Matter, Gesture and Soul by MATTER, GESTURE AND SOUL

A cross disciplinary artistic research project that departs from, and investigates several encounters and alignments between Contemporary Art and Archaeology. Its primary goal is to create a broad selection of autonomous and collaborative artistic, poetic and scientific expressions and responses to Prehistoric Art and its contemporary images. It will seek to stimulate a deeper understanding of contemporary and prehistoric artistic expression and the contemporary and prehistoric human condition. The participating artists and archaeologists will create autonomous projects, but also interact with each other in workshops, seminars and collaborative artistic projects. The secondary goal of Matter, Gesture and Soul is to establish an international cross disciplinary research network at the University of Bergen and strengthen the expertise in cross disciplinary artistic and scientific work with artistic research as the driving force. The project is financed by DIKU and UiB and supported by Global Challenges (UiB)

Geir Harald Samuelsen

Haptic Drawing (Cave Dialogue), 2021 (2012)

Magnesium og pastell på papir, 210 x 200 cm

Jeg godtok invitasjonen fra mine prehistoriske forgjengere og fra steinen selv; dempet lyset i rommet og gjorde meg klar foran de store mørke og krøllete papirflakene, for de allerede eksisterende bildene, for å fylle på med lys og materie. Jeg registrerte at bildene plutselig forandret seg. Noen av sporene forsvant i prosessen, noen ble forvandlet. Nye sekvenser med bevegelige linjer og former oppstod. Ny retning, ny energi. Å ødelegge, skape og ødelegge: en kontinuerlig palimpsest av lys og skygger. Lag på lag med usynlige og synlige gester.

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So, I accepted what I felt to be an invitation from the stone itself and from the ancient engravers; to dim the room, to sit down in front of the dark surfaces adding layers of light and matter to the existing pictures, observing them change in front of me – some signals being muted in the process and others being transmuted into new sequences of moving shadows with a different material direction and energy. Transmutation through destruction and reconstruction. A continuous palimpsest of shadows and light, layer upon layer of invisible and visible gestures.

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