Research Fellow Pedro Gómez-Egaña conducts
his Viva Voce in artistic research

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 5–8pm

Bryggens Museum
Dreggsallmenningen 3, 5835 Bergen, Norway 

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Pedro Gómez-Egaña, Research Fellow at Bergen Academy of Art and Design, conducts his Viva Voce on his artistic research project “Calligraphies” on 23 October in Bergen, Norway.

Gomez-Egaña’s research is motivated by the importance of time in cultural definitions of disaster, anxiety, and alert, whilst resisting the dynamics of shock found in media culture. The result is a work that is ghostly and playful, and that ranges from elaborate theatrical productions with carefully devised viewing conditions, to performative video pieces.

Pedro Gómez-Egaña’s artistic research project “Calligraphies” reflects on the uncanny, the cinematic, the mechanic and theatricality as approaches influenced by an active differentiation between the iconography and temporality of catastrophe. His artistic research also explores how these differences are found in contemporary art practices that expose media culture as an agent and a symptom of current temporal structures.

Appraisal Committee
Stephanie Rosenthal, Chief Curator, Hayward Gallery, London
Brandon LaBelle, Professor in New Media, Bergen Academy of Art and Design
Knut Ove Arntzen, Professor in Theatre Studies, University of Bergen

Bergen Academy of Art and Design
Bergen Academy of Art and Design offers BA and MA study programmes in Art and Design. Artistic Research and development is a central, conspicuous and integrated aspect of KHiB’s focus. KHiB actively utilises its potential to provide an arena for development of projects in art and design.

The Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowship Programme 
The Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowship Programme is parallel to other research educations organised as academic PhD programmes. The Artistic Research Fellowships Programme is among the first in this field in Europe. The programme offers a three-year position as Research Fellow to candidates who have completed the highest art education within their subject area. The Programme is coordinated by Bergen Academy of Art and Design.