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I walk this place every day for one year now.
I have to admit I picked a flower,
but they are so beautiful…
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Architecture pencil on paper.
Freely based on a 3D scan.
Quite small in size.
2024
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Part of a series.

First sketch for “Landscape for the Chosen Ones”, scheme on how the dream giver device works ( ).

Starring: Nerve system graphics & Homunculi.

Coded in processing.

LANDSCAPE FOR THE CHOSEN ONES - Exhibition catalogue and publication for (Center for Art and Culture) curated and edited by &

Published in September 2023 at Hafnarborg! Avaliable only there…

The publication is thought as hybrid of catalogue and old sci-fi book, listing the works of all participating artists as well as being an object of escapism itself. Inspired by and in close communication with , we interconnected the narrative and visual concept and structure of the book with her video work “Oneirokritikon” as a part of the universe of dreamgivers.

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Cover & Back
The Mountains of the Painting “Landslag fyrir útvalda” by danish artist Patrik Huse appear purple on the cover of the book, dream-like refeferencing .haha’s text “Softer Ground”. The embossed and metallic title appears and disappears in the landscape. The spine of the book shows the evolution of the homunculus (not shown here), which also leads our eyes through the book.

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Title page
The homunculus has already grown, pretty big! This is how a good fantasy book starts!

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Index
Who are the chosen ones? What do they dream of?

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Transiton
Transition between and .haha’s texts through the switch of layouts. While Karolina’s text functions as frame narrative, taking just half of the page, and set in Goudy Regular, Helenas text fills the whole page and uses a custom made dream version of the same font.

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Intervention & dream language
Throughout the book a net of dreams is woven, interconnecting stories and words. They grow on and through pages, interrupting the layout and build bridges between realities.

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Image distortion
Again, “Landslag fyrir útvalda”, but strangely distorted… Have I seen this landscape before? Have I been there? Wasn’t it purple?

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Goudys Dreams
Goudy was a pretty simple, regular person until he started dreaming, wild, dark dreams. Shifting, overshadowing, crashing realities, of other planets and worlds. Languages he wouldn’t understand suddenly crossing his mind like hovering shapes, night by night slowly forming letters and words of his own language, translating messages sent by his dreamgiver.

What’s brewing in this caldron high up on the top of the Brocken? Some frog legs? Some spider eyes? Some souls spiralling in infinite suffering? Who is trying to escape this boiling evil to roam the surface of our world?

Does it make you wanna dance, dance until your heart drops? Let’s summon and spent this damn night around the burning flames of hell….

How do we deal with this?

A collaborative news paper about the current alt-right, conspiracy theory, anti-vaccine movement in Germany and the U.S. and its absurd cultural values and visual language.

It contains my essay about so called “alternative journalists” in Germany. A video analysis of three different youtube channels that connect a very vague group of people with a unbelivablely huge range of conspiracies and political opinions. A cover that provides ground for ultra-right, anti-semitic, racist, nationalist, sexist, homophobic and xenophobic ideas! Under the label of freedom of speech these influencers could benefit from the occurrence of the corona virus and their anger against the government regarding social issues. In one of their main narrations >the German government is a dictatorship operating under the cover of a democracy< In the movement seen as “revolutionists” the purpose of this kind of “journalism” is to make people insecure, introduce them to a wider range of fears and let them drift into the world of “Querdenker” to follow protests organised by politically right movements.

The essay analyses language, visual appearance and recurring patterns as well as the connection between the three “alternative journalists”. It provides a tool-set to take this kind of influencing apart, to understand the massages and motivations behind them.

The layout reacts to the immense amount of videos that are produced almost daily. They fall into the text like waterfalls, pushing it away, flowing together to remind us of the deep connection between the three public personas.

Published: 2021
Amount: 50
Print: News Paper Club

More participants:
Lynn Sullivan, Victoria Mikhaylova