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Artist in Performance, Video, Books, and Installations
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Kurt Johannessen was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Nordic Time Zones Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 26, 2014.
Born 1960 in Norway, Kurt Johannessen works within performance artist's books video and installations since the early eighties. His work is minimalist and poetic, and at times with a touch of humour. He is his own publisher and has produced more than 50 books, many of them translated into English. The books vary from just one sentence to short stories or just pictures. He has created more than 150 different performances and has presented his work extensively in Europe, and in some countries in Asia and America. In 2007 he had a larger exhibition, presenting installation video and performances in Bergen Art Museum.
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