Artist talk: Martin White, Matthew Berka and Mike Sperlinger

We're excited to host an artists’ talk – Saturday March 30 at 2 pm – between Martin White & Matthew Berka and Mike Sperlinger, writer, curator and professor of theory and writing at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. The event is free of charge and open for all.

Artistic labour is usually dislocated from the exhibition format, and is therefore also dislocated from the public. Cultural labour on an institutional level, that is the labour of the people working at institutions, is similarly dislocated and invisible from the public's view. Is this OK? relocates multiple levels of artistic labour into the exhibition format.

Martin White (b. 1978) and Matthew Berka (b. 1992) have collaborated previously on performance works using live video, video interviews and documentary techniques in a live context. White studied Fine Art at RMIT in Melbourne and completed his MFA at the Norwegian National Academy of Art in Oslo in 2017. In 2002, he received a post-graduate diploma in Dramatic Art from the VCA in Melbourne. He has previously directed theatre, film and television. White’s work has been shown at film and performance festivals internationally and he has exhibited in group shows in Melbourne, Malmö and Oslo. White had a solo show for Tokonoma at MELK in 2018 and has an upcoming solo show at Podium. Alongside his artistic practice, White has published essays and reviews, sat on award and grant panels, worked as a researcher, and occasionally taught. Matthew Berka lives and works in London. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Art (Media Arts/Sound) from RMIT University. Previous exhibitions and screenings include SUPER FIELD, Melbourne (2017), The Ecology of Place, Melbourne (2017), Image Inverts, Close-Up Cinema, London (2017) and Home Movies, Bologna (2017). In addition to his practice he has curated exhibitions and screenings, worked as a video editor and collaborator in theatre and film.

Mike Sperlinger currently teaches writing at Kunstakademiet, Oslo and the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. Previously he was assistant director of LUX, a London-based organisation for artists working with the moving image, for more than 10 years.

The talk will take place in English.