Dataton Dialogues —Tris Vonna-Michell, Henrik Follesø Egeland; 23 October 2023—January 2024

Dataton Dialogues —Tris Vonna-Michell, Henrik Follesø Egeland; 23 October 2023—January 2024

Dataton Dialogues

Tris Vonna-Michell, Henrik Follesø Egeland

23 October 2023—January 2024

  • Press release

    Pachinko is pleased to announce Dataton Dialogues, a residency with artists Tris Vonna-Michell and Henrik Follesø Egeland.

    Organised in collaboration with PRAKSIS, the residency invites the two artists to work at Pachinko from 23 October 2023 to January 2024, during which they will use a 1970s Dataton MIC 3 Programmer for PAX dissolve units to generate audiovisual experiments that respond to the artistic practices of Ed Vonna-Michell (1950-2020), Tris’s father. As well as drawing on the Vonna-Michell family’s history of exploring self-organised art, the residency will invite contributions from other individual researchers and groups. Through this process, the residents aim to explore and expand the concept of authorship and develop new ways of working with archival, image and sound materials.

    Conducted in two phases, the residency will lead to the exhibition of a slide and sound installation at Pachinko in early 2024. Phase 1, focused on production, research and experimentation, will take place in October–November 2023, and Phase 2, in December, will share and further develop the process with the public through talks, presentations and visits.

    Tris Vonna-Michell is an internationally renowned artist based in Oslo and Stockholm. Vonna-Michell’s work utilises a plethora of technical devices, modes of presentation and installational approaches, encompassing performance, audio recordings, slide projections, poetry, sound poetry, printed matter, photography and film.

    Henrik Follesø Egeland is an Oslo-based visual artist and photographer, and a graduate from the Oslo National Academy of Arts (MFA) as well as the University of Roehampton (BFA). Through a technical engagement with photography, his work operates both within and outside traditional photographic representation.

    Organised in collaboration with centre for art and learning PRAKSIS

    Events will take place between PRAKSIS and Pachinko.

    Image Tris Vonna-Michell, Boxed Matter, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Jan Mot, Brussels

Extended Dissolve—Henrik Follesø Egeland; 7–10 December 2023

Extended Dissolve—Henrik Follesø Egeland; 7–10 December 2023

Extended Dissolve

Henrik Follesø Egeland

7–10 December 2023

  • Using slit-scan photography and 1970s image slide PAX dissolve units, Henrik Follesø Egeland’s Extended Dissolve takes a closer look at the static image in a constant state of change.

    Through a combination of double- and back-projection techniques, Extended Dissolve experiments with still images in continuous dissolution. The slides on show have been captured in a specially constructed slit-scan camera – the technology most commonly used in finish line photos – at the Gudbrandsdalslågen river in south-eastern Norway. In conjunction with two image projectors, the installation is controlled by a Dataton system allowing the images to be in a constant process of seamless transition, collapsing the common idea of the photographic moment.

    The term “dissolve” plays a central role in the work, carrying a dual significance of both a technical process and a poetic potential. It is a state that is uniquely characterised by its simultaneous passivity and activity, where constructive processes coexist with elements of dissolution.This exhibition is the first presentation of preliminary results from the residency Dataton Dialogues. Phase 1, centred around production, research and experimentation took place in October–November; phase 2, in December–January, now seeks to open the process to the public through talks, presentations and visits.

    Organised in collaboration with PRAKSIS, the residency Dataton Dialogues brings Tris Vonna-Michell and Henrik Follesø Egeland to work at Pachinko from 23 October 2023 to January 2024, during which they will use a 1970s Dataton MIC 3 Programmer for PAX dissolve units to generate audiovisual experiments.

    Henrik Follesø Egeland (b. 1994) is an Oslo-based visual artist and photographer, and a graduate from the Oslo National Academy of Arts (MFA) as well as the University of Roehampton (BFA). Through a technical engagement with photography, his work operates both within and outside traditional photographic representation. Exploring alternative means of photographic recording and reproduction, as well as possibilities of transmutation. This technical experimentation is used as an investigative approach, to explore ideas of landscape, memory and perceptions of reality. Pulling together webs of interconnected yet disparate ideas and notions, into new constellations.

Ingrid Torvund—A Fungus Amungus; 29 September—22 October 2023

Ingrid Torvund—A Fungus Amungus; 29 September—22 October 2023

Ingrid Torvund
A Fungus Amungus

29 September–22 October 2023

  • Opening 29 September 18:00–21:00

    Ingrid Torvund (NO) is an artist and filmmaker who works in the fields of film, sculpture and drawing, and whose works explore intertwining connections between nature, culture and mythology, as well as themes of alienation and familiarity.

    Torvund graduated with a BA from the Oslo Academy of the Arts in 2012. Previous solo exhibitions include Kunsthall Grenland, Spriten Kunsthall, Rom for kunst, Soft Gallery, Kunsthall Oslo and Van Etten. She has also been part of group exhibitions at Southbank Centre in London, Bomuldsfabrikken Kunsthall, Tegnerforbundet, Lillehammer kunstmuseum and PYTON, Oslo. She has been twice included in Høstutstillingen – the annual National Art Exhibition. Ingrid Torvund works are represented in the collection of the Municipality of Oslo and Kiasma in Finland.

    The exhibition was kindly supported by the City of Oslo and Arts Council Norway

Mette Hammer Juhl—Time Killer; 18 August—19 September

Mette Hammer Juhl—Time Killer; 18 August—19 September

Mette Hammer Juhl
Time Killer

18 August–19 September, 2023

  • Opening 18 August 19:00–22:00

    Mette Hammer Juhl (DK) is a visual artist based in Copenhagen working with sound, sculpture, video and site-specific installations. Her work, often collaborative and based on collective research, explores how our cultural understandings of fun and entertainment are shaped through economic, social and political ideologies, and how this, in turn, has transformed our ideas of freedom, escape, boredom and recreation.

    Prior exhibitions include Hygum Kunstmuseum (DK), Four Boxes Gallery (DK), Bergen Kunsthall (NO), Den Frie (DK), Institut Funder Bakke (DK), Vermilion Sands (DK), First Draft (AU), Copenhagen Contemporary (DK), and Auto Italia (UK).

    The exhibition was kindly supported by Oslo kommune

Arisa Purkpong—Punched card; 23 June—23 July 2023

Arisa Purkpong—Punched card; 23 June—23 July 2023

Arisa Purkpong
Punched card

23 June–23 July, 2023

  • Arisa Purkpong (b. 1995) lives and works in Düsseldorf and Oslo.
    They studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Trisha Donnelly and Christopher Williams. In their artistic practice, Arisa Purkpong uses the media of video, photography and graphics, which they collage to make publications and installations. Their work has previously been shown at Trafo Kunsthall, Asker (2023), the Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf (2021); Baustelle Schaustelle - Raum für Junge Kunst, Essen/Düsseldorf (2020); Am Ende des Tages, Düsseldorf (2020); KIT - Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf (2019); and Tentacles Gallery, Bangkok (2019). They developed a film screening for the event series Another Eye at Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2022) and the Feminist Film Program (with the support of Claudia von Alemann and Christopher Williams) at Black Box Kino, Düsseldorf (2020).

  • A hand-stitched publication was published on the occasion of the exhibition. Download excerpt here.

    Edition: 25

    Prize: 500,00 NOK

    Format: 16,4 x 23 cm

  • Audio file coming soon

    Arisa Purkpong in conversation with film scholar Ingrid S. Holtar: Discussing the exhibition and feminist film history in Norway and Germany

    Moderator: Sophie Holzberger

    Bios:
    Ingrid S. Holtar is a film scholar living in Oslo. She received a Ph.D. in Film Studies from NTNU Trondheim in 2022 with the doctoral thesis "Feminism on Screen: Feminist filmmaking in Norway in the 1970s". She is currently working as a research librarian in the Section for Visual Media and Conservation at the National Library of Norway. Her research is oriented towards feminist historiography and feminist film culture in Scandinavia.

    Sophie Holzberger is a PhD student at the Cinema Studies Department at New York University. Their PhD project examines collaborative dimensions of feminist filmmaking as political practice and is specifically interested in a relational historiography of West German film. They are currently part of a collective organizing the film festival "feminist elsewheres" which will celebrate over 50 years of feminist film work at Kino Arsenal in November 2023.

Natalie Price Hafslund, Javon Bennett—Feelings for strangers; 26 March 2023

Natalie Price Hafslund, Javon Bennett—Feelings for strangers; 26 March 2023

Natalie Price Hafslund, Javon Bennett
Feelings for strangers

26 March, 2023

  • I don’t know you yet
    maybe I never will
    but I have feelings for you
    for you to have
    or for you to leave
    I can put the feelers out
    and I can be strange
    and you can eat cake
    if you like

    Javon Bennett works as a baker to create deliciously edible installations. Playfully exploring ingredients to stretch and extract flavours, textures and colours, applicating with a somewhat painterly eye and approach. His creations serve to hold a purposeful presence to be shared and gorged; to bring fleeting bliss with fantastical beauty. All the way down.


    Natalie Price Hafslund is an artist and writer based in Oslo experimenting with notions of sociality, consciousness and narrative. Previous exhibitions include The Will to Believe, SET, London 2022, L’angoisse Dominicale, Treize, Paris 2022, Mirror of Impalpable Nudity, GAO, London 2020, Imagoholics, Elephant, Los Angeles 2019 and Clean Criminal, UKS and Kunstnernes Hus Oslo 2018.