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Brøl, brlø, lrøb (roar, aroa, roao)
Poster-campaign commissioned by www.margin.at for the project “Kommunen er din” 2013
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Dirty Truths, Inner Beasts and New Humane Calculations
A white bear discussing the dirt under the rug at “Den Frie Udstillingsbygning” Copenhagen 2013
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Coming Clean – 25 dirty little secrets in 1635 words
25 dirty little secrets in 1635 words are used to write a speculation about truth, purification, white fur, dirt under the rug and false cleaning. These speculations were written from the 27th of April – 26th of May 2013, at at “sydhavn station exhibitionspace”, in Copenhagen.
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Human rights, white bears, and the correct legal spelling of Dostoyevskij
A white bear speaks (in danish..scroll down for video in english) about the difficult balncing acts between human rights, hunting bear, an a legal spelling for a new time. This video is form a performance of the balancing act at Sydhavn Station Udstillingssted. english abstract : In 1863 Fyodor Dostoyevskij wrote that if one…
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How the white bear first came out of the head
The first time the white bear came out of the head, was in 2009 – in a lecture about selfdeceit – in which Dostoyevskijs white bear served as an example of the true self inside us, that works against out own free will. In historic and contemporary examples, the lecturer managed to prove that it…
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Beauty within and without
“Try and set yourself the task, not to think of a white bear, and the cursed thing comes to mind every minute” Fyodor Dostoyevskij/ Winter Notes on Summer Impressions/ 1863 Beauty within and without, is a makeup-course, in five easy steps, where a white bear from the back of the mind talks about beautiful meateaters, ugly…
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A White Bear on the Free Market – A Videodiary
In 1776 – the scottish moral philosopher and free thinker Adam Smith, proposed the theory of the free market. The idea was, that the free market should be able to make even the beastliest of bears within humans, work for the common good and for the wealth of the nation. Since then crises’ of the…
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Diary installation: Toves Galleri – Contemporary Workoutspace 19.05 – 26.05 – 2012
A year after the safe return from the free market, the economies of the world are still wobbly – and the white bear is still in doubt what to make of it. In May 2012 nevertheless it presented it’s confusion, in a video-diary from it’s journey, and in an artgallery in the shopping arcade…
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Tableau Vivante With White Bear
April 19th 2011 – Press-release: This 4.th exhibition in the series of shows organized by Suada Demirovic called “Global lokalitet”/” Global Locality” is about the geography within us, white bears, and the whole wide world. In 1863 Fyodor Dostoyevskij wrote that, if one sets oneself the task, not to think of a white bear, one…
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A white bear coming clean
Coming Clean – a white bear emerging from all the dirty matter from the back of the mind: For the event “Egyptian nights”, organized by Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt at a place called Rio Bravo/ April 9th 2011, I once again came out of the head I was in. “Egyptian nights” was a night of confessions…
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An Acquired Taste
The following text was written on the back of one of the books in the white bear library – in the words of all the cut up national dishes: Text from book: An Acquired Taste the mindblowing cookbook In 1863 Dostoyevskij wrote that if you try and set yourself the task not to think of…
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To everyone on the outside – and more
“You are all invited To everyone on the outside! I, the white bear, the beast inside all, have since the 21.st of April, been sitting behind this library, trying to extract new universal meaning from national and regional cookbooks. I guess that I, as such a book-enclosed bear, could somehow justly be called: the…
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“A Farewell to the Free Market” – Dinner-invitation
Before the white bear returned to the back of the mind – it invited the gentle people of Glasgow for a dinner and a Farewell. Invitation: A Farewell to the free market: -in the Creative lab – CCA, Sauchiehall street 350, 22nd. July – 2011, 5-7 pm ”it is not from the benevolence of…
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Pee, purification, and other filthy ideas – A white bear at Roskilde Festival
catharsis |kəˈθärsis| noun, the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions, Medicine purgation, from Greek katharsis, from kathairein ‘cleanse,’ from katharos ‘pure.’ The notion of “release” through drama, derives from Aristotle’s Poetics. Inspired by Roskilde festival that I attended this summer, this is an entry cleanliness, written by a…
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Warmer weather
Comes April, comes milder weather, birds that are back from their southern havens and the ever recurring discussion that inaugurates the season of legs shaved silky smooth: ‘Tis a strange discussion; the discussion of whether or not the hair on the legs, in an irreversible process, starts growing longer and stronger once one has begun…
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Blllrrrrrrv
On september 8th 2009 I wrote from Beijing “…It may be that there really is no word for blllrlrlrlllw” in Chinese? If that is really so, then one would have to take everything people say seriously in Chinese – and I am sure the Chinese, like anyone else, have heard enough bullshit to be careful…
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More than just a unwanted thought?
Today I had a minor disagreement with the head I used to be in. I feel she reduces me to just the uglyness from within. I can’t blame her really, it is in her culture to think that the within is made of all the ugly hidden away truths, but I will do my best…
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Losing and finding myself part 7 – Losing oneself in nature and time
In China it is said, that one is not a real man before having climbed this particular peak on the great wall. There is indeed something that feels particularly real in the stunning view and in the feet that are trembling from fatigue and heights, as well as in the the staggering yet illogical feeling that…
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Contemporary China part 1-2-3
Part 1 – Contemporary Romance: In the middle of an exemplary image of progress and modernity, a bear gets a weird feeling of uncanny romance by the ghostly rumbling of metal, fire and hard labor, from a no longer active pit. Part 2 – Contemporary sunset in the rubble of the recent past: “Contemporary”…
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Losing and finding myself: part 6 -Beijing from Above and behind the lines
Tian’anmen Square, (天安門廣場) the very center, of the kingdom in the middle was blocked from view and the access on the rainy sunday where I went there. Policemen, and restrictions indicated that something was going on that did not concern white bears. I pulled in my claws and strolled towards Jingshan park (景山公园 – prospect hill) it is…
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Losing and finding myself -part 5 – disorientation in the anywhere- and the unique no where else
In 798 one you could be anywhere in the world – and yet, I don’t think there is anywhere else in the world where you would find anything like it. In zone 798, an apprentice policewoman voluntered for an artsfestival, an artsfestival-organizer sold his house to invite more than 150 artists from all over the world,…
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Chinese and Tibetan medical Center
For years doctors have assured me that there is no reason to feel like I do, but as I still feel that way, it makes sense to look for a cure beyond the limit of reason. After a tibetan paw-reading, the doctor had a cure – but I didn’t have the money. It is…
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The back of a bears mind in Beijing
grooaaaauwwww! In the Beijing zoo the brown bears danced for crisps, and in my head I kept hearing”Atta Troll”- an epic poem by Heinrich Heine about a trained bear, and it’ s tame melancholic entertaining of man. In the streets of Beijing” my head manically repeated Katie Melua’s: “there are nine million bicycles in Beijing.”…