Bergen 2009
I am currently using art as a tool for exploring social behaviour and structures. I am interested in my own boundaries towards other people, there's towards me and the one's we share. By crossing these lines I wish to understand more about how they are constructed and what happens when we break them.
In a recent work I am creating a situation were I decide the rules. I have asked different people to sit on a chair (one at a time) and let me do whatever with them until they say stop. They are free to stop me when they wish and I will continue until they do. I will never say stop. What fascinates me is that I am free to do whatever I want from the moment we start until the moment they say stop. I have constructed a situation where I am allowed to step over the social structures and I have less responsibility for what is happening, what I am doing and how the other person respond. How do people react when I am starting to kiss them and how does it affect me to keep on when I clearly see them disliking it? How does someone respond when I am hurting them and how do I react when they are obviously in pain? I am interested to see what happens if I let someone else's boundaries decide when to stop. And what happens when I cross my own?
In a still ongoing drawing project I am presenting imaginary conversations between people that often are a bit strange, saying things that are not really accepted to say or misunderstanding each other. These is an investigation in what is allowed to say and do in our culture.
The viewer serves as a very important ingredient in my works. By revealing things to other I challenge me to see myself from a distance. This raise questions like "what is I?", "who am I?" and "what can I be?" Revealing thing to others by showing it is an other way for me to break boundaries between me and others.
