Liv Strand works Through Composition as Explanation, 2010 Quicksand frontier under-standing, 2010 Åtta korta, 2009 B, 2009 Manipulation, 2009 Sliding structure, 2008 Pipeline, 2007 In-side-out, sound installation, 2004 T-shirt with Malin Lobell, 2004 Adagio, 2003 Capsule, 2003 Spela roll!, 2003 Room, 2002 Bannerproduction, 2002 Several radioprograms at src digital radio, 2002- Twinkle little lamp - in your store, light installation, 2001 How, streetwork in co-operation with Kristina Matousch, 2000 UKS Gallery, 2000 ... with glue, 1999 comissions contact larm cv

QUICKSAND FRONTIER UNDER-STANDING, 2010 at Eternal Tour 2010 in Jersualem and Ramallah and at 0047, Oslo, 2011 Quicksand frontier under-standing is a piece, which takes a trip to Armenia in the summer of 2009 as its point of departure. I am interested in changes in contexts of nationalism as well as changes as material flow (erosion and lets say inheritance of things). My initial desire to visit Armenia came out of a preconception that hard core nationalism could flourish in a christian country squeezed between muslim countries. This soon proved wrong. My inspiration was triggered also by Ryszard Kapuscinski’s writings in Imperium, where he is traveling across the Soviet Union in the very last months of its existence. Add to this inspiration a shortage in my knowledge of what the map look like in the region of Armenia, a mental white spot on my internal global map and the search for knowledge and seductive coincidences had begun.  The installation Quicksand frontier under-standing, focuses nationalism as mechanisms of the formations that shapes a state, and the stories that from which ‘belonging’ is constructed. The work is condensed knowledge transformed into an abstract landscape. ‘Re-shape’ is used as a strategy to reflect definitions: to make them re-thinkable. The driving force behind the work is to try to find out how something can be understood through form — how it is taken in via the perception of bodies. The installation Quicksand frontier under-standing consists of three parts. One is an illuminated line that draws out an area on the floor. This area changes in relation to the ways in which visitors are moving in space, the illuminated line meets and confronts the visitor. The artwork is motorized and reacts to the surroundings via sensors. One part consists of a perforated piece of paper that moves up and down a bunch of steel wires — as a likeness to stiff grass — and makes a squeaking sound. It is a physical response to a quote by Osip Mandelstam: The tall steppe grasses on the lee hump of the island of Sevan were so strong, juicy, and self-confident that one felt like coiffing them with an iron comb. The third part is a sculpture that is presented at eye-level, comfortable for reading. What the eyes see is a machine moving two white plates with holes. The moving holes become superimposed on top of each other, creating an optically illusory result. The sculpture is a reference to the concept and practice of ‘statistics’ and is named Census. THE ARMENIA PROJECT The Armenia Project is a publication that is the result of an artistic collaboration between Unni Gjertsen and Liv Strand, using the research journey to Armenia in June 2009 as it’s starting point. The text in the publication is a record of processes and observations from the journey.  The project will be on show in August 2011 at 0047 in Oslo, The Armenia Project – Tales of Fraternity, Power and Time, where the art works will be exhibited in the same room, overlapping each other in the space. The Armenia Project has been presented earlier, as a work in progress, as part of The Eternal Tour 2010, a nomadic art festival in Jerusalem and Ramallah. Produced with support from: Helge Ax:son Johnssons Stiftelse Frie Fotografers Fond, IASPIS, Tore Nilsson at Kungl. Konsthögskolan Längmanska Kulturfonden, Norske kunstneres Vederlagsfond, OCA. PUBLICATION, download (pdf) The Armenia Project   Video: Quicksand frontier under-standing. 4.58 min - overview Video: Quicksand frontier under-standing. 3.30 min - showing individual parts of the installation

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