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13/12/19 • Journal : CAS Editors

CAS Wishes You HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

13/12/19 • Journal : CAS Editors

CAS Wishes You HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Happy Holidays from CAS and a huge THANK YOU to all of our readers, writers, and residents for another incredible year! Throughout 2019, CAS has continued to expand our live programming and online content, as well as working tirelessly to strengthen the infrastructure of our growing platform. We welcomed Yang Yeung and Sam Holleran as our 2019 CAS Residents in Art Writing, and our online journal featured new articles, interviews, reviews, and institutional profiles, furthering our mission to strengthen discourse around the visual arts in Stavanger. We’re proud to have featured 32 contributions by 27 writers, artists, and curators.

We’re also thrilled to announce the launch our new, much improved Community Arts Calendar! The Calendar provides a guide to current and upcoming exhibitions, events, workshops, and opportunities in the Stavanger region. Submissions are open to all, so be sure to update your events for 2020!

As 2019 draws to a close, we spotlight some of our favorite articles from the last year including an interview with visiting artist Nick DeMarco, poetic impressions of Stavanger by CAS Resident Yang Yeung, a review of Yngve Holen’s exhibition at Kunsthall Stavanger by Nicholas Norton, a free-form text by Stavanger-based artist Ingeborg Kvame, an essay on the changing course of street art by CAS resident Sam Holleran, the essay Kunst for livets skyld by Arnhild Sunannå, and an exploration of the relationship between scale and responsibility in art by Marte Danielsen Jølbo.

As always, the creative community in Stavanger and abroad has shown extraordinary support and generosity to CAS. Thank you for making our work possible, and we are excited to continue to grow discourse around the visual arts in Stavanger in the New Year!

Here on Earth, Nick DeMarco, 2014, installation view, Interstate Projects, 2014. Image courtesy of the artist.

INTERVIEW: NICK DEMARCO

CAS Editor Heather Jones speaks with Nick DeMarco about his exhibition Lonely Planet at Arcangel Surfware’s gallery Flagship A.S. in Stavanger.

Diver, Stavanger 2019. Photo: Yang Yeung

DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE?

2019 CAS Resident Yang Yeung gives a poetic impressions of Stavanger.

Yngve Holen. Photo: Erik Sæter Jørgensen, Curtesy of Kunsthall Stavanger.

MENNESKET ET SPØKELSET I MASKINEN

Nicholas Norten reviews Yngve Holen’s exhibition Heinzerling at Kusnthall Stavanger.

KUNSTEN Å GÅ – ET KUNSTPROSJEKT SOM IKKE BLE SLIK JEG HADDE TENKT

Stavanger-based artist Ingeborg Kvame contributes a free-form text on her journeys through Norway.

A building painted by 1Up as part of the 2019 NuArt festival in Stavanger. Photo: Sam Holleran.

STREET ART’S CHANGING COURSE

2019 CAS Resident Sam Holleran offers a critical historical context for current street art trends.

KUNST FOR LIVETS SKYLD 

Art historian Arnhild Sunannå delves into art’s ability to make visible abstract phenomena, such as the climate crisis.

STOR KUNST – STØRRE ANSVAR 

Curator Marte Danielsen Jølbo explores the relationship between scale and responsibility in art.