Performance

Gilded Trees

In Locus gilded trees performance, the artist duo use 24 carat gold leaf to gild a living tree using honey as natural adhesive.
Locus has performed gilded trees in Palermo, Moscow, Everglades, Humboldt, Hamar, Sognsvann og Västra Ämtervik.
By using the traditional human medium of gilding something sacred we attempt to connect with and honor the trees and nature at large.
We see our gilded tree performance series as an attempted dialog, where we try to connect with the trees and honor the trees where we interact through the historically traditional human medium of gilding something sacred.
We see a shift from the anthropos/human-centered worldview and to a broader, more balanced way of living and understanding of the world. This includes honoring and nurturing all aspects of nature.
Link to video of performance nr 6 and 8 HERE

CoSA - Concerning The Spiritual in art

CoSA - Concerning the Spiritual in Art is a collaborative artistic research platform including various artists and institutions.
Through artistic and curatorial praxis we seek to investigate the spiritual in art that was so important for the modernist movement 100 years ago, and which is resurfacing today in contemporary art.
The project results in exhibitions, events, performances, artist books and a publication about the project by LOCUS publishing.

2018 events:

August: Cassata Drone, Palermo (IT) Artist presentation of the CoSA artist books and bee garden project, with performance Gilded Trees nr 2 by LOCUS.
July: San Francisco Art Book Fair (USA) Book launch and presentations
Summer: LOCUS bee sanctuary garden (Oslo, NO)
April: Transteinen / Sami Varanger Museum (Finnmark, NO) Performance by Katarina Skår Lisa and LOCUS.

2017 events:
Book launches of CoSA Artist books:

57 Venice Biennale at Bosnia and Herzegovina Pavillion, finissage week.
The Norwegian Institute at Athens during Documenta Opening week.

Locus at Transteinen in Finnmark during BAR Residency on summer solstice of 2016.

Research trips, performances and events in collaboration with LATERNA:

Monte Veritá in Switzerland (study trip) April
The Norwegian institute at Athens and Hill of Muses, Athens (Performance/event)
Áhkánjárstábba / Stalloen in Kvalsund, Norway (Performance) June.
Museum of Avant Garde, St.Petersburg (Performance / Installation) October.

LATERNA: Inger-Reidun Olsen and Marianne Skjeldal, both choreographers and performers, coming from a dance background, but now working in various formats within performance. www.laternalaterna.org