Monday 16. October:
Generosity as artistic strategy

By applying her work as gifts or services on everyday situations, Heier aims to challenge society’s conventions on status and hierarchies. A gift can never be neutral, and therefore always works as a destabilising factor. Heier's art projects are intended to activate or charge already existing contexts by introducing new energy, which lead to a concrete physical change in a pre-existing situations. By pointing to possible alternative interpretations of existing situations and power structures, she wants her projects to function as a constructive critique. Projects such as Permanent Installation (SparwasserHQ, Berlin, 2005), Construction Site (National Gallery, Oslo, 2005 ˆ 2006), Cracking Concrete (Galleria Fabia Calvasina, Milano, 2000), A drop in the ocean (Bjørvika, Oslo, 2005) and Underground (University of Trento, Faculty of Economics, 2004) are some examples of her artistic interest and method.