Stix Omar is NKF’s current artist in residence, partly collaborating with Stockholm based artist Bror Ida Lennartsson.
With the month of July together in the studio, the artists will continue working on collaboration ideas started in the past years and develop a new performance to become part of Stix extended advent spectacle; Advent X.
One celebration of Advent X happens in the evening of Friday July 25th.
Warmly welcome to join the party at 19.30!
Advent X is a 24-episode video series that talks about anticipation and disappointment, alternative family constellations, and the concept of Christmas spirit.
Stix and Bror Ida have a longer history of collaboration. For Brors sculpture WHITE M / U / U Slavought (01013, Stix wrote a poem. The poem is embedded in the score of Bror Ida's video work WHITE. At Tensta Konsthall last year at The Vaginal Davis Universitet for the Damaged and Gifted, Stix invited the sculpture on stage and performed the poem to it.
At Haninge Konsthall during Stockholm art week Bror Ida invited Stix to perform inside their exhibition Slavought, marking the end of the show. A milky fog filled the exhibition. On tall hooves, a cyborg cow, broken free from the milking machines, enters a desolate place searching for a lost calf and a past life. Finding the calf, dead, picking it up, carrying it close to the heart, singing.
Stix Omar, born in 1985 in Oslo, studied at Nordland Art and Film School and the Malmö Art Academy before moving to Berlin to become a pop star. In 2010, they began the collaboration Easter with fellow artist Maximilian Boss. Easter is an interdisciplinary project that primarily takes the form of pop music. In addition to numerous concerts and five album releases, Easter has produced a soap opera, Sadness is An Evil Gas Inside of Me, which has been screened worldwide since 2014.
Omar's artistic practice explores language, performance, and character development. Collaborations with fellow artists, choreographers, filmmakers, and musicians have been essential to their growth and discipline. In recent years, Omar has developed and toured with the solo show Stix Omar Romantic Comedy, a performance that blends poetry, prayer and powerpoint presentations.
Bror Ida Lennartsson (b. 1982, Mjölby) understands sculpture as an extended narrative technique, exploring material and form in order to transcend their original contexts. In the process, connections emerge between symbolic meanings, social values, and individual and collective readings. Their works often touch on repressed sensations, rejection, and the treatment of the other.
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