A K Dolven | Folkestone Triennial

Triennial 2011 Artists A K Dolven

A K DOLVEN

TITLE: Out of Tune

Location: Old Rotunda site, seafront

Born: 1953 Oslo, Norway

Lives/Works: London and Lofoten, Norway

Since the 1990s Norwegian artist A K Dolven has worked with the idea of being at odds with one’s surroundings, and more specifically, for the past three years, with disused bells. ‘Out of Tune’ continues a series of similar titles such as ‘Out of Time’, ‘Out of Balance’ and ‘Out of Season’.

Folkestone Seafront, opposite The Leas Lift, CT20 1PX Dolven’s installation features a 16th-century tenor bell from Scraptoft Church in Leicestershire, which had been removed for not being in tune with the others. It will be suspended from a steel cable strung between two 20m high steel beams, placed 30m apart. The bell can be rung by visitors using a traditional rope bell-pull.

AK Dolven Interview
AK Dolven Interview by FT2011 Audio

The sound of the bell chime
AK Dolven’s ‘Out of Tune’ chime by FT2011 Audio

Recent solo exhibitions:

‘Untuned Bell’, KORO, Tullinløkka, Oslo (2010)

‘the day the sky became my ground’, Wilkinson Gallery, London (2010)

‘looking for balance’, Platform China, Beijing (2010)

‘moving mountain’, CAC Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius; AroS, Århus Kunstmuseum, Denmark; and Bergen Kunsthall, Norway (2004)

South London Gallery, London (2001)

Kunsthalle Bern, Bern (2001)

Recent group exhibitions:

Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo (2010)

‘GSK Contemporary’, Royal Academy, London (2009)