Anne Marthe Dyvi is an interdisciplinary artist and film maker educated and based in Bergen, Norway. She graduated from The Bergen Academy of Art and Design with a MFA in 2010. Her work can be described as interdisciplinary, site-specific and process-orientated, and with a special interest for technology and time, and the existence, survival or behaviour of nature and humanity. She works with time based media, sculpture and twodimentional works. Dyvi has exhibited in several parts of Norway and Sweden, and in Italy, Slovakia, England, Germany, Estonia, Iceland, Denmark and Lithuania.
Abstract: The language of art is often poetic and abstract. Reduced and lawless in terms of grammar. I experience the poetic and abstract language as closer to the experienced world than the more concrete and descriptive language that is the norm in the majority of formulations in society. In my artistic practice at the moment, I work with color, movement and time. In the video medium. To say that art is a language is also an assertion, or a worn metaphor. We have no written language rules we agree upon in the arts, no defined alphabet. And maybe that's exactly what the making of art is? Creating form, while challenging form? Being the practitioner, and in that sense defining, in a landscape of concrete and abstract, in definite and indefinite and fluid and solid. To create while shaping the form of it, is something else than performing within a given formation.
This contribution to a digital catalogue for artistic research are selections of my work, and thoughts, related to it translated into pieces of texts.
Some pieces of text along with some video pieces as well as a print from a video, a so-called 'still'. They are selected to function in different constellations, and for several reasons. A collage as a method and a way to relate to my own work, and with the selection, emphasizes the content of the texts. I apply my own thesis discussed in the text upon my contribution 'here' (1). My contribution appears in Vis – Nordic Journal for Artistic Research. The digital is representation. It is not. It is equally important to me that this contributed in form acknowledges that making a presence in an internet-based database is not without hyperlinks. It appears because the other is.
(1) Where is 'here', what is 'here'?
(Video and video with sound)
The visual material in this exposition is from the videos 'La ditt liv vitne'(2017), 'Essay on Colour'(2017) and Perceptual Cycle (2016).
