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Svarte faen (eller fanden...)/ Sound of silver (2011/12)Shown at Crazy eights, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, and Island: 22 artists on Iceland, EMU Gallery, Ypsilanti, USA |
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The first event happened in Antarctica 1919, within a secluded community of whalers. Then there was the incident in a park in the middle of the city of Oslo, on a hot summer afternoon 2007. Both of them featured football, violence and racism, and both escalated completely out of proportions. A third and forth event connects them.
The core of this project is a deck of illustrated cards and an explanatory booklet. Rather than an illustrated story, the images serve as doors to the texts. The reader/ spectator, (or player) have the choice between 53 entry points to a group of loosely connected narratives without a clearly defined beginning or end. The deck of card examines the roles of culprits, victims, investigators, witnesses, interpreters, players, locations, catalysts, documents and evidence.
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The deck also document it’s own creation. A visit to the south of Iceland lead to a research of something else, spawning the idea of the playing cards as a sidetrack. An invitation to an exhibition in Detroit lead to it’s realization. As the creator of the deck, I have included myself, - "The artist" - among the interpreters. None of them are to be trusted. Me neither.
The piece was thoroughly reworked for a norwegian version presented at a solo show in Oslo, August 2012.
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