Artist on the Collection | Members Only
29 Apr, 18:00 — 18:45
Camille Norment in conversation with Steinar Sekkingstad
Camille Norment will be in conversation with Steinar Sekkingstad, Curator and Head of Publications, reflecting on her work Everyting but Noting, and on selected works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection.
Artist on the Collection offers a close encounter with works from Astrup Fearnley Collection. The program invites artists featured in our current display to discuss their own work and works by their peers which resonate with their practice. It offers a personal and insightful entry into the collection.
In her sculptural installations, Camille Norment uses sound to explore what she calls cultural psychoacoustics. Everyting but Noting, currently on display, consists of a singing bowl and a pair of iron Baoding balls, also known as Chinese meditation balls. Created as sonic pairs, Baoding balls represent yin and yang through a difference in tone, existing together as a balanced unit. In this work, two programmed magnets set the balls in motion, causing them to move in disarray as they attempt to settle. Touching on equilibrium and chaos, spirituality and quantum physics, the work reflects on the unstable relationship between balance and disruption–and the fragile conditions through which equilibrium is sustained.
Camille Norment (b. 1970, USA) is an Oslo-based American multimedia artist. Her work is widely recognized across both contemporary art and music, and spans installation, composition, sound, sculpture, drawing, and performance. Norment explores sociocultural and psychological phenomena through what she calls cultural psychoacoustics: the ways in which context, form, space, and the viewer’s body interact in shaping physical and cognitive experience.
Over the past 30 years, Norment has exhibited and performed internationally, and her work is represented in numerous public and private collections. Recent solo exhibitions include Dia Art Foundation, Chelsea New York, Bergen Kunsthall and The Venice Biennale of Art, among others.
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