Gasser-Kochan-Øgrim Trio is:
Clementine Gasser (5 string cello)
Jacek Kochan (drums/percussion)
Tellef Ogrim (fretless guitar/electronics)

Potted Biographies:

Clementine Gasser
Born in Switzerland. Studied in Lucerne and Vienna. Among others she plays with Michael Zerang and Mikolaj Trzaska and is an active performer at avant-garde and jazz festivals in many countries (Austria, Spain, Ireland, Poland, Albania, Slovenia, USA). She describes her music as “subversive classical avant-garde”
For further information: http://www.clementine-gasser.com/

Jacek Kochan
Background in jazz (USA-Canada-Poland). Has released a row of records as a leader playing with central figures of the contemporary jazz scene in many countries. Besides jazz he works today among others with Agata Zubel and Cezary Duchnowski and dance ensembles in the Polish contemporary art music field.
For further information: www.jacekkochan.com

Tellef Ogrim
Comes from rock, jazz and borderless impro. Releases under own name. School touring in Norway. Member of video-music-collective Mugetuft.
For further information: www.tellefogrim.no

For their latest news and to see/hear more of the Trio’s work, visit:
http://soundcloud.com/toegrim/sets/gasser-kochan-ogrim-at-amann
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmoltUCtbPo

EXHIBITIONS (SOLO AND COLLECTIVES)

1/12/2009 al 30/12/2009: Solo exhibition, retrospective, curatded by Aus-Galerie (Rome).

15/09/2009: collective in Berlin: Mit den Augen der anderen. www.artandprison.com

20/11/2009 al 29/11/2009: Foyer of Theatre G. D’ annunzio, Latina (Roma). Solo exhibition on “Post-Stencilism”, curated by Aus-Galerie e rappresented by Foundation of culture of the city of Latina (Rome). (articles present on news papers, television and information leaflets.

10/2009: Frieze art fair (London). Project: “Impossible Exchange” work Selected by Brina Thurston: “War, Injustice, My Mum Killed.

12/2009: Spazio Ripicche, Milano (Italy). project: VDA-umbrella-Dress; title: Anti-Malaria

11/2009: Museo Borgogna, Vercelli (TO), Italy. project: VDA-umbrella-Dress; title: Anti-Malaria

10/2009: Museo Leone, Vercelli (TO, Italy). project: VDA-umbrella-Dress; title: Anti-Malaria

08/2009: The Gallery at Willesden Green: work diplayed: anti-Nativity (oil and collage on canvas, cm165x50).

08/2009: Ar(T)cevia: international art festival (AN). Work displayed:
Ipotesi di comunicazione, London 2007/ Oil on canvas/cm175x165

From 06 to 08 2009: PopUP Ancona-Urban Space-arte contemporanea. Ancona (Italy).
Works dispayed: serigraphy of: war, Injustice, my mother killed.

07-08/2009 Centro commerciale Officine Minganti: exhibition in Bologna (italy). Work displayed:
“Life’s cycle”;

07-08/2009 DE Industria: workshop and exhibition.Museum of Architecture, Fermignano (Italy). Work made out of scrap metal and electrical cables (4mt sculpture, title “Dream Catcher”);

17/06/2009/2009 VDA, vestiti d’ arte: workshop in Vercelli, Biella and Prato (Italy).
2009 concorso ”MI MANIFESTO”. event in June 2009 Ancona-Italy;

05/2009 Arteinscacco, Cocept 108: mural competition situated in Vercelli (MI) Italy, 2nd classified.

06/2009 Exhibition In Desio, Milano-Sala Levi. Work exhibited: “Il Giorno della Civetta” (Oil on canvas/95x100cm) FIRST PRIZE;

04/2009 ECO ART (contest di fotografia), London, UK. Opera in concorso selezionata: “Gold”;

03/2009 (Napoli-Italy) Casoria contemporary art museum. Opera esibita:
Arkeotheatre, video 4’;

01/2009 (Nettuno, Rome, Italy) SanGallo Castle:
work exhibited: birth and protection: oil on canvas 160cm by 145cm

09/2008 Collective Exhibition at Castle of Rivoli, (TO) Italy.
Work exhibited: the history of Rivoli: Acrylic and collage on canvas 3m by170cm

08/2008 Extempore Piran 2008, Slovenjia

03/2008 Exhibition at ‘The Foundry’, Old street, London UK
Work exhibited:
1) Scacco Matto’, Oil on canvas, size: 300 by 145cm
2) ‘The thought energy’, mixed media on canvas, size: 150 by60cm
3) ‘In and out of the kitchen?, oil on canvas, size165 by 90 cm

03/2008 Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino, Italy.
L’oggetto del Design nell’ Ambiente’;
finalists screening.
Work exhibited: ‘Arkeotheatre’ ‘Piscina Mirabilis’, (Video 4’)

03/2008 Video.it 9 edizione. L’oggetto del design nell’ambiente.
Opere esposte: ‘Arkeotheatre’ ‘Piscina Mirabilis’, (Video 4’)

06/2008 Fabbrica del Vapore Milano (Italy). Screenings
Work exhibited: ‘Arkeotheatre’ Antro della Sibilla’, (Video 4’).

06/2008 Supermegadrops4, Liceo Artistico statale Bruno Munari (Italy), Screenings

07/2008 Goldsmiths College (London-UK), work exhibited: the golden man oil on canvas
180cm by160cm

06/2008 ISIS School in Greenwich (London-UK)
Work exhibited: ‘Birth and protection’: oil on canvas.
Size: 160 by 200cm.

04/2007 New Cross Inn (London-UK), “performance”
(music by Shearingsheats.)

08/2007 Belgrade city art museum (Serbija). (Curators: Dobrila Denegri e Bijliana Tòmic)
Work exhibited:
1) ’Check Mate’: oil on canvas.
Size: 300 by 145cm plus installation
2) ‘The Chess’ Match’: mixed media on canvas.
Size: 40 by 35cm

09/2007 Instambul Biennal, street intervention, Fire and movement. (Curators: Dobrila Denegri e Bijliana Tòmic)
(Performance, 5’)

08/2007 Belgrade city art museum (Serbjia). (Curators: Dobrila Denegri e Bijliana Tòmic)
‘Homo Sapiens Sapiens’, duo exhibition with Veronika Ban
Work exhibited: ‘Organic Passion’; ‘Gold’; ‘Tvmad’ (three photographs 50 by 70cm)
three paintings sized 100 by 70cm (acrylics on cardboard)
Installation

01/2006 Palazzo Marigliano (Napoli, Italy), ‘Screenings’
Work exhibited: ‘Etruria’ (Video 4’, music john Chalk)

09/2006 Accademia di Belle Arti of Naples, Italy
‘Danza Libera’ (catalogue available)
Performance/happening

09/2006 Accademia di Belle Arti Napoli, Italy
Work exhibited: ‘politics n fantasy’,
three collages and mixed media sized 30 by 50cm

03/2006 Territori dell’Arte – Arte del Territorio
‘Circolo degli Artisti’ ‘Aktivamente project’, Rome, Italy
Work exhibited:
1) ‘Tsunami’, fibreglass sculpture, size 50h
2) ‘Tsunami’, fibreglass bassrilief, size 170 by 130
3) ‘the wave’, collage and mixed media

2006 Performance at “Notte Bianca”. Placed in the Accademia di Belle arti of Naples

10/2005 Albergo dei Poveri, Napoli – Italy
Graffiti mixed media on panel 400 by 200 cm

11/2005 Conservatorio di Napoli, Italy-happening/performance at the main entrance.

PERFORMANCE

14/11/2009 ICA: Performer for “Teppich” by Ei Arakawa
22/10/2009 Dancer for Bloomsberg theatre, Imagine a Spectacle (London-Uk)
07?2009 A foundation Performer for Lundhal and sehiti’ project / (London-UK)
07/2009 Southwork playhouse. Performance with Blue Bag
07/2009 Shunt, London. Performance with Blue Bag
07/2009 Montegue arms. Performance with Blue Bag
07/2009 Barbican: Radical Nature. Performer and dancer for a project by Bash studios in London Happening all around London and Barbican.
04/2009 Performance at Stratford Circus Theatre (performers supporter), London-Uk. Choreography by Alesandra Seutin/ Name of the event: Vocab dance.

Iannis Xenakis (Greek: Γιάννης Ξενάκης) (May 29, 1922 – February 4, 2001) was an ethnic Greek, naturalized French composer, music theorist, and architect-engineer. He is commonly recognized as one of the most important post-war avant-garde composers. Xenakis pioneered the use of mathematical models such as applications of set theory, varied use of stochastic processes, game theory, etc., in music, and was also an important influence on the development of electronic music.

Among his most important works are Metastaseis (1953–4) for orchestra, which introduced independent parts for every musician of the orchestra; percussion works such as Psappha (1975) and Pléïades (1979); compositions that introduced spatialization by dispersing musicians among the audience, such as Terretektorh (1966); electronic works created using Xenakis’s UPIC system; and the massive multimedia performances Xenakis called polytopes. Among the numerous theoretical writings he authored, the book Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition (1971) is regarded as one of his most important. As an architect, Xenakis is primarily known for his early work under Le Corbusier: the Sainte Marie de La Tourette, on which the two architects collaborated, and the Philips Pavilion at Expo 58, which Xenakis designed alone.

(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iannis_Xenakis. Follow the link for full entry)

I am primarily interested in sculpture. My work more often than not includes some if not all found materials. Travelling is a huge passion of mine, be it round London, or further a field, it is these trips which provide me with exciting structural ideas and the chance to collect disowned, often overlooked objects. These found objects are later rearranged to construct large structural forms, embellished with mini narratives. Hence the work often involves some activity outside to obtain material or to make-work, and so the sculptures I make become reflective of my lifestyle and environment around me.

I enjoy focusing on discarded materials caught between production and decomposition. Finding an aesthetic in these disposed of unloved items, is important to me. The proximity of unexpected items next to one another and the exciting relationships and juxtapositions of these new orders is something integral to my work. I have a child like wonder for the things I find, and freely collect, organise and meticulously sort through my finds till assemblages come together and feel intuitively right. Assemblages of found and manufactured miscellanea develop narrative relations. Parts collected or made are also reused in new works and take on new meanings.

The washing up and in of objects and the new connections I make between things that don’t necessary have one is something I have a passion for. I find pleasure in decorative embellished bricolage, which I carefully combine so that often-repulsive soiled items, or ones with a deathly aura take on a utopian feel. There is a strong sense of my interest in the boundaries between function and dysfunction.

It is more habit and obsession with different materials found on my scavenging missions than overtly strong environmental and recycling views that drives me. Sometimes I have to take on a somewhat performative role to animate my works, carefully tending to them and maintaining their upkeep, a caretaker of sorts.

I also enjoy working with elements of the animal and botanical. Work often consists of pelts, leather, bones or animals which I preserve or taxidermy myself. There is an element of the shamanistic and the transgressive, a kind of simultaneous veneration and abjection of the animal.

The most recent pieces, and what I intend to develop further, are structures from which limbs and haunches hang creating hanging platforms for the smaller sculpted areas. Off these geometric string circles, which rise from the floor to a certain point, suspend objects such as bees, feathers or shooting plants. They create interesting internal spaces on the sculptures. The delicacy of these against the found materials gives a comforting feeling of order, a calm amongst the chaos. This turns small works in to a constellations without imposing too much of a closed loop or narrative on the work.

My aesthetic is not usually clinical or overly concerned with high gloss or expensive looking finishes, but seems to come about and evolve quite naturally through my innate passion for materiality. As my assemblages are large and tend to grow to fit a space. I am also interested in developing different methods of linking islands of work successfully to make the piece come together as a whole.

from http://www.saatchionline.com

To see Katie’s work, visit: www.saatchionline.com/profiles/index/id/154072

EXHIBITIONS
2010 Theatre Cymru Clwyd – On Performance Nichola Hope, Sarah Hope, Liam O’Connor

2010 BIG RESIDENCY WMC Group show

2009 PEOPLE IN WALES Group show at Denbigh Library Gallery, Denbigh

2009 WELSH ARTIST OF THE YEAR selected artist at St David’s Hall, cardiff

2008 ACCESS ALL AREAS Group show at Wales Millenium Centre, Cardiff

2008 MUMBLES ROAD GALLERY, Swansea – Group show

2008 WALES PORTRAIT TWO Welsh Portrait Biennale. Touring exhibition

2007 JERWOOD DRAWING PRIZE Short listed artist. Touring exhibition

2007 NUNEATON MUSEUM AND GALLERY Joint show with Nichola Hope exhibiting opera made at the WNO

2007 DYLAN THOMAS CENTRE, Swansea. Joint show with Nichola Hope exhibiting opera made at the WNO

2007 CELF CYMREIG, WASHINGTON GALLERY, PENARTH Group show

2006 YOUNG WALES, ROYAL CAMBRIAN ACADEMY 5 opera drawings selected for Young Wales VII

2006 WELSH ARTIST OF THE YEAR Etching selected, St David’s Hall, Cardiff

2006 WALES PORTRAIT AWARD Portrait Biennale. Portrait of Carlo Rizzi selected for touring exhibition

2006 COOTEHILL ARTS CENTRE. Co.Cavan, Ireland. Group show with Nichola Hope and Eirian Llwyd

2005 EISTEDDFOD ERYRY A’R CYFFINIAU Selected artist

2005 TOWER ARTS GALLERY, WINCHESTER Group show with Nichola Hope and Eirian Llwyd

2005 ORIEL GLYNLLIFON Group show Nichola Hope and Eirian Llwyd

2004 THE KYFFIN BIG DRAW Oriel Gwyngyll, Llanfairpwll 2nd joint prize winner

2004 FOCAL MIXED RHUTHIN Group Show Rhuthin Festival of Contemporary Art and Light

2004 SOUTH HILL PARK ARTS CENTRE, Bracknell. Solo drawing show, Mansion Stairs and Long Gallery

2004 ORIEL AC AMGUEDDFA BANGOR Solo drawing show by invitation from Gwynedd Council

2003 GALLERY ON BROADWAY Cardiff. Solo drawing and painting exhibition

2003 THE PRINCE OF WALES DRAWING STUDIOS Final show of Drawing Year Students 2002 – 2003

2002 MEMORIAL GALLERY Wrexham. Solo drawing and painting show.

2002 GALLERY ON BROADWAY Cardiff Solo drawing show

2002 VISIBLE TWO Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Cwmbran, Open art group show organised by Permanent Waves

2002 Y MABINOGION Wyvern Theatre Gallery, Swindon. Solo drawing show in Swindon organised through Artscape, Swindon Borough Council.

2000 CATREFOL/HOMELY Cardiff Bay. Painting show with Nichola Hope at The Point Gallery, Cardiff Bay.

2000 RAM JAM STUDIOS GROUP SHOW Camarthen. Group show of artists from the Ram Jam Art Studios.

1998 FISHERTON MILL \Salisbury. Group graduate Show.

1997 MYTHS METAPHORS AND SPACE Winchester Cathedral Group painting show by artists from Winchester School of Art and Cheltenham & Gloucester C.H.E

PRIZES

DARLUN MAWR LLANFAIRPWLL BIG DRAW 2004 Joint second prize winner

PROJECTS

2005 to present Welsh National Opera artist

2003 SOUTH HILL PARK OPEN DRAWING COMPETITION Seleced judge

for the Open Drawing show at South Hill Park Art Centre in Bracknell

TELEVISION AND PUBLICATIONS

2000 and 2003 Y SIOE GELF, CWMNI DA, S4C

2002 Big Issue

2005 Taliesin magazine

EDUCATION

2002-2003 PRINCE OF WALES DRAWING STUDIOS, LONDON Drawing Year

1995-1998 CHELTENHAM & GLOUCESTER C.H.E. -BA (HONS)- Fine Art

1994-1995 CARDIFF INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION -Art Foundation Diploma

1987 – 1994 YSGOL GYFUN GYMRAEG GLANTAF

taken from http://sarahhope.com/page2.htm

To see Sarah’s work, visit http://sarahhope.com