ready to be screened at the Barents Spektakel in Kirkenes! It has been a magical journey thanks to the wonderful work of the curatorial team at Pikene på Broen […]
Residency in Barents
On my way to Kirkenes to do a residency and prepare work for Barents Spektakel on the 8-12th of February. Pikene på Broen is organising the residency and have done a marvellous job of composing a very interesting program for my stay. Also going for a couple of days to Nikel across the Russian border. […]
Halikonlahti Green Art “Food Chains”
Showed my films “Alchemy – the poetry of bread and “AISH – bread as life” Baked limppu with Finnish sourdough and ryeflour with Mikko Kivelä and an eager crowd of limppubakers. Made delicious viili with tinkimaito (Finnish for raw milk straight from the cow) and culture. And gathering traces of viili culture in my blog: […]
Halikonlahti Green Art
FOOD CHAINS 10.9 – 30.10.2011 FERMENTING CHANGE – limpuu and viili as cultural aesthetics by Eva Bakkeslett, artist and cultivator “Alchemy” 20mins A poetic evocation on the alchemy of bread brings the act of baking the most basic of staples, into a high art form. Here nature and human culture collude. Hands pounding, mixing, kneading and […]
TEDx Tromsø
“Living cultures – from counteractions to symbiosis” Talk at TEDx Tromsø, Verdensteateret, 25th August 2011 The word CULTURE comes from the Latin word cultura – meaning to cultivate – to prepare the ground for something to grow out of. But culture also describes the process of fermentation of food by activating microorganisms. Humans have over […]