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GALLERI RUTH artist run galleri:DRIVE IN OF SOUND ART
2023
UrbanSoundArt
2022
Halden
2021
Rakkestad, Østfold
Ørje, Marker, Østfold
Open Out, Tromsø
2020
Postponed due to Covid-19
2019
Suomi Art Fair 19, Helsinki, Finland
Vadsø Kunstforening/Varangerfestival
2018
3 x Drive In´s 5 years celebration: Reykjavik, Hadseløy and Fredrikstad
2017
Kartfjord Lofoten, Eidsberg Østfold
2016
Land-Art-Rebild, DK
2013-15
Råde, VERY FIRST "Drive In of Sound Art"
"What a mess", Hydrogenfabriken, Fredrikstad
SPOR/TRACKS
SOLO
2024
Kringlyddagene/NOTAM, Sentralen Oslo
2023
Kunstbanken, Hamar
2022
Sijti Jarnge, Hattfjelldal
«Platform Bunker», CHP, DK. Curaters: Lise Seier Pedersen and Rebecca Bohse Mayer
2021
Røros Museum/Doktorsjønne 19 June- mid August, 2021
2019
Hanstholm Art Space, DK, "TRACKS"
JOINT
2022
Arktikum, Rovaniemi, FI, "Changes on Northern Shores”
Andenes Lighthouse, Norway, «Changes on Northern Shores”
2021
Mariehamn, Åland «Changes on Northern Shores”
Greenlandic House, CHP, DK, "Changes on Northern Shores"
NordTrøndelag Art Museum
2019
The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology, "Blind Spot"
Artist statement Tulle Ruth
Tulle Ruth’s artistic practices can be described as sculpture in a very broad sense.
The sculptures are often mobile and located at quite unknown sites in public spaces, along the highway, in urban as well as rural areas. Her artistic platform was shaped through the extended project Speaking Mountains, which enabled the seven famous mountains surrounding Bergen to speak and create stories. One extension was The Wind Powered Street Organ playing contemporary music as the wind blows. In an investigating and experimenting manner, “high and low” techniques are integrated, performative ingredients are often added, and not seldom the art pieces carry a humorous twist.
Outdoor Tulle Ruth always produces her own electricity from solar panels and wind turbine. In her latest show “Tracks” she researches a particular «clicking» sound, that the reindeers make with the lower hinter legs as part of their communication system. The project touches scientific methods and reasoning and is enabled through collaboration with the indigenous Sami people by Røros. When exhibit 16 sound units/channels are buried in a circle under the surface of the ground creating an interplay between the tactile and auditive senses. The audience can feel the sounds vibrations and listen to a quite silent composition moving around contra clockwise like the reindeers within the fences. “TRACKS” is a long running project which also includes a future “rein-deer-symphony”, where composing is approached as an act of sound choreography in space.
In 2013 Tulle Ruth started the gallery “Drive In of Sound Art” located at different sites along the high way. Any passing car driver can place the vehicle next to the gallery, open the window and listen to a selection of contemporary sound artists. Since 2013 the project has expanded and presented more than fifty professional sound artists in the Nordic countries. The 10 years celebration will happen as a major event in the county Østfold, Norway.
Tulle Ruth lives and works in Fredrikstad, Norway. She has her artistic training from Sweden, Norway, Canada and Denmark and has exhibited in many parts of Norway and abroad. She is also trained as an occupational therapist working with sight and hearing aids and welfare technology.