Kristian Skylstad

Kristian Skylstad is this year's guest curator for the Arctic Moving Image & Film Festival (AMIFF). He has invited this year's artist profiles Jason Havneraas & Kjetil Berge, Mattias Härenstam and Crispin Gurholt. All of these artists have a fundamentally critical and experimental approach to the film medium in their practices, through video, photography, moving images, installations and performance.

Bio:

Kristian Skylstad (born 1982 in Oslo) is a Norwegian artist and curator who mainly works with photography, poetry, collage, video and sculpture. Skylstad's work often revolves around the individual's behavior and emotional life, and distills the pervasive sociological inquisitions of text and photographic work unbound by context. His work explores human issues through the staging of various forms of boredom, apathy, cynicism and powerlessness. Skylstad's work is associated with a generation of young Norwegian artists who in the 2000s emphasized the conceptual and post-media. His methods pursue and reactivate the attitudes of Neorealismo and Infrarrealismo. In recent years, his primary focus has been the consequences of genocide, which has led to extensive studies and photographic projects in Silesia (Poland) and Cambodia. At present, his work relates to artificial intelligence and social alienation in connection with technological development. He lives and works in Berlin and Villa Faraldi. Skylstad has participated in the establishment and management of several artist-run gallery spaces in Oslo. His artistic practice is combined with teaching and journalism, mostly related to film, photography and contemporary art. He is the founder and member of Noplace (Oslo), which he runs with Petter Buhagen and Hans Christian Skovholt.