Curator of Lydgalleriet [the Sound Gallery], Jørgen Larsson, has put together an exhibition of seven new sound-based pieces. NOR13 will take the pulse of kinetic and sound-based art in Norway today, with a group exhibition that will be the gallery’s first to focus on the Norwegian scene since 2009. Seven artists based in Norway have been asked to produce new pieces considering issues tied to recycling.
 
The background for the exhibition is our prolonged experience with the expenditure of resources in the art world. In producing an exhibition, large amounts of material and energy are spent on transport and travel, which may seem somewhat at odds with the often outspoken environmental concerns of artists and curators. The challenge presented to the artists invited by Lydgalleriet is both artistic and practical, in that as a much as possible of the art should utilise already extant materials/objects, and that as much as possible of the construction should be carried out with recycled materials. The work of the invited artists is already in line with this perspective, focussing on found objects and reuse.