Singing The Strokes "I´ll try anything once" in family tombs at Pere Lachaise Cemetery and asking two strangers to perform an improvised boxing match afterwards in front of the entrance.
«Etter at hun hadde gjespet, sett seg rundt etter noen flere tortillachips og nikket til kunst som noe frisert, sa han: Hvorfor går du ikke bare ut i gangen, finner en ullsokk og siler en tacosaus fra i fjor over The New York Times? Hun kunne stikke nå og aldri se seg tilbake. Det var ikke for sent å begynne med videokunst.»
Via Florentin er en absurd og sanselig roman full av intime konfrontasjoner på kjærlighetens og kunstens performancescene, og det som følger med av ambisjoner, narsissisme, ekstase, misforståelser og overdrivelser.
Roman, 96 sider
Design av Aslak Gurholt
ISBN 978-82-8288-514-0
Utgitt i 2022
Eigenshaftpronomen (excerpts doc. from two performances)
The noise collective is a collaboration with changing members and musicians. For these two events: Louise Jacobs, Einar Stenseng, Joseph Helland, Espen Grønlie, Kaja Krakowian and Kristian Øverland Dahl.
A ballroom gown was interpreted every Friday during a month in and around the art space Centralbanken in Oslo. A piano was brought in on the first floor and I invited guests to play every Friday before each dress performance.
A self-published pocketbook was launched and used as a performance manual.
9 special editions with residue from 9 different performances was chronologically shown in the space during the exhibition period.
Performance
Screenshots from video documentation. Speaker and bluetooth microphone.
Singing “Who Knows Where The Time Goes” by Nina Simone at the waterfalls by Aamodt Bridge in Oslo, wearing a faux fur coat.
Singing «99 miles from L.A» by Albert Hammond in a Hugo Boss suit by the heavily trafficked cross-junction Sinsen, under a bridge with random passerby's.
I invited eight individuals from the audience to sit down and have a Martini with me while I typed a portrait of them. Two copies were printed on site after each session; one was given to the person and the other was clipped to the glass they drank from and placed somewhere in the space.