Co-ritus with: Susan Philipsz, Maasai Mbili Artists Collective, Jakkai Siributr, Tenthaus Art Collective

For the duration of across, with, nearby, a series of co-ritus events will unfold across four Thursday evenings alongside the Gruppe 66 exhibition at the Bergen Kunsthall. Co-ritus is an improvisational and process-based approach to collective art making that was introduced in Bergen in 1966 via the Scandinavian avant-garde and Situationists who formed or collaborated with Gruppe 66. The artists in Gruppe 66 explored participatory strategies of being and making together. Co-ritus challenged conventional roles of authorship and spectatorship, proposing the artwork as a live, communal situation, rather than a fixed object.

This new programme of co-ritus events is inspired by the practice of Gruppe 66. It does so not to look back with nostalgia, but to look forward and engage with a view to the present and the future. Cooperation and interaction with the audience are central to these co-ritus acts. The invited artists and collectives engage in process-based practices over the span of one evening, with durational traces that are shaped by encounter and sharing rather than showing. Whether material, spatial, or affective, these traces remain within the exhibition. In this way, the context in which the historical works are presented continues to shift and evolve.


Co-ritus programme
Thursdays at 17:00

11 September: Susan Philipsz
18 September: Maasai Mbili Artist Collective
30 October: Jakkai Siributr
6 November: Tenthaus Art Collective