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Waste Line
Plastic Waste Line by Ellen Ringstad Waste Line is a conceptual and dynamic art piece conceived by Bergen-based artist Rasmus Hungnes. He says the project was inspired by my organic waistline, which he...
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Plastic Waste Polychrome
Ellen Ringstad. Detail of Plastic Waste Polychrome (2011), still in the making, consisting of layer upon layer of the artist's own plastic waste. Have you been following my blog? If so, you may have...
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Icons of mass consumption
My friend Russell recommended me to watch “The Mona Lisa Curse“, a Grierson award-winning polemic documentary by art critic Robert Hughes, examining how the world’s most famous painting came to...
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Catch a Cold Open
Catch a cold Open @ Premiss, 22.01.2011 PRESS RELEASE Opening dinner @ PREMISS (just below TAG TEAM studios. MAP) Saturday 22.01.11 @ 20.00h Free food, free art works by Rasmus Hungnes, Ellen...
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Did you catch a cold?
“Catch a Cold Open” is the first exhibition ever to be hosted at Premiss. Premiss is an experimental, artist-driven, non-profit, ‘non-gallery’, right below a white-cube gallery managed by Tag Team...
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All work and no play makes a dull girl
My friend Rasmus assisted in the destruction of an artwork at Hordaland Art Centre (HKS). The whole building had been wrapped in plastic and fabric for the exhibition LEILA by AIPOTU, giving the city...
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Ellen Ringstad – Ouroboros
Update 2011-04-22 [Read more and see documentation of the exhibition here: http://refusetobeacoward.com/2011/04/22/recycling-anything/]
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Recycling Anything
Ellen Ringstad. Black (2011). Installation view. Ellen Ringstad. Static (I, II & III). 2011. Found ballpoint pens on left-over passepartout-cardboard. Installation view. Ellen Ringstad. Static (I,...
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7e Triennale Internationale du Papier
My paper sculpture “Information Overload I” (2008), depicted on the invitation for the 7e triennale internationale du Papier in Charmey, Switzerland, at Musée de Charmey. The sculpture will be on show...
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Don’t rely on the postal services
So here I am in Sofia, Bulgaria, at the National Art Gallery, waiting for my sculpture which the Norwegian Postal Services did not manage to deliver in time for the exhibition it was due for. When...
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Dancing plastic
Plastic installation in the making I was working on this plastic sculpture/installation, and a colleague tipped me off about a video (see below) in which long, heavy field plastic covers gets sucked...
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Prearticulations
Monochromatic Panorama in Stavanger The first signs of summer finally reached Stavanger city today and the centre has been boiling with sun-thirsty people and animals. Except from a poor Chiwawa...
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Nostalgia Sucks
«I bring them to our River Lethe (…) from which, as soon as they have drunk down a long forgetfulness, they wash away by degrees the perplexity of their minds, and so wax young again» - Desiderius...
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In media res
Some screenshots taken from a live web-broadcasting from the 7th floor projectroom of the Academy, where I am currently trying to install some plastic. Underneeth is a snapshot of the process, somehow...
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Lights off
Last week, in the 7th floor project room of the Academy, I showed a big plastic sculpture, or installation. Call it what you want. This complex structure is suspended with hooks attached to the...
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To move the work is to destroy the work
De-mounting my sculpture/installation was an experience quite different in character from the process of mounting; more energetic, less planned. «Nothing is eternal»: the destruction of the piece has...
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Trust your work
I had an interesting talk in my studio recently with art historian and critic Jan Verwoert, about certain aspects of my artistic practice. I’ve been questioning my efforts to mount, remount,...
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Mon-uh-lawg
“If any one of them can explain it,” said Alice, (she had grown so large in the last few minutes that she wasn’t a bit afraid of interrupting him,) “I’ll give him sixpence. I don’t believe there’s an...
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Art in Public Space
My exhibition mon-uh-lawg opened on friday. It’s a performative installation in a small space with huge windows facing one of the main pedestrian streets is Bergen. The space lies outside the Bergen...
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