Siri Austeen
Siri Austeen lives and works in Oslo, Sørumsand and Tistedal. In her artistic practice, Austeen is concerned with the relationship between sound and place and how different listening strategies affect our understanding of reality and ourselves as part of a whole, across social and political spaces. A recurring theme in her work is the interaction of individual, collective and ecological structures, often taking exploratory field recordings as its starting point. Her works are presented as multichannel sound installations, participant-based projects, performance, sound publications and public art commissions.
Her last sound publication “Tides and Wanderings” based on her performance and sound installation "What moves move” was published, spring 2024 by Breton Casette and can be listened to here.
Austeen has presented works nationally and internationally, including at National Museum Oslo, Henie Onstad Art Center, Kunstnernes Hus, Ultima Oslo, Galleri Rudolfinum Prague, Kurt-Kurt Berlin and Struer Tracks Denmark. Of public art commissions can be mentioned “Ears of the field” at The Falstad Center Museum, memorial and human right center 2009-2024, “South North Sound Exchange” Sørumsand High-school 2022, and “Civil Repose Signal” Fredrikstad Fortification 2009.
Of public art commissions can be mentioned “Ears of the field” at The Falstad Center Museum, memorial and human right center 2009-2024, “South North Sound Exchange” Sørumsand High-school 2022, and “Civil Repose Signal” Fredrikstad Fortification 2009.
Austeen is currently involved in AVGANG/DEPONI at Velferden 2023-2026 with the project «To gather a mountain». Through a serie of field recordings, texts and performative interactions she reflects up on the local mining industry, its tailings and changes in the landscape due large scale resource extraction.
Austeen graduated from the Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts 1985 and have since been engaged in various musical projects like Tremulators, Tutti Contro Maggie, Tsarsten and the Freudian Slippers, and Hullkortensemblet (the Punch Card Ensemble) to mention a few.
