3 channel video installation on 3 vertical plasma or LCD screens, 42″ (minimum size) 7’00 min. loop, 2008 Synopsis: DEADLY STORMS is based on appropriated audio footage from the US American news network FOX NEWS. During the last 10 years…
Tag: tv
CAPTAIN
Video, 2 channel installation, 14 min., loop, 2005 Screening Version: HD Video, 14:20 min, 2005 Synopsis: As a child, Bjørn Melhus was always fascinated by American science fiction series. Nowadays he uses them as a treasure trove for dialogues and figures…
THE ORAL THING
Single Channel Video, 2001, 8 min., loop (for screening or installation) Synopsis: The Oral Thing casts the TV host as evangelist. Descending as if from heaven he enters down a staircase to preside over two sisters cast as TV chat show…
Tagged with: believe, choir, ornament, public/private, sensationalism, spectacle, talk show, teleevangelism, truth, tv
AGAIN AND AGAIN
Installation for 8 Monitors, Video, 8 min loop, 1998 Synopsis: In the video installation “Again & Again” Melhus tells—not without humor—the story of a person engaged in an inner dialogue on the subject of reproduction, only to be rejected by…
WEIT WEIT WEG
(FAR FAR AWAY) Film, 16 mm transferred to Video, 39 min., 1995 Story: With her green bow in her hair, a naïve Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz embodies an aspect of the artist’s own personal context. She is dreaming…
Tagged with: commodification, loss of innocence, narcissism, phone, remote, tv, urbanity, virtual, white noise
DAS ZAUBERGLAS (THE MAGIC GLASS)
Video, 6’00, 1991 DAS ZAUBERGLAS considers subjectivity in regards to media culture, viewing and being viewed, and the positions of self and Other. Synopsis: A short meeting of a shaving man and his female reflection in the magic glass/the TV…