Accompanying the exhibition Re-Viewing Sites of Preservation is a handout featuring a series of footnotes. These footnotes supplement the wall texts alongside the exhibited artwork. You can read the wall texts here, and here you can read the footnotes handout. You can also listen to the exhibition’s audio guide, which includes an abridged spoken version…

During our residency at the Nieuwe Vide in Haarlem (2024), we began preparations towards the exhibition Re-Viewing Sites of Preservation. As part of the exhibition’s public programme, we developed a workshop about the ethics of collective working, titled More than a seat at the table: on accessibility, accountability and affability. Contemplating these keywords in parallel…

The lockdown came as a shock. I never thought Norway would close down. But then it happened the next day and I lost both of my jobs. I was without income! INDEFINITELY! That was the hardest part to accept. I felt rushes of panic. Stress. Panic. Thought of my grandmother. The elderly. The poor. Said…

Author’s Note: this text comes from a conversation I had with Hannah Dawn Henderson. It is actually a collaboration with Hannah, in much the way that many of my texts are filtered by Hannah. This one in particular draws on a conversation that has been distilled by Hannah into a written document. In the early…

Like most people capable of feeling, I have been depressed the past five months. And like most people’s, my depressions depend on predictability: things won’t change you fool and yes that glass is definitely half empty. So far, so predictable indeed: the roll-out of the pandemic has gone more or less exactly as I had…

Salty sips of morning coffee I picked up those habits again The touch of a cigarette The smear of an alcohol The attraction of the other I figured that if I pick up running, I can compromise Just from time to time, as eventually, it should all be fine However, as time went by, all was as vapid as the smoke of…

In studying art, one is to a certain extent always confronted with a tension between distance and proximity. On the one hand I tell my students they should intellectually distance themselves from the object of study and particularly from the artist whose rhetoric they should rather distrust. This distance, so to speak, is a necessity…

I thought the pandemic hadn’t really changed my perspective towards my practice because I hadn’t felt it. On the surface it seemed to be unaffected — that I could make work if I chose to — that it was up to me, and if I really wanted to make something then I would. I felt…

As a philosopher artist, primarily expressed through acting, singing and writing, the past months have had practical, artistic and existential ramifications on my practice and thinking.  The loss of tactility towards my family who lives in Norway, was a stark reminder of how I, and countless others, had taken the marvel of aviation for granted,…

Vortex Reality Angel with a hyper positive attitude, Master of Reality and The Creator of ones own destiny knowing seeing expanding into the future eternally walking in the Light, promoting all inclusive enlightenment in Gucci yoga sweat pants I feel like, by now, we all know or are about to find out how the universe…