[tear - Visual Arts Program]

tear
tear pulls together four different perspectives on extractivism and places them in a sinister circuit, making them resonate with each other in a rather formless formation. In all of them, a skewed play on extractive processes takes place: an esoteric reading of the history and technologies of weather forecasting in Miglé Vyčinaitė’s Cloudy with occasional turmoil (2023); the (coal) mine coming to life as a hole staring (and talking) back at you in Madeleine Anderssons Dirty Coal (2020); or Beth von Undall’s programmatic and generative sound piece Mouth (2023), which utilizes a clone based on ASMR-recordings of the artist’s own mouth; or the spatially warped Contemporary Grotesque III (2024), forming a dome of doom onto which Ba Bladh has sketched out the filthy relations between digital platforms and resource exploitation. Alongside the main program and the visual arts exhibition, Bladh will also present crush (2024), a brand new performance written specifically for Norbergfestival in conjunction with their artist residency, which is organized by Region Västmanland in collaboration with Norberg Kommun and IASPIS.


With support from The Swedish Arts Council, Region Västmanland, IASPIS and  Nordic Mobility Fund. The exhibition will take place at Galleri Norberg.