Are Mokkelbost: “Technology as Access”, lecture and individual work with students

Who: Are Mokkelbost

When: October 3, 16:00

Where:  Art Academy of Latvia (Kalpaka boulevard 13), building K2

Topic: “Technology as Access”, lecture and individual work with students

Attendance: Free of charge

After the lecture, the artist will be available to students for one-to-one talks about their practice. The focus is on master’s degree students. Admission is free.

Are Mokkelbost is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Oslo, Norway. Since graduating from the Oslo Academy of Fine Arts in 2002, his practice has moved between art, music, and design in solo and collaborative efforts. He teaches irregularly in fine arts, craft, design, and architecture departments, focusing on creative methodology.
Collage has been a recurring method, as works on paper and translated conceptually into work in other techniques such as sound, glass, clocks, mural reliefs, textiles, and furniture.
This approach can be seen in many public artworks made during the last 15 years and, more recently, in furniture and interior design.
With his music, Mokkelbost has played in Riga on several occasions—the first time in 2001 with the electronic improvisers in ARM. Later, he played at Skaņu mežs with his metal-collage solo project Single Unit, then the epileptic, audio-visual metal band KILLL, and lastly, his DJ project Dausteg with Spykidelic, merging skeletal grime and dark hip hop instrumentals with avant-garde textures.

For his presentation, he has been asked to view his practice in light of technology and how it affects such a multi-disciplinary practice.

Supported by: The State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia, project “tekhnē”, co-funded by the EU and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia, and the Art Academy of Latvia.

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