Things keep turning up in boxes and filing cabinets. Documentation, memorabilia, outdated videotape formats from published or half finished projects. – Slowly.. I digitize them and will present some here. Along with anything interesting in my past practice that catches my attention.
No plan. ..Really !
INTELLIGENCE IN SWARMS
There are interesting and transferable patterns in the fluid behavior in the murmurations of flocking birds. Produced entirely by deterministic rules. Read more
EVERYTHING IS ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE
Communicating via “pictograms” – Representational pictorial drawings designed to communicate, in a concise manner, a concept to people who speak different languages or are travelling at speed. – Simple, recognisable, singular meaning. Read more
A PRINCIPLE OF LOCALITY
My studio windows face the track of the T-bane (Oslo public transport).
For about one hour in the early morning and in the early evening, monday to friday, 6. to 28. of January 2018, I projected a new animation-loop onto transparent screens in these windows. . Read more
THE PHOTOGRAPHERS GALLERY, OSLO 1990
Two week exhibit. One week working on finishing a set of large canvases in the gallery space. Then a vernissage for about 1 hour, followed by one week of exhibiting the back of the canvases, the image-side facing the wall. Much to the confusion of visitors to the gallery. Read more
THE METEORITE MAN
Another piece from the early 90’s, where I tried to combine two projects that I was keen on at the time. Read more
MUSIC – SPEECHES – COLOUR TV
Woke up this morning thinking on the wording in the invitation to my first one-man show, at the “Gallery 7”, June 1977. The gallery was situated in the foyer of the, then, amazing Club 7 in Oslo. Read More
HØSTUTSTILLINGEN – Oslo 1975
My debut in a national exhibition. In the autumn that year I was in Indonesia for two months and just managed to see the exhibition for about an hour on the last day before it closed.
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Another early project ..half a lifetime later. (1985). Relieving standard household objects from their bindings or conventions. Dreaming up other stories : Photographers gallery, Oslo
JIM – FIN – DAG – TOM and LAVASIR
A sitespecific piece for a group-exhibit at the Dikemark psychiatric hospital, just outside Oslo 2016. Based on an appropriated image of some active Norwegian art-photographers (around 1987 I think) Read more
THE SEA
On a vista of land, sea and sky, animated symbols and images floats across 4 screens. My first exhibition with moving images. At the “Fotografia”-Gallery, Oslo 1999. A significant departure for me.
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THE ROCKET MACHINE
The Rocket Machine was built in the mid 90’s to show twin film-loops. Loops from “The Sea”, “Approximately Infinite”, “4” and others. The name alluded to a more naive or optimistic period in the development of technology. Read more
“4”
DVD-publication and an exhibition with 4 film-loops shown in the Film-museum at the Norwegian film-institute in Oslo 2000. Read more
MR. WONDERFUL
My father passed away in 2002 He was a musician. A trumpet player who had a few radio-hits in the 50’s. “Mr. Wonderful” was one of these. A cousin had them digitized from the old (Triola) 45’s Read more
I was Duun-fellow (stipendiat) in 2005.
The project was based on the Norwegian author Olav Duun’s very last book “Floodtide of fate” (Menneske og maktene) published 1938. The book was written and published in a turbulent time for the world. The climax of the book is the flooding of a small community on an island off the west coast of Norway. Read more
GERNIKA
A live projection april 26, 27, and 28. – 2007 in the Astra Gallery, Gernika. It was performed on a white box, the exact size of Picassos “Guernica”, now in Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.
The youth of Gernika had reclaimed the vacated, former Unceta weapons factory, one of the few buildings that along with a strategically important bridge, was left unscathed in the 1937 bombings, and made it into a cultural centre. Read more
APPROXIMATELY INFINITE
A 24 hour projection of about 20 twin loops. Presented in a random sequence on the newly installed digital projector at the Norwegian Film Institute in Oslo. From Saturday 12.00 to Sunday 12.00, October 2002. The syncronised twin loops were part of the Ultima festival: www.ultima.no that year. Read more
THERE MUST BE ANOTHER..
D-CINEMA-DUALITIES
In the wake of digital distribution and projection of cinema film, new possibilities emerged for artists to intervene in a space that has, over the many decades, been designed and developed to give the optimal experience of projected images and electro-acoustic sound.
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The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
I was commissioned to make a series of pictures on the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra in 1989. Read more
THE DIGITALPOETIC SEMINAR
Thinking I had spotted a new arena for artists, I spent the first decade of this century focusing on the possibilities of live performed projection on the new digital cinema-projectors that were being installed in cinema halls. I tried to set up group efforts in Poetic film-experiences, edited live via MIDI-controllers in front of an audience. Read more
LHK
Where it is ..or what it is
Investigating the smallest imprint needed in an artistic practice.( ..this page is in Norwegian. LHK has only been visible to a very few in the region where I live ) In the next project TRAIN PASSING .. DOG RUNNING, the same images are slowly revealed and accessible through my webpage, Facebook, Instagram etc. From the 15. of January 2021.
I did not mean to..
A friend sent me this picture. It’s a poster from an event by the daily newspaper Uusi Suomi in Helsinki 1991. They had aquired board space in central Helsinki for this street exhibition.
The posters and a two page spread in the paper were made by a selected artist from each of the Nordic countries.
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I am much intrigued by artist run gallery-spaces. I was never a part of this scene. Over the last few years however, I have been turning a former garage in my courtyard into a gallery to present and to communicate the LHK-project. Our house is at no. 144. This gave the name. Read more
A series of diptychs ..an omnist approach.
Words are Words as they say ..we, are the ones filled with meaning.
A project making meaning, or meaningfulness, out of grammatical phrases, sounds, images or words passing me by.
An ever-changing focus on this, has been published, in 3 numbered stages, around the beginning of each month.
The 10 first monthly projects began in February 2024 – 10 monthly “retellings” of these will start in February 2025