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MAIN PROJECTS

Energy Bank 2009 – ongoing

Public artwork.

Public facility.

Target audience: Anyone with batteries to charge and energy to spare.

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This artwork is proposed as an altruistic bank that resembles a small petrol pump station and works as a public service provider for depositing and withdrawing electricity. To make a deposit you simply crank up its wheel. Your muscle power is transformed into-, and stored as electrical power. Plug your cell phone into one of its adapters to make a withdrawal and see both these activities reflected in its energy display metres. With its dynamo charger and solar cell system that illuminates it at night, it requires no main line power supply. However, it relies on your physical effort to be of service. You can decide whether to;

• make a deposit while recharging your cell phone batteries,
• make a deposit for others to withdraw later,
• make a withdrawal without making a deposit.

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Possible slogans: “Make feeders speeders” “Save children – turn the wheel”

URL:

• Energy Bank sketches on flickr

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Status report:
Pilot project funded by Public Art Norway.
Grant application sponsored by Atelier Nord, Oslo.
Production consultant: Gunn Marit Chirstenson, Kulturstudio, Porsgrunn.
Consultant/collaborator, concept/design: Roman Minaev, Moscow/Berlin.
Needs sponsors, green industry/energy partners, industrial engineer, sound artist/engineer.

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Desert Walker. The Impossible Mission 2008 – ongoing

About a performance that virtually nobody could witness …..

and a text I have been trying to write since 2008.
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On a stage that stretches beyond the scope of human vision, where the weather can shift faster than the blink of an eye, four solo walkers performed a simultaneous act of endurance – a serial choreography inspired by Samuel Beckett’s experimental TV drama Quad. It was performed unannounced and only once. To be able to see Desert Walker in its entirety would require hovering high above the performance area for a period exceeding 11 hours. What is the remaining artefact of this project? A text, the presentation of the documentation material, a new work? This is what I’m trying to find out.

URLS:

• Desert Walker website
• Flickr set

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Status report:
Funded twice over by Arts Council Norway, manuscript development.
The application for the first writing period was sent via the committee for visual art to the committee for the performing arts. The application for the second period was sent from the committee for the performing arts to the “diverse other” category. I look forward to seeing where the application for the final period will go, when the time comes. The next phase of this project will take place in July 2010 during a month residency at the  Art Villa Garikula, Georgia, and the results will be presented at the International festival of Contemporary Art, Fest i Nova at the villa in October 2010.

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Box Sets of People 2010 -

Order sets of people for social and cultural events.

Choose from our pre-fabricated collections.

Place an order for a custom set to meet your requirements.

Target group: anyone planning a special event.

URL:

• Flickr set

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Status report:
Evolving.
Order placed by Sedista King: a set for her PhD defense/graduation.
Order placed by Nina Refsnes (artist/no): Tropical Premium set with extra nurse and some handsome single blokes.

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Antenna Aesthetics 2007 – ongoing

Photographic and sonic portraits of antennas

Collection of snapshots of antennas and audio recordings of their electromagnetic waves

Target audience: dependent on media/mode of presentation

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URLS:

• Antenna aesthetics on flickr
• Sound of Mu
• Antenna Aesthetics brochure/ text for Sound of Mu
• Electromagnetic Fountain

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Status report:
From 20th – 31 March 2010 I had an exhibition at The Sound of Mu, a gallery and cafe in Oslo, to co-inside with the opening of  the Electromagnetic Fountain at the Norwegian Telecom Museum. The exhibition encompassed over 80 snapshots of antennas I’ve collected over the past few years, as well as sound recordings of electromagnetic activity via EM detectors during field trips in the city. The photos were hung on the walls and available in book form. The audio recordings ambulate in the space via a directional speaker mounted on a motorized, panoramic stand.

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