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Island Express Oddbjorn Erland Aarstad Hovedbilde

Island Express is a sculptural and performative work by De Naive and Karoline Bakken Lund, and is a hybrid of an installation and a performance. The work was created on commission for Stavanger Art Museum in 2020. 
Island Express is a fictitious place, a ‘non place’, an artwork and at the same time nothing. A fluid cosmos that operates and lives in an undefined terrain. Island Express asks questions about what is considered valuable: what is ‘something’ and what has meaning? Beside the smelly and overgrown banks of Mosvatnet Lake, where Stavanger Art Museum was built, De Naive and Karoline Bakken Lund found inspiration in the exotic red-listed vegetation and popular hiking trail that circumnavigates the lake. The trail was subsequently renamed the Island Express Highway – a kaleidoscope of hikers, museum, joggers, a Danish lady with a collie dog in a pushchair and sculptures by Aase Texmon Rygh and Bård Breivik. They all go together to paint a three-dimensional picture with temporary and moveable sculptures and actions. A local ecosystem that accumulates and practises by constantly developing in new terrain.
“We run from place to place. Hammer away at the stump, get ready and tumble out of the undergrowth. We pull in threads, saw and jump in unknown terrain. Wail in unison, move stones and pressure-wash the view. We push down and build up transformative installations. Let chaotic forces loose and initiate monumental images. We’re confused, we call for help. Tools float out and wallow in long breaks. We dream of synchronised flash-mob fantasies. Carry awkward materials. Put on our stilettos and jump into Island Express.” 
In Oslo, Island Express will unfold in Westye Egeberg Park. Audiences should meet at Westye Egebergs gate by Hellige Olga menighet - Vår Frelsers Gravlund. <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/59°55'14.7%22N+10°44'48.3%22E/@59.92075,10.7445613,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d59.9207356!4d10.7467509?hl=nb-NO">See map here.</a> 
DE NAIVE is made up of the dancers Harald Beharie, Julie Moviken and Charlott Utzig. In a landscape that encompasses many art forms, they work in a continuously site-oriented performative practice. From commissioned works for museums and galleries, performative actions, performances in public spaces and cyberspace, the group’s work manifests in multifaceted constellations and varying formats. Somewhere between the pathetic and the useless, De Naive searches for the potential to expose the vulnerable, the embarrassed and the intense. 
They have invited the transdisciplinary artist Karoline Bakken Lund into Island Express. She researches found objects, textile, craftwork and the performative material’s innate qualities and its relationship with space, surroundings, body and situation.

Island Express

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Island Express - et nytt landskap.