Ørjan Amundsen

"Not Actual Gameplay"

11th March - 26th March
Opening: Friday 10th March 1900-2200
Opening hours: Saturday-Sunday 1300-1500

Not Actual Gameplay is an open ended, poetic history of the technoscientific capitalist world we live in. Taking light as a metaphor of knowledge and truth as a starting point, the work reveals a world full of seduction, violence, desire, acceleration, disruption, communication or the lack of it. In his work Amundsen uses appropriation of films, documentaries, video games, advertisement, sound, theory and poetry to montage a feeling of what's in-between.

Through four chapters the work portrays the creation and the destruction of the world and also what lies beyond the event horizon of a black hole. The darkness, usually portrayed as a monstrous unknown, here is a place of potentiality, for histories that haven't been written, for pictures that haven't been constructed and imagined yet.

Ørjan Amundsen is an Oslo-based artist and musician. In his works he explores how digital media, information technologies and montage techniques shape our perception and imagination of reality. Amundsen has previously exhibited and screened works at Kunstnernes Hus Kino, Oslo; Coast Contemporary, Trondheim; Arctic Moving Image & Film Festival, Harstad; Whitechapel Gallery, London and has an upcoming solo exhibition at Bergen Kunsthall in May.

The exhibition is supported by Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond and Regionale Prosjektmidler.