Camille Norment will offer an overview of her artwork, and a more in-depth case study of selected works in consideration of how different notions of ‘the public’, are explored through her performance, gallery, and public art works. Norment’s work emerges from intersecting historical and contemporary trajectories that unite microscopic phenomena, such as hysteria, with macroscopic experiences, such as global crisis. She seeks to engage the viewer as a physical and psychological participant in the work and as such, is interested in creating experiences that are both somatic and cognitive. Through her process, she considers how her research can result in experiences that extend beyond theoretical translation
and leave conceptual ‘earworms’ in the perception of the viewer. ‘The sonic’ is a key element in her work for its ability to connect specific cultural references with more pervasive human experiences. In Norment’s work, cultural memories are condensed into physical, spatial, and temporal experiences that are both psychological and social.
Multi media artist Camille Norment was born and educated in the U.S., and began her professional career with 12 years in New York before relocating to Oslo, Norway where she now lives and works. Her work often uses the notion of cultural psychoacoustics as both an aesthetic and conceptual framework. She defines this term as the examination of sociocultural phenomena through sound and music, and the contexts in which they are produced. She applies this concept towards the creation of critical works that consciously interweave the formal and the contextual.
Amongst several permanent public artworks, Norment was commissioned a permanent sound installation for the Henie Onstad Art Center (2011). The extensive international fine arts
exhibition credits also include: broadcast feature in Art Basel Miami (2015); exhibition and performance in the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013); a commissioned artwork and
performance for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo (2012); Liste Young Art Fair (2009); the Thessaloniki Biennial, Greece (2007); Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland; the Charlottenborg
Fonden, Copenhagen, Denmark; the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.; the Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY; UKS Gallery, Oslo, Norway; the Bildmuseet, in
Umeå, Sweden, and radio broadcast in the Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy. Norment’s work has been written about in periodicals such as Art Forum, Art in America, The New York
Times, Kunst Kritikk, Aftenposten, a feature in The Wire Magazine, and numerous other international texts. Camille Norment’s work has been broadcast several times in features
including NPR in the U.S., Norway’s NRK radio, and the UK’s BBC.
In 2015, Norment was selected to produce a solo project for the Nordic pavilion in the Venice Biennial.
This year takes Camille Norment’s work to a collaborative project performed in Vancouver, Canada; a solo exhibition at Lydgalleriet in Bergen; new productions for the Montreal Biennial
and the Kochi-Muziris Biennial in India, a commissioned performance for the Armory in New York amongst other new contributions