Estuary 3.0
- a public art installation at Erkebispegården by Per Stian Monsås and Agnieszka Foltyn
March – April 2020
Estuary is a large-scale public art installation at Erkebispegården from March until April 2020. It is a modular light installation that responds specifically to the site and context within which it is placed.
Estuary has been shown in other formats, sites, and in collaboration with other disciplines at Tempe Atelier and Bakke Gård in Trondheim: Estuary 2.0 at Tempe Atelier with Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø in 2020 Bakke Gård with Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø during Kulturnatt Trondheim in 2019 (www.vimeo.com/365800746)
The glowing atmospheric installation creates new modes of possible interaction by weaving different sensorial formats into the specific conditions of the project. This exhibition focuses on the relations between public and site.
The goal of this project is to increase the visibility of art in the public spaces of the city of Trondheim. Through accessible and visible art, the public has an opportunity to interact with artistic practice currently being developed in the city. We aim to engage with a general public about what art is and what it can mean for the landscape of the city and the spaces it occupies. It is also a commentary on how artists navigate material choices within artist work, implying that artists must balance the line between materials relevant to their artistic work and the pressures to showcase new results.
This project is realized with the generous support of Kulturrådet and Nidarosdomen. We would like to thank Joana Bruno, Carlos Correia, and Anne-Karin Furunes.
About
Afternoon Collective is a multidisciplinary arts collective by Per Stian Monsås and Agnieszka Foltyn founded in 2016. Their goal is to highlight the role of art in every day spaces and experience. Through exploring possibilities for artistic intervention, they seek to continuously provoke a dialogue about art in a variety of contexts, forms, spaces, and moments in the public and semi-public spheres. Predominantly working in site-specific, monumental format installations and social performative interventions, their work is at once provocative, spectacular, ephemeral, subtle, monumental, temporal, long lasting, accessible, and mundane. More interested in art as laboratory than a specific messaging system of intention, co-creation and dialogue become integral elements of their projects that respond to the social urgencies of both the local context and musing about contemporary art as a whole.
You can find past projects here: https://vimeo.com/user20727966
Agnieszka Foltyn: https://mishifoltyn.tumblr.com/ & Per Stian Monsås: https://www.monsaas.com/