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Walz 57 · Niko Stumpo · 2006
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Niko Stumpo was born in Drammen, Norway. He grew up in the ice lands of Norway, and at the age 6 he moved to Italy, and began vigorously skateboarding. During many years, skateboarding became his life. He had become a sponsored skater and toured around Europe with his sponsors. The fun stopped when he had a severe injury, and was forced to change his career to another focus, which led to “art”. He had finished High School in the field of art, and later enrolled in a Fine Art Academy, however never completed the actual course. Even though, he had a great passion in art and could see the great potential of it – through his own creativity. Instead of continuing school, he became fascinated with Web design, and one of his early inspirations on the World Wide Web was an animated butterfly on the first edition, “The Remedi Project”. Since then, he has contributed to “The Remedi Project”. he has worked as a creative director at a major design agency in Milan, Italy, then he started freelancing for different companies, then as an art director for Wieden+Kennedy in Amsterdam, now he runs his own companies called HANAZUKI and Aiko focusing more on artistic projects and creations of events. His artwork has been exhibited in places such as the Biennial of Tirana and Valencia, the World Wide Web Exhibition in Sao Paolo, Brazil, the George Pompidou in Paris, the Riviera Gallery in Brooklin Ny, The MACBA in Barcelona, in the Bomuldsfabriken in Norway, the 55Diesel store in Milan, Palazzo Fortuny in Venice, the 451F gallery in Amsterdam, The MONTANA gallery In Barcelona etc.
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www.abnormalbehaviorchild.com

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loading · collectif_fact · 2006
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short interview
Can you say something about the idea or inspiration behind this work?
Here is a small concept about the piece:
The “loading” video shows the entrance of an underground car park. This space is built in a schematized way, close to the cardboard model. Identical vans continuously enter the building. Only the signposting elements distinguish themselves from the surroundings by their colours.
The action creates a tension linked to the expectation of “an event”, while its repetitive side tends to make the scene absurd and disconnect it from its disturbing referent.
Therefore, while reducing elements to a minimum, we provoke a feeling of frustration between what happens and what could occur.

How do you create the scenes of your clips? Do you rebuild real existing places or do you design them by heart?
We invent compeltly the scene it doesn’t really exist but it’s a kind of design by heart.

You are a group of three people. How do you work together? Does everyone do everything or do you split the work in different parts?
We discuss every idea all together and then we split the work. But we manage the all thing together, talking while doing it until the end.

What is the meaning of the collectif for you? And how fix is it? Are there people joining or leaving sometimes? Or do the members appear also as solo-artists besides the collectif?
We always work together as a group. In contemporary art there is a lot of collaboration to do projects nowaday. A collective is a collaboration in long term. with the word “collectif” we like to show that we work like that.

Is there a new project you are working on at the moment?
Yes. See you in Môtiers, art en plein air, june 2007…
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http://www.collectif-fact.ch