B3IG3 x Entrée present

REACTION  VIDEOS






featuring works by

Dan Brown Brønlund 
Magnus Håland Sunde
Linda Morell



🗓 30/10/2021
📍Grand Hotel Terminus
Zander Kaaes gate 6, 5015 Bergen
👽 Hosted by SCREEN TIME


“I’ve seen this one before, it’s sooo good!” –KNAGSTER (reacting to artwork by Dan Brown Brønlund)


B3IG3 and Entrée proudly present REACTION VIDEOS - a one of a kind performance and exhibition experience that mixes the art world with the hotel world, drag and digital technology. Guided by SCREEN TIME, you are invited to experience works by Bergen-based artists Dan Brown Brønlund (DK), Magnus Håland Sunde (NO) and Linda Morell (SE) in a suite at Grand Hotel Terminus.

Here is how it works:
👉 The event is free and open to anyone.
👉 Meet up in the hotel lobby between 18:00-21:00.
👉 You will experience being guided to view an exhibition inside a hotel room.
👉 Please note that you will be photographed and filmed as part of the event.


“I like how it kind of doesn’t move, at all…”
– KNAGSTER (reacting to artwork by Linda Morell)




Hosted by

SCREEN TIME

Print and costume design: Andreas Knag-Danielsen
Textile production: Marte Edvarda Tidslevold


B3IG3 is run, hosted and produced by Andreas Knag-Danielsen. For the sixth iteration, in collaboration with Entrée, Bergen gets a chance to enter the B3IG3 universe. Taking inspiration from the phenomenon Reaction Videos* from YouTube, the character KNAGSTER (as seen on B3IG3 TV) reacts to each artwork through TV screens, diffusing the boundaries of the digital and physical realm. By mixing satirical humor and fast paced editing similar to the genre, artist and writer Jennifer Chan mimics the role of a digital avatar-meets-art critic. The manuscript is performed and manipulated by Knag-Danielsen, creating a meta reaction of some sort in relation to the physical artworks. The installation consists of sculptures, objects and TV screens that intertwine with the hotel decor while the host SCREEN TIME guides you through the hotel. Check-in at the lobby and take your seat...


“I’m totally into Red, Green and Blue, so this is totally my vibe.”
– KNAGSTER (reacting to artwork by Magnus Håland Sunde)


*A Reaction Video is a video in which people react to something. Videos showing the emotional reactions of people viewing episodes of television series, film trailers and music videos are numerous and popular on video hosting services such as YouTube. The depicted persons may or may not be aware that they are being recorded. In some cases, the video to which people react is shown within the reaction video, allowing the reaction video's viewers to see what is being reacted to.



Dan Brown Brønlund (b. 1988, Århus C, Denmark) works with sculpture, photography and installation. His practice evolves around an attention towards exploring and experimentation concerning the basic internal matter of body and soil, in the living and non-living. Here, he explores what makes out our primordial desires and modern guilty pleasures within the physical world around us. Seeking out how to evoke a sense of curiosity towards one's environment, through the encounter of materials within those spaces. It is a question about what materials can communicate and how they are produced, used and altered by his own body. Organic, artificial and volatile substances are composed with each other in imaginative micro-cosmos’s by the experimentation of a diverse mixture of materials and mediums brought together. In exploring formations and deformations of different materials coming together and the relations that exist or could arise between them. Dan Brown Brønlund imagines other ways of working with sculpture, merging various, and often non-traditional materials. @danbrownbroenlund




Magnus Håland Sunde (NO) (b. 1992, Tysnes, Norway) is a textile artist with a BFA from The Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design at the University of Bergen. Currently based on the island of Tysnes, south of Bergen, he works with local tapestry traditions, gathering material to naturally dye wool yarns. His practice revolves around meeting points for cultural heritage and queer identity, linking the old and contemporary through digital jacquard weaving or analog tapestry weaving. His projects often start with a search for a "digital materiality" through scanning, drawing on grid paper and using algorithms to create new patterns. Through the history of software, Sunde is inspired by how this relates back to the jacquard loom, as a foundation for all digital technologies. He has exhibited works in Denmark and Norway. @magnushaalandsunde




Linda Morell (b. 1993, Halmstad, Sweden) works with sculpture and installation which form speculative futures based on myths, science and medicine. Through the reinterpretation of current and historical theories surrounding the human body she creates works in various materials such as ceramics, metals, glass and plastics. The works often operate with a clinical aesthetic and examine the relationship between body and object. The pieces linger between the human and non-human both in form and concept alluding to alienation and her most recent works mix hand-built processes with virtual techniques to explore new forms of sculpting. Characterized by their material precision, her works can be understood as hybrids and artificial organisms. Morell graduated with a master from Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design at the University of Bergen in 2019 and has since had solo presentations at institutions such as Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter in Svolvær and BOA in Oslo. In 2020 she was awarded the debutant award from the Norwegian Association of Arts and Crafts. lindamorell.com @linda__morell


Andreas Knag-Danielsen (b. 1983, Bergen, Norway) works with digital media, performance art, installation and video. His art practice explores the interrelationship between the human body and technology where he raises questions about identity, the internet and representation by using an interdisciplinary approach. In the last three years he has implemented the art of drag and make-up transformations into his work as well as working more with video and post-production using green screen, digital manipulation and social media as a space for experimentation. His art practice is constantly changing but will always be rooted in the idea of what it means to live in a human body in a post-human time, where he uses his own queer body as a starting point. During 2015-17 he worked for the artist-run gallery Galleri CC in Malmö (SE). In 2018 he started the performative and curatorial project B3IG3. Selected curatorial work for Galleri CC: Jennifer Chan (CAN) ”Sea of Men”, 2-29/11 2015, Anne Guro Larsmon (NO) & Sandra Vaka Olsen (NO) ”Glass Double”, 1-24/4 2016, Lars Korff Lofthus (NO) ”TOTEMS”, 3-26/3 2017. andreasknag-danielsen.com @knagster


B3IG3 (read: “beige”) is a performative and curatorial platform which is run, hosted and curated by Andreas Knag-Danielsen. B3IG3 has for the last three years consisted of B3IG3 events where artists are invited to use a hotel room as an exhibition space. The events are hosted by different characters created and performed by Andreas Knag-Danielsen, based on drag aesthetics, a love-hate relationship with technology and the meeting between the digital and physical world. B3IG3 has also ventured into the YouTube world with B3IG3 TV featuring a brand new talk show called THE B3IG3 SHOW as well as various videos that explore what it means to be human in a hyperconnected time. B3IG3 has shown works by Rasmus Raphaëlle Östebro (SE), Sasha Panyuta (US), Hanni Kamaly (NO), Nils Ekman (SE), Johan Lundin (SE), Christopher Füllemann (CH), Pastelae (SE) and collaborated with art institution Rogaland Kunstsenter, Gallery Extra, curator Sofia Wickman (SE) and Museum Anna Nordlander (SE) and held events in Malmö (SE), Berlin (DE), Stavanger (NO), Copenhagen (DK) and Skellefteå (SE).




Entrée
www: entreebergen.no
ig: @entreebergen

The project is supported by The Norwegian and Swedish Arts Council






Andreas Knag-Danielsen
SCREEN TIME (2021)



B3IG3 visitors

Photo: Lars Korff Lofthus





Video documentation

Video: Raffaele Piano
Editing: Andreas Knag-Danielsen
Music:  Andreas Knag-Danielsen




Suite 310

Grand Hotel Terminus





Andreas Knag-Danielsen
VIDEO REACTIONS (2021)
3 channel HD video on vertical TV screens
Dimensions variable



Dan Brown Brønlund
Exogel (2021)
Roots, textile, clay, chalk, pigment, foodcoloring, water, vacuum bags, LED lights
Dimensions variable











Linda Morell
Panacea (2021)
Glazed stoneware, steel
115 x 38 x 35 cm















Magnus Håland Sunde
Monitor screen test #1 (2019)
Wool
110 x 65 cm










Dan Brown Brønlund
Terraformers (2021)
Roots, clay, chalk, pigments, leaves, water,
vacuum bags, grow lights
Dimensions variable













Dan Brown Brønlund
Terraformers (2021)
Roots, clay, chalk, pigments, leaves, water,
vacuum bags, grow lights
Dimensions variable



Dan Brown Brønlund
Exogel (2021)
Roots, textile, clay, chalk, pigment, foodcoloring, water, vacuum bags, LED lights
Dimensions variable



Andreas Knag-Danielsen
SCREEN TIME (2021)



Photo: Raffaele Piano