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The Living Dead
(A Celebration of Collecting Art as the Esperanto of Globalisation)

Professional preview opening: Wedensday 3 June at 18:00
Public opening: never

Private party for the loosers and hobos from the Nordic Dubais Venice Pavillion at Podium. Remember strict dresscode and hardcore mingling while DJ Trond Reinholdtsen gives us italian-flavored grooves inducing the psychogeography of Venice. The avantgarde of Scandinavian lounge aestethics, IKEA, gives us a transnational interscandinavian globalised art event. As a celebration of the living dead left behind in the collectors storage space.

Curatorial statment
The public might be guided on a tour through a small storage space for an eclectic art collection, while being told stories of Marcel Broodthaers hauntings of the place. A remake of his work from 1964 “Casserole and Closed Mussels” will lead the visitors to the neighboring Nordic Dubai backyard – a flamboyant graffiti extravaganza. Inside they will encounter mysterious installations, free drinks and the chilled theoretical grooves from tekstfuckers – in an environment that could be a case study motif taken from a Francis Bacon painting.

As the title of the show indicates, the living dead will approach the topic of collecting, and the phrenology behind the practice of expressing oneself through metaphysical objects.

We are currently in the process of indexing the collection – more will be annouced tomorrow.

Confirmed artist in the storage space:
Arne Borgan, Al Hansen, Josefine Lyche, Ignas Krunglevicius, Marte Hodne Haugen, Anders Eiebakke, Vigdis Fjellheim, Shwan Dler Qaradaki, Inger Johanne Rasmussen, Espen Lomsdalen, Anders Smebye, Håkon Gullvåg, Steinar Haga Kristensen, Ole Christian Ellestad, Tom Daniel Reiersen, Kjetil Røed, Lars Petter Hagen, Marthe Walthinsen, Kjartan Slettemark, Bodil Furu, Snorre Hvamen, Thomas Kvam, Kristian Dhal, Lars paalgard, Per Jonas Lindstrøm, Jörg Immendorff, Tommy Olsson, Morten Viskum, Ståle Stenslie.

Discursive activities
Kl 21.00 Tekstfuckers.
Debate: Is feng shui the homeopathy of interior design or the collectors secret weapon in the display of his or hers collection? DJ Trond Reinholdtsen gives us live music telepathically, in realtime, from his audience perspective inside Ida Müller og Vegar Vinge play Vildanden at Bergen International Festival.

Kl 18.00 – 23.00 HAL 9000 in conversation with the collectors inner psychoplasmatic horse. This Q&A is part of the program: Reflections on Intergalactic Modernism (Part 2)

Free drinks with a blend of Slavoj Žižek, zombie galore and a crust of dust
from the collection.

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“I’m speaking here not as uh, the administrator, I’m speaking as a prophet today. I wouldn’t have set in this seat and talked so serious if I didn’t know what I was talking about.”

For the interviewer a pause is a passive yet excellent tool for eliciting more information.  After a subject answers a question or finishes the recitation of his version of a sequence of events, try waiting a few seconds before you respond.  With your facial expression and physical demeanor give the subject the subtle cue that you expect that there is actually more information that he or she should divulge.  Your pause can also give the subject the impression that you may know more than they realize and you expect them to be forthcoming. 
Don’t be in a hurry!  Try it and be ready for some bonus information!

At Saison Video 2009 website:

“The therapist may
find that his time has been squandered by a chameleon”
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IK / 2009
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“My plan B is to make my plan A work”
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Julian Skar / 2009
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“Anxiety is minimal or absent in ___________”
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IK / 2009
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“There was Grieg, then came Trond Reinholdsen and then there is me”
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IK / 2009
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TV-LOVE on 3 TV sets. In PODIUM gallery. 2008

This was shown on commercial screens in the streets of Vilnius.

Leaving a mark.