Residency programme in Tenthaus’s mobile studio unit placed at Kirkeparken vgs. P1 is part of Tenthaus's methodology of anchoring projects locally over time to include participants who might not otherwise have access to artists and art. From March-May 2023, Jasper Siverts, Ana Marques Engh and Bendik-Bendik Syversætre Johannessen were in residence with the project "Things don't run we". School students at Kirkeparken vgs have been invited to design an art project that will eventually take shape as a collection of proposals for public performative monuments that are displayed at random times in the exhibition space and public spaces. During this period, the module also held and will continue to hold pop-up activities open to the public.

«Things don’t run we»

«Things don’t run we» is the result of a residency in Tenthaus’ mobile studio “P1”, that was placed at Kirkeparken senior high school from April to May 2023. It is a collaboration with students from the art program at the school and takes shape as a live installation in three parts: A technician performing their labour of maintenance in the exhibition space, A performer trapped in a shipping crate installed in the gardens of F15, both enacting the works made by the students, and a screw in the wall that mysteriously disappears from time to time. «Things don’t run we» takes its starting point from the collective immaterial labour and transportation involved in the installation of any exhibition. The biennale format is a ritual of the art world that often brings together a number of internationally acclaimed artists who rarely engage with local circumstances and the attitudes and desires of the local population towards art. We are thus trying to open up a space for conversation and collaboration that could be a counterbalance to airport-like institutions and their strict expectations for editing, presentation, and sales. In order to display it for what it is: Solely an assemblage of post-fordist labour. A technician, a shipping crate and a screw become the protagonists in an ever-becoming immaterial monument to work (and laziness). On display are different works for 1 performer made by the students as proposals for immaterial monuments to be enacted throughout the summer at Jeløya. They have worked with what the Island commonly represents for them, be it wealth, decadence and exclusion or nature, rurality and Sunday hikes. By creating these immaterial monuments, we want to open up a conversation around the fetishization of objects, the politics of display of these objects and their subsequent circulation through the market. The works will be shown over a longer period and will establish their own "permanence" in a way that does not rely on precise representation or conservation. Movement is an imprecise form of representation that opens up for individual interpretations and continuous becoming. The monuments will thus be based on continuous negotiations and reinterpretations rather than cemented identities that are often what is immortalized and remembered for posterity. The performer is objectified at the same time as they stare back at the viewer and undermine the illusion that lies latent in the politics of spectatorship.

A hammer was forgotten on the floor, a shipping crate was left in the garden. Evidence that the installation of Momentum 12 was never concluded.