Aidan Moesby
(He/him)
Address: Oslo Open, Rådhusgata 19, 0158 Oslo
Floor: 1.
The studio is open Sunday 28 April from 12-17
Aidan Moesby is an artist and curator exploring the emotional context of working with climate change and the deep inter-connectedness between the natural and social environments within modern life. Equally likely to be found beyond formal arts institutions as within them, his practice includes both Disability Arts and mainstream representation.
Increasingly producing larger scale multi-modal work his practice includes installations, film, sound, sculpture and performance. Moesbys’ work explores themes including climate change, identity, loneliness, mental health and deep-interconnectivity. He works nationally and internationally across physical and digital platforms. He identifies as Disabled and Neurodivergent
Installation, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Tekst
Emotional Weather - Neon Light Installations for Lumiere Biennial of Light Durham 2023 – work around weather, climate change, and wellbeing located at points of departure and return, for example train station and Passport Office. Umbrella, wind, wellington boots, snow and cloud.
Sagacity: The Periodic Table of Emotions. A live interactive digital installation acting as a reflective emotional barometer. Activated through twitter using hashtags or geolocation. Software, Projector. Lumiere Durham. 2017
‘Breathing Space (i)’ Public Sculpture for Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust. Corten Steel, 2022. Commissioned by Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. An invitation to rest, consider what is important, reflect and ‘take a breather’. Parenthesis were used by Shakespeare to draw attention to important elements in his works.
installation view. ‘C’mon in the water’s lovely’ at Stockton International Riverside Festival. A live-work space for the main character in a new performance around climate change. The inset image a detail of the work space including microscope, radio (playing text from the performance), laboratory equipment and other interactive mixed media elements. Stockton, 2022.
Planned projects and exhibitions
Continuing my work exploring climate crisis and mental health using weather as a metaphor for emotional states.
Developing a new project exploring air and wind. How it connects us globally and locally, from weather systems to wi-fi.
I am continuing my conversational practice around increasing awareness of neurodivergence and non normativity especially around the lack of representation in the visual culture field.
CV
2023 – Completing PHD Practice based research in climate change and wellbeing
2015 MA Curating (Distinction) Digital Curation Sunderland University
1995 MA Art and Psychotherapy Sheffield University
Selected Projects
2023
Gjesteopphold ROM kunst og arkitektur
ROM kunst og arkitektur – sommerskole
Hospital Rooms Commission, installations for a secure Mental Health unit (UK)
Sagacity: Periodic Table of Emotions at Hygiene Museum Dresden (Germany)
Expert Clinic – Disability and Digital Curation – Sensefield Biennial Taiwan
Curating and Chairing International Symposium with NUK Festival (Festspillene i Nord Norge) and Disability Arts Online (UK) around Access, Inclusion and Disability in the arts in a Norwegian / UK context. Funded by British Council.
Lumiere Durham – Biennial Light Festival UK – 5 neon light installations
2022
NUK Festival – part of Festspillene i Nord Norge.
Museum Without Walls. Consultant for the British Council on the development of an accessible digital platform for the British Council Arts Collection.
I was Naked Smelling of Rain – Selected for the Arts Council Curated Showcase at Edinburgh Fringe Festival https://www.horizonshowcase.uk/artists/aidan-moesby/
Breathing Space (i) and (ii). Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Commission in response to Shakespeare. Produced Public Sculpture and Digital Moving Image.
‘I can feel the changing of the Seasons’ installation commission for Midland Arts Centre. Mixed Media, Moving Image, wellingtons, text. (UK)