Mellom himmel & hav VII: Uvissas tilstand
From August 26 to September 8, 2025, Longva AIR and Performance Art Bergen invite you to the 7th version of Between Sky & Sea, an international performance initiative that takes place every three years on various Norwegian islands. The festival celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Between Sky & Sea VII: Flying Blind is a multifaceted project that facilitates artistic production, conversations, seminars, tours and outreach events. 7 international artists are invited to develop new performative works inspired and informed by discussions with invited guests and the surroundings as part of the work stay on Skuløy/Flemsøy. Read more about the invited artists here.
On Saturday, September 6th at 14:00 we would like to welcome you to an open day with performances with international artists in the area around the large, red boathouse in Longva harbor on Skuløy/Flemsøy. The event will be held outdoors, so dress according to the weather! We will round off the performance program with a communal dinner for artists and the public at the Longva AIR. Registration for the dinner will be available.
Between Sky & Sea VII: Flying Blind is a pluriperspective project, which wants to investigate the possibility for specific materialities', or peculiar places’ immediate impact on us by way of something we might sense. Could we call those places «privileged points»? If this is the case – what implications might such «privileged points» in the landscape carry with them for the development of more-than-human communities? Could we envision collective experiences - in investigating processes, with a group of artists, or together with a wider public – as something to break open for new ways of looking at our communities, from the local to a planetary level?
These are the basic questions of our time and for this project. They are also fundamental questions for the given place on Nordøyane/Skuløya, Longva AiR, and the already started future of a growing development of artistic activity on Nordøyane – as a value on its own, as a practice with spreading consequences for the local environment, and as a node in an extended network of similar (rural) places in the Nordic countries.
Between Sky & Sea VII: Flying Blind is organized in collaboration between Longva AIR and Performance Art Bergen (PAB). Longva AIR is an international art arena under development for professional artists, writers and others with ties to the contemporary art field. The main goal is to strengthen the professional infrastructure for art in the region. Located on Skuløy/Flemsøy, one of the North Islands that lies 24 km from Ålesund.
Deltakarane i prosjektet / The participants in the project:
KUNSTNARAR / ARTISTS:
Signe Lidén (NO)
Bent Erik Myrvoll (NO)
Marita Isobel Solberg (NO)
Elin Sundström (SE)
Kamilė Pikelytė (LT)
Ian Nesbitt (UK)
Anne-Marte Eidseth Rygh (NO)
FOREDRAGSHALDARAR / LECTURERS:
Trond Lødøen, arkeolog I archeologist, Universitetet i Bergen (NO)
Harald Dyrkorn, samfunnsvitar I social scientist (NO)
Michelle Teran, kunstnar/forskar I artist/researcher (CA/DE)
Sissel Lillebostad, vitne I witness (NO)
ARRANGØRAR / ORGANIZERS:
Terese Longva
Rita Marhaug
Sabine Popp
Longva kunstnarresidens / Longva AiR
Performance Art Bergen
FOTOGRAFAR / PHOTOGRAPHER:
Nayara Leite (BR/NO)
Mateo Christensen (NO)
INFORMASJONSARBEIDAR / PR:
Marit Tunestveit Dyre (NO)
Henrik Koppen (NO)
KOORDINATOR / COORDINATOR:
Lillian Bjørdal (NO)
KOORDINATOR MAT / COORDINATOR FOOD:
Malene Pedersen (DK)
For meir informasjon / For more information:
@longva_air @performanceartbergen
Foto/Photo: Margarida Paiva
Arrangementet er i år støtta av / This years event is supported by: Norsk kulturfond/Arts and Culture Norway, Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond/Norwegian Visual Artists Fund, Møre og Romsdal Fylkeskommune / Møre and Romsdal county council, Nordisk kulturkontakt Nordic Culture Point