Onoksid

Saturday September 4th, Kunsthall Oslo, Norway.
22.00-06.00

A sunset-to-sunrise screening of rarely-seen films about future communities, invasion and exodus, reflecting on Kunsthall Oslo’s location in Oslo’s new-built ‘Fjord City’. The screening has been organised in collaboration with the Oslo-based artist Aeron Bergman, with Sun Ra-inspired decor by Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman.

You can read Bergman’s accompanying essay in the following link:

Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas featured on Diskono 001Y, Diskono 002, Diskono 003, Diskono 007, Diskono 010 and Diskono curated solo exhibition ‘Revisionland’ exhibition.

DELPHINE‘S TOP 10 FAVOURITE THINGS:

1. writing stories
2. listening to oasis and morrissey
3. shoplifting
4. shagging
5. booze
6. reading henry miller’s tropic of cancer
7. telephone conversations with chafik or maff
8. getting pissed and maudlin whilst watching my manics dvd
9. writing letters to noel gallagher
10. taking my autistic cousin to the zoo

The end is near. I can feel it in my beams.

How am I doing? Don’t ask. I’m old.

Back in the day, I sparkled in stainless steel. I was the world’s biggest dome. I was the first arena with a retractable roof. Ooh-la-la.

But my time has passed. I’m ancient. I smell like stale beer…

I could bore you with tales of yesteryear, but I’m nothing more than a bit actor in B-movies. Have you seen Sudden Death! Blow me up? I’ll be Jean-Claude Van Dammed! (Between you and me, I still don’t trust this Iceburgh character.)

I gave Mario Lemieux the best years of my life, and what do I get in return? He uses me as a bargaining chip to build his baby across Centre Avenue. Consol Energy Center? It took 38 years to get someone to pay for my naming rights! And he has an atrium? I would have LOVED an atrium! I haven’t even been able to open this roof for 15 years.

Don’t they make a pill for that? I’d give Gate Three …

Seriously, though, I shouldn’t complain.

I’ve hosted the best of them: The Beatles. Sinatra. Elvis. The Rolling Stones. The Grateful Dead. Springsteen. My favorite? Bob Marley. Won’t you help me sing … Sorry, I get carried away. Love the live recording of Redemption Song. Don’t forget that I was built to hold only 10,500. Page and Plant drew 17,776 in ‘95! I almost burst with 18,150 for the WWF in ‘99.

And the sporting events … Don’t get me emotional.

THIS IS A FOUND TEXT

REDUX:

NOTES (Lecture) : Art invents another reality. It’s a game. Does not impact upon reality…Radical apart from any meaning, cause and effect. Radical illusion. That is reality, Anything in the world, that is the real world… art is incompatible with reality. In the past reality was an illusion that is why art worked, but now it has lost it’s position within the symbolic order. It cannot deal with reality. Singularities are constitued by alterity…No more avant garde, you must create your own personal underground, create your own black hole, your own singularity. But it will never create a collective symbolic order. It will be an exceptional, subjective act, but it does not create a symbolic movement.

“I would go to the Kashmir
Where the air is so clean
Go to the chemist
Stock up on morphine”