Jana Winderen | fr

Jana Winderen studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in London (1990-93) with a background in Mathematics and Chemistry at the University of Oslo. Since 1993 she has worked in Bergen and Oslo as an artist and producer/curator of independent international art projects; "12 Nights", "Street Level", "Motlyd", "freq_out 2", "Bandrom3". Recently at Atelier Nord Jana Winderen produced the "Generator.x" conference and "Trolley Singers" and "ABA logic". She is presently working as a freelance producer. Jana has exhibited her work in Canada, Denmark, England, Germany, Hungary, Belgium, France, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, China and Thailand.

Sound has taken a predominant place in Jana's work since 1992. In her sound installation work she has primarily been concerned with interactions with the audience and the acoustics of a specific space. In the 1990s she worked predominently in public space. Since 2004 she has been touring with an interactive sensor instrument for the production "The art of walking on water", made in collaboration with Jørgen Trœen and Trond Lossius.
Her most recent works are "+4°C -from Folgefonna to the North Sea" (2007) shown in Bergen and in Oslo during Ultima festival. It is a sound installation where Jana has recorded the meltwater with hydrophones into the glacier and into the valleys down into the Hardangerfjord leading out to the North Sea. This year she also played live with Lasse Marhaug and Mike Harding for the project Field (2007) and done several talks on field recording and hydrophones. Earlier works has been "Hard Rain"(2006), an interactive sound installation based on motion tracking, which was exhibited at "The Idea of North" in Canada and in the exhibition "Up.2.Date" in The Netherlands, and the group sound installation "freq_out " curated by Carl Michael von Hausswolff resently shown at "Dreqmlands Burn" in Budapest, Hungary(2007), in Chiang Mai (Thailand)(2007) and at the Sonambiente Festival in Berlin (2006). Jana is currently developing an installation and live performance based on hydrophone recordings, with an album due for release through Touch [UK] in 2008.
"I like the immateriality of a sound work and the openness it can have for both associative and direct experience and sensory perception. I have been occupied with finding sounds from unseen sources of sound, like blind field recordings. Over the last two year I have collected recordings made by hydrophones, from rivers, shores and the ocean, and more recently also from glaciers in Greenland, Iceland and Norway. I am also experimenting with different types of microphones to collect sounds which are not obviously recognisable, but give room for broader, more imaginative readings. I use these sounds as source material for composition in a live environment or to create installations where the audience can play with distortion and processing of the sounds, recently also as compositions with hydrophone recordings for speaker installations." .