PERFORMANCE DAYS 6 :ON TAP
Testing the liquidity of connection.
Saturday October 3rd 2026
18.00 - 21.00
Tou Scene (Scene 1)
Contributing Artists:
Pavana Reid
C A Power
Jone Kvie
Taking water as a point of departure, the participating artists use live action and sculpture to explore how relations are formed, sustained, and undone. Metamorphic rock, water trapped in buckets, and ice channelled through pipes carry the dynamic between static shapes and liquid states, letting the artists move between continuous movement and seemingly passive stillness.
The evening questions the power structures that govern fluid resources and sell them: on tap. Information is one such resource: essential like water, yet unevenly distributed, filtered and controlled by systems submerged from view. Here, the audience and artists exchange opportunities for redistribution and reflection, asking who controls the flow, and who is left waiting for the tap to open.
The relations between people, materials, and states are never neutral: like water, they are charged by the terms on which connection is allowed to flow. The artists contribute with prior individual work in this occasion to challenge the idea of ownership and commit to exchanges as intent.
The Art Consultant is Anne-Marte Eidseth Rygh.
Performance Days is a recurring artist run initiative, beginning in 2004 and creates opportunities to gather around live artistic practice, fostering dialogue between artists and audiences. Find out more about Performance Days here
Pavana Reid was born in Khonkaen, Thailand and moved to Northern Ireland during the ongoing political unrest. Reid holds a degree in Fine & Applied Art from Ulster University, Belfast, Ireland and lives in Bergen. She is an active member of (PAB) Performance Art Bergen, and a performing artist whose practice is oriented around cultural anthropology, collective rituals, site-specific conditions and eco-oriented investigations. Find out more about Pavana here.
London born C. A. Power is educated in quantum physics from the University of Kent. His practice spans installation, sculpture, video, text, and performance and integrates principles of mathematics, sociology and philosophy. By entangling concepts that invite the audience to co-create and engage in actions over time, he navigates the complexity of responsibility, charging interactions that both unite and separate. Power is based in Stavanger and Newcastle (UK).
Jone Kvie is based in Stavanger (NO) and Naples (IT). He graduated from the Norwegian National Academy of Arts and explores our place in the world through sculpture, probing the medium's possibilities and limits. Kvie distills the unknown, blending science and abstraction and his selection of materials – ranging from metals and minerals to organic substances – reflects his focus on both their structural qualities and poetic potential. His sculptures explore the intersection of art and science, transforming abstract concepts into physical forms that go beyond their immediate presence. Kvie is Norwegian. Find out more about Jone here.
