GULLGÅSA

Labyrinths

2011-12-12T23:05:00.001+01:00

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“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”

Jorge Luis Borges

Austerlitz

2011-12-12T22:43:00.002+01:00

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All the world's memory

2011-11-26T03:58:00.007+01:00

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(..) The cinema was also used to record events and even to shape the course of history. Hugo Munsterberg commented on the unique ability of the cinema to create a direct vision of the past. While in the theater we must recall past events to give present action its full force, in the motion picture we can be shown the past” (Kern). By the late 19th century, the emergence of the phonograph, cinema, and preservation societies had established an inherent obsession for the persistence of the past (and its profound effect on the present (..)

Unpacking the workings of memory

Walter Benjamin

2011-10-10T00:51:00.008+02:00

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"Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the continuous flow of life. Here, I am talking of a space, of moments and discontinuities. For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have in the moment of recollection. This strange form -- it may be called fleeting or eternal -- is in neither case the stuff that life is made of.”

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)

A literary critic, philosopher, translator and sociologist, cultural critic; he wrote on Goethe, Kafka, Proust, Baudelaire, and he was influenced by Bertolt Brecht. His essays and works have been hugely influential in not just how people think about modern culture and art, but also how art is produced and why.

Benjamin on collecting

On longing

2011-10-10T00:22:00.008+02:00

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Narratives of the miniature, the gigantic, the souvenir, the collection. By Susan Stewart

Protect me from what I want

2011-05-04T11:39:00.018+02:00

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Illuminations & projections by Jenny Holzer

Marguerite Duras

2011-05-03T23:03:00.013+02:00

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“The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike.”

Duras's early novels were fairly conventional in form; however, with Moderato Cantabile she became more experimental, paring down her texts to give ever-increasing importance to what was not said. She was associated with the Nouveau roman French literary movement, although she did not belong definitively to any group. Her films are also experimental in form; most eschew synchronized sound, using voice over to allude to, rather than tell, a story; spoken text is juxtaposed with images whose relation to what is said may be more-or-less indirect.

On her tombstone at Montparnasse Cemetery (Paris, France) there are a small plant, a lot of white pills scattered over her sober gray stone, two flowers and two letters engraved: M. D. Two are also the images that could illustrate the unbridled process of her existence: the evocation of a beautiful girl full of eroticism... traveling by ferry along the Mekong River with a felt hat on, her lips in a dark red color, and, just at the other end, a woman with her face and body devastated by alcohol, that after four detoxification cures, went into a five months coma. Marguerite Duras leapt in just a moment from the beginning to the end of her life but, in the brief time of that moment, she did what she wanted to do: écrire. To write.

Robbe- Grillet hommage à Barthes

2011-04-28T22:39:00.012+02:00

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J'aime la vie, je n'aime pas la mort. Pourtant, j'aime assez ce qui demeure immobile. J'aime les chats, je n'aime pas les chiens ; j'aime l'impression d'éternité, les vieilles demeures de province aux décors immuables, les lourds velours rouges passés depuis toujours, la mousse dans les allées, les carpes entre deux eaux dans les bassins. Je n'aime pas le téléphone, je n'aime pas la voiture. J'aime les longs voyages en chemin de fer, Paris - Bucarest, New-York - Los Angeles, Istanbul - Téhéran, Moscou - Kabarovsk. J'aime aussi marcher, dans les rues ou à travers la campagne. J'aime les automnes humides et doux, les feuilles brunes, luisantes de pluie, en épais tapis spongieux sur les chemins. Je n'aime pas le bruit, je n'aime pas l'agitation, j'aime les belles voix, je n'aime pas les cris. J'aime les foules joyeuses, je n'aime pas ce qui plait aux foules. Je ne fais pas confiance aux masses populaires. J'aime les jours où je me sens plus intelligent, plus instruit, plus aigu, j'aime apprendre, j'aime enseigner. Je n'aime pas faire une conférence après un bon repas. J'aime bien les petites filles, surtout si elles sont jolies. Je n'aime pas trop les petits garçons. J'aime le joli, je n'aime pas la mode du laid. J'aime dire ce que je pense, surtout si cela ne se dit pas. J'aime connaître la règle, je n'aime pas la respecter. J'aime connaître les théories, littéraires ou scientifiques, j'aime la liberté, je n'aime pas le gaspillage, je n'aime pas la salade journalistique. J'aime mon papa et ma maman. Je me méfie des psychanalystes. J'aime bien agacer les gens mais j'aime pas qu'on m'emmerde.
[Alain Robbe- Grillet]

“I like, I don't like: this is of no importance to anyone; this, apparently, has no meaning. And yet all this means: my body is not the same as yours." [Roland Barthes]

Barthes died in 1980 after being hit by a laundry truck.. don't like.

Notes from the era of imperfect memory

2011-04-24T17:11:00.007+02:00

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Junkopia by Chris Marker

A manifesto

2011-04-18T22:22:00.000+02:00

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Reality Hunger by David Shields

(..) The novel, for all the exertions of modernism, is by now as formalized and ritualized as a crop ceremony. It no longer reflects actual reality. The essay, on the other hand, is fluid. It is a container made of prose into which you can pour anything. The essay assumes the first person; the novel shies from it, insisting that personal experience be modestly draped. The flood of memoirs of the last couple of decades represents an uprising against such repression. So why have there been so many phony memoirs? Because of false consciousness, as Marxists would put it. Shields (echoing Alice Marshall) is disappointed in James Frey not because he lied in his book, but because when he appeared on Oprah Winfrey’s show he didn’t say: “Everyone who writes about himself is a liar. I created a person meaner, funnier, more filled with life than I could ever be.” After all, just because the novel is food for worms doesn’t mean that fiction has ceased. Only an artificial dualism would treat every non-novel as if it were reportage or court testimony, and only a fear of the slipperiness of life could perpetuate the cult of the back story. “Anything processed by memory is fiction,” as is any memory shaped into literature (..)

Exhibition at MFAPS Oslo

2011-03-17T15:29:00.017+01:00

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"Now your body is like a wave"
Video projection and sound installation, 10 min.

The work is based on my private sound recordings from visiting 25 clairvoyants in New York City. In addition to the soundscape, animated subtitles were projected onto the wall.

David Berman

2010-12-12T20:59:00.000+01:00

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Imagining Defeat

She woke me up at dawn, 

her suitcase like a little brown dog at her heels.

  
I sat up and looked out the window
at the snow falling in the stand of blackjack trees.

  A bus ticket in her hand.  

Then she brought something black up to her mouth, 
a plum I thought, but it was an asthma inhaler.

  I reached under the bed for my menthols 

and she asked if I ever thought of cancer.  

Yes, I said, but always as a tree way up ahead

 in the distance where it doesn't matter  

And I suppose a dead soul must look back at that tree, 

so far behind his wagon where it also doesn't matter.  

except as a memory of rest or water.  

Though to believe any of that, I thought, 

you have to accept the premise  

that she woke me up at all.

Heiner Müller

2010-11-12T02:06:00.001+01:00

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Glückloser Engel 2

Zwischen Stadt und Stadt
Nach der Mauer der Abgrund
Wind an den Schultern die fremde
Hand am einsamen Fleisch
Der Engel ich höre ihn noch
Aber er hat kein Gesicht mehr als
Deines das ich nicht kenne

Hapless Angel 2

Between city and city
After the wall the abyss
Wind at the shoulders The alien
Hand at the lonely flesh
The angel I still hear him
Yet he has no face anymore but
Yours that I don't know

2010-09-03T00:28:00.004+02:00

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Time is the longest distance between to places.

2010-08-26T16:19:00.011+02:00

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So what is left when the real is no longer what it used to be? I guess then Nostalgia assumes it’s full meaning. A profileration of myths of origin and authenticity. Home is a place no one yet attained but for wich everyone yearns.

Roundtable memory and utopia

2010-08-22T01:32:00.007+02:00

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Memory, Invention, and the Writer's Search for Immortality
Imagining Utopia
Landscapes of memory

My mothers knitwear recycled by artcrowd

2010-08-04T23:22:00.007+02:00

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Something familiar in the crowd... A blue and grey knitted sweater with boats on it. The sweater, also known as "the northlander", - a limited editon, was designed and made by my very own mother back in ninety-something-nasty..

"I am my self the matter"

2010-07-19T17:09:00.022+02:00

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'I am myself the matter of my book' wrote Michel de Montaigne in the the 15th century and was viewed by his contemporaries as self-indulgent. In time, however, Montaigne would be recognized as the father of the modern essay. His "essai" (attempt) to examine the world through the lens of the only thing he can depend on implicitly - his own judgment - makes him more accessible to modern readers than any other renaissance author. His masterful balance of intellectual knowledge and personal story-telling has inspired modern literary non-fiction big scale. Laura Rascarolis book "The personal camera- subjective cinema and the essay film" draws on Montaigne to explore The Essay Film. By engaging with directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, Harun Farocki, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Aleksandr Sokurov, Michelangelo Antonioni, Derek Jarman, Federico Fellini, Jonas Mekas and Agnès Varda, the book provides novel answers to some of the seminal questions of cinema: on the nature of the cinematographic experience, on authorship and spectatorship, on the filmic commitment to truth and on the state of subjectivity

Miranda July "The future"

2010-06-08T13:49:00.010+02:00

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“We haunt ourselves, Googling our own name, perpetually clicking on search - because if we’re always searching then we never have to notice that we’ve found it, we’re there, this is really it.” M. July

A beautiful installation piece by July

The Hallway from The Hallway on Vimeo.

Berlin Documentary forum

2010-06-08T00:48:00.012+02:00

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BERLIN DOCUMENTARY FORUM presents documentary practices across disciplines, demonstrating the increasingly significant and much-debated role of the documentary in the visual arts, performance, literature and cinema. Both contemporary developments in the extended field of documentary and at the changing status of documentary forms through history.

On Alain Resnais and fiction-documentary online

Ghost of Klaus Nomi!

2010-06-07T23:02:00.008+02:00

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Klaus Sperber aka Klaus Nomi, a German countertenor noted for his wide vocal range and bizarrely theatrical live performances and costumes along with a highly stylized signature hairdo. His songs equally unusual, ranging from synthesizer-laden interpretations of classical music opera to pop cover songs.

Collections by Jean Paul Gaultier and Gareth Pugh

Exhibition at Babel Art Space in May!

2010-06-06T02:22:00.019+02:00

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My video work "The Reunion" installed in the gallery at Babel Art Space. Running time 7 minutes. Additional images of another three pieces in the space.

We were searching for ourselves in each other

2010-06-04T02:24:00.011+02:00

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The 1968 film "Sayat Nova" directed by Sergei Parajanov - which was banned in the Soviet Union - follows the poet's path from his childhood wool-dying days to his role as a courtier and finally his life as a monk. It was released in the United States under the title The Color of Pomegranates. It is not so much a biography of Sayat Nova but a series of tableaux of Armenian costume, embroidery and religious ritual interspersed with scenes and verses from the poet's life.

Hello Pollock!

2010-06-04T01:57:00.019+02:00

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Ggarden workshop with Bjørg.

Little Shilpa

2010-06-02T11:17:00.008+02:00

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Little Shilpa

The Holy Mountain

2010-04-03T02:04:00.023+02:00

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Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973.

Prologue: Awakening from a comatose sleep and covered in insects, a bearded thief is almost crucified by children but he is then rescued by an amputee dwarf. After sharing a joint with the dwarf, they travel through scene after scene of surreal images. The thief gets drunk with Roman soldiers who proceed to use his body as a mold to create hundreds of kitschy Christ statues. He returns to the street and, with the aid of a fistful of balloons, he rises to the top of a tower where he encounters "The Master," an alchemist. The alchemist demonstrates his transformational powers by turning the thief's excrement into gold.....

The Reunion

2010-03-26T02:57:00.016+01:00

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project in progress! Finished May!

Paris I

2010-03-14T15:16:00.019+01:00

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With Bjørg at Scandinavian Showroom Tranoï. Paris Collection 2010, Victorian memento mori meets Darwin!

Paris II

2010-03-14T14:45:00.033+01:00

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Olivier Zahm Purple diary at Colette. Street style at Rue St. Denis and Rue Tiquetonne.

The Straubs 70's film piece - a remake.

2010-03-14T01:30:00.034+01:00

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"Un coup de dès" / "Et terningkast" - remake made at the Performing Arts forum, France nov'09!

Image from exhibtion at Extracity Kunsthal Antwerp

All of the films of Straub and Huillet are based on other works: novels, operas, plays and less conventional source materials, such as political writings. "Un coup de dès" is a poem by Stéphane Mallarmé, french poet and critic. His work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Dadaism, Surrealism, and Futurism. He held that the poet should express the ideas of a transcendental world, that poetry should evoke thoughts through suggestion rather than description, and that it should approach the abstraction of music. Mallarmé’s language defies traditional syntax and is frequently so obscure that it must be read with commentary

The original film by the Straubs

".. however, it must be acknowledged that many people find their films nearly impenetrable and absolutely boring..." - M.B. White (International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1991)

Bona Drag online store

2010-03-13T23:39:00.006+01:00

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Bona Drag

Sophie Calle

2010-03-11T00:00:00.012+01:00

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Suite Vénitienne
"For months I followed strangers on the street. For the pleasure of following them, not because they particularly interested me. I photographed them without their knowledge, took note of their movements, then finally lost sight of them and forgot them.

At the end of January 1980, on the streets of Paris, I followed a man whom I lost sight of a few minutes later in a crowd. That very evening, quite by chance, he was introduced to me at an opening. During the course of our conversation, he told me he was planning an imminent trip to Venice..."

Alain Resnais

2010-03-10T23:42:00.007+01:00

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"I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea."

"The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback."

Alain Resnais

Variation over my shoe

2009-12-13T17:18:00.010+01:00

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My notes from Antwerp..

2009-12-12T16:23:00.018+01:00

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Film, fashion and fries.

PAF - performing arts forum

2009-12-10T22:49:00.013+01:00

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The Performing Arts Forum, outside of Paris PAF, served as the location for our remake of this little piece of film history by Jean Marie Straub and Danielle Huillet. Between 1880 and 1960, the building was a girls convent, now it's run by artists and performers in residency.

So what's at stake?

2009-12-09T21:38:00.022+01:00

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(in the welfare state..)
Images from videowork I made for the Open Academy exhibiton.

Sunless / Sans solei

2009-11-10T20:13:00.008+01:00

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by Chris Marker

"The first image he told me about was of three children on a road in Iceland, in 1965. He said that for him it was the image of happiness and also that he had tried several times to link it to other images, but it never worked. He wrote me: one day I'll have to put it all alone at the beginning of a film with a long piece of black leader; if they don't see happiness in the picture, at least they'll see the black."
script

Art loves commerce!

2009-11-05T14:07:00.024+01:00

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Series of "commodity art-ads" I've made. Shown on the fasade of a mall.

Kazuaki Takashima!!

2009-11-05T14:02:00.002+01:00

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New Norwegian art magazine

2009-11-01T19:45:00.004+01:00

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Kunstforum out now! My work at the Trøndelag exhibition was reviewed in the first issue online

Kusama + Andrea Crews

2009-10-27T01:00:00.004+01:00

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The event was coreographed by Martin Butler, and performed at the contemporary art center, WIELS in Brussels a year or so a go. In conjunction with artist Yayoi Kusama’s Dot Obsession installation

The Art Shaman.

2009-10-26T23:36:00.005+01:00

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In his work Matthew Stone is staging performance, photography and film. His photos feature friends/artists/musicians and party kids - all associated with Matthew - posing in timeless, decadent and, at times, mythological gestures. More; Optimism as cultural rebellion.

Yang Du

2009-10-25T22:59:00.009+01:00

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New Optimism

Andrea Crews jogging show at Rendez-Vous Femme

2009-10-10T21:37:00.008+02:00

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Last day performance showing the jogging collection 2010.

Five days in Paris - Rendez vous Femme

2009-10-05T12:33:00.021+02:00

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Working with Bjørg at Rendez-vous femme Paris.

Chronicles of never

2009-09-28T23:03:00.003+02:00

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Chronicles of never

my green suit

2009-05-14T01:53:00.007+02:00

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I just wanted to learn how to crochet.. Say no more, - story will evolve!

eurotrash from cobra killer

2009-05-11T00:32:00.001+02:00

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my sunday

2009-05-10T19:04:00.020+02:00

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drawing and repeating..

Lourdres Grobet photo

2009-05-07T00:54:00.007+02:00

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Lourdes Grobet Mexican photographer.

Goldrush!!

2009-05-04T23:22:00.027+02:00

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"I believe in the Golden Rule - The Man with the Gold... Rules."

The Selby in Paris

2009-04-26T23:18:00.019+02:00

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The Selby at Collette Paris. André at Hotel Amour.

Mark Ryden

2009-04-17T14:21:00.016+02:00

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Paintings by Mark Ryden. Modern myths, religious symbolism, folklore, catholisicm, buddism, rebirth, Carnevalesque Americana.

"Two suns"

2009-04-14T17:02:00.040+02:00

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the whole western world is turning into neo-mythical-somethings..

Black pieces!

2009-04-11T06:08:00.013+02:00

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From Natalia Brilli, Alex et Chloe. and David and Azumi.

Castelbajac in Lego!

2009-01-26T21:46:00.005+01:00

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Jean-Charles de Castelbajac has taken the lego theme of his spring collection to a new level. Presenting a video of a lego catwalk show, complete with a lego Anna Wintour sat in the front row!

LEGO vs. Jean Charles De Castelbajac from PressWhore on Vimeo.

Yang Du

2009-01-05T13:23:00.009+01:00

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Bloody Sunday..

2009-01-04T12:20:00.043+01:00

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"Oh, if only it were possible to find understanding," Joseph exclaimed. If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is contradictory, everything tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can be interpreted one way and then again interpreted in the opposite sense. The whole of world history can be explained as development and progress and can also be seen as nothing but decadence and meaninglessness. Isn't there any truth? Is there no real and valid doctrine?"

The master had never heard him speak so fervently. He walked on in silence for a little, then said: "There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The diety is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught. Be prepared for conflicts, Joseph Knecht - I can see that they already have begun."

Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game.

Rabbit threesome drama by Lynch

2009-01-02T03:46:00.016+01:00

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"In a nameless city, deluged by a continuous rain, three rabbits live with a fearful mystery.."

BIG AND BIGGER

2009-01-02T02:52:00.018+01:00

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Sebastian Schonheit's project 300 Knitted Carpet and Christien Meindertma’s label FLOCKS
Extreme accessories.

New year

2008-12-29T22:39:00.026+01:00

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Tim Walker:

Neckwarmer

2008-12-21T20:04:00.034+01:00

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GULLGÅSA DID IT!

Grace !

2008-11-10T20:41:00.030+01:00

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LESLIE!

2008-10-28T10:47:00.017+01:00

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Another part of Leslies Halls sweater project! Homage to the GEM SWEATER!!

I met him on the internet.

2008-10-19T17:06:00.018+02:00

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Harell Fetcher and I loved this.

North Beach Parking Garage 2002:

Über styles Facehunter!

2008-09-14T00:05:00.008+02:00

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Andrea Crews

2008-08-19T00:39:00.011+02:00

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Andrea Crews combines several aspects of the contemporary creation. Between art and fashion, it presents and stages its collections as performances, happening, or video clip, creating multiple events between art and the every day life. Their project bases on the use and the reinterpretation of the second-hand garment, it is a social, economic and ethical choice...

Cavalera!

2008-08-15T00:03:00.005+02:00

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Green masquerade from Cavalera:

Helle Mardal

2008-08-09T13:21:00.007+02:00

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Helle Mardal for Stine Goya

The Residents

2008-08-07T23:16:00.023+02:00

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The Residents Playing at Rockefeller in Oslo at the 29th of november!

From 13th anniversary live show;

Henrik Vibskov store

2008-08-07T00:29:00.011+02:00

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Henrik Vibskov New store in Oslo, Tollbugata!

More from K-I-N-D

2008-08-06T19:41:00.009+02:00

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Autumn collection. Pictures by Melani Bonjao

K-I-N-D

2008-08-05T19:27:00.009+02:00

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Magic and surrealism from K-I-N-D's collection!

Moonspoon Saloon

2008-08-03T13:27:00.003+02:00

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Moonspoon Saloon is a collaboration between artist Tal R and designer Sarah Sachs, photographer Noam Grieget and stylist Melanie Buchhave, resulting in a unique limited edtion of 99 styles.

BIG knits!

2008-07-26T12:18:00.014+02:00

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Below: Creations by Sandra Backlund

Donate your Gem sweater!

2008-07-03T20:22:00.025+02:00

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Artist Leslie Hall has created a mobile sweater museum to bring recognition and honour back to a forgotten art form. The Gem Sweater! A Gem sweater is a knitted or crocheted pullover which has been decorated and embellished with one or more of the following; gems, rhinestones, beats, studs, jewels, or pearls. Have a look at the Gallery of glam at lesliehalldotcom!