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Art Nomads
Following a residency at the Lademoen Kunstnerwerkstede in Trondheim, Norway in 2009, I was commissioned to return and build a site-specific temporary installation in a cathedral as part of this group exhibition. Commissioned by the Norwegian Arts Council, Movum Vitae was an installation of giant mobile comprised of objects from my artistic cosmology and hung kinetically in the apse of a cathedral. Reminiscent of the Norse Tree of Life, the sculpture displayed the fragility of balance between ideas and the burden of art as an end-product. The installation contained other pieces, such as The Ceremonist, a totemic staff with sound that served as evidence of a presence and action. Nostalgia Markers exhibited as a walking tour consisting of eight miniature monuments made from Cypress knees, latex and bronze plaques. Imbued with various thoughts or questions from my memories of the residency, they were staked into the ground and participants could follow a routed map to specific meaningful locales and thereby experience a taste of the inceptive process of an artist by walking in the literal footsteps of specific pieces of nostalgia. They were left there until they were stolen, discarded or defeated by natural elements. 2012- 14SVA_RES_SaintGrab
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magnus retwined
Sponsored by Co-Lab Projects and LowLives, I conducted an interactive performance at the Fusebox Hub in Austin, Texas. I tied an unsuspecting audience together in a string web, while manning a turntable with short-lived soundtracks from my own 45 records. The participants developed empathy for my pathetic, slapstick struggles as the web grew, eventually getting used to being bound by string. Two Olympic competition style judges “rated” my maneuvers with a scale number system that seemed to both intimidate and inspire my character. In the end, I cut the crowd free, ending the connection, and only then did they miss the phantom community of one another. The following are live stills from the evening. 2012- 01_Performance_Still_magnus
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