International Space Station Assembly
A Collective Construction Site

Karolin Tampere (b. 1978, Estonia, based in Norway) has an BA in Visual Arts from Bergen National Academy of Arts (2005) (including exchange periods at Contemporary Art Centre by Joseph Backstein in Moscow and Interdisciplinary studies by Jaan Toomik at Estonian Art Academy (EKA) in Tallinn). Together with artist Åse Løvgren she initiated the ongoing collaboration Rakett (2003-), which is a mobile platform for various activities ranging from curatorial practice to initiating our own collaborative artistic projects. The Rakett projects often function as lively, temporary platforms for collaborative, often interdisciplinary, production; where the role of the initiator/curator is to not only to create a framework and a stage but also to bring together different cultural producers, to create a moment of potentiality. Implicitly and explicitly, the projects touch on a range of questions around (co)authorship, (im)material production, the role of artist and curator, and the potential of mobile and changeable platforms in the institutional infrastructure for art. Karolin Tampere has been curating independently since 2002. In 2006 she started 'I LoveYourWork' at Landmark, the new media space of Bergen Kunsthall, Norway. This project is a series of performances focusing on artists working in a hybrid formate, in the crossover fields between music and visual art practice.
www.karolintampere.com