Tor-Finn Malum Fitje & Thomas Anthony Hill

Ad Nauseam: Uplifting Corporate Music

Opening:
Friday
16.07.2021
19:00-22:00

Open Saturdays and Sundays 14:00-17:00

16.07-25.07

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“When the immersive pleasure of elevator music was first discovered, literally lifting you up
within the exalted halls of the corporate headquarters, the sounds soon snuck into the lobbies
and receptions, covering the commotion of the copy machine, extending ease for another
breath or two, before each room from the unisex toilets to the orientally influenced meeting
rooms exuded this harmony which conveyed no feeling at all, nothing other than an agenda to
cover up the silence while simulating music, the bold, calendar-crushing tonalities of
Uplifting Corporate, a score for the hive mind.”

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Uplifting Corporate Music er den ellevte og nyeste filmen i paraplyprosjektet Ad Nauseam, en serie essayfilmer som beskriver et samfunn hvor det ikke er tvil om noe som helst: nevrologer har kartlagt bevissthetssenteret, den åpne kjøkkenløsningen er vedtatt gjennom lov, og alle nybakte foreldre følger håndboken How To Raise a Child slavisk. Kristendommen og ateismen har fusjonert og dannet The Faitheist Church, mens det er universell enighet om hvordan reglene i fotball skal tolkes. Likevel herjes denne kulturen av et ubehag som gjør det vanskelig å puste. Gjennom hyperstiliserte 3D-animasjoner og bastant narrasjon, kommenterer kunstnerduoen Tor-Finn Malum Fitje og Thomas Anthony Hill dagens sannhetsparadigme, og utfordrer det postmoderne idealet om alle fremstillinger av verden som like sanne.

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Tor-Finn Malum Fitje (1989) was born in Porsgrunn and grew up in Bergen, Norway, where he first studied Film Production, graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Directing. He went on to do his BFA at Konstfack, before earning his MFA at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm in 2016. Currently based in Oslo, Malum Fitje’s work revolves around essayistic video, sound and animation. His work has been exhibited at Gallery Golsa, Kabuso, Kunsthall Stavanger, Fotogalleriet, Cité des Arts in Paris and Moderna Museet in Stockholm.

Thomas Anthony Hill (1989) born in Coffs Harbor, Australia, grew up in Bergen, Norway and currently lives in Oslo. In 2014 he graduated with a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature at the University of Bergen and has since then worked as a writer, film critic and translator. In collaboration with Malum Fitje he has created the works Hyphenic (2018) and Ad Nauseam (2019-2021).

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