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"SLIDING POSITIONS”
Akershus Art Centre 2002

The work is video projections in three rooms. The rooms are contiguous and
the video image in one room slides into the next.

Right inside the door to the first room is a monitor showing the eye part of a
face. A blinding, opaque spot slides slowly from one eye to the other,
covering each eye alternately.

The work titled "Juxtaposition" fills the rest of the room. A young couple is
shown moving in relation to one another in a slow irregular dance. They also
relate to their own twin- image, in a synchronized changing of positions.
When one is visible from the front the other is hidden, and vice versa, and in
the same time they switch places and swap into each others dancing field,
without touching each other. The faces are only visible as reflections, and
their bodies can be seen as direct images only in the instant they turn
around and go into the other's picture. The sound is coming from the next
room.

Here, a little girl's dance of her toes up against the glass wall of an aquarium
is shown. She does not dance other than with her feet. The young couple
from the first room is some times sliding into this room, and are colored by
the light that occurs here. On the floor is a monitor with a vivid red image of
a goldfish swimming slowly across the screen. The work features original
music to accompany the dance; it is a mechanized, rhythmic child's tone
/hum. Work title: "Cognitive dissonance".

In the last room is the video "and then there's one more thing I want you to
see..." . It is hand-held and narrated by a child and shows the sunset, in and
out of focus. The child says excitedly: "Did you see that? Did you see that?
It's the sun going down!" No other pictures come in here, but if you turn
around you see parts of what's happening in the previous rooms.