THIS SITE DISPLAYS THE WORK OF ARTIST AND MUSICIAN ARE MOKKELBOST
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ART
ORIGIN
Series of works based on "child" visual dynamics, dominantly drawings.
ION
Series of works based on "teenage" visual dynamics, dominantly paper collages.
OTHER WORK
Collection of other work and design commisions.
COLLABORATIONS
Cooking with others.
MUSIC
SINGLE UNIT
Solo project, composed music performed live by electric and electronic means.
KILLL
Live-only band with Martin Horntveth, my brother Erlend, Espen Hangård and Kyrre Karlsen.
ARM
Improvisational trio with Alexander Rishaug and Arne Borgan.
DAUSTEG
DJ duo with Tony Wilson, aka Spykidelic.
OTHER MUSIC
Collection of other sound work and music.
NEWS / NOVEMBER 20TH / 2009
ENTITY AT MOMENTUM: In August I showed a new series of work at Momentum, a Nordic Art Biennale. Entity is an extension of a commission I did for a Norwegian children school earlier this year (more about this in the next update), and consists of collages on watercolor backgrounds.
For the commission I made paper collages out of pedagogic illustrations from educational books for children. These images, originally hand drawn or painted, were cut up and reworked into fantasy creatures. After the commission I continued to work with the actual collages, reworking them and extending them with backgrounds executed in the same techniques as most of the original illustrations; watercolor and gouache.
Here are the pieces, some close ups and several Entity pieces that wasn´t included in the show:
DAUSTEG: My record spinning collaboration with Tony Wilson, Dausteg, was extended to a full concert evening and club night in August as we were invited by the Ultima Festival of Contemporary Music to host a night in the Dausteg spirit.
The given site was Jakobskirken, a church turned concert venue in central Oslo. Given the unique space and the festival that invited us, we picked artists and records around themes such as twentieth century avant garde, bedroom composers and religious music from across the genre spectrum. Kyrre Karlsen did the lighting of the whole space as well as stage and dancefloor.
Norwegian hip hop trio Tri-Function Million did their first concert ever, with all new material written especially for the event. American self taught guitar maverick Mick Barr unleashed a 33 minute piece for guitar and recorded bass combining elements of past as well as unreleased compositions. And British youngsters Mount Kimbie finished the concerts off with a subtle and tight set, their third so far.
Then the Dausteg club took over. Our recordings were unfortunately distorted so the usual download and listing of playlist will not happen this time. But Halvor Bodin and Ultima photographed the event skillfully, Erla Thorgrimsdottir recorded it when our own attempts failed and Jan Martin Eiklo filmed some with his phone. All so that you can experience it below:
Pictures: (plus more here)
Audio Medleys: Tri-Function Million, Mick Barr & Mount Kimbie.
Video from club below. It was introduced by an improvised prelude where I connected my Tenori sequencer to the electronic church organ while Tony is mixing Gyorgy Ligeti's "Requiem" and "Bombardment of Saturn" by Vex'd.
COLLAGE WORKSHOP: In September I did an intensive one week collage workshop at Krabbesholm School of Art, Design and Architecture in Jylland, Denmark. Some of the great results from the dilligent students below:
KILLL: In February KILLL played at the Henie Onstad Art Centre just outside Oslo. Henie Onstad was a key institution for cross-disciplinary activity between music and art in Norway in the 70s, and is now re-activating this approach with new series of concerts, exhibitions, publications and releases. We´re proud to have played in the old studio where Karlheinz Stockausen, Maurizio Kagel and John Cage made work while in Norway.
The event was filmed and recorded and some of this footage will be used on the forthcoming KILLL dvd. Henie Onstad will also release a limited edition vinyl with the complete concert. Below is some of this footage, edited by Carsten Aniksdal (not from the dvd, mind you):

KILLL from Carsten Aniksdal on Vimeo.

POSTERS: I have several new posters available. Two more ION posters, showing the back and front of the original collages, a KILLL poster and a doublesided Dausteg poster, the last one especially made for the Jakobskirken event mentioned a few posts above.
These and more posters can be ordered from Tiger´s online store.
INTERVIEWS: Here´s a collection of interviews from the last year or so:
One KILLL interview for the German metal magazine Legacy (in English), one about Dausteg for the Ultima Festival newspaper (in Norwegian) and a general feature about my work in the Norwegian magazine Out Of Step (also in Norwegian) with images from my studio at the time in New York.
NEWS / NOVEMBER 4TH / 2008
LOST AGE: Just finished the cover for the upcoming Next Life album, Lost Age, released on the new label Fysisk Format. The cover displays a "phase two" of the images used on the previous record, Electric Violence. Hai Ngyen Dinh helped out on the art direction. Check out some of the wonderful music here.
DEATHSTEP / DAUSTEG (DUB AND BELOW): Spykidelic and I DJ´ed at the Oslo club the Villa in August, as part of a dub-themed night held during the Øya Festival. We sorted our records by bass, echo and low pitch vocals, and looked for neighboring musical spirits. The full 4 hours were taped and can be found here, playlist included.
Deathstep is improvised DJing, recorded straight from the mixer at the venue. It is about the two of us playing each other records and responding, layering tracks for contrast or compliment, thinking out loud. It is NOT about beatmixing, genre subscription or requests. Each night usually has a theme, which serves as a rough guide for what records we bring to the venue.
TENORI-ON: Bought this very visual 16-step sequencer this summer, Yamaha´s Tenori-On, the LED buttons being both interface and display. Been sketching tracks on it, mostly before going to bed. I also used it a lot on the Deathstep set at Villa, listed above. Here´s some tunes I´ve made on this sonic crayon box (click note to listen/download):
TOR SLO PON HMM DEF BOW ARP MAR BLO GRA
NY: I´ve moved from Oslo to New York for a year to join the ISCP program. While here I´m working on commisions for two different children´s schools, new Single Unit music and various other stuff. Here´s a studio shot (3 images stitched together all crooked).
MAYHEM: Attila Csihar from Mayhem asked for some creative input for Mayhem´s last concert at the Øya festival in Oslo this summer. In the end he decided to give birth to an animal, among other things. Before that we experimented on the idea of it being a child of light, so to speak, combining a glass baby and a handheld laser. GIF-sample to the left.
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/DAUSTEG: 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 club 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: We u@kust played at the NuMusic Festival in Stavanger. 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.
NEWS / JUNE 4th / 2007
TOKYO: The newly founded Tokyo magazine Someones´s Garden showed some ION work in their first issue. They are also finishing up an artbook release called Nortbound featuring work from Kim Hiorthøy, the designer collective Grandpeople and some of my ION work. Orders can be made from their website.
OSLO KUNSTFORENING: Jumped in on this group show on a two week notice, which gave me enough time to cut up some old drawings and make one final edit of them. Pix here and here.
SINGLE UNIT: Been doing several one-off Single Unit concerts the last six months, such as Black Box in Oslo (video!), Moderna Museet in Stockholm (video & pic), Borealis Festival in Bergen (video!) and Inkonst in Malmö.
KILLL: We went to Riga, Latvia to play the wonderful Skanu Mezs Festival and here´s a (ultra compressed) video documentation, and some pictures, donated by Arnis Kalnins:
SVERRESBORG: Made this stage design sketch for a closed competition issued by Utsmykkingsfondet and Sverresborg High School. They ended up with another design though, a really nice one.
BORGEN: The hallway outside the studio.
NEWS / NOVEMBER 27th / 2006
V MAG: A short write up on Standard (Oslo) in V Magazine, web version here.
CONCERT: Single Unit concert at 3T release at Black Box, Dec. 15th. Flyer here.
GIFT: A supersoft tune I made on a MIDI guitar:
NEWS / OCTOBER 11th / 2006
ION UPDATE: The group exhibition Elementary Particles (Paperback Edition) is now open at Standard(Oslo), where I´m showing four ION collages.
MUSIKBYRÅN: The Swedish music program Musikbyrån has done a feature on the Norwegian noise rock scene through the examples of Noxagt, Moha!, KILLL, Single Unit and so on. Kjetil Brandsdal, Anders Hana and I were interviewed in Stavanger during the NuMusic Festival in September. It can be seen here.
KILLL: Some snapshots from the four summer festival shows, plus a video clip from the Øya Festival, caught on tape by NRK. We played behind a backdrop, televising the concert on the big screen beside the stage.
Click this: (65 Mb)
NEWS / JULY 8th / 2006
NEW KILLL WEBSITE HERE.
KILLL + SINGLE UNIT: Another upcoming KILLL concert this summer: the Øya Festival in Oslo, 12th of August. This festival features, among many others, Yoko Ono, Noxagt, Enslaved, Toy and the Knife. I will also play a Single Unit concert at Spasibar with Next Life the 9th of August, as part of the warm up night before the festival.

Pic from our Roskilde Festival performance to the left: Martin whips the drums.
FJORDS # 14: Claudia Sandor from the Norwegian magazine Fjords compiled an associative piece called Tesseract for the last issue. She showed some of my ION work as well as works by Carol Bove, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset and Sofie Berntzen.

The magazine can be purchased at Narvesen (Norway) and larger magazine stores.
NEWS / MAY 23rd / 2006
GIVING PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT: This is the title of a one-nite group exhibition at Glassbox in Paris on May 25th, made up entirely by poster works. It is curated by Hanne Mugaas and Ida Ekblad (click here for statement). These are the artists:
Takeshi Murata | Cory Arcangel | Marius Engh | Fredrik Söderberg | Michael Bell-Smith | Anders Nordby | Paper Rad | Ida Ekblad | Fayçal Baghriche | Jonas Ohlsson | Lars Laumann | Jean-Paul Newman |Lina Viste Groenli | Are Mokkelbost | Daniel Jensen | Matthieu Clainchard
BAD BONN KILBI: KILLL will play at the Kilbi Festival next week, that´s June 2nd. The program is now ready and we are proud to share bill with acts such as Venetian Snares, Animal Collective, Jamie Lidell, Knut and more.
A SUCKER IS BORN EVERY DAY: Friend and colleague Roger Egseth just had a solo exhibition at Visningsrom 21 m2 in Stavanger, Norway. He showed new paintings, drawings, a sculpture, a banner plus the SIGIL film from 2004 where I made the soundtrack. More about the film in the Other Music section, pix from Roger´s show below. If you like his work you could let him know.
ARM: Some pix from the ARM concert we did at the Torpedo book shop in January. Thanks to Stig Andersen for sending us his pictures!
NEWS / MARCH 1st / 2006
POSTCARD FROM CHICAGO: Played at Hive Days in Chicago on March 11th with Single Unit. A thunderstorm raged outside at the same time as I was raging inside, sort of like this.
ROSKILDE FESTIVAL AND MORE: KILLL is confirmed for this year´s Roskilde Festival in Denmark! Loads of bands play this huge festival, check out which ones here. We will also play at the Kilbi Festival in Düdingen, Switzerland on June 2nd, and at the Safe As Milk Festival in Haugesund, Norway, on the 29th of August.
NEWS / FEBRUARY 21st / 2006
DOUBLE RELEASE: Today Next Life are releasing their debut album Electric Violence on Cock Rock Disco as well as launching their new website, www.electricdungeon.org I designed the website with Hai since I did the CD cover and also because I worship their music. MP3s, video, reviews and other goodies in the dungeon.
NEWS / FEBRUARY 12th / 2006
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WORKSHOP: Last week I did a sound workshop at the Einar Granum Art School in Oslo. The students were introduced to basic sound editing and had to make a five minute composition with a set of rules, as well as to listen to records and take part in discussion. They rocked! With limited or no prior experience they came up with the tracks below.
01. SHAUN (picture) 02. KRISTIN 03. DANIEL
04. CHRISTIAN 05. BENEDICTE 06. INA
07. HERMANN & ØYVIND 08. CHARLOTTE & ANE 09. GREGER
10. ØYVIND 11. VIVIANN ALEXANDRA
NEWS / JANUARY 25th / 2006
ARM CONCERT: ARM will rattle its old bones at the Torpdeo Book shop in Oslo, Hausmannsgate 42, at 20.00 on Friday, Jan. 27th. Click logo for flyer. It´s free!
SINGLE UNIT CONCERTS: Next concert is a festival in Chicago called Hive Days, which is from March the 10th to the 12th. Other acts are Aa, Forbes Graham, Chris Corsano & Spencer Yeh, Seductive Springs from Zs, plus plus.
ZILINA: Here´s a clip from the last concert in Slovakia, held in a loft space above Stanica:
NEWS / DECEMBER 30th / 2005
KILLL DOCUMENTATION: Some glimpses of the KILLL tour we did in September:
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SONIC NORTH: OCA released their fourth issue of Verksted this month, and this one was called Sonic North.
It is a 100 page booklet "dedicated to what is a prolific field in Norway: experimental music, sound and noise. Sonic North comprises commissioned texts by Sindre Andersen, Are Mokkelbost, Anne Hilde Neset, as well as interviews with Maja Ratkje and Hilde Sofie Tafjord of Fe-mail, Lasse Marhaug and Rune Kristoffersen of Rune Grammofon."
It can be ordered here: info@oca.no
NEWS / NOVEMBER 23rd / 2005
STANDARD (OSLO): I´m happy to announce that I´m now represented by Standard (Oslo).
Standard is represented at the NADA Art Fair 2005 in Miami, December 1-4.
First scheduled show is in October 2006 along with Oscar Tuazon: The Elementary Particles (Paperback Edition).
DISTRO: The new art book store Torpedo in Oslo have my posters in stock and are taking orders either from their soon-to-come webshop or by mail.
SINGLE UNIT: Single Unit will play at the Next Music Festival in Bratislava, Slovakia, December 3, then the next day in Zilina at Stanica. Other acts are among others Pansonic, DJ Still, Spunk, General Magic and Pink Big Pig.
ION STUDIO: Below are some studio shots from the last months of ION collaging.
PICTURE DISC: The With Us Against Reality or Against Us LP, which was planned to be released on the opening of the exhibition by the same name (see info further below), is delayed. Damn it. But it will happen I am told.
In the meantime you can listen to a track from the LP, where a found recording by Brian Belott is sandwhiched with an old one-take keyboard improv I did five years ago. It is a scary match...
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NEWS / OCTOBER 26th / 2005
SINGLE UNIT: Played at Trondheim Matchmaking 2005 along with Ryfylke, HOH, Sun State, Øyvind Brantsegg and MNH/Skagen. Someone had wrecked my synth, the ax died, the lamps started smelling burnt and three strings broke; basically a night in the name of improv.
KILLL: Well, we´ve changed our name from KILL to KILLL. KILL are from Gothenburgh, Sweden and play black metal while KILLL are from Oslo, Norway and... don´t play black metal.
Pitchfork Media has written some kind words about KILLLs performance at the Øya Festival, plus taken an outsiders look at the Norwegian music scene in general. Read it here.
NEWS / SEPTEMBER 29th / 2005
KILL PRESS: Some press clippings from the KILL Norway Tour, all in Norwegian:
TWO SINGLE UNIT CONCERTS: 1st: Joe Grillo from Dear Raindrop joining in on the With Us Against Reality opening party. 2nd: The Latvians get it at the Lydskog Festival in Riga.
NEWS / AUGUST 11th / 2005
KILL TOUR: Just finished the tour poster for the upcoming KILL Norway Tour. It is from a new chain of works in the Origin series. Click image for full view.

These are the confirmed dates:

21.09 Oslo, Blå
22.09 Bergen, Kvarteret
23.09 Stavanger, Folken
28.09 Trondheim, Blæst
29.09 Bodø, Turisthytta
30.09 Tromsø, Kulturhuset
KILL also performs at the Øya Festival in Oslo this coming Saturday, the 13th of August, at John Dee, 23.30.
EXHIBITION: Compiled a picture disc LP for Anders & Ida for the large scale exhibition they are curating called With Us Against Reality, Or Against Us. It will open the 26th of August in Oslo. More info here. Design by Anders Nordby and Ida Eckblad.
The LP features many of the exhibiting artists, such as Dear Raindrop, Paperrad, Brian Belott, Kallioinen, Chris Johanson, Cory Arcangel, Jim Drain and more, in addition to local acts such as Out Of Light, Single Unit and Nils Bech. It will be released on the opening with the catalogue. Single Unit and Dear Raindrop will play live at Spasibar the same nite.
CONCERT: Single Unit will play at the Lydskog Festival in Riga, Latvia, the 9th of September.
SINGLE UNIT VIDEO: Uploaded the J.O.Y. video by Rune Andreassen in the Single Unit section, look for it at the bottom of the page. He made it with a cordless mini-camera and and a couple of toy cars.
NOISE DVD: This DVD was released recently and presents interviews with several noise musicians, mostly from Norway and Japan. Tom Hovinbøle conducted most of these interviews around 2000, such as Masami Akita, Otomo Yoshihide, Toshimaru Nakamura, Maja Ratkje, Lasse Marhaug, Helge Sten, Francisco Lopez as well as Arne Borgan and I as ARM representatives. It can be ordered here.
NEWS / JUNE 10th / 2005
NEXTLIFE COVER: Here is the Next Life cover I just did. Electric Violence will be out on Cock Rock Disco some time in the Fall or Winter, but here´s a sneak preview, The Mirror:
SUNNO))): More SUNNO))) pix added from the Inferno gig. Thanks to Svein Strømmen for sharing his photos.
NEWS / MAY 30th / 2005

INTERVIEW: Interview and display of work in the Swedish interview magazine Tidningen SEX, no. 7.
ARM FEATURE: The Norwegian ODD Magazine did a feature on the ARM covers.
SU CONCERT: Single Unit warmed up for the Shining the 27th of May at Garage, Oslo.
KILL CONCERT: KILL warmed up for Cloroform at Rockefeller in Oslo, on the 21st.
NEWS / MAY 18th / 2005
AWARD: The NESTEN! book won gold in the open category of the "Most beautiful books of the year" award, handed out annually by Grafill. The cover shows drawings from the Origin Series.
UPDATE: Added some old guitar doodles in the Other Music section.
NEWS / APRIL 17th / 2005
Made a few small changes to the site and added a GET! section where you can find out where to find products such as records and posters.
Another article on KILL in German here.
NEWS / MARCH 29th / 2005
The website is finished! Please let me know if you find any bugs or weird workings. Enjoy!
EXTENDED STAGE: Kyrre Karlsen, Kalle Runeson and myself had the pleasure to contribute to SUNNO)))´s concert at the Inferno Festival in Oslo the 26th of March by doing customized light and smoke. The usual line-up of Stephen O´Malley and Greg Anderson was extended with John Wiese, Attilah and our own Lasse Marhaug. Click here for more pictures.
BERLIN: Played the Transmediale Festival in Berlin last month with both Single Unit and KILL, as part of a nine day festival of experimental musics. Here is a review for those who can read German. Below: Single Unit playing the floor and Espen from KILL growling.
ART BOOK: In December 2004 Aschehoug Forlag released the art and text anthology Nesten!, featuring some 34 artists and writers spread over 400 pages. My contribution was a fold-out poster and cover, with drawings from the Origin series. Read more about it and/or get the book here.
VARIOUS KILL NEWS: KILL will perform at Rockefeller in Oslo the 21st of May, warming up for Cloroform.
Later this summer we will play another concert in Oslo; at ØyaFestivalen, (10th - 13th of August). The concert will be at John Dee.
Also, a Norway tour has just been confirmed for the second half of September this year, initiated by Rikskonsertene and Riksutstillinger.
I have joined forces with light-designer Kyrre Heldal Karlsen, who has done stunning work for The Shining, Jaga Jazzist and National Bank among others. Together we will design an extensive stage set, visuals and lightning for the tour.
KILL will also play in London at the Notting Hill Arts Club in late October. More to follow...
BZZZ: Single Unit and KILL got a short but generous write up in the first issue of the Scandinavian version of Vice, check it if you´re the gossip type.
NARDO COMMISSION: This is a permanent commission that was just installed at Nardo Children School and Kindergarten in Trondheim. It has two components. The first consists of blown-up collages made from schoolbook illustrations, scanned, printed on foil and mounted on plexiglass. The second component consists of eyes and patterns (vector graphics) printed on foil, cut and mounted on window areas in hallways and wardrobe areas.
Where as the collages show the bodies and faces of characters built up of non-living things, or illogical pieces thereof, the characters in the windows consist of eyes alone. Together the two components of the commission are trying to trigger different kinds of recognition, fantasy and empathy with the children. The work is investigating what visually constitutes an entity, what information is needed, or is superfluous, in making the child identify an image as a creature of some sort. It is also simply a counterbalance to all the pedagogic visuals that is presented to children in a school.
CALENDAR: EXHIBITIONS, CONCERTS ETC.
2010
August 23rd
ROMMEN COMMISSION
Oslo, Norway
I will do a permanent installation in a new children school in Groruddalen in Oslo. The work will consist of various light boxes with vector graphics, programmed LED light sequences and sound, placed in a central commonarea of the school. The school will also have a cultural center and a sports hall for the surrounding community to use after school.
The opening ceremony will be held on the 23rd of August.
August 20th
MUTANT POP AND THE LIVING IMAGE
Gallery Loyal, Malmö, Sweden
Group show and book release curated by Dear Raindrop and Brandon Joyce.
Jason McClean, Canada
Yamantaka Eye, Japan
Ron Rege jr., US
Kenny Scharf, US
Sally Cruikshank, US
Erro, Iceland
Joachim Cossais, Norway
Kalle Runeson, Sweden
Lisa Jonasson, Sweden
Marianne Hurum, Norway
Matti Kallioinen, Sweden
Misaki Kawai, US
Jocelyn Shipley, US
Leif Goldberg, US
Alika Herrscoff, US
Devin Flynn, US
Christian Cumings, US
Larry Carlson, US
Erik Parker, US
Melissa Brown , US
Mr. Kaws, US
Ian Flynn, US
Gary Panter, US
Stanley Mouse, US
Taylor McKimens, US
Eduardo Palozzi, England
Are Mokkelbost, Norway
Trenton Doyle Hancock, US
Jes Brinch, Denmark
Vu Thi Trang, Vietnam
Peter Phillips, England
Yuichi Yokoyama, Japan
Øyvind Fahlström, Sweden
Kjarten Slettemark, Sweden
Dear Raindrop
June 26th
DAUSTEG
FESTIVAL OF NORTH NORWAY
Galleri NordNorge
Artist Børre Sæthre has invited us to conclude his installation at this art and music festival. We will perform inside the installation at 14.00.
Festival Of North Norway
June 17th
WORKS ON PAPER
Gallery Christian Torp, Oslo, Norway
Frognerveien 28, opening at 19.00
Group show with works on paper, all of which are for sale. I will show work from the Entity series.
Vanessa Baird
Christian Bould
Ole Martin Lund Bø
Ivan Galuzin
Bjarne Melgaard
Are Mokkelbost
Andreas Tellefsen
May 29th - June 22nd
USELESS PRODUCTIONS
Visningsrommet USF, Bergen
Three-split exhibition curated by Arne Skaug Olsen, with Vemund Thoe, Michael Boruch and Daniel Andersson. I will be showing collages from the ION series.
Visningsrommet USF
April 15th - May 23rd
IDIODYSEÈS
Rogaland Kunstsenter, Norway
Three-split exhibition curated by Jonas Liveröd, with Fredrik Lindkvist and Mattias Nordéus. I will be showing collages from the ION series.
Rogaland Kunstsenter
March 15th-26th
COLLAGE WORKSHOP
Kabelvåg, Lofoten, Norway
In March I will host another two week collage workshop at this art and film school in the far north of Norway.
Kabelvåg Art and Film School
February 19th
DAUSTEG
Spikeru Koncertzale, Riga, Latvia
Supersilent are playing in the Latvian capitol and we have the honor of serving the crowd afterwards and long into the night. The theme this time is Animism vs. Artificial Intelligence, or Animal vs. Machine if you like. Half price for anyone in a costume. E-flyer here.
Skanu Mezs
2009
September - October
COLLAGE WORKSHOP
Krabbesholm, Denmark
I will host a one week collage workshop and a conversation course at this art, design and architecture school in rural Denmark, followed by a stay in their upcoming residency program. My partner and colleague Marianne Hurum will do a painting course.
Krabbesholm
September 10th
DAUSTEG LIVE NIGHT
Jakobskirken, Oslo
Tony Wilson and I have been invited by the Ultima Festival in Oslo to organize a Dausteg evening in the church and concert hall Jakobskirken. In addition to a late night Dausteg DJ session we are honored to have the following kindred spirits to play live for us all:
Mount Kimbie
Mick Barr
Tri Function Million
August
NARDO COMMISSION
Trondheim, Norway
This is a permanent installation in a newly built children´s school and kindergarden. All the works are executed as foil on glass or plexiglass in wardrobes, hallways and common areas throughout the school.
August 29th - October 18th
MOMENTUM
Moss, Norway
Norwegian biennale in Moss, an hour outside of Oslo. I will be showing new collages and mixed media works that have come out of a commission for Nardo, a school and kindergarten in Trondheim (see post above).
List of artists: Akassen, Mats Adelman, Roger Andersson, Asmundur Asmundsson, Fia Backström, Maja Bajevic, Petra Bauer & Annette Krauss, Nina Beier & Marie Lund, Maja Borg, Liv Bugge, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, Jacob Dahlgren, Ida Ekblad, Marte Eknæs, Andreas Eriksson, Jan Freuchen, Carl-Michael von Hausswolff, Hannaleena Heiska, Saskia Holmkvist, Karl Holmqvist, Lars Laumann, Klara Liden, Darri Lorenzen, Josefine Lyche, Eline McGeorge, Are Mokkelbost, Jani Ruscica, Marthe Thorshaug, Helgi Thórsson, Salla Tykkä, Gaeoudjiparl
Momentum
June 22nd
VLANY
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Playing records at the annual summer party for Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, held at Gagosian Gallery in New York.
www.vlany.org
May 28th - September 12th
NORTHERN (L)ATTITUDES
Scandinavia House, New York
Group exhibition with a selection of American and Norwegian artists that have been supported by American Scandinavian Foundation. I will be showing various posters made for different occasions over the years, such as ION, KILLL, Single Unit and ARM.
Other artists include Ole Martin Lund Bø, Kjell Bjørgeengen and Lene Berg.
Scandinavia House
May 19th
ARTIST TALK
ISCP, Brooklyn, New York
As part of ISCP´s continuous Salon series of artist talks it is my turn to present my work. I will talk about past and current projects in an unchronological manner, focusing on methodology and process. It starts at 6.00 PM.
ISCP
May 8th - 11th
OPEN STUDIOS
ISCP, Brooklyn, New York
ISCP is an artist and curator residency program in New York, currently with some 30 residents installed in the studios in Brooklyn. Exhibition, food and music on the opening night, from 7.00 PM.
ISCP
March 5th - 8th
DARKNESS DESCENDS
Pulse Art Fair & Chashama, New York
Group exhibition with Norwegian artists curated by Christina Vassalo. I am exhibiting a sound piece from an upcoming series of work, as well as spinning records on the opening night at Monkeytown.
List of artists: Ole Martin Lund Bø, Halvor Bodin, Marianne Hurum, Ingvild Langgård, Are Mokkelbost, Rune Olsen, Alexander Rishaug, Elise Storsveen, Kjersti Vetterstad, Marius Watz & Monica Winther.
February 8th
WE´LL KNOW WHEN WE GET THERE
CNEAI, France
Lee Ranaldo and Leah Singer is having an exhibition showing printed work from the two summer workshops they have had at this museum. In addition they have invited some friends and colleagues to show some smaller pieces.
In alpabetical order: Davide Balula, Tacita Dean, Bill Dillworth, Claude Closky, Brigitte Fontaine, Merce Cunningham, Cameron Jamie, Michael Morley, David Shrigley, Michael Snow, Are Mokkelbost & Judy Stevens.
CNEAI
February 1st
KILLL CONCERT
Henie Onstad Art Center, Oslo
Henie Onstad Art Center
2008
November 23rd
SINGLE UNIT CONCERT
Glasslands, Brooklyn
Single Unit warming up for Child Abuse. Also playing is the Z´s and Extra Life.
Glasslands
November
7th - 10th
OPEN STUDIOS
ISCP, New York
ISCP Open Studios presents works by the 25 artists and 3 curators in residence. Exhibitions, food and music, and I´ll do a short Single Unit set.
ISCP
August 6th
DEATHSTEP / DAUSTEG
DJing with Spykidelic at the Villa, as part of the Øya Festival.
Manna plays their Arctic Dub and we have the small room to ourselves. DJ Torske will also play.
The VIlla
September-
August 2009
ISCP RECIDENCY, New York
ISCP & OCA
August 15th
WHITE NIGHTS
Group exhibition at Jones & Truebenbach Galerie, Cologne
Artists: Kirstine Roepstorff, Øystein Aasan, Ane Graff, Anders Smedbye, Lina Viste Grønlie, Sverre Gullesen, Josefine Lyche
Jones & Truebenbach Galerie
May 21st -
24th
TRANSPLANT, Dale, Sunnfjord
Presentation and participation on ongoing wall painting
Transplant
April 25th -
May 25th
A WEEK OF KINDNESS
Split exhibition with Elise Storsveen at 0047, Oslo
Exhibition with collage work. Artist talk and brunch on Sunday, April 27th
0047
April 24th
KILLL - DONAU FESTIVAL, KREMS
Other acts include:
TORTOISE
MELVINS

PLANNINGTOROCK
TIM HECKER
XIU XIU
THE GO! TEAM
Donau Festival
March 2nd
DEATHSTEP
DJing with Spykidelic before, between and after these acts at Nefertiti, Gothenburg:
EARTH
TONY CONRAD
MATS GUSTAVSON
SIR RICHARD BISHOP
MOKIRA
HENRIK RYLANDER
Ideal Recordings
February
12th - 23rd
LIGHTS ON
Group exhibition at the Astrup Fearnely Museum, Oslo
This exhibition focuses on a new generation of Norwegian artists and artist run galleries. The Rekord gallery have a show within the show and have invited me to exhibit with them, in addition to these souls:
Kjersti Andvig, Kristian Øverland Dahl, Trine Falch & Ingvild Holm, Marianne Hurum, Anette Stav Johannessen, Linn Anita Pedersen, Christina Peel, Kristian Skylstad & Vilde Skylstad, Ulf Styren, Jorunn Myklebust Syversen, Monica Winther and Tori Wrånes. Curators: Thora Dolven Balke, Ingvild Langgård and Eirin Støen.
Astrup Fearnley Museum
March
11th - 16th
COLLAGE WORKSHOP
Kabelvåg Art and Film School
Delving into the nitty gritty of cut and paste, paper and glue, form and content.
Kabelvåg Art and Film School
January
17th - 22th
RYKK TILBAKE TIL START!
Group exhibition at gallery 0047, Oslo
Some 90 (!) artists show examples of early, unfinished or process-oriented work uncommon to their everyday practice. Curated by Jan Christensen.
0047
2007
December
6th - 15th
KILLL - NORTH EUROPEAN TOUR
06.12. Linz @ Qujochoe

07.12. Ch Düdingen @ Bad Bonn

08.12. Ravensburg @ Balthes

11.12. Hamburg @ Kampnagel

12.12. Berlin @ Lido

13.12. Brussels @ Reclycart

14.12. Den haag @ State X

15.12. Oslo @ Blitz

October 4th
DEATHSTEP - Deathstep Ressurection
DJ set with Spykidelic at Blå, Oslo
After a six month break we join forces again after Kevin Drumm´s concert the same night. Read more about Deathstep and the Acid Grime night following the link below
Acid Grime
September 21st
ANTIDROM
Group exhibition at General Public, Berlin
Helen Cho - Kim Hiorthøy - Maverick - Are Mokkelbost - Jan Rohlf
General Public
September 6th
NUMUSIC FESTIVAL
KILLL show in Stavanger, Norway
Next Life, Charles Curtis, Jean Jacques Perrey, Arve Henriksen, Coldcut, Dat Politics, Felix Kubin, Phil Niblock, Kim Cascone, Mira Calix and many more
NuMusic
May 11th
SKANU MEZS
KILLL show in Riga, Latvia
Other artists: The Books, Ikue Mori & Zeena Parkins, Islaja, PlanningToRock, Mouse on Mars and more
Skanu Mezs
April 3rd
INKONST
Single Unit show in Malmö, Sweden
PAKT
March 17th
BOREALIS
New music festival in Bergen
Single Unit show at Landmark
Other artists: KAIJA SAARIAHO, BANKS VIOLETTE, SUNN O))), NURIA SCHOENBERG NONO, DANSK RADIOKOR, CASCO, ALEXANDER ROBOTNICK, K-N-P, CHRISTIAN WALLUMRØD ENSEMBLE, EMMERHOFF & THE MELANCHOLY BABIES - NO, PYMATHON- FI, BERGEN FILHARMONISKE ORKESTER - NO, K-NENSEMBLE RISOGNANZE - IT, BUEKORPSKRIG, BIT20 - NO, TOMAS ESPEDAL, ORGELKLUBBEN FERDINAND, CIKADA, ALVISE VIDOLIN, MORTEN EIDE PEDERSEN, JEAN BAPTISE BARRIERE & MORE
Borealis
March 16th
NY FIGURASJON
Group exhibition in Oslo
Other artists: Fredrik Raddum, Astrid Nondal, Christer Karlstad, Marianne Darien Solhaugstrand, Daniel Østvold, Andreas Tellefsen, Ane Graff, Marianne Wiig Storaas, Christian Messel, Liv Tandrevold Eriksen & Marius Amdam
Oslo Kunstforening
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