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MOMENTUM 9: ( alienation ) THE NORDIC BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART JUNE 17 – OCTOBER 11, 2017 MOSS, NORWAY MOMENTUM 9: ALIENATION THE NORDIC BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART JUNE 17 – OCTOBER 11, 2017 MOSS, NORWAY MOMENTUM 9: ALIENATION THE NORDIC BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART JUNE 17 – OCTOBER 11, 2017 MOSS, NORWAY MOMENTUM 9: ALIENATION THE NORDIC BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART JUNE 17 – OCTOBER 11, 2017 Moss, Norway

Opening hours

Monday Closed

Tuesday 11 AM – 5 PM

Wednesday 11 AM – 5 PM

Thursday 11 AM – 5 PM

Friday 11 AM – 5 PM

Saturday 11 AM – 5 PM

Sunday 11 AM – 5 PM

Tickets

Adults NOK 50
Seniors NOK 25
Children free entrance
(Free entrance on Sundays)

Contact:

kontakt@punkto.no
0047 692 71 033
www.punkto.no

Social Media:

Facebook: Momentum Biennial
Instagram: momentum_nordic_biennial

The Biennial’s online platform http://www.momentum9.no provides information about the contributors and the theme of Alienation, and will also feature commissioned new works before the opening of the Biennial. New online works include podcast series by Third Ear and a graphic novel by Ylva Westerlund. A new commissioned novel by Johannes Heldén will be published in conjunction with the Biennial’s Opening on June 17th. The novel will be available for purchase from the Biennial store and online.

Alien Encounters and Engagements

The ninth edition of the Momentum Biennial takes the notion of alienation as its starting point. By alienation the curators refer to a contemporary world where alien processes and entities are becoming an integrated part of our lives through technological, ecological and social transformations. We encounter and engage with the alien every day. Alienation is our contemporary condition. While more information and modes of communication are available to us than ever before, it is not easier to make a sense of the whole. M9 addresses this confusion and insists on searching for new tools for greater understanding of human condition through cross-pollination of methods, categories and disciplines.

Transdisciplinary Explorations

The creative practices featured in M9 reflect an expanded transdisciplinary exploration. The practices will address alienation focusing on the following three areas: 1) Bodies, Objects and Technologies, 2) Ecology, and 3) Structures and Societies.

The three areas are conceived as overlapping and interconnected and manifest through the individual works and through the multiple connections these works create. The biennial addresses topical concerns of cultural and geographical borders, biopolitics and social inequality. The works featured in the biennial resonate with both local context of Moss and furthermore branch out to instigate and participate in broader discussions.

Towards Extraordinary Futures

With alienation as its theme M9 will present diverse and conflicted ways of experiencing, explaining and imagining the world anew. Alienation represents a potential to expand the horizons of our current lives, to think and act progressively and usher in change. Thus M9 wants to welcome the alien, also the alien in us, without preconceptions of familiar and foreign. It wants to welcome the alien as a challenge to the present as well as a promise of better, extraordinary futures.

Curators:

Ulrika Flink (SE), Ilari Laamanen (FI), Jacob Lillemose (DK), Gunhild Moe (NO), Jón B.K Ransu (IS)

Commissioner:

Punkt Ø, Director Dag Aak Sveinar

Momentum map

Directions to Galleri F 15.

Alby Gård, Biørn Biørnstads vei 1, 1519 Moss

By train
It is easy to get to Moss by train. From Moss Train Station it takes 40 minutes to walk to the Galleri F 15. Alternatively take bus 415 Tronvik-Framnes to Tronvik, and walk from there (approx. 15-minutes).

By Car
about 40 minutes drive to Moss from Oslo.
about 40 minutes drive to Moss from the Swedish border, Svinesund.

By plane
You can take a plane to Oslo Lufthavn Gardermoen. From Gardermoen you can catch the airport express to Oslo and the train from Oslo to Moss

Directions to Momentum Kunsthall.

Henrik Gerners gate 8, 1530 Moss

Momentum Kunsthall is located in Møllebyen, Moss. From Moss Train Station, follow the road towards the city center. Take further in Storgata, the roundabout at Amfisenteret. Follow Storgata further along Amfi Centre (a shopping mall). When you get to Møllebyen, Momentum Kunsthall is the first entrance on your left after the silo.

Free parking in the backyard by Momentum Kunsthall.

OFF-SITES

MOMENTUM 9: Alienation will feature works at off-site locations around Moss.

[1] House//of//Foundation
Henrik Gerners gate 12, 1530 Moss

[2] Naturhuset, Alby gård
Albyalleen 60, 1519 Moss

[3] Parkteatret
Dronningens gate 25, 1530 Moss

[4] Moss Kirke
Dronningens gate 24, 1530 Moss

[5] SF Kino Moss
Fossen 21-22, 1530 Moss

[6] Vannverket
Fossen, 1530 Moss

Accessibility

Both main venues of MOMENTUM 9: Alienation (Momentum Kunsthall and Galleri F 15) have a disabled access elevator that enables access to all the exhibition spaces.

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TOURS:
(FREE ENTRANCE)

Sunday guided tour 2 PM ‒ join a free round trip through our exhibition led by our staff member

Workshop table in the Reception with tasks related to the exhibition’s theme.

Reading room at the exhibition with up-to-date literature and more tasks related to the exhibition.

Family workshop ‒ during vacations and holidays we arrange free tours and workshops with outreach workers.

Art Hour – have a free tour through recent exhibitions with our staff member.

Art Education

At the Momentum Biennial, we reach out to a young public. In cooperation with the Cultural School Satchel program in Østfold, we welcome pupils from Junior High and High Schools. In our education program for the biennial we focus particularly on topical issues for society and on critical thinking.

We want to engage with a young public and engage them in reaching out to their peers. We want young people to take part in creating an open and inclusive meeting place through art.

History

Since its inception in 1998, MOMENTUM has strived to present compelling works of art and outstanding artistic ventures in a Norwegian and Nordic context.The biennial has since become established as one of the most exciting platforms for contemporary art in the Nordic region. MOMENTUM`s main arenas are Momentum Kunsthall and Galleri F 15.  Furthermore the biennial features contemporary art in off-sites and public space.

The biennial has kindly been made possible by

  • Nordisk kulturfond
  • Nordic Culture Point
  • Icelandic Art Centre
  • Roderick Ewart
  • Gjenbruket
  • Konstnärsnämnden
  • Danish Embassy Oslo
  • University of Melbourne and Victorian College of the arts
  • Finno – Finsk – norsk kulturinstitutt
  • Norwegian Ministry of Culture
  • Moss kommune
  • Østfold fylkeskommune
  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs Norway
  • Norwegian Embassy in Berlin
  • Austrian Embassy Oslo
  • The Nordic embassies in the Nordic countries
  • The Norwegian embassies in the Nordic countries
  • Fritt Ord
  • OCA
  • Frame Contemporary Art Finland
  • iaspis
  • Islandic Art Center
  • Mundlistarsjódur
  • Konstfrämjandet
  • Statoil
  • The Savings Bank Foundation DNB
  • Geological Museum
  • MKEiendom
  • House//of//Foundation
  • Parkteatret
  • Friend of F 15 & Momentum
  • Friends of Mossefossen
  • Moss i Sentrum
  • Moss Entreprenør
  • Thu & Johansen
  • Byggern Onstad
  • HR Giger Museum, Gruyeres