Artisitc research based concert.

By appropriating the concept of site from the discourses of site-specific art and the concept of field from sound art, and applying them to the moving image, the project Image as Site explores the potential of video art for enabling certain elements of performance that appear in these discourses. The project aims at creating artworks that present themselves as specific realities rather than mere representations of place. The research originates from an understanding of video as a particular mode of inquiry that activates relationships between bodies, images, and places. The project expands this understanding and engages it to create meetings between visual arts and film and media practices where new questions are be triggered.

As part of Image as Site, Ellen Røed collaborated in 2021 with researchers Hans Knut Sveen and Jostein Gundersen in an audiovisual exploration, through video, flutes and keyboards in which moving images were treated as a form of site, a place that informed musical improvisation and response. The collaboration culminated in a concert at Kulturhuset WRAP in Bergen in November 2021.