KAREN THASTUM CURRICULUM
VITAE
www.turayamoya.de,
mail:karenthastum@hotmail.com
born 1963 i Aabenraa, Denmark
Media artist
working with site-specific sound and Projection Art.
KTs site-specific concerts and installations uses
analogue (slides) in combination with digital media and sound.
KT also work as a composer an Musician (CL / VOC / PNO ).
She is a gifted still photographer and made several documentary
and Art films that have won international awards.
In 1988 Karen founded the cross disciplinary Nordic, German
and international Art project
TURA YA MOYA which she has since headed; The site of the performance- a
planetarium, a church, an old ruin - is the base of inspiration.
By the use of slides, film and
video projected onto surfaces and walls and new music TURA YA MOYA is crossing
borderlines between Art Forms.
KT often seeks inspiration for her work in the original art, and in the
history of the Scandinavian countries al well as in Berlin and Greenland.
EDUCATION: Hochschule der Knste Berlin. D, Fb. 4 Experimentelle Filmgestaltung og
Fb. 6 Spiel und Bhne
Professor Herta Schnewolf
(D) & Danish design school, Kbenhavn, tegning og
grafik (DK).
PRODUCTIONS (
collected ):
2019 HAVETS VEJE; Sjogvur and Juras Celi - performed at Sudortoy Faroeislands and in Riga (LV)
Mixdmedia Sea Symphony in progress
2015-18
ANERSAAQ
/ ANDI / ND - spirit of place, mediecontainer on
tour. Bod, Finnsnes,(N) Eyrarbakki, Selfoss,
Hverargardi, Reykjavik, (IS) Kulusuk, Kuummiut, Tasiilaq, Nuuk, Qeqertarsuatsiat, Arsuk, Paamiut, Qaanaaq,
Qaqortoq (GL),
Cultural capital Aarhus2017 (DK), Berlin (D).
2015 LYSR Albertslund ( DK )
2014 TAARNERTA NALAANI
SARSUATITAT / VETURLJS (DK /GL / IS)
2011 NIPI &
QAAMASOQ SAGA, Grnlands Kulturhus
Katuaq, Qeqertarsuaq
Museum, Saqaq,
Ilulissat Kunstmuseum (GL), Islands Nationalmuseum
(IS)
2009 PLANTS Botanisk Have, Cph. (DK) Nordische Botschaften, Berlin (D)
2008 FORGLEM MIG EJ Nationalmuseet, Cph. (DK)
KYNDELMISSE KS, (DK)
2007 ZEITGEIST Frue plads, Cph.
(DK)
2006 NIPI SAGA Nordische Botschaften, Berlin (D)
2005 SEXTANT Steno museets planetarium, Tycho Brahe
Planetarium (DK)
TIL UNGDOMMEN Aabenraa Havn
(DK)
2003 NORTHABILITY Nordische Botschaften (D)
2002 ESTAFETTE SON Spttrup Borg (DK)
2000 CAVE 2000 Mnsted Kalkgruber (DK)
1999 MORIA Trekroner
Fort Kbh. (DK)
TEACHING ART since
2004 HUSKUNST: Kunshochschule Weisensee
& Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi,
gymnasier and schools in Germany, Scandinavia and Kallallit Nunaat (Greenland)
GRANTS:
Senatsverwaltung fr Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur: Arbeits Stipendie Tonstudio (D)
DET
DANSKE FILMINSTITUT produktionslegater,
STATENS KUNSTFOND Komponist hononrar.
And Nordic Cultuerpoint, Kusnstsyrelsen: Statens Musikrd, Kulturministeriets udviklingsfond,
Det danske Kuluturinstitut + Kbenhavn, Arhus, Spttrup og Fjends Kommuner + Statsministeriet,
Kbenhavns Kulturnat, Nordisk Kulturfond and others.
Visuel Artists:
Inge Mahn
(D), Ursula Reuter Christiansen (D), Ragna Wehding (DK) og Jeanette Land Schou (DK),
Henning Christiansen (DK), Maria Gradin (NO),
Anders Sunna (S)
Komposter / musicians : Jeanette Balland(DK),
Kristian Blak (FO), Marilyn Mazur (DK), Claus Hovmller,
(DK) Udo
Erdenreich
(D),
Silbat Christensen( GRL), PO Jrgens
(DK), Diane Labrosse
(CAN), Thomas Agergaard(DK), Zam Johnson (USA)
Henning Christiansen (DK), Henning Frimann
(DK) und Eliane
Radiqu (F).
Dancers:
Kitt Johnson(DK), Minako Seki (J) & Yumiko
Yoshioka (J), INK BOAT
(USA), Do Theather
(RUSLAND)