”for all it's worth and for what(ever) it's worth”

”for all it's worth and for what(ever) it's worth”

if it has any value. (Usually implies lack of confidence.) My idea—for all it's worth—is to offer them only $300. Here is my thinking, for whatever it's worth. Ask her to give us her opinion, for what it's worth.”

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“for what it’s worth…” – A second-hand-impro

http://loppisimpro.blogspot.com/ (only in Norwegian, but with photos from the first edition in Tromsø)

concept and producer: Hege Pålsrud.

“For what it’s worth” is an inter-disiplinary contemporary art-project where artists investigate how the value of things come about, transform, disappear and literally becomes trash. This is happening at a second-hand-market with artistic improvisations.

The first edition took place in Tromsø 31. January 2010.

The second edition will take place in Petrozavodsk 8.-9. June 2013. The artistic director Hege Pålsrud, is collaborating with Okhta Onega Group and their cultural manager Nathalia Sevets-Ermolina.

The concept is about consumption and preferences. How do change of value come about? How does it works differently in different settings and cultures? How do we view, value, or reject things? When does an abject become trash?

The method is to merge a second hand market together with artistic improvisation by artists from different disciplines. The aim is to see if artistic interpretation and reflection around objects can change the way we think and construct value for ourselves. The artists are challenged to find an artistic approach to view the objects for sale, to interact with both buyers and sellers at the market – and each other.

The artists are: concept and stage design: Hege Pålsrud (NO) – dancers/actors: Liv Hanne Haugen (NO), Maria Valeeva (RU) Jussi Salminen (FI) – writer: Morten Wintervold (NO) – lightdesign: Ingeborg Staxrud Olerud (NO) – sound/music: Victor Shubin (RU), Ivan Afanasyev (RU) – Anja Kuts (RU) – Lena Filatova (RU) – video: Dimitry Trifonov (RU) – photo: Ingun A. Mæhlum (NO) – journalist: Nathalia Sevets-Ermolina (RU). Some more artists are still to be invited in Petrozavodsk.

The scene is a second-hand market at the closed down factory, Alexandrovsky Zavod, in Petrozavodsk. Like the theme of the project, the space is also in for changes of use and value.

The audience is not merely audience to the artistic performance. They have their own agenda as buyers and sellers at the market. Together with the artists they share the moment of transaction of objects. They witness and partake when an object change value – and owner. Unlike traditional artwork, where artists pre-produce their expression and message to the world, this project aim to let the audience take part in a true dialogue about the content of the artistic expressions. It is the audience who bring the objects and know their history – as sellers, or have a special interest in them – as buyers. The artists must rely their expression on what is brought to the market by the audience.

Background: Through the Norwegian Barents Secretariat, several cultural projects have been developed between artists and organizations in Tromsø (Norway) and Petrozavodsk (Russia). Hege Pålsrud find this an interesting network for her art project “for what it’s worth...”

The first edition of “for what it’s worth…” was in Tromsø 31. January 2010 programmed by the Northern Light Festival. “for what it’s worth…” was produced by Pålsruds Prosjekt in collaboration with the Northern light festival: programming the event, Tromsø International Film Festival: being the host with Verdensteateret cinema (the oldest cinema still operating in Norway) and Grønn Hverdag (national environmental organisation): arranging the second-hand market. The project was further more supported by Tromsø Municipality, Art Council Norway, the Norwegian Barents Secretariat - Barentskult, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, RadArt, Rådstua Teaterhus.

Support. The project in Petrozavodsk is produced by Pålsruds Prosjekt, supported by Art Council Norway, the Norwegian Barents Secretariat - Barentskult, Fond for Lyd og Bilde. Okhta Onega Group – Petrozavodsk.

Hege Pålsrud received her education in stage design at Nordiska scenografiskolan (The Nordic school of scenography) in Sweden, and DAMU (Academy of Theatre) in Prague, the Czech Republic. She also studied theatre science at the University of Oslo.

Since 1992 she has been working freelance as scenographer and costume designer for various national and independent theatres, for film and tv-productions. She held a position as set designer and manager of the design department at the public broadcasting channel NRK in Tromsø, Norway in six years. From 2004 she expanded her working practice. Together with the curator and initiator Mariane Cosserat, she developed the concept ”4x4”, an international inter-disciplinary site-specific art concept produced at the Les Bains::Connective in Brussels, and Tromsø Kunstforening (Tromsø Gallery of Contemporary Art in Norway). Hege Pålsrud was appointed co-commissionere at the Scandinavian pavilion in the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2006. She is frequently collaborating with the director and writer Kristin Eriksen Bjørn and the theatre group “Ferske Scener” (fresh scenes). Kristin Eriksen Bjørn is recognized to be a vital and innovative contributor to the independent scene in Norway through the last 20 years. She is also practicing as a designer and project manager for museums where the exhibition ”Russian Current” at Perspektivet Museum was highly recognized. From 2009-2012, she has been managing the network organization RadArt for independent performing artists in Tromsø region.

Hege Pålsrud has received 2-years artist-grant from Arts Council Norway, and cultural-grant form Tromsø municipality. She has been a board-member of Tromsø International Filmfestival and currently the Performing Arts Hub Norway.

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