Randi Nygård

2012-01-12T14:03:00.003+01:00

Two seconds, one second of a neuron differentiating and one second of a person in landscape with wind.
Randi Nygård, 2012, 24 digital prints, 45cm*25cm*variable

2011-11-01T16:59:00.003+01:00

Photo means light
Creative Lighting Digital Photography Tips and Techniques / A color Atlas of Photosynthetic Euglenoids
Randi Nygård, 2011, books

2011-06-22T18:39:00.008+02:00

Growth and Movement
Randi Nygård, books, 2010/2011

Theodore Roosevelt gave name to the Teddy bear after he refused to shoot a bear tied to a tree. The toy bear was invented at the same time as the bears were extinct in Germany. The old Norse name for the animal is thought to have disappeared due to the fear that the bear would appear if mentioned by name, the word bear originally means brown.

Installation view The Nordic House, Reykjavik

2011-06-22T18:31:00.006+02:00

Die Zähne sind mit der Erinnerung eng verbunden

- Fossillien und Vision, Memory and Media
- Auf der Suche nach (Ab)bildern von Wirklichkeit und Moderne bildgebende Diagnostik in der Zahn-, Mund- und Kieferheilkunde

Randi Nygård, 2011, bücher

Installation view Galerie im Koernerpark

2011-04-03T19:08:00.008+02:00

Mirror neurons and the world history since the film was invented
Randi Nygård, 2011, interactive installation, texts, dvd, camera, 2011

Exhibition view from Project 0 at The Nordic House, Reykjavik

A mirror neuron is a neuron that fires both when a human acts and when the human observes the same action performed by another. Thus, the neuron "mirrors" the behaviour of the other, as though the observer were itself acting. If your arm is numb and you see somebody else being touched on an arm, you will feel the touch.

Injured soldiers ( World War 1)
Shell shock after Verdun
Mussolini
Silent polish Jews
Hitler deligheted by the sucsess of his submarines
Shipwrecked english ship crew with almost no chance of surviving
German neighbours visiting the nazi concentration camps
Rescued camp prisoners
Cuban revolution
Fidel Castor holding a speech
Mao Tse Tong presented as God of his nation
The chinese cultural revolution
Martin Luther King I have a dream
Vietnamese Boat refugees
The mothers of the plaza de mayo
Victims of apartheid
The opening of the Berlin Wall
Velvet revolution Prag 1989
Nelson Mandela released
East Congo refugees
Barack Obama the election night
Obama wins - the world reacts
Jong Tae-see crying for North Korea
Egypt 25th of January
Fukushima workers make progress in tackling the reactor

2011-01-27T13:46:00.012+01:00

Forms of ev (evolve - to unfold, open out, expand)

Randi Nygård 2011, installation, video (26 min, dvd, colour, sound), dictionary, photo collage.

During a cruise with scientists in the fjords of Svalbard the summer 2010, I started thinking about the very long time span in the evolutionary processes and how we as individuals relate to this. Since words as evangelical, evaporate, evolution, every, ever, evoke all start with ev, I wanted to find out if there were other connections between words on ev than the syllables. My project departs from all the words on ev listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, and it looks for a form they might have in common. Word with the same beginning often have visual connections, words in germanic languages starting with str most of the time describe something long and thin, and words on kn something little and round. I have first tried to find visual representations to each word on ev, but not all can be represented visually and for those I have found definitions and origns from an etymological dictionary. I have enlarged a dictionary and added the images and the definitions. The video shows all the images I have found and the sound is the definitions of the words I didn`t find visual representations to. I found out that the ev-words don`t have a simple form in common, there are more complex movements appearing to be what many of them describe (examples: evacuate, evade, evaluate, evanescent, evaporate, ever, everyone, evangelize, evicerate, evict, evoke, evolve). To visualize this, I have put all the images on top of each other and cut figures and forms out of them, so they rise out of the pile and become connected in a complex three-dimensional form.

Installation views from Tromsø Kunstforening

2010-10-11T18:27:00.007+02:00

Wall, painting, paper, plaster, wood, cellulose, gypsum, mineral, chemical element, atoms, particles, vulcanos, heat and pressure, the Big Bang
2010, variable dimensions, wall, photos, tapestry, paint

2010-08-11T13:33:00.004+02:00

Cows and wind power
C-print 50*70cm, 2010

2010-04-30T15:27:00.016+02:00

Growth and Movement
A vulcano eruption contributed to the French Revolution
2010, books, shelves, variable dimensions

Growth and Movement
Friedrich and Minerals
2010, books, shelves, variable dimensions

2010-04-23T14:35:00.007+02:00

Wall, painting, plaster, cement, bricks, clay, crystals, minerals, molecyles, chemical element, particles, vulcanos, heat and pressure, the Big Bang, 1 and 2,
2010, digital prints, 25 cm*21 cm

2010-04-06T16:49:00.003+02:00

Complex systems arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions
2010, 25,3cm*17,5cm* 1cm, pidestal, metal angle.

2010-03-24T18:04:00.005+01:00

Complex systems arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions.
2010/2009, Objects in series, National Geographic, each 25,3 cm*17,5 cm

2010-03-24T17:48:00.003+01:00

How to see a mountain chain from both sides at the same time,
2010, C-print and sculptures, 25,3cm*17,5cm

2009-09-18T17:50:00.016+02:00

Organic angles
C-print, 2009, 50 cm*50 cm

2009-09-17T12:30:00.004+02:00

Complex systems arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions.
Drawing 2009, A2

2009-09-08T16:34:00.013+02:00

Forms of life
Art Recipe, Kabul-Oslo
Installation 2009

The installation was made for an exhibition in Oslo and Kabul where the artist made artworks after exchanging recipes with an artist from the other country.
My recipe was to live like a afghan woman with six children, one cow and no electricity. Instead of doing that I did some research on different groups of people living in similar ways in what we
call the Western World. I found books about remote farms in Hardanger, the Amish in USA, clubs of East Germans living like indigenous people and other utopian and ecological groups.
These were put into picture books from Afghanistan and cut through so that a mix of these groups and afghan things came up and into the afghan landscape.

2009-06-10T14:11:00.000+02:00

2009-04-15T15:00:00.011+02:00

2009-03-18T00:09:00.005+01:00

Experiment 1, to get a bird from the roof after following the form of a birdhouse

Installation 2009, photos, lamp

2009-03-17T22:51:00.004+01:00

Experiment 2, the relation between illusions, architecture, landscape, image, movement and humans

Video 2009, 5 min, sound and colours

2008-12-15T20:51:00.000+01:00

Plants move very slowly

Drawing 2008, 42*59,4cm

2008-11-20T17:14:00.011+01:00

Plants and planets
Drawings 2008 42*59,4 cm

2008-10-16T17:20:00.002+02:00

To hear the planets orbit the sun after going deaf on one ear.

Installation 2008

The installation consists of a slide projector, framed transparents and a collage.

On the transparents there are stories about people who lost a sense or got ill and then developed new special abilities. Each story has an image relating to it. These images and other image are also used in the collage on the table of which part are cut out.

Mens ho såg på eit vulkanutbrot på tv, gjekk ho plutseleg inn i eit koma.

Då ho vakna kunne ho ikkje lenger halda balansen så godt. Etter ei stund oppdaga ho at ho såg rare formasjonar i landskap som ikkje eigentleg var der. Desse syna oppstod særleg om ho var i nærleiken av mennesker med sterke følelsar.

2008-08-15T22:06:00.003+02:00

The relationships between the landscape,

the plants and the paper bag in which my colour pencils have made a random pattern.
C-print 2008, 70*100cm

2008-08-13T21:49:00.001+02:00

Portraits with dogs and how they communicate
Video 2008, 5 min, sound colour.

The video shows three persons trying to translate a text

about how dogs communicate into only sounds and intonations,

from norwegian, spanish and english.
In the background you see dogs running around.
The text is about how dogs communicate in a musical way,

without words or categories, in a way that talks directly to

the feelings and instincts in others.

2008-08-12T22:13:00.003+02:00

Kommuneplan 2008

Installation 2008

Video 30 min, collage on a map over the town, archive containing wishes.

The inhabitants in a small community where asked first to think

about what they found important in life and then make a wish.
The wishes submitted were about health, happiness, roads, schools,

openess, love, silence and nature.
The mayor and a politician from the oposition in the community discussed all the wishes and placed photos or texts from each wish on a map over the community.

Material wishes were to be placed to the right and social concerns to the left, what the politicians found realistic should be placed in the lower part of the map and the more utopian wishes to the top.
The installation resulted in a small archive over the wishes, a video showing the discussion and the map with the photos and texts glued onto it.

2008-05-27T21:42:00.004+02:00

How to describe the world is still an open question
Installation 2008
6 A2 drawings, texts, photos and smaller drawings.

The installation consists of elements relating to eachother in various subtile perceptual ways.

In the series of photos small drawings cover and partly camuflage a map, a diagram over human cells, a plant and a small globe.

The drawings are drawn from the objects behind them but develop into something else. In the last photo all the objects are gone and the drawings partly camuflage eachother. Each drawing from the photos are then framed together with texts about perception;

how the physiology of the eye relate to vision, how the brain form concepts, and how error and diseases often bring out latent powers and abilities one has not seen before, how some blind people have strong visual memory and vivid inner images.

Facts and fictions are mixed. The bigger drawings contain elements from the smaller ones twisted together into new forms.

2008-05-27T21:39:00.001+02:00

Friends and family back and forth in time 2006

Video, two channels, sound, colour, 30 min

In "Friends and family back and forth in time" I have worked with two groups of people at different stages in life, children and adults. The children have written about wishes, hopes and believes about the future, and the grown ups and pensioners have written about their lifes, memories and worldviews. They look towards eachothers points in life. In the video the children read the grown ups` views and the elderly read the wishes and believes of the children. All the participants are from the same village in the norwegian countryside, where I grew up. The film can be seen as a diverse communal portrait where the points of view are not fixed to individuals. Their silent reactions and facial expressions towards what they read and the camera also form a big part of the video.

2008-05-27T21:38:00.005+02:00

Perception is an act of fusion and reunification

Interactive installation 2005, mirrors, beamers, cameras and lamps.

The installation consists of a 2m*1,75m big frame with 2 cm stripes of doublesided mirrors

placed vertically with 2 cm space between each.

Two cameras film from the two sides of the frame and two beamers project the two sides on to the wall in the gallery. What is seen through the mirrors in one of the projections is seen between them in the other. The room and the public is cut up in stripes and placed together. When in the room facing the frame, an optical illusion occur if there is someone on both sides of the mirrors. To visually distinguish ones`s body from the body on the other side is difficult, the brain reads them as one figure.

2008-05-27T21:38:00.003+02:00

The dream

Video, 2006, 3 min.

The videoshows six artstudents reading the poem "The dream" by Olav H. Hauge in nynorsk,

Norway`s second official language, mainly spoken in the countryside.

They don`t know the poem from before and none of them has nynorsk as a mothertongue.

The video focuses on the reactions towards the poem, the camera and the language.

The Dream by Olav H.Hauge

It is the dream we carry in secret

that something wonderful will happen

that it must happen

that time will open

that the heart will open

that doors will open

that springs will gush

that the dream will open

that we one morning will glide into

some harbor we did not know was there.

2008-05-27T21:32:00.003+02:00

In and outside time

Installation 2005

Seven transparent photos hung in an open window, getting animated by the wind.

The photos show the room where they are hung over a periode of two weeks. The trees outside are getting greener, the room is getting cleaner and the computer at the desk shows clips from news sites on different days.

2008-05-27T21:26:00.002+02:00

Nordre gate

Interactive installation 2004

This piece was shown at "The Fire Project" at Trondheim Art Museum

after a big fire in the town center.

One big photo of the pedestrian street where the houses burnt down hung in 180 pieces on a metal board. The public could take down a card and write a story or a memory from the street on it and put it up again at the metalboard to the right. The cards hung with magnets and were easy to move.

In the end the srteet was gone and fragments of the image with stories and memories remained.

2008-05-27T21:20:00.001+02:00

The room 2003

C-print, 70*50 cm