Pedro Gómez-Egaña – CANCELLED

Wednesday 18 December, experience a talk with Pedro Gómez-Egaña, Professor of Sculpture and Installation at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. The admission is free and everyone is invited.

The Séance of Gorrlaus is a performance that draws from sex dating apps, folk musical mysticism and the lecture format as a way to summon altered states of perceprtion. It is part of a series of works (The Séance of Canis, Mitre Marrows) that investigate mysticism as a way of understanding our relationship with technology and temporal collapse.

The talk is organised by Honey Biba Beckerlee & Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Institute for Art, Writing & Research, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, in collaboration with Kunsthal Charlottenborg. The talk is part of a PhD symposium within the KUNO network between art academies in the Nordic-Baltic region.

Pedro Gómez-Egaña (1976, Colombia) lives and works in Oslo. He studied music composition, performance, and visual arts at Goldsmiths College, Bergen National Academy of Arts, and completed his doctoral project with the Norwegian Research Fellowship Programme. Gómez-Egaña is currently professor of sculpture and installation at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.

Gómez-Egaña’s sculptures, immersive installations and video works take a critical look at current and historical technologies and explore how they define our experience and understanding of time. This includes an interest in the mechanical, the intersection of the industrial and the mystical, and the emotional and spiritual undertones of digital culture. The work reflects a concern with how our networked and media-driven world reduces a certain diversity of attention. Gómez-Egaña addresses this by producing purpose-built spaces that seek to modulate audiences’ way of experiencing a situation or narrative.

Gómez-Egaña’s works have been presented by The Munch Museum (Oslo, 2019), ARTBO Mesoamerica Art Award (Bogotá, 2019), Zilberman Gallery (Istanbul, 2019), YARAT Contemporary Art Space (Baku, 2018), TENT (Rotterdam, 2018), 15th Istanbul Biennial (Istanbul, 2017), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2017), Contour Biennial (Mechelen, 2017), Museo de Arte Moderno (Medellin, 2017), Entree (Bergen, 2017), Kochi-Muziris Biennial (Kochi, 2016), Mana Contemporary (New Jersey, 2015), Colomboscope Biennial (Colombo, 2015), Performa 13 (New York, 2013), Kunsthall Mulhouse (Mulhouse, 2013), Marrakech Biennial (Marrakech, 2009), and Brussels Biennial (Brussels, 2008).