Would you trust a Norwegian, 2002. Installation, mixed media and performance. MADE BY GRAND ROYAL ART.
Would you trust a Norwegian. was made for the exhibition Transform Site during the ArtGenda 2002 - 4. Biennale für Junge Kunst im Ostseeraum, Hamburg, Germany. June 2002. Curated by Elke Bippus, Kathrin Busch, Guido Joachim and Dirck Möllmann
From the proposal for the exhibition: "A platform for transformations of art. We will collect at the Transform Site 30 art pieces in different forms and media in a pool to be ready for reworking. We are interested in passing on and making use of others' ideas, forms, materials, in translations and modulations. Production processes like (de-) contextualization, dislocation and deconstruction, in other words strategies of appropriation and modification are to be realized."
Grand Royal Art presented an installation consisting of astroturf, three birch trees, a camping table with two chairs, landscapephotographs that was the starting point of stories told by Grand Royal Art member Heidi, a video, an ant farm, sound of bird song, the possibility for the audience and fellow artists to get an ant embroidered on a piece of clothing by Grand Royal Art member Johanna.
Some of the reworkings this piece was subject to by fellow artists were soundtrack to the video by Pawel Grabowski and photographs hung from the branches of the trees by John Øivind Eggelsbø. Grand Royal Art transformed works by Ninna Korhonen (new soundtrack to her video) and Kajsa Eriksson (ant embroidery on several T-Ponchos) during the exhibition period.
