In the workshop Physical Scroll, Andreas Knag Danielsen and David Lamignan Larsen challenged future adults to use an analog approach to question the use of technology in today’s society. They were asked to use themselves and their own interest in order to learn how they can use simple and accessible tools (e.g. cardboard, tape, scissors etc. and their own smartphone) to create a platform where they can be seen and heard.
Danielsen and Larsen wanted to get the participants to think more about where the line sits between the digital and the physical world, and how this affects us as human beings. During the workshop the participants built a large smartphone in cardboard, which became a stage where they performed and simulated how a user scrolls through images on social media. In addition to building the smartphone they also learned how to make artworks using radio controlled cars, resulting in
In the workshop Physical Scroll, Andreas Knag Danielsen and David Lamignan Larsen challenged future adults to use an analog approach to question the use of technology in today’s society. They were asked to use themselves and their own interest in order to learn how they can use simple and accessible tools (e.g. cardboard, tape, scissors etc. and their own smartphone) to create a platform where they can be seen and heard.
Danielsen and Larsen wanted to get the participants to think more about where the line sits between the digital and the physical world, and how this affects us as human beings. During the workshop the participants built a large smartphone in cardboard, which became a stage where they performed and simulated how a user scrolls through images on social media. In addition to building the smartphone they also learned how to make artworks using radio controlled cars, resulting in the images that appeared in the videos.
The videos were published as live stories (time limited videos) on Kunsthall Stavanger’s Instagram page. As a continuation of the previous workshop this semester the participants also made masks that consisted of a collage of everyone’s faces. The masks were worn every time they performed inside the smartphone stage.
The final result consisted of an exhibition in the lobby of Kunsthall Stavanger in correlation with the yearly holiday party, where visitors could see the physical art works. The audience was also encouraged to visit Kunsthall Stavanger’s Instagram in order to see the videos of the participants performing the action of a Physical Scroll. Visitors could also get their photo taken inside the smartphone stage using an analog Polaroid camera.
Curator: Kristina Ketola Bore
Mobilizing Citizenship has received generous funding from Arts Council Norway and and Rogaland County Municipality.
Andreas Knag-Danielsen (b. 1983, Bergen, Norway) works with conceptual art with a focus on performance, sculpture and digital media. His practice is driven by an exploration of how the human body relates to technology. Knag-Danielsen is interested in the indefinite relationship between the body and the increasingly intrusive role of technology. He explores how the internal image of the body is perceived through an exploration of the body's many limitations and similarities we all share as human beings. His practice is constantly changing but will always be fortified and take its starting point from what it means to live in a human body in a posthumanist era. Since 2011, he has collaborated with Arngrímur Borgþórsson as the artist duo Knaggi. Knag-Danielsen also works as a curator. In 2015-2017 he worked for the artist-run gallery Galleri CC in Malmö where he lives and works. In 2018, he started the performative and curatorial project B3IG3. Among others, he has exhibited at Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo, Norway), Galleri Maskinen (Umeå, Sweden), Malmö Konsthall (Malmö, Sweden), Verdens Ende Kunstforening (Tjøme, Norway), SIM gallery (Reykjavík, Iceland), Fotografiska (Stockholm, Sweden), Photographic Center Peri (Turku, Finland) and performed at Galleri Verkligheten (Umeå, Sweden), Galleri 2 (Lofoten, Norway) and Performance Art Bergen 2013 (Norway). andreasknag-danielsen.com
David Lamignan Larsen is born in 1981 to an Nigerian mother and a Norwegian father. He grew up in Norway until he, when 11 years old, moved to Gabon, West Africa in 1991. He moved back to Norway in 1997 because his father got ill. Sadly, his father passed away leaving a young confused 17 year old alone with his African mother and siblings. The reason this story is told like this, is because it has an important relevance to his art. He makes stories, as Nigerians are rumored to be great storytellers. His inspiration comes from his experience and researches, which are mostly based on the question "Where do I fit in?" In Norway he experienced a lot of direct and indirect racism. When in Africa (Nigeria or Gabon) he was looked upon as white. "Where do I fit in?", with a twist of irony, humour and creativity inspired by how it is to be trapped in between 2 cultures, between West- Africa and Europe. His work is based on his experiences in real life and from personal research. Lamignan has also exhibited in different countries like Norway, Sweden, Germany and U.S.A.
