Friday Night 09.14.07

Opening night

Opening day

-discovery of a man (who turns out to be the parks commisioner) and the exhibition producer meeting in front of the moose site by observing footage taken from our 24 hour surveillance camera of the site (using a small cosmetics mirror attached to the outside of the atelier nord second floor office)

-the revelation of the permissions process causes some consternation– what is the function of the camouflage language of florescent orange if the work is officially sanctioned? is it just performative? if so that seems a problem. we decide to try and push the work to be a bit more assertive as compensation–

the 10 hinged walls (each two by two meters) to be attached as reconfigurable spatial framing tools to the structure, should help

-in the afternoon, occupation of the site after moving the modular elements out of atelier nord using a hoist and assembling them on the moose plateau

The weather has been wonderful and the walls endured the mounting process. Hillevi shed a tear and I am very happy!

A boy heard what appeared to be the sound of a sheep coming from the wall of Strykejernet Art School.

A bartender at Blå was concerned when he heard running water like that from a leaking water pipe. The sound disappeared before he was able to locate it.

A seagull can be heard, but is nowhere to be seen.

Sound pocket artist HC Gilje is causing slight disturbances in the urban interfaces.

We will have two different walks during Urban Interface Oslo. The first one is just a walk, not a guided tour. It will be part of the opening on Thursday night, 13th. After the speeches and some social talk supported by a free drink we will depart from Sound of Mu around 8.30 pm and walk together to the artworks’ sites. This walk will be accompanied by the artists and you can request information anytime or just walk, watch, listen and enjoy. Please bring your radios, because three of HC Gilje’s Soundpockets are only audible through radio.

The second walk is a guided tour by me and Hillevi Munthe, the exhibition producer. It takes place on Sunday 16th, 3 pm and also starts at Sound of Mu, the Urban Interface Oslo headquaters. We will give a short introduction into the exhibition project and to every artwork. As most of the artists will have left Olso by Sunday, only Vibeke Jensen will present her piece, The Blue Wall of Silence, herself. This tour will take approximately 1,5 hrs. Don’t forget to bring radios in order to find and listen to the Soundpockets!

Orange Works 1:1 scale model in Atelier Nord project room.

Artists Sancho Silva (left) and John Hawke (right) preparing the Moose Field.

Telart artist Jørgen Larsson merging old an new communication technologies (and an unknown amount of coffe) at the Atelier Nord studio.

Anders and Jonas mounting the sound beam on a light pole by the pentagon.

The sound technology is developed in collaboration with Soundscape Studios.