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A Forcing of Barriers
Per-Oskar Leu

A digital project, part of And Yet It Moves
  • Per-Oskar Leu is an artist based in Oslo. In 2013, he participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program. He has exhibited at Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt; Johan Berggren Gallery and Malmö Art Museum, Malmö; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden; Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; EVA International Biennial, Limerick; and 1/9 Unosunove, Rome, where he showed his most recent collaborative project, “Benjamin Tiven c/o Per-Oskar Leu—an alternate correspondence.”
"A Forcing of Barriers" was first presented as a performance at Appartement, in Berlin, on July 16, 2010, with the actor Daniel Schrader as Arno Breker and Georg Springer as Otto Freundlich. The performance was presented as part of "Sender, Carrier, Receiver," a series of public programs in Paris, Berlin, and Sarajevo, organized by Triple Canopy with Nine Eglantine Yamamoto-Masson. It was commissioned by Triple Canopy as part of its Internet as Material project area, with support provided by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston.
Tags: Artist Project, Conversation, Death
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