October 15th, 2027, we will be hosting a new edition of Notam Nights.

This evening, the programme will feature a performance by Uniah (Una Aurora Venås), Gargoyles – a multichannel installation by Samuel Brzeski and a lecture-performance by Kate Pendry.

Where: Notam (Myrens Verksted 3A).
When: Doors open at 17:30. The event starts at 18:00.
Free entry.

The artists

Kate Pendry 
Kate Pendry is an actress and playwright from London, now living and working in Oslo. Renowned for her political and controversial works, she has written and produced over fifty plays, as well as numerous electronic artworks and radio programmes. Pendry’s characteristic use of dark humour and incisive social commentary has earned her a distinctive reputation within the arts community.

Photo: Jonas Jeramiassen Tomter

Samuel Brzeski 
Samuel Brzeski (UK/NO) is an artist, writer and publisher who works with language as raw material—shaping, stretching and transforming words on screens, on the page and within the sounds of speech. At the heart of his work lies a playful and performative use of the voice; the voice as a carrier of rhythm, vibration and emotion; the voice as the centre of the human experience of presence. Sometimes his works make more sound than sense. 

Samuel studied Literature at the University of Sheffield, Art at the Bergen Art Academy, and took part in programmes at the Jan van Eyck Academie (Maastricht), the Maumaus Independent Study Programme (Lisbon) and The Mountain School of Arts (Los Angeles). As an extension of his practice, he runs Vibrational Semantics Press, which publishes texts, scores and sound works by creative practitioners who work with voice and language. Samuel is currently based between Bergen, Norway, and Maastricht, the Netherlands.

Samuel Brzeski by Andreas van Hoppe.

Una Aurora Venås
Through the artist’s project Uniah, Una Aurora Venås explores her intense fascination with dreaming. Voices, harp, noise textures, scenography, video and drawing are among the elements that converge in her artistic expression. Over the years she has spent working with dreams, Una has drawn inspiration from lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis, hypnagogic hallucinations, dream memories, surreal musings and reflections on reality and unreality. 

Over the past couple of years, Uniah has performed a number of concerts and shows across the country, and her two self-produced music videos Becoming a Ghost (film) and Hallucia Film were both selected for the Grimstad Short Film Festival. Following the release of the EP Embody Nobody and the new single Hallucia, She has been featured in GAFFA’s ‘Newcomer’ section and in *Ballade*. 

Photo: Una Aurora Venås by Thea Grant.