Anette Friedrich Johannessen is a multidisciplinary artist, working with performance, video, drawing and text-based work. She holds a BFA from Camberwell College of Arts, London, and has participated in several festivals, exhibitions and events (both solo and collaboratively) in Europe, USA and Asia. Working from Bergen (Norway), Anette is today artistic director of Performance Art Bergen and is one of the co-organizers of Public performances in Bergen and the district around the city, called Open Sessions. Her artistic practice is highly inspired by Open Sessions, where the main concept is that art in public space is an expression of democratic thought, where art can, and should, be a shared experience. The core element in Anette Friedrich Johannesen’s artistic practice is an investigation on sensory experience, repetition, minimal gestures and place identity. She seeks to define different types of systems and how they relate to chaos and order. This process is about understanding human rituals, and to which extent they are a part of our nature. In her work, she discusses mankind’s relationship to nature, social structures, and technology. How should we as humans relate to our ever-changing environment, and how can we as individuals adapt while at the same time figuring out how to balance our instinctive nature and technological progress?