Gillian Carsen has written a text on the performance festival "Between Sea and Sky II" at Herdla, Askøy outside Bergen (Norway) 23rd of August 2008. The festival was arranged by AKT-B: Robert Alda, Kurt Johannesen and Rita Marhaug.
Participating artists were: aiPotu (Norway), Boris Nieslony (Germany), Esther Ferrer (France), Roi Vaara (Finland), Monica Klingler (Switzerland), Melati Suryodarmo (Indonesia), Pedro Gomez Egana (Colombia), Roddy Hunter (UK), Kurt Johannessen (Norway), Robert Alda (Norway), Rita Marhaug (Norway) and Agnes Nedregard (Norway) & Raquel Nicoletti (Brazil).See "network" - AKT-B. >>Read this article

This mini-magazine consists of 5 articles and has been collected by Maija Hirvanen. She invited Leena Kela, Suvi Parrila, Annika Tuder and Pilvi Porkola to each write one article about whats happening at the Finnish Live Art scene >>Read this article

When looking for an education in the field in Norway, the most appropriate destinations remain the Fine Art departments of art colleges. Here hybrid and interdisciplinary practices are well established. However, true to international tendencies, Performance Art in Norway had its beginnings outside of established educational institutions >>Read this article

The matter of payment of fees and exhibitions can vary widely and can therefore be experienced as unsettling for many artists practicing this art form. Performance art is in a particular difficult situation because of the complicated matter of formally defining performance as either visual art or performing art. >>Read this article