Andreas Siqueland Knudsen
Camilla Figenschou
Eva Ljosvoll
Hjørdis Kurås
Kristian Øverland Dahl
Mona Bentzen
Sam Iravanian
Tor Jørgen van Eijk
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With its repetetive soundtrack, repetetive visual patterns, and what some would call outdated shock tactics, Memento Mori makes conscious formal use of video´s own history; from the early 60´s up til todays portable laptop editing; with it´s epicentre in the mid-90´s post-identity, post-body, post-human landscape. In its own wicked way, it sums up the discourses on the very fringe of video art spanning five decades in a few minutes. Im more than aware that because of the explisite nature of this work a lot of people are left feeling disturbed, sometimes even violated by it. And if the jury would have similar problems with it I`ll absolutely understand. My work adresses the relationship between violence as such and images. How the images as such have a prostusive violence, the images interferes with the real, they seem to disorder with force and add to the disparity of things. Now perhaps the mages actually are the real, they have taken over. "Violence does not participate in any order of reason, nor any set of forces oriented towards a goal. It denatures, wrecks and massacres that wich it assaults." (Jean-Luc Nancy) |