Dalsbygda and Geiranger kindergartens in collaboration with the light art festival
Geiranger Lyskunstfestival er støtta av Sparebanken Møre
og Møre og Romsdal fylkeskommune
Those Guys Lighting (LT)
Location: Maråkvegen
On the wave of light is a journey into the pulsating world of light, where you as the observer become an active part of the creation. Interacting with this artwork serves as a reminder of the presence of light in our lives, which often goes unnoticed. Don’t be afraid, step up to the fence and watch the light vibrations follow your every step.
Randiane Aalberg Sandboe
Location: 8-kanten, Havila Hotel Geiranger
“Invisible Visible” is created as an invitation into the dark. Visual artist and lighting designer Randiane Sandboe has wanted to bring the starry sky back, to remind that the numerous stars still exist if we turn off the bright city lighting. The enclosed installation is in a light-tight room, and Sandboe encourages the audience to enter the room, stand there for a few minutes so that the vision gets used to the darkness, and experience a rare, dark and wonderful universe.
Birk Nygaard
Location: Westerås mountain
As a follow-up to this year’s “Fossegrimen”, Nygaard delves deep into Norwegian mythology, almost firmly into the Norse creation myth. Projected on Westeråsfjellet, during the Geiranger Light Art Festival you will witness the artist’s portrait of the “primordial being” that Snorri Sturluson sketches in “The Younger Edda”.
– Jotnen Yme as the world is seen together.
Nygaard has with him in his toolbox a different amount of time than when Snorri wrote. – Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has dominated the media scene in recent years, and the art world is angered by what is referred to as a vampire in human art history. This remarkable new force that brought together new images based on a sea of artistic expression and recognizable idiom, in free combination, revels in all that man has created. In many ways, AI is the computer age’s answer to the uniqueness Snorri gave Mime, the watchman of the well of knowledge. – This must be a suitable way to put together a portrait of Yme.
– Can AI claim to be for human intellectual property the same as human beings are to nature?
Nygaard invites to reflection on these forhalda, when the artist is directing his AI portrayal of the world’s “barley stones” according to Snorre Sturluson.
As a soundtrack to the totality, Karl Seglem has created a dystoptimistic grunge drone.
Excerpt from the mythology:
“Snorre tells in Gylvaginning how Yme and the world come into being. In the dawn of time, the rivers Elivåger flow from the well Hvergelme, which is located in the cold misty land of Nivlheim. When the rivers reach Ginnungagap, they freeze into ice. From the river water flows poisonous steam which also freezes and forming layers upon layers of rhyme.
On the other side of Ginnungagap is the fire world Muspelheim. The heat from here causes the rime formed at Elivåger to melt and drip. From the poisonous drops arises the jotne Yme. A greater giant should never have lived.
Yme’s descendants, Odin and his brothers – Vilje and Ve – rebel against Yme and his family. It was a great battle that Odin and his brothers win. The Æsir dragged the dead Yme into the middle of Ginnungagap and laid him like a lid over the abyss. His blood became sea and his flesh became land. The bones became mountains and rocks. The teeth and broken bone splinters became stones and clocks, while the hair became trees and grass. His brain mass threw the gods high into the air, and thus the clouds came into being. The skull was set as a vault, and became the sky. The gods caught sparks from Muspellheim and attached them to the skull, so we got the sun, moon and stars.”
Noémi Prud’homme (videomapping), Yohan Dumas (music)
Location: Geiranger church
«Rosemalingen vokser» is an artwork that uses the traditional Norwegian rose-painting patterns, rosemaling, flowers, trees, scrolls, and nature appears and moves on the architecture of the church, making it a beautiful place for maintaining old fashion ways of living nowadays.
Noémi Prud’homme is a French visual artist working with paper and light. She explores imagination by using optical illusions with ornaments and infinite patterns. In her video mapping artwork she collaborates with Yohan Dumas, a French sound artist that focuses on improvisation.
Cecilie Hole, Martinus Magneson Larsen, Martin Smoge (music)
Location: In front of the old Maråk barn, Geiranger village centre.
Re: live is a video and material-based art installation; an imaginary conversation about the transformation from death to life in the cycle all organisms are a part of. The installation consists of skulls, video projection and music.
The skulls are from cattle found in the remains of slaughter waste which are thought to have been dumped in nature in the 1970s. These are mounted on the wall, and arranged in a rectangular pattern. It is then illuminated by two projectors with visual algorithms that imitate basic organic functions. The work invites the viewer to ask questions about their own understanding of the cycle of life, the place between life and death, transformation and impermanence as well as the relationship with nature. By adding music to the work, we will be able to add another dimension to the experience and want to take the audience on an extended journey through several expressions and reflections.
All three artist are based in western Norway, and the artwork in its present form is premiered at Geiranger light art festival.
Mads F.L. Nilsen / Projektorpøblene
Location: Geiranger Waterfall
“We See You” is a captivating audiovisual installation created specifically for Storfossen waterfall in Geiranger. Against a backdrop of melting ice and rumbling waterfalls, the installation comments on both the beautiful and the destructive in nature. The interplay between light and waterfalls creates a dynamic composition that invites contemplation and contemplation.
Architect Linda Emdal, Light design: Zenisk and 1st – 7th grade at Geiranger School
Location: Geiranger city centre
This work is part of the Lys i hus project of Stiftinga Geirangerfjorden Verdsarv, and the small buildings are to be placed in dark places in the village as small points of light in the cold and dark season. The light houses are all models of actual house types you find in the world heritage village and are built in solid wood. On the occasion of the Geiranger light art festival, they are brought together as a community and will form a shining village within the village, a clear symbol of unity, living rural communities and a clear vision of a village with light in every house!
Birk Nygaard
Location: Geiranger village centre
The “Octalines” is a creative combination of conventional facade lighting lamps. Eight individual lamps cast lines of light at 180 degrees each, 360 degrees around their axis. The constellation of several such chandeliers cast light and shadows around where the audience passes. The lamps are placed out through the Light Festival’s route through Geiranger.
Those Guys Lighting (LT)
Location: Geiranger camping
When the lighting designers at Those Guys Lighting (Latvia) embarks on a project, it is always based on a plan to create something truly epic, and you can safely say that they have succeeded here. Not so much in terms of size and grandiosity, but with the work’s sensual ability to evoke the calm and meditative atmosphere that makes the sunset so special. And with the fjord and mountains as a frame and backdrop, this work of art is also a beautiful subject for photographers, and perfect for Instagram.
Birk Nygaard
Location: Geiranger
As humans, we all have an anchor, – a home base where all our bands start. A village also has an anchor, – a basis for living. The fjord is the sea’s anchor and the sea is the basis of all people’s lives. Between “Hotel Union Geiranger” and the anchoring point in the mouth of the river, Birk Nygaard installs a symbolic anchoring line of light for the festival.
Randiane Aalberg Sandboe
Location: Geiranger
Moon is an art piece made by lighting designer Randiane Aalberg Sandboe in collaboration with exhibition architect Geir Olav Sebjørnsen for Fjell Festning Light Festival in 2020. At Fjell Festning the piece was projected on a huge screen out in the nature. During the artistic process there came a longing «to bring the moon down from the sky», to get closer to it. With help from the lighting designer’s way of using scenic effects, and the exhibition architects way of «thinking big», the moon got a warmth that glows in the dark – and a transparentness that explores what’s behind what we normally can’t see… What do you see? This beautiful artwork visited Geiranger in 2023, ad we are glad to welcome it back.
Dalsbygda and Geiranger kindergartens in collaboration with the light art festival
Location: Gågata
In this work we present young, wonderful creative joy and creativity. Children loves to create and express themselves through art, colors and light. In the work “Fargespel” our youngest presents a work full of joie de vivre, colorful creative joy and light.