FUTURES Talent 2021
IO SIVERTSEN
„LET'S TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER“
Io Sivertsen (b. 1994) is a photographer and filmmaker, based in Norway and the Netherlands. Her work explores the boundary between truth and fiction. Using reality as a starting point, image-making anchors the subject matter in her own personal perspective. Depicted themes include technology, internet culture, sexuality and identity.
Meeting climate crisis generationally
Project: „Let’s talk about the weather“ (2019-2021)
Let’s Talk About the Weather simultaneously addresses our relationship with weather as well as Sivertsen’s own relationship to her father. This personal story and dilemma—an inter-generational difference of opinion with a parent—meets the realities and complexities of the global climate crisis heads-on. “My father doesn’t believe climate change is caused by rising human emissions. But I do. This work encompasses my relationship with him, while simultaneously describing my relationship to our climate. It is a satirical approach to a very serious issue, blurring the lines of personal experiences and facts. Because it is very difficult to believe something that is not visible yet, this is an intuitive exploration on how climate change manifests itself.”
With this project, Sivertsen underlines how difficult it is to believe in something that is not yet visible. We need mediators, such as weather reporters, who talk about the future; a place, a time and a sensation or scenario that does not exist yet, or cannot be imagined. At the same time, weather reporters also act as mediators of climate change.
Presenting this intuitive exploration on how climate change manifests itself, Let’s Talk About the Weather consists of a multimedia presentation with a video, video stills, photographs, and a publication.
The Camera House presenting Let’s Talk About the Weather by Io Sivertsen was designed and built by: Emma Louise Rasmussen, Christine Dellgren Geneser, Fie Filippa Koll Svensen , Mariela Andrea Bergum-Conteh and Marie Jul Scharff, Bachelor students from the Institute of Architecture and Design, Royal Danish Academy, under the supervision of Architect and teacher Kristian Hansen, from Marstal Søfartsmuseum. Head of the Bachelor program is Architect, Associate Professor Jacob Sebastian Bang.
Io Sivertsen’s project and participation was supported by The Norwegian Embassy in Copenhagen and her video work ‘Let’s Talk About the Weather’ was supported by Canon Denmark.
ARTIST BIO
Io Sivertsen (b. 1994) graduated from The Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and attended the Master Program at the Norwegian Film Academy, Oslo.
Alongside her practice she has initiated and developed short-films, exhibitions and a film festival. She is the co-founder of the independent film festival Cinema Underexposed, a The Hague based platform aimed for new voices and perspectives.In 2020 she attended the Canon Student Development Programme at Visa Pour l’Image. Her work has been exhibited in diverse exhibitions at museums, galleries and platforms across Europe. Her works have also been published in Morgenbladet, Aftenposten and Zweikommasieben magazine.
Selected achievements
- – 2020 Group Exhibition Nedsmelting with the Danish organisation Atla, Let’s Talk About The Weather.
- – 2019 Lecture and screening of short film I See Potential in Page Not Found.
- – 2018 Screening of short film Where Is Catharina Hart? at Eye Film Museum, the Netherlands.
- – 2018 Sad Songs from a Sad Place at Gallery Paradne in Athen, Greece. Performance and video work.
