artist
HC Gilje
Norway
Norwegian artist HC Gilje (b. 1969) has moved between installation, experimental video, live performance and set design since he graduated from the intermedia department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Trondheim in 1999.
Early in his career Gilje was a key figure in the live cinema scene with 242.pilots and other collaborations, as well as creating experimental real time video set design for theater and dance.
The last 20 years he has combined elements from his earlier practice (exploration of physical spaces in his videos, creation of spaces in his stage work and improvisation from his live work) into a longer term project he has called Conversations with Spaces. He looks at different ways of transforming spaces using light, projection, sound and motion. These ephemeral media create temporary transformations of physical spaces, which in turn influences how we experience these spaces.
Questions of how we live our lives through our bodies; how we place ourselves in time; how we relate to others and our environment; and how technology is deeply entangled in the answers to these questions, are an important context for the creation, and possibly appreciation and understanding, of Gilje’s work.
