AMBIGUOUS INSTALLATION
Throughout the period of our stay we were in an ongoing process of creating an ambiguous atmosphere at Landmark cafe´, which was interupted from time to time with a variety of happenings.

Landmark has an incredible light system where you can change the atmosphere of the cafe at the flick of a few switches. It also makes projecting onto walls a pleasurable experience.

UBIQUITOUS EVENTS
We had three main events where we hooked up with freinds in other places who did things with us! You'll find audio/visual documetation of these events in the left frame of this page.

First out were Ole Johan Skjelbred-Knudsen, Henrik Rafaelsen and Ulf Knudsen (of NOOD), who provided a fantastic rendition of Henrik Ibsen's awsome saga Terje Vigen - pure country style - from Ulf's flat in Oslo. You can read the whole saga for yourself, and just imagine that country twang as we get the realmedia file ready for you to enjoy. You'll find both a Norwegian and English version in the menu to the left of this text. Accompanying this realmedia stream was a beautifully poignant kareoke style slide show, put together by Nelly Ink, with photographs provided by Kristine Karola and her freinds. The photos were taken on a holiday in North Norway and are a perfect depiction of young Oslowegians in northern teritory. Many thanx to Patrik who played - or rather "became" - Terje Vigen at the Landmark cafe, where he ate, drank and threw bread, fish and water at everyone at appropriate moments as we received the live media stream from Oslo.

The second event was a warm-up for the third event - but basically could have been a warm-up for anything - The Pigstyle Foreplay with Bak-Truppen, who were preparing for their own live radio theatre performance in ZKM, Germany. Our dancing Barbie-like dolly was made to walk the plank from the gallery at Landmark, while Bak-Truppen wrote messages to us and the other folks at Landmark on their bodies. They also played a selection of movies for us of pigs ---errr---- "making love" with people. Nelly Ink made another patch where flying pigs were mixed with live video - visual magic! Kristine Karola and ex-Terje-Vigen-Patrik messed around with vodka, remote controlled space ships and aeroplanes in the gallery overlooking the cafe. Thanx to Bergen's own dj Anders for playing totally tasteless music the whole evening, and wearing an equally tasteless multi-coloured stripey shirt.

During the last event, WARTE NUR! BALD KOMMT DIE GANZE GESCHICHTE - Bak-Truppen's live radio play transmission - we experienced a number of glitches - bad net connections with streams falling out, etc, and a somewhat over-staged cafe for Sunday at 19.00 in Bergen. The Landmark team were dressed as mutant Neandertals in a quasi-scientific laboratory setting. A live video mix was projected down onto the cafe tables which were pushed together in the centre of the room. Jars with various colourful liquids containing animal body parts and other artifacts stood on the table. It all looked quite perfect, except that nobody could really see this spectical as they sat lower down on the stylish cafe sofas - so that was a bumber. Bak-Truppen's realmedia stream was projected on the wall of the cafe, but as no-one could see our projected-on table, it was impossible to make a connection between these two element. We also received pretty bad sound, and with the additional element that whole radio play was in German, plus the stream drop-outs,it was a bit tricky to know what was happening. Anyway, enough said about what went wrong, and, with any luck we may have the oppurtunity to repeat this event and get it right! If you cast your eyes to the left frame, you'll find a (confusing) collection of snapshots from the show at landmark, and a link to Bak-Truppen's realmedia stream, such as they transmitted from ZKM.

OBSCURE TV

At 18.00 from Monday to Friday we showed a program of videos from Japan, US and Europe, of, by and about media artists.

FRACTAL THEATRE

We had originally planned to try out performing a series of "theatrical" loops of mundane activities which repeated themselves again, and again, and again, and see how these affected the life of the cafe. It turned out that we didn't actually have to construct these. They just happened in the process of everyday life of running a ten day event in a cafe: building our sets for the UBIQUITOUS EVENTS, making visual advertisments for the programmed activities, playing streaming net radio, preparing for OBSCURE TV. All these activities became a kind of FRACTAL THEATRE. Actually it all became OBSCURE TV as well. Infact the ten days at Landmark was also pretty much of a UBIQUITOUS EVENT and an AMBIGUOUS INSTALLATION.

Lastly, a big thanx to BEK, Ole Johan Skjelbred-Knudsen, Henrik Rafaelsen and Ulf Knudsen, Bak-Truppen, DJ Anders, the cafe staff who were fantastic and joined in with almost everything, Bo Krister Wallstrøm of Bergen Kunsthall, and all the folks who lent us things. Clap, Clap, Clap. And not in the least Thomas of BEK, who was a ..a..a...Thomas.

Here are some links to folks and things connected to this event:

BEK (Bergen Centre for Electronic Art)
LANDMARK
BAK-TRUPPEN
INTERMEDIUM 2 (the zkm event BT tokk part in)
THOMAS SIVERTSEN
NELLY INK
NOOD
MOTHERBOARD/LA.ORG (if you did'nt get here by there!)