Muscle Temple

16/12/2014

Johanna Gustafsson Fürst and Lisa Torell have a long history working in context-based and site-specific projects in public space with questions concerning architecture, sociology and environment. Recently, they launched a new form of cooperation in which they work side by side with individual projects and fertilize each other's processes through discussion and input until it becomes a unit.

For 0047, they worked with Handover Outlined Clearly / Clean Out # 2 where GALLERY 0047 is context and starting point for a re-negotiation of the place, physically and mentally. The work is a site-specific installation and performance-act where they together through space, aesthetics and movement investigated roles, spatial hierarchy and perception – language.

As a start of their residency they spent a week in August analyzing the institutional framework of gallery 0047 in relation to the concept of "The Residency". They also arranged a dinner with the leaders of four major art institutions in Oslo.

During their second residency in October they arranged the event: "Opening and Clumsy Corner", Performance by Johanna Gustafsson Fürst and Lisa Torell. The artist staged the institutional structures of gallery 0047 through a 30 minutes performance leading the audience around the complete complex of the gallery in addition to the new architecture of "The Residency".

16/12/2014

Sara Lundén, performance artist from Stockholm worked for a week constructing a shower for The Residency, creating a design related to her own loft space in Stockholm.

During her second residency period she created the event:
"SARALUNDEN’S PLACE OSLO" - Durational Monday: Performance and consert by Sara Lunden. For the event we re-designing and re-lighted the architecture as Sara Lundéns private loft apartment in Stockholm. As a durational loop, she sang to her own musicvideo filmed in her own loft space in 2003. The night ended in a dinnerparty and sleepoverparty, as is the custum in Sara Lundens home gatherings in Stockholm.

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16/12/2014

Matthew Antezzo with his girlfriend Yumi Tanabe and his 16 year old NYC based daughter lived in the architecture in August. Mia Antezzo grew up in a converted loft in Brooklyn NYC, a loft that Matthew once remodeled. During the residency period she moved into the closet of "The Residency" creating her own private space in the loft structure. Matthew developed shoji screens for the gaps in the wall structure of the architecture, defining the private space away from the gallery facilities and creating a calm backdrop for Yumis Yoga practice.

During his residency period Matthew arranged the event:
"I'LL BE SITTING IN A CHAIR,DIFFERENT FROM THE ONE YOU ARE IN NOW. Conversation between Matthew Antezzo, Erlend Hammer and Goro Tronsmo". The event was concerned around the piece "Untitled Chair"- a concrete sculpture transported to "The Residency" as a dialogue with the 7th Nordic Bienniale MOMENTUM in Moss, where 6 other similar chairs were installed during the same time period. Erlend Hammer was the curator of Momentum with the exhibion "Dare to Love Yourself" - his curatorial statement of Momentum being that installing modernistic art was his only passion and motive for working as a curator. He also states that his core motive of starting his own gallery was to become wealthy. During the event we took the chair on a tour around the different parts of the facilities of 0047, looking at where the modernistic sculpture created a dialogue with the space, and where it "claimed" the space to such an extent that also the residental architecture became a sculpture in a whitecube. To intoduce a modernistic autonomous art object into the structure this way became a tool for displaying architectural, structural and curatorial issues connected with gallery architecture in general and 0047 in specific.

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Resident Gérald Friedrich Spelsberg (GFS) invited Aérea Negrot, rRoxymore, and Viron Erol Vert -cornerstones of the queer/music/fashion/ art scene in Berlin, and during the residency period turned the complete premises of 0047 into production space. During 2 weeks we created a fictive band, created stage peronas, costumes, and shot a music video with the architecture of "The Residency" as set design. During the residency period we also arranged dinners, binge watched "Orange Is The New Black" in the amphi structure of the architecture and arranged live-screenings of the support concerts for LGBT rights in Russia, where Aerea Negrot was one of the headliners, flying back and fort to Oslo during the residency period.

On the film's release party 3 months later The screening displayed the architecture that was set-design in the film as installation architecture for the music video. The event evolved into a club using the architecture as dancefloors, DJ desk, bar area and black rooms, and the musicians from the video performing as themselves in a new staged setting.

24/10/2013

These fabulous people will be in Oslo this saturday. You don't wanna miss them!
- Gérald Friedrich Spelsberg, Aérea Negrot, rRoxymore and Viron Erol Vert.

concert with Aérea Negrot and rRoxymore from 10pm

14/06/2013