NORWAY: What happens when art takes form of situations and human encounters? How to highlight the professional work being done in a kindergarten?

1. Soundtrack from a multimedia production. A mix of oral statements from participants. Duration 16:25 min.

INVISIBLE - VISIBLE (2010-2011) was an art project with focus on documentary work and participatory methodologies. The project had a local initiative, the local partners wanted to highlight the educational work in the kindergarten and to initiate a discussion about the work. Artist Brynhild Bye-Tiller followed the staff in Vangan kindergarten with her camera lense and her dictaphone. The staff participated in multiple ways in the production.

The project contained many different events like an exhibition, workshop, presentations, meetings and a book launch. There was participation in a large scale on many levels. The participants recorded their thoughts about their work environment, they learned about photography, they wrote texts, they took pictures, they made an outdoor exhibition and organized an outdoor event.

The participants were: Hege Lein, Birgit Fossvik, Birgit Sørum, Inger Morken, Margrethe Ekker Skorstad, Berit Finstad, Ingebjørg Lindseth, Aud Olsen, Ery June Jørgensen, Jorun Marie Lona og Ingunn Fallet.

– "The spotlight Vangan kindergarten has received in the fall of 2010, has changed the perception of the content in the institution. The staff is made visible for what they actually do, unlike biased, trivializing attitudes they often meet outside. The documentation is also of a permanent nature. The employee photographs are assembled into a collage, and given to the town hall. Politicians have been presented for the project through lectures, soundslides and pictures. A selection of Bye-Tiller images have been exhibited in the kindergarten, and the project are presented in a book," quote Art historian Solveig Lønmo.

PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK BRYNHILD BYE-TILLER
OUTDOOR EXHIBITION IN VIK AND LAUVSNES

ARTIST BOOK BRYNHILD BYE-TILLER

Details: 104 pages. Small square 21 x 21 cm. Text by artist & the staff & art historian Solveig Lønmo. Photographs by the staff and Brynhild Bye-Tiller.

Text: "Social photography" (NO) text by Solveig Lønmo PDF

Article: Se også lansering av ny bok (In Norwegian Only) From the archive.

OUTDOOR EVENT		BOOK LAUNCH & PRESENTATION OF VANGAN KINDER..
Event date: November 17 th 2010		Venue: Tangsprælldagan, Flatanger 2011 (NO).
Venue: Outdoor Flatanger Sports Hall		NORWAY'S LARGEST OUTDOOR PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION Event date: November 16 th - 23 rd 2010 Venue: The villages of Vik and Lauvsnes in Flatanger (NO). Art work: 288 photographs Details: A part of Invisible Visible was to present photos from the staff in an outdoor exhibition. Every household in the villages of Lauvsnes and Vik got one picture attached to the wall. In total 288 households. At the time it was Norway's largest outdoor photography exhibition. VIDEO II Hanging Norways largest outdoor photographic exhibition.
Art work: A multimedia production, photographs and audio recordings. Details: Audio-recordings of the participants at Vangan kindergarten and photographs taken by them of their daily work. My documentary photographs and audio-recordings of the staff all put together in a 16 minutes multimedia production which was shown at the event. Documents: Invitation to the event 2010 (PDF) Powerpoint presentation early in the project September 2010 (PPT) VIDEO I Opening November 17th 2010. Minus twenty degrees, strong wind, but delicious cake and firework and Patrick Wiborg Dahle played the guitar.   PARTNERS The project was conducted in a collaboration between the municipality of Flatanger, Kari Imsgard, the staff at Vangan kindergarten and me. The project was supported by Flatanger municipality and the Department of Culture.