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Constantinescu
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Collaboration
Weird Science
New works by Thora Dolven Balke, Jan Freuchen, Sverre Gullessen, Kristine Jakobsen, Linn Pedersen, Eirin Støen and 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)
*****
4 - 18 October 2009
Private view 3 October, 7pm - 10pm
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.
