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Everything would be fine if we only knew what reason was
Stalker by Andrey Tarkovskiy “Or how about this hypothetical definition. Reason is a complex type of instinct that has not yet formed completely. This implies that instinctual behavior is always...
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“In Africa the wise men say: good things don’t last”
Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth. – George Orwell, Ninety Eighty-Four, ch.7. So…we eventually got news that our darling ex-premises...
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Dark-bellied dew lover
Drosophila Melanogaster or Fruit Fly, the “model organism” according to Wikipedia, “continues to be widely used for biological research in studies of genetics, physiology, microbial pathogenesis and...
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Let there be darkness
Photo: Dan Dorocic / thebassilo.blogspot.no So…this is me and (one of the two) curator(s) Alison Hugill (the other curator being the photographer), checking out “my” space for the exhibition Future...
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My new friend THX 1981
I would like to introduce THX 1981. THX 1981 will be doing a week-long performance inside my installation at the FUTURE RUINS exhibition next week. More information on Facebook or on my website or...
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Discontinue Operation
How shall the new environment be programmed? It all happened so slowly that most men failed to realize that anything had happened at all. I could list a whole bunch of good movie endings. But THX 1138...
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This is your last chance…
…to see my installation live at the FUTURE RUINS exhibition. Last day today, open between 4PM-8PM. Or you can have a look at the installation photos here. Installation view from Ellen Ringstad’s...
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Zero must equal one hundred percent. Good luck.
“Life happens to everybody, all right?!” Terry Gilliam‘s new dystopian movie The Zero Theorem is currently in Post-production. I’m looking forward to seeing this one! The trailer hasn’t been released...
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Precrime and Thoughtcrime today
(…) Anderton said: “You’re acquainted with the theory of precrime, of course. I presume we can take that for granted.” “I have the information publicly available,” Witwer replied. “With the aid of your...
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All those moments will be lost in time…like tears in rain…
Deckard [Narrating]: “All he’d wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got?” Blade Runner – Director’s Cut (1982) by Ridley Scott is...
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“A world unto itself, a being unto itself”
“Human beings set out to encounter other worlds, other civilizations, without having fully gotten to know their own hidden recesses, their blind alleys, well shafts, dark barricaded doors” “We head...
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“It passes, but it does not pass away”
Here’s an album worthwhile listening to: You’ve always meant so much to me (2013) by Wrekmeister Harmonies on Thrill Jockey Records. …not to be confused with Werckmeister Harmonies, a film by Hungarian...
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Dreamers die first
Selected quotes from Dmitry Glukhovsky’s Metro 2033, a post-apocalyptic science-fiction novel. It is set in the Moscow Metro after a nuclear holocaust, where the remaining survivors have sought...
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“You should assume any communication that is electronic is being monitored”
See whole transcript of Interview with Ladar Levision on Democracy Now. “Lavabit, an encrypted email service believed to have been used by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, has abruptly...
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POTSYD – Art exhibition in Bergen’s literal underground
Greetings! – and welcome to these magnificent bowels of Bergen, where slow drippings from immature stalactites keep the corridors lubricated even on rare cloudless days deprived of local...
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Final Future
The gate keeper of pOTSYd casts her shadow onto the monumental video-projection of Final Future by artist Eric Wangel.
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Your mind appeals to me
“I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.” — from 1984 – George Orwell
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Tonight the stars shine favourably over the gallow’s hill
“Well, Rasmus the executioner! Let now the evil witch’s body sting. Let her catch her breath, Rasmus the executioner, and loosen the screw a little at a time, as she confesses her sins” – Häksan The...
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Technocalypse now!
“I invented this word “technocalyps” to describe what seemed to me a process that I could observe around me, technocalypse meaning the convergence of two seemingly unrelated things: the Apocalyptic...
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Endless darkness
“Perhaps they met one night, in the shade of trees, under the light of the darkest moon as a rising storm’s wind carried the sound of howling wolves and ravens flying into the night. This is the...
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