Foto: Zane Cerpina
25. September kl: 19:00 Rogaland Kunstsenter
Four times a year, Performance Art Stavanger invites a performance artist to Rogaland Kunstsenter. Together with a moderator and the audience, we delve into interesting and relevant topics related to performance and the artist's own practice. Where the conversation will lead and what happens along the way is entirely up to the participants.
Performance Kafe is a welcoming space where performance artists and interested individuals are invited to come together for meaningful conversations and exchanging experiences.
This time, we have invited Kirsty Kross who experiments in using humour to engage audiences with the difficult thematics of the climate crisis and its associated multi-crises effects. At the Performance Kafe, Kirsty Kross will discuss the style and process of making her performances which often are ambitious spectaculars that play with imperfection and failure. Featuring cameo performances of Kirsty Kross' artistic alter egos- the Coral Trout- a fish from the endangered Great Barrier Reef as well as Kari Max- a real estate executive from Bærum with a Pepsi Max addiction and a marriage crisis.
Kross is an eco-feminist artist based in Oslo, Norway, originally from Brisbane, Australia whose practice centers mostly on performance, but also incorporates happenings, music, drawing, sculpture and installation.
Her work is inspired by the trickster archetype often using alter egos or speculative, immersive interventions to discuss the anxieties, contradictions and uncomfortable truths of the climate crisis and its effects. Kross specializes in engaging audiences and the attention economy through darkly absurd and often open-ended interventions that disrupt, reconfigure and re-energise social, public and/or institutional frameworks.
Kirsty Kross holds a Masters from The Berlin University of the Arts and a Bachelor's Degree in Art History from The University of Queensland.
In Norway, Kirsty has exhibited/ performed at the National Museum of Norway, Tegnertriennalen, Bergen Assembly, Høstutstillingen, KUBE, Tenthaus and PINK CUBE. In Berlin, she has performed at Clockwork Gallery, Parkhaus Projects and Galerie Crystal Ball and in Stockholm at Supermarket Art Fair and the Swedish Artist’s Association. From 2000 to 2010 Kirsty Kross was also a founding member of the electropunk performance band, Team Plastique that played throughout Europe and Australia at a number of music and art events.
Performance Café is supported by BKH, Kulturrådet and Stavanger kommune.
Photo: Coral Trout from, "Falling down the Stairs in A# Major", Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, 2017, Photo by Zane Cerpina
More about Kirsty Kross here:
www.kirstykross.com
Facebook event here.
There will be served coffee and tea.
The event is free.
