Organised in collaboration with PRAKSIS, the residency invites the two artists to work at Pachinko from 23 October 2023 to January 2024, during which they will use a 1970s Dataton MIC 3 Programmer for PAX dissolve units to generate audiovisual experiments that respond to the artistic practices of Ed Vonna-Michell (1950-2020), Tris’s father. As well as drawing on the Vonna-Michell family’s history of exploring self-organised art, the residency will invite contributions from other individual researchers and groups. Through this process, the residents aim to explore and expand the concept of authorship and develop new ways of working with archival, image and sound materials.
Conducted in two phases, the residency will lead to the exhibition of a slide and sound installation at Pachinko in early 2024. Phase 1, focused on production, research and experimentation, will take place in October–November 2023, and Phase 2, in December, will share and further develop the process with the public through talks, presentations and visits.
About Tris Vonna-Michell
Tris Vonna-Michell is an internationally renowned artist based in Oslo and Stockholm. Vonna-Michell’s work utilises a plethora of technical devices, modes of presentation and installational approaches, encompassing performance, audio recordings, slide projections, poetry, sound poetry, printed matter, photography and film.
About Henrik Follesø Egeland
Henrik Follesø Egeland is an Oslo-based visual artist and photographer, and a graduate from the Oslo National Academy of Arts (MFA) as well as the University of Roehampton (BFA). Through a technical engagement with photography, his work operates both within and outside traditional photographic representation.
