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BASSEVUOVDI 

Programming 1.9-31.12.2026

 


BASSEVUOVDI  2026

A Recorded Walk 

 

Here on the side

Not here

Not there

Not on top

 

Walking, following the

Earth’s magnetism

Captured on audio tape

A walk becomes a loop

 

Performing until you forget

you’re in character

A process of erosion

(of affectation?)

 

Alluvial

Panning

In black

Sand

 

Tests and tries, test pits

Shape a landscape

Explosives and digs make craters

On a moon of gold

 

Shadow satellite map

Shows trees are small

And man’s lust for gold and fame

looms tall

 

In

 

A holy Sámi forest.

 

BASSEVUOVDI (24 min, stereo) is a sound work by Morten Norbye Halvorsen, recorded in 2012 and 2026 in Bassevuovdi (Holy Forest), near the Anárjohka River, Sápmi. The recording follows his uncle, Nils Peder Eriksen (1952-2013) as he walks in the forest
in particular through a pocket of fluvioglacial deposits close to the river. Bassevuovdi has long been known for its promise of gold.

 

 

 

Morten Norbye Halvorsen is an artist and composer, whose sound works and musical performances are guided by props, websites, photographs, scripted recordings and concert appearances in an ongoing exploration of collaboration and sound.

Halvorsen’s work has been included in exhibitions such as Ikke vær redd. En utstilling om døden, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo (2026), OVERPRINTS, Gaudel de Stampa, Paris (2022), Field Works, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar (2020), My Summer is your Winter, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (2019), HTML Curtain, Gaudel de Stampa, Paris (2019), 9th Norwegian Sculpture Biennial, Vigeland-museet, Oslo (2017), Wave Table Concert, Kunsthall Stavanger (2016), Gain Vapor Rise, Gaudel de Stampa, Paris (2016), All the Instruments Agree, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2015), The Companion, Liverpool Biennial, (2014), Pan Exciter, NoPlace, Oslo, Alluvium, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerpen; oO, The Lithuanian/Cyprus Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale (2013), Run, comrade, the old world is behind you, Kunsthall Oslo (2011), Index of Palais de Tokyo, Paris.(2010) and Paper Exhibition, Artist Space, New York (2009).

 

 

 

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