A exhibition for Gallery Huuto, Helsinki 2010.

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”In this exhibition Olle has been working with a project as a Swedish explorer in Finland. The exhibition is humoristic and in forms of texts, objects, films and images that he has been collecting while exploring Finland. The projects has been ongoing, on and off for a couple of years. Residencies in Åbo and Helsinki has made it possible for Olle to study Finland closer. The time has now come to show the result of his explores and adventures to the people of Finland.

Olle is interested in the romantic idea of exploring that under earlier decades was surrounded by myths and adventures. What could such a travel be like in 2010? Can a place be unique and unexplored in a world where different levels of communication makes societies develop in the same direction and brings us closer. What is left to explore? ”

See movie (below), The movie was part of exhibition and was film from my journeys. The exhibition was portable and the idea was to be able to pack everything with me when I was travel in Finland. I also made my own camera for pictures from my adventures.

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An exhibiton at gallery maskinen in Umeå Sweden. I showed a compilation with works from 1984-2110, a retrospective and  prospective.   I played with the term retrospective and I staged my life with objects that reflects future and past.

 

The museum is placed in Mustarinda in the woods in the midpoint of Finland. Which is one of Finlands oldest forests. The area getting smaller and people moving away. The museum was built of found woods from the area from former buildings, saunas, doors, things found on the local refuse dump.

The museum is place at a clear-cut forest. I tried to find a picture of the forest before it was cut down. I found a photo of the forest from a person who used to work in the area. Her photo is hanging in the museum at the place where the forest used to be and where she took the photo some years before the trees was cut. The museum was part of a group exhibition called, ground-station.

REYKJAVIK ART FESTIVAL 15-23 MAY 2008 (MODULE, SKULI ART PROJECT MEETS THE MOBILE BOX)
The exhibition took place during night in a supermarket 3rd floor parking lot at Kringlan supermall, outside Reykjavik.

I made a machine inspired of the texts by Oyvind Fahlstrom. He wrote about the future of art and how we could use technologhy to create art. About how we could reproduce paintings with help of technologhy. He had an idea of how technology will change art and make it cheaper and easier for people to get. I tried make a machine like Fahlstrom described.
The machine creates pictures and you pay a small amount and with help of different buttons you print your picture. The machine is made of old found thrash like skateboardwheels, furniture old electronics. Yesterdays ideas of the future becomes real.

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This is a lamp that follows the light of the sun. The light bulb (electricity) is programmed to follow the sun. When the sun rises in the morning the lamp starts to omit light, intensifying every second, shining brightest in middle of the day. After this the light begins to fade with the sun, appearing dimmest at sunset. You can`t see the light changing beacuse it omnit light in a very slow movement, but it changes all the time as the sun moves in the sky. A digital sun.

There is also a netart version for this one.

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This artpiece was shown at Istanbul biennale 2005 at the workshop ”Lost in translation”.  My installation was about migration. During the biennale over a quarter million Storks fly in clouds over the Istanbul in the course of a few week. See text below. I showed both and installation and an artpiece for Internet that you could download. Birds have taken advantage of Turkey’s and Istanbul’s strategic position as a bridge connecting Europe to Asia and Africa for thousands of years In spring migratory birds fly northwards from Africa to Asia and Europe, and in autumn they leave their breading grounds to fly south to Africa again. However, the most spectacular migration in the world is the flight of storks down the Bosphourus in Istanbul in spring and autumn. Over a quarter million Storks fly in clouds over the city in the course of a few weeks. In autumn the peak passage time is in the second half of September. So when the Storks peak passage time is when the 9th Istanbul Biennale starts. It was an interactive work. I wanted people to climb up a ladder to an open window and with the binocular look at the Storks. There was window at east the same direction where the Storks cross Bosphourus. I wanted the migration of the storks to be a symbol over the situation in Istanbul and its position as a natural bridge connecting Europe to Asia and Africa. I also created a font/character with symbols from Istanbul above. The symbols are lakes, buildings, roads from Is¬tanbul. So when you type a letter with this font you will create symbols from Istanbul from the view of the Storks migration route over Istanbul. The character became a pattern and pictures. You can download the character and pictures below. http://jimpalt.org/migration