ARE MOKKELBOST - ARCHIVE OF ART & MUSIC
ART (click images for archive)
ORIGIN:
Series of works based on "child" visual dynamics, dominantly drawings.
ION:
Series of works based on "teenage" visual dynamics, dominantly paper collages.
POLARIZED X:
Series of works based on "adult" visual dynamics, dominantly photographs and computer graphics. (Upcoming!)
OTHER WORK: Collection of other work and commisions.
COLLABORATIONS: Cooking with others.
MUSIC (click images for archive)
SINGLE UNIT:
Solo project started in 2001. Composed music performed live by electric and electronic means.
KILLL:
Live-only band project with Martin Horntveth, my brother Erlend and Espen Hangård. Stage design by Kyrre Heldal Karlsen & me.
ARM:
Improvisational trio with Alexander Rishaug and Arne Borgan, started in 1996. I also make the record sleeves.
OTHER MUSIC: Collection of other sound work and music.
Phone: (0047) 97 74 76 78.
NEWS / MAY 6TH / 2008
A WEEK OF KINDNESS: After about three years of working on these ION collages I´m happy and relieved to finally exhibit them. The project space 0047 was so kind as to invite Elise Storsveen and me to do this collage show together. Curated by Marianne Zamecznik and Elisabeth Byre.
Gallery view.
Individual collages.
STUDIO: Aerial view of the studio in December. Images from life style magazines are cut out and organized by color and contrast, according to six categories or elements in the ION universe. The collages gradually build up and a specific lighting evolves for each collage, the available material deciding the approximate amount of each color and element. Photo by Pål Laukli.
ION POSTER: The first poster of the ION collages is out. It is two-sided, showing the front and back of Omni #4. It measures 70 x 46,5 cm, and is done on 250 gram paper with UV finish on both sides. It can be ordered from me for the prize of 200 kr / 25 euro / 40 dollars plus shipping.
STANDARD:
I decided to leave gallery Standard(Oslo) at the beginning of the year. Don´t believe the hype.
COLLAGE WORKSHOP: Way up north in Norway, among the beautiful Lofoten islands, you find the Kabelvåg art and film school. I was invited to teach there for two weeks. The last week we did a collage workshop which culminated with the show C/U/T C/U/T C/U/T. Take a look at some of the student creations here:
SOUND WORKSHOP: For the third year I did a sound & composition workshop at Einar Granum Art School in Oslo. The students were to make a two minute composition with whatever means available to them. Click speakers to listen to their tracks.
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KILLL TOUR: Europe got the RGB treatment in December when we did a 10 date tour, starting in Switzerland and finishing off at Blitz in Oslo.

Arte TV met up with us in Berlin and shot footage for a feature on experimental metal acts on the program Trax. Here is the finished feature (french version), including SunnO))) and Next Life.
NEWS / OCTOBER 19TH / 2007
IN CONVERSATION: The japanese magazine Someones´s Garden just published a conversation between Kalle Runeson and I, where we are discussing our work and common likes and dislikes. View / download the article here: Are&Kalle.pdf
BERLIN: Jan Rohlf invited Kim Hiorthøy, Helen Cho, Maverick and I to join him in an exhibition called ANTIDROM at General Public. Press release and pix here.
DEATHSTEP: Spykidelic & I have been playing records together under this moniker for some time, and decided to record the improvised set we did at the Oslo club Blå for an Acid Grime night. Deathstep is about racemixing luminaries and misanthropists with nothing but love. Here is the playlist and here is the total recording (79 Mb):

KILLL: Here´s a gritty clip filmed on a mobile phone on the last KILLL show; at NuMusic in Stavanger. It´s in a weird format called 3gp so if it doesn´t play, try to download it and play it in your quicktime player. Thanks to all that sent us their clips, hopefully they will end up on the dvd.

The Wire magazine were there too and put up this clip on their site.
DESIGN # 1: The need for money combined with good fortune led me to design some printed matter for my favourite record shop in Oslo, Tiger! I made a ticket design with gold foil and a note design with red foil. Check it out here.
DESIGN # 2: I´ve also done some sound design the last couple of years for the same reason, but fun nonetheless. Here´s a little promo page.