Trond Lossius
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| Trond Lossius graduated from Bergen National Academy of the Arts in spring 2007. The title of his work is "Sound installations and other inter-aesthetic projects (or the art of floating between all chairs)". The topic for the fellowship project is sound installations and other cross-diciplinary projects as fields of intersection between contemporary practice of music and fine arts. |
Lossius about his project:
During my research fellowship I have aimed, through work on installations and other interdisciplinary projects, mainly in collaboration with other artists, to explore installation and other interdisciplinary forms of expressions as points of tension and intersection between contemporary music and contemporary fine art.
My goal has been to get closer in my own artistic practice to achieving a synthesis of these fields. I therefore have aimed to develop a greater degree of interdisciplinary competence, increasing my knowledge and understanding of several different artistic fields, and integrate this competence into my ongoing artistic work. An important aspect of this contextualization has been a deepening of my knowledge of contemporary
art, with a particular emphasis on sound art, installations and issues of site.
Albeit sound art, encompassing a range of interdisciplinary and multimedia working methods, has a long tradition (Kahn 1999 and LaBelle 2006), it currently seems to get a rapidly growing significance with more and more use of and attention to sound in the visual arts. In the last years my understanding of my own work has changed. At the start of the fellowship I defined my work as primarily existing in a field of intersection and tension between music and arts (Lossius 2005). I no longer consider my work as being merely positioned somewhere between different established art practices. In the last two years it has also manifested itself as a platform of its own.
The final appraisal
To appraise the artistic research, the following appraisal committee was appointed:
- Sally Jane Norman (leder), CultureLab, Newcastle University
- Brandon LaBelle, sound artist and writer, London Consortium, Birbeck College
- Perto Rastas, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
Read interview with Trond Lossius in KHiB's Yearbook 2006-2007
Contact Trond Lossius on e-mail: lossius@bek.no