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NORDTING
A nomadic people's parliament of the North, a party for the periphery, a separatist movement for the Arctic colony: NORDTING came with a bang in 2014 and has been with us ever since.
FRISINN 2020/22
Lifting the legacy of a workers club in Stavanger (NO) from the 1940-ies, FRISINN2020 is filling the hall of Folkets Hus (House of the People) with music, dancing, sing-alongs, lectures, food, boxing and tombola.
Economic Theory for Dummies
We need to understand the economy in order to have an opinion about it. We need to be able to separate politics from laws of nature. We need a crash course, we need Economic theory for Dummies (2013).
Brains, Bytes & Bach
Like grains of rice filling every gap, or like a virus spreading across the globe, digital data is invading all parts of our lives. Brains, Bytes & Bach is a performance lecture about the digital world, using an analog powerpoint.
MELTING
Political analysis, fragile music played on wine glasses, and a slowly rotating canvas that fills the space with poetic weightlessness: MELTING is a performance lecture made together with the band Slagr.
Deconstructing IKEA
A performative work of music for solo percussion performed on five IKEA plates. As the sound is gradually constructed, the instruments are gradually deconstructed (2005).
COMMONISM
A performed conversation, a dialogue between two artists that asks questions about nationality, internationality, art and politics. Can COMMONISM be the answer? By Andy Smith (UK) and Amund Sjølie Sveen (NO).
The Norwegian Way
A dive into the self image of Norway, the problem of the oil, the possible connection between money and happiness, and an exploration of what possibility art has to change the world. Performance lecture (2011).
Sound of Freedom
A performance about the physics of sound, the rhetoric of weapon production, acoustic bazookas, the ability of war to create meaning, and children songs used for torture (2011).
USB – United States of Barents
A solo performance lecture that investigates questions of local, global and northern identity, similarities and differences in the arctic, and the universal love of IKEA (2006).
Hut#6: MiniBo
A site specific, collaborative, interdisciplinary project that explores themes of sustainability and waste, home, real estate, survival, civilization, and man-made ´nature´.
Where are you?
An exchange of information, thoughts and views between two artists and a class of 10-12 year olds. A performance for schools (2007-10)
NING - music and theatre
Amund Sjølie Sveen was a founding member of NING (1997-2015), a radical contemporary music ensemble exploring the physical, theatrical and visual aspects of musical performance.
Works by Kagel, Globokar, Aperghis, Wallin…
Solo performance works for percussion by contemporary composers of the 20th century. Performed by Amund Sjølie Sveen (2005).