Peter Norrman is a video artist, filmmaker and photographer. He works mainly with video in different disciplines; installation, live art, video design, architecture + performance, hybrid documentaries.
He is currently in development on a musical collaboration with David Byrne and recently showed the large scale video project SCAN as an invited artist for Culture of Capital in Liverpool i September 2008. He also recently finished all the media production (a permanent video installation, interactive kiosks, a real time slide show) for the High Coast Museum in Sweden designed by renowned architects White. He has designed video installations for Lyn Rice Architects (Catwalk, Bellevue Arts Museum), created video for the experimental music video project Alladeen in collaboration with the London based artist organisation motiroti, as well as with The Builder Association (Jetlag, Xtravaganza, Invisible Cities, a collaborative public arts project). Other collaborators include Diller, Scofidio& Renfro, Ben Rubin, 3LD, RedFly/BlueBottle, John Cleater, Jeff Morey, STATIC (Liverpool), Coco Fusco, Andrea Fraser, Leif Jordansson.
Norrman was the recipient of NYSCA Individual Media Production Award in 2000, 2003 and 2005 and an OBIE for his video design work in collaboration with The Builders Association. He received and Honorable Mention in the Environments Category Award for I.D Magazine Annual Design Review 2004 for his video design work and was the recipient of the prestigiuos Aurora Independent Film and Video Award in 2005.
Excerpts from the show TINDER, shown at the EXIT Festival in march 2009 at the Creteil Maison de Artes in Paris. Songs from Red Fly/Blue Bottle re-envisioned as live-art.
A performance-installation created by: Peter Norrman (film and video) Christina Campanella (music and sound design) Matt Verta-Ray (found-object sculptures) Mallory Catlett (direction) Stephanie Fleischmann (words)
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Some of my video imagery for the multimedia songcycle RedFly/BlueBottle. Staged as a concert within a video installation environment, Red Fly/Blue Bottle conjures an associative visual landscape in which objects open up in unexpected ways, unfolding to reveal worlds within worlds. Permeated by loss, the familiar is made strange: Voices emanate from the mouths of jars, clocks explode, flies whisper, oscillators serve as portals to the past. Tightly crafted hypnotic songs (alternative and down-tempo dream-pop) emerge from an evocative multi-channel sonic terrain of found sounds, ticking clocks and analog tone generators; miniature noir films are projected onto floating surfaces, and live and premade video animates earthbound objects. Juxtaposed, these sounds and images create a dense terrain of sonic and visual echoes whose reverberations amplify the conundrum at the core of the piece.
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Excerpts from only the 18 min triptych permanent video installation for the experiential nature museum "naturum Höga Kusten" in northern Sweden designed by renowned swedish architects White Architects. In collaboration with Pelle Kronestedt.
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Full ambient version of the 17 min triptych permanent video installation for the experiential nature museum "naturum Höga Kusten" in northern Sweden, designed by renowned swedish architects White Architects. About changes in landmass in region. We worked/filmed on project for 10 months. There is a subtle non linear narrative about time, rythm and movements within nature, about the history of the region, and the power of changes in landmass. This is the digital final single screen version. In collaboration with Pelle Kronestedt.
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Media production for experiential nature museum "naturum Höga Kusten" in northern Sweden designed by renowned swedish architects White Architects. Interactive kiosks, real-time slide show, 18 min triptych permanent video installation. In collaboration with Pelle Kronestedt.
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Video Design for Here Lies Love, the song cycle by David Byrne. I created films for each song based on archival material of the life of Imelda Marcos.
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The arts and education project, INVISIBLE CITIES looks at the digital divide between the "haves" and the "have nots."
In late fall 2005, Peter Norrman and John Cleater ( with The Builders Association) began working with collaborators both in central Brooklyn through the Brooklyn College Community Partnership and through the Institute for Collaborative Education in Manhattan. Both of these institutions focus on serving primarily "at risk" teens. Over the course of two years, the Builders worked with students, merging visions of the city's complex present with possible futures for New York.
The project evoked imaginary, virtual worlds, but also the marginalized sub-cities in which this project's teenage participants live. We started by asking what is a "city" for its many different inhabitants? Are there parts of New York City which are only visible to some of its inhabitants, and why?
The final project resulted in an architectural exhibition at the 3LD Art & Technology Center, a new gallery space in lower Manhattan.
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Video Design by Peter Norrman.
The exhibition, Beyond the Catwalk: The Fashion Show as Performance Art, probes the industry in relation to the precedents of perfomance art. Lyn Rice Architects collaborated with video designer Peter Norrman to shoot, edit, and re-present the spectacle in a multi-projection video space and as blue screen image replacement.
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