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AKTUELT
PROGRAM
KUNSTNERE
GALLERIET
PRESSE
TIDLIGERE
UTSTILLINGER
LENKER
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PROJECT MAYHEM
chris virgin, leander djønne, tommy olsson,
marthe berger walthinsen & nina sagen sandsbakk
kurator: tommy olsson
Åpning lørdag 12.04. kl. 14.00
Utstillingen står til 27.04.
Only in death are we no longer part of Project Mayhem.
- Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 28
La oss forestille oss muligheten for et mål og en formulert mening med all virksomhet. For eksempel - at alle registrerte opplysninger er utradert. Tenk nøye etter hvor stor utsikten er for å lykkes med dette prosjektet. Sammenlign det med de forventede konsekvensene. Det oppstår en friksjon, den lille gnisten fra en fyrstikk som ikke lar seg lokalisere, lang der inne. En tenkt mulighet behøver ikke mye mer en dette for å vokse til en misjon - en del av oss har heller ikke noe valg, og intet høyere ønske. Alle registrerte opplysninger utradert - nå! Ah, luft!
- Tommy Olsson, Bergen i April 2008
All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within a closed landscape whose landmarks constantly draw us toward the past. Certain shifting angles, certain receding perspectives, allow us to glimpse original conceptions of space, but this vision remains fragmentary. It must be sought in the magical locales of fairy tales and surrealist writings: castles, endless walls, little forgotten bars, mammoth caverns, casino mirrors.
These dated images retain a small catalyzing power, but it is almost impossible to use them in a symbolic urbanism without rejuvenating them by giving them a new meaning. Our imaginations, haunted by the old archetypes, have remained far behind the sophistication of the machines. The various attempts to integrate modern science into new myths remain inadequate. Meanwhile abstraction has invaded all the arts, contemporary architecture in particular. Pure plasticity, inanimate, storyless, soothes the eye. Elsewhere other fragmentary beauties can be found -- while the promised land of syntheses continually recedes into the distance. Everyone wavers between the emotionally still -- alive past and the already dead future.
We will not work to prolong the mechanical civilizations and frigid architecture that ultimately lead to boring leisure.
We propose to invent new, changeable decors....
- Ivan Chtcheglov, Formulary for a New Urbanism
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