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Together Again

After a busy 2 years apart (Carpenter moving back to the USA for a new academic position and Longva focusing on the major transformation of her family's former dairy farm to an Artist Residency), L+C met up again in Trondheim in July to reflect and reconnect. A huge thanks to the amazingly supportive LKV for the opportunity! This residency had surprisingly fortuitous timing as a review of their monograph, 10 Together, was published the same week in the scholarly journal, Studies in Costume and Performance.

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We may be turned around and slowed down in this world as it is right now, but our roots are deep, and the future is always becoming.

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"10 Together" WINS Best Publication Award at PQ2023

In their beautifully crafted book, the authors document and critically question the 10 years of their collaboration across time, across national and continental borders, and against cultural expectations. Playful and poetic in their practice, Longva and Carpenter explore basic human needs in a variety of settings, often physically tasking. They pose questions about the rare and raw predicament of being a vulnerable and fragile human in a world in crisis. —Pavel Drábek, Best Publication Award curator with jurors Donatella Barbieri and Aziza Kadyri

The PQ Best Publication Award 2023 was announced as part of the awards ceremony at the Prague Quadrennial festival in Prague, CZ, 13 June 2023. On stage with the Jurors (L to R): Pavel Drábek, Aziza Kadyri, Terese Longva, Laurel Jay Carpenter and Donatella Barbieri.

Introducing the book at the Shortlisted Author’s Roundtable, PQTalks, the evening before the awards ceremony.

We are grateful!

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Now, shortlisted!

Pleased that our pandemic project is still stretching toward discourses around practice-based research, feminism and equity. Thanks for the nod of recognition, PQ! Our work here is not yet done!

Prague Quadrennial Best Publication Award Short List.

“The Norwegian publication '10 Together: Performances by Longva+Carpenter 2010–2020' (PABlish Forlag) is a beautiful and even moving account documenting and reflecting on a decade of collaborative work between artists Laurel Jay Carpenter (USA) and Terese Longva (Norway) that they realised across half a dozen countries in the Northwestern sphere.

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Of particular importance are the works that examine feminist, post-colonial, decolonial, intercultural and ecological perspectives, given the current state of affairs. Furthermore, the presence of practice-based publications, such as '10 Together' […] in the “Competing” list, alongside academic works, is equally significant. This inclusion has the potential to foster a more equitable environment and horizontal space…”

-from statement by Pavel Drábek, Curator of Publications and other PQ Jurors: Donatella Barbieri and Aziza Kadyr

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Best Publication longlist

Pleased to learn that our book has been longlisted for the Best Publication Award at the Prague Quadrennial. Honored to be in such a diverse and international group of fellow author/editors foregrounding Performance Design in the expanded field. Here's a throwback image to 2013 to celebrate--that's the fabric for the dresses on the book cover!

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10 Together

After 2 launch events, we are proud that our book is now out in the world.

Thanks due to PABlish (the imprint of Performance Art Bergen), the amazing writers (Dr. Sandra Johnston, Rita Marhaug, Dr. Traci Kelly), the many great photographers, and our hosts: for the release preview at The Between Sky & Sea Festival (at Longva AiR) and the official launch reading and reception at Hordaland kunstsenter.

And thanks to Rita for introducing the work and Gillian Carson for reading from Traci's essay at the HKS event.

Books still available at our webpage. It's a limited first-run edition, so get them while you can!

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NEW Performance Publication AVAILABLE TODAY!

10 Together: Performances by Longva+Carpenter is an artist-edited monograph of collaborative practice in durational visual performance, providing a chronology of work presented from 2010 to 2020 in galleries and public spaces, in city centers and small towns from the rural USA to islands in Norway, with stops between in Finland, Poland, Germany and Czechia. With vibrant images and descriptions of each work in English and Norwegian, the performances are made accessible to a public beyond the initial viewers at each site. The publication provides an international, intersectional and practice-focused survey of the collaboration with insightful essays which detangle and designate the artists' creative methodologies as vital to current performance discourse.

ORDER NOW! longvacarpenter.com



and please join us: BOOK RELEASE PREVIEW: August 20, Between Sky & Sea performance festival

Longva Artist Residency Skuløya, Møre og Romsdal, Norway • LAUNCH READING + RECEPTION: September 3 at 2pm, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway

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Still current

When the current "It" look from that much discussed reboot trending in US entertainment reminds you of your own work, and therefore its political inspiration: all as feminist iconography.

Sarah Jessica Parker, Valentino couture, "And Just Like That" 2021

Longva+Carpenter, "Lineage," 2019

The late Sara Danius asserting strength through color at the Nobel Prize for Literature Award Ceremony, 2018

More info at: https://www.longvacarpenter.com/projects/lineage

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Everything Orange

Longva+Carpenter celebrate all. that. orange. (and the finalization of our performance prep) with a final Aperol toast. More photos and information to come in June when we present the new work as part of "Formations" at the Prague Quadrennial.  Cheers!

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How do you measure a length beyond the body? First you start outside. Until the island wind sends you inside. Working on "Lineage" together at the Longva Residency in April 2019.

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Today's view: 2 hands (my own) plus two hands (my collaborator’s) across the table. Between us, the sea of orange. We called it a mountain, as we glanced the pile yet to be done. Measuring, ironing and pinning 35 meters of hem, both sides, in tandem, for nine hours with only 2 short breaks for coffee and toast, and maybe a biscuit. This is the performance before the performance. This is Longva+Carpenter. This is the effort of our "Lineage."

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Water, water, everywhere...

Longva+Carpenter's 'Thirst' is included in this on-line exhibition by Istanbul Performance Art, "How to Drink Conflicting Water." We are proud to be a part of this discourse on eco-concerns within performance practices. The exhibition features images from the 2013 version of the performance as part of Festspillene i Bergen in Norway.

The image above is from the recent iteration of the performance as part of Art Ii Biennial, Finland, 2018.

Exhibition here, from September 14 - December 14, 2018

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Here’s a first look at the 2018 re-commission of Thirst for the Art Ii Biennial in Finland. This is a promotional video from AIB, but includes some shots of the durational performance, and some brief artist commentary.

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Thirst 3

We’ll be heading to Finland for the ART Ii Biennial this June! Looks like a great roster of artists working with the theme of water.

Link to ART Ii website with more info about our re-commissioned durational performance Thirst.

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Verbs plus

Longva+Carpenter are both home again after a productive artist residency at Kunsthaus Essen in Germany. In those 2 weeks we presented a 3-day,15-hour performance/installation, Shift, (pictured here, more photos and info coming soon). In doing so, we collected a lot of verbs. We:

 shifted   +    stacked    +     unlocked   +   talked     +  surfed      +  sketched    +    read     +   marked    + checked   +    ordered     +   questioned   +   stretched   + walked   +        waited     +     augmented   +   charged   +    carried    +    arranged    +    bantered    +    invited    +   shopped   +   cleaned    +    considered   +     included    +  searched   +    funneled      +   trashed    +    rambled   + laughed       +    wrote      +     guessed    +   saved     + listened   +      shuffled    +    imitated     +    dropped    +   drank     +    pondered    +   developed    +  burned   +  designed    +    debated   +   documented   +  opened   + drew     +     edited     +      chatted     +    dabbled  + tested   +    organized    +    noticed     +       pushed   + slid    +     mused    + ate a lot of broccoli  + danced (just a little)

We are so grateful to the performance/art community, especially Marita Bullmann, for making all those verbs, and all those pluses (!), possible. Thanks too to Dr. Uwe Schramm and Kunsthaus Essen for the opportunity and hospitality. And to the willing and wonderful photographers: Jörn Vanselow (images here), Thomas Ruel, and Stephan von Knobloch.

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The 7-year itch

Longva+Carpenter are celebrating SEVEN YEARS of interdisciplinary, performance collaboration. From Alfred to Bergen, and Newcastle to Longva, we remain committed to the particular L+C vision blending the mythic and the political as filtered through our personal associations, memories, desires and identities. Thanks for staying with us on this wonderful art ride!

They say that it takes 7 years to replace every cell in your body. So the Longva+Carpenter today are totally new. In this next chapter we are thinking FRESHER and BIGGER in scale and scope; we are itching for our next chapter!  Here we are planning, planning... we’ll keep you posted.

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Longva+Carpenter are together again! We’re starting the New Year out with new performance purpose, plans and preparations. With everything that is happening in our world, we are recommitting to our practice. We recognize how much we all need art now! We are all in this together! Peace and love, L+C