future
* ViennaFair 2011
gallery artists
* Ştefan
Constantinescu
* Marcin Dudek
* Javier Rodriguez
* Kama Sokolnicka
* Florian Wüst
project artists
* Aoife Collins
* Hreinn Fridfinnsson
* Dave Hanger
* Karen Mirza and
Brad Butler
* Trong G. Nguyen
* Karim Noureldin
* Anna Ostoya
* Ben Washington
past exhibitions
* I Will Eat
This Sleepy Town
* murmur
* Cornered Rooms
* Inside outsider
language
* Empty Sets
* All that remains
* unfinished business
* Cathode Ray Mission
* Weird Science
* just another shadow
* Javier Rodriguez
* an inquiry..
* Unnamed
Collaboration
past events
* Flip the coin
* Digging and climbing
* The Cu Chi Tunnels
* Siegfried Zaworka
* In translation
* Performing the text
* Riding the Wave
* Poetic Corners
* ViennaFair 2010
* 3:00
* What will the
next revolution
look like?
* Phoney Language
* Tension,
Intervention
and Restraint
* travelling alone
* Memento
Weird Science
Thora Dolven Balke, Jan Freuchen, Sverre Gullessen, Kristine Jakobsen, Linn Pedersen, Eirin Støen, Sveinung Unneland
Weird Science is an exhibition about cultivation or Bildung, and a measurement of the distance between the rational education and its possible (irrational) uses.
Thora Dolven Balke, Jan Freuchen, Linn Pedersen, Wild Child (Old School Remix), 2009
In the 80's high-school movie, which the exhibition is titled after, two teenagers use their computer skills to create the woman of their dreams. This narrative has its roots back to the Greek legend of Pygmalion, best known through Ovid's Metamorphoses, in which a sculptor falls in love with the sculpture he has created. Pygmalion is a study of creation taking on a life of its own.
Thora Dolven Balke, Jan Freuchen, Linn Pedersen, Wild Child (Old School Remix), 2009
installation view and extract from video
Jan Freuchen, Sverre Gullesen, Joy in Repetition, 2009
installation view and extract from video
These unexpected outcomes form the central idea and inspiration for the exhibition. In Wild Child (Old School Remix), a 16mm film by Pedersen, Dolven Balke and Freuchen, a teacher gradually rediscovers his primitive drives and rituals parallel to his student's increasing cultivation. The social process is described as a game, constantly inscribed with new rules of engagement as it unfolds.
Thora Dolven Balke, FIRST WORDS, 2009
installation view and detail
Sveinung Unneland, paper, portrait, light, 2009
Thora Dolven Balke and Eirin Støen,
Live your life right when you be corrupt / volcano about to erupt, 2009
documentation of performance (installation view and extract from video)
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4 - 18 October 2009
Private view 3 October, 7pm - 10pm
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The exhibition is generously supported by the Royal Norwegian Embassy in London. Waterside Project Space is Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. We would like to thank the artists, Jack Brindley, Alice Tatge, Josh Love, Tereza Zelanková, Chris Collier, Will Mercer and Maxa Zoller.
