Portfolio
1. delicious cake
2. interview
3. golden shower
4. two-minute porn
5. teatergatan
6. everybody's happy nowadays
7. don't look now
1. delicious cake
Four stills from Delicious Cake.
[2011] Video AVCHD 25P; 2min 20sec; 16:9; Color; Sound: Stereo or 5.1;
Intended for a big projection in loop. With accompanying text on a wall.
Delicious Cake shows a close up of the artitst's mouth while eating chocolate cake. The sound was captured as best as possible with the use of 4 audio channels. The text refers to redacted documents obtained from the CIA that described some of their torture techniques.
Excerpts from the text:
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2. interview
[2009] Video Installation, 5 channels
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Installation views from Interview:
Still images from Interview:
3. golden shower
[2009] video 11 min silent
On the Saturday night of 24 January, 2009, from 9pm to 6am, a night-vision camera was installed at one of the entrances of Valand School of Fine Arts facing Teatergatan, a very popular spot among the main avenue club goers for street urination. The video focuses on that action, with the participation of ten unaware males.
Installation views from Golden Shower at Gallery Box, Göteborg:
4. two-minute porn
[2009] Video. 2min 20s.
Best shown as a big projection. Sound is optional. Looped.
Two-Minute Porn is a video made entirely with stills from gay porn movies. One per frame. Just like subliminal messages are too fast to be perceived, in this video the images merge into a flesh-coloured mess.
The title is a reference to the Two Minutes' Hate in the book Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
Installation views:
5. teatergatan
with Véronique Malo
[2009] Digital prints 10x14cm
On a Monday night in December 2008, Véronique Malo and Martin Heuser witnessed a disturbing event at Teatergatan (Theatre Street), outside Valand School of Fine Arts, where both were studying. A girl screamed and screamed and they thought those could be sounds from a rape. Once outside those sounds of screams were pretty much like drunk laughter and joking after a party. Hours after the event they came to realize that the girl might have been drugged.
In a conversation one month later, Martin and Veronique got to know that they had experienced the same scene.
Their parallel stories are succinctly told in double sided postcards.6. everybody's happy nowadays
4 minutes excerpt:
[2008] Video 35 min
In the video Everybody's Happy Nowadays, a sentence taken from Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World is endlessly repeated by performer Javier Marisco, along with specific ordered actions like drinking rum and smiling to the camera, all in accordance with the inflexible pace of a time signal, every 15 seconds. Though planned to last one hour, the performance had to be interrupted at 35 minutes due to alcohol intoxication.
Four stills from Everybody's Happy Nowadays
7. don't look now
[2008] Video installation. Big black box with a projection inside. 4min 30sec. Looped. 180 x 220 x 240 cm.
Don't Look Now is a video installation that aims to create the opposite of an amusement park: by looking into a hole, the viewer can see him/herself taking part in horrible scenes, from executions in the old times to Abu Ghraib, Vietnam, scenes from violent blockbuster movies, etc.
This work results from my reflection on how news and fiction are perceived. Is there any difference between watching real war or a violent film? Is not watching horrible things a form of voyeurism? Don't Look Now offers a sort of sadomasochistic-voyeuristic experience.
Installation views from Don't Look Now.