Performance Art Bergen

-Where were you born?

Born in Lofoten – Hadsel in 1980

-Where do you live?

Bergen

-What pronouns do you use?

She/her

– What makes you work with performance?

Moments are just there in the present, you never get them back, just through photos/videos/stories. Moments bring pleasure, sorrow, fear, boredom, surprises, knowledge, concentrations, meditations, actions, visualizations and so much more. The performance art presents all this live, it`s so many strategies and methods. The diversity is so exiting, both to perform and be an audience. I think that’s why a large part of my artistic practice is performance art.

In my childhood, art and theater were around me. My parents and their friends worked with art and scenography. I was going to a theater school, and I could go to the theater at a reduced price. The scenography, visual elements, and the moments were so inspiring.

So, when I studied at Kunstskolen in Bergen and Rita Marhaug taught us performance art in 2003, I understood that art could be produced live. The art for me got a new energy.

After that course, a lot of my work has been performance art works up to now in 2026.

– Do you have any rituals before performing?

If I perform together with others, I remember to say good luck, or have a good performance, etc.

Put on high-heeled shoes when I perform a woman I normally am not in daily life.

Physical performance requires me to be in shape and gives motivation to train in the weeks and months before the performance.

Prepare visual elements for the actions.

– What was the best performance you have done so far? Why?

The best performance moments have been at festivals, or when I have produced performance projects or improvisations that involved more people than just me, and we feel we have done something exciting together.

It is difficult to choose one performance, since I have produced many performances and used different strategies in them.

– Are you currently working on any performance?

An old artist said to me that the most important thing about being an artist is not to give up, and to always have something in the art you are engaged in. So, I do a performance every Monday morning at the same time and place in 16 locations, with a duration from 07:50–10:05. That’s a performance art and drawing project I have done almost every Monday since May 2022, and every Monday in June since 2016. I have done drawings of the actions; some of the drawings are artworks, and some are printed out and used in the performance, a drawing on a bottle, a drawing on a postcard I send, etc. So, in a way, I activate the drawings every Monday.

Apart from the Monday performances, my next performance will be in Bergen on the 8th of March with my friend Anette Friedrich Johannesen, and I will join the improvisations at PAB Open sessions that will be arranged. And I will be in the workgroup for the next PAB Open 2027.

– What advice would you give to someone who is interested in working with performance?

Let the performance be something that is important to you, something you believe in. Artistic practice you have already worked with, a story that is important to you, a craft that you believe in. Do it with your heart, and play.

– Can you give us a few names of performance artists who inspire you?

An inspiration is the people who have created a way to think about art without the frames, and art that is in the moment. The experimental schools Bauhaus and Black Mountain College. The leader of the stage workshop at Bauhaus, Oskar Schlemmer, who produced the Triadisches Ballett with geometric shapes in 1922. The artists in the Fluxus movement, where life became part of the art.

For the contemporary performance art scene, the Array Collective with Belfast-based artists who won the large British Turner Prize. And all the committed artists who work to give knowledge of performance art, such as Johannes Deimling at Performance Art Studies. And also all artists who work for diversity in the performance community in Norway, such as