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<channel><generator>iloblog 1.0</generator><title>Blog by Bjørn Venø Feed</title><link>http://blog.bjornveno.com/</link><description>The artist Venø works with photography video and performance. He tries hard at being a licensed fool and has a burning desire to explore beyond our paradigm.
</description><item><title>The Father and his three sons</title><link>http://iloapp.bjornveno.com/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=142</link><description><![CDATA[     The first 9 minutes from a 20 minute performance by Bjørn Venø (Bjorn Veno) where he tells the story of how he inherited a Norwegian farm and why his two older brothers failed to prove their worth.  The story is a retelling of the Norwegian fairy tale "Askeladen som Kap åt med Trålet", where Venø has made subtle changes creating a story that layes between truth and fiction.  In the back ground Dorota Gaweda and Beth Collar  Documented by JK  From the event "Open Book' Royal College of Art - Performance and Live Art work.   03.05.12 Testbed1 Battersea. Organised by Jack Tan, Nigel Rolfe and Leah   Press Release:   This show brings together 'work made live' from across the Royal College of Art. Taking place in the atmospheric warehouse space at Testbed1 in Battersea, the evening explores a diversity of performance work.  There is considerable renewed interest in this subject world wide and this is reflected across all the subject areas in post-graduate study at the RCA, with young designers as well as fine artists involved.  The evening showcases wide approaches which include body work, durational performances, spoken word, story-telling, musical performance, live installation and sculpture, rituals, and participatory practice.  Participating artists: Beth Collar, Bjørn Venø, Cian McConn+Vivienne Griffin+Rose Pomeroy, Cradeaux Alexander, Dorota Gaweda, Echo Morgan, Elizabeth Porter, Emma Alonze, Hector Castells Matutano, Lina Lapelyte, Miriam Austin, Nicola Thomas, Rosie Edwards+Sui Kim, Suk An, Sven Sachsalber, Tim Zercie 
 ]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 15:14:02 +0100</pubDate><category>Films</category></item><item><title>BV</title><link>http://iloapp.bjornveno.com/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=141</link><description><![CDATA[ Do an experiment bang your head against the key board, do you get the letters BV? No, but these people did whilst using google image search, it seems like a good way of coming across my work:  Cute Swedish Goth girl    Online competition   All I need now is for the hole world to get frustrated and start banging those heads against there keyboards....    
 ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 03:20:50 +0000</pubDate><category>Thoughts</category></item><item><title>MANN, Chapter I: Sirkel, test II</title><link>http://iloapp.bjornveno.com/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=140</link><description><![CDATA[  In 2005 I started the project MANN about male identity. This is 7 year old footage from a camera and performance test for Chapter I: Sirkel.  I thought the video footage to be lost, but recently rediscovered the DV tape.              
    
 ]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:19:47 +0000</pubDate><category>Films</category></item><item><title>Performance</title><link>http://iloapp.bjornveno.com/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=139</link><description><![CDATA[ I've recently been experimenting with live performance, the most exciting aspect is the feeling of removing barriers, in this case the video monitor, giving me direct access to the audience. However having an audience makes fre association difficult.     In the performance I try to become Audie Murphy the most decorated war hero and celebrated movie star. A video recording of a performance at Royal College of Art, Battersea 13.12.11         
    
 ]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:23:41 +0000</pubDate><category>Films</category></item><item><title>Reality</title><link>http://iloapp.bjornveno.com/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=138</link><description><![CDATA[   in 1998 Kristian Sinkerud and my self made Reality.      I think this may be the pice that marked the beginning of the path I find my self on. My obsession with Plato's cave theory, the licensed fool - the artist who makes sense of 'madness', the idea that power shifts go in a feed back loop, and using my self in the work.    Featuring: Solveig Wiland, Annika Malmø, Bjørn Venø and Tord Løtveit        
  
 ]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:38:37 +0000</pubDate><category>Films</category></item><item><title>The spectacle of fire</title><link>http://iloapp.bjornveno.com/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=137</link><description><![CDATA[      A fire broke out across the road from our house today, disrupting the predictable flow of life and turning us in to spectators.   What do we feel at times like these... fear, concern?  Personally I became mesmerized by the vicious and undiscriminating nature of the fire blazing out of the windows, it was hypnotic... until it was subdued by the order of the fire men who tok control and suppressed the flames within minutes.  As a single individual we are fragile, but as a species we dominate nature and are able to quickly stamp out any threat to the order and harmony we have created for our selves. A nice quality with the English is that when such a task is completed everyone gathers together for a nice warm tee.  The ladies who's house this is, escaped the flames without injury.       
 ]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:12:59 +0100</pubDate><category>Thoughts</category></item><item><title>The male Gender is evil</title><link>http://iloapp.bjornveno.com/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=136</link><description><![CDATA[      "This is ABUSE" is an abusive website about relationship abuse, which I came across through this advert:   dreamgirlfriend.co.uk   Dream girlfriend makes a presumption that I will ask the girl something indecent, which I admittedly do. However nothing will happen until I ask my third question or spend 1 minuet thinking up what sort of perverted and evil act I want to see her perform, after which the interactive video portrays "me" as an abusive man. All this is well and good, it has a message it wants to get across, which it does effectively. However I have some issues with the site, which starts when I go to the  dream boyfriend  version, I expect to see the reverse, a woman being abusive to a man, however my boy lover becomes abusive towards me. That is not very faire, what about boys/men that are abused? The problem however does not lie in what is faire, the problem is stereotyping the woman as the victim and the man as the oppressor. This strategy may have a negative effect on men, particularly because it is a view that has become normalised in our culture.  Imagine that you are the man from an abusive relationship and are presented with these two videos, Presumably it is not going to make you feel to good about your self, but it shall get worse, because you go to the website that produced these videos.   thisisabuse.direct.gov.uk   First you read "Relationship abuse can happen to anyone." you feel a bit better and think you might get some help from this web site, but as you navigate through the site, you start to get the impression you are the bad one, there must be something wrong with your gender. The media you are met with only show abuse towards girls by boys, four films and four posters.  This web site is clearly for girls in need, which is important, but becomes misleading and dangerous when it says it is for everyone by actually stating "Relationship abuse can happen to anyone."  I would like to see the site change there tag line to "Help and support for female victims of domestic violence", the web sites for gay ( broken rainbow ) and men ( mens advice line ) do it explicitly so why can not this site do it? If they on the other hand want to be inclusive to everyone I think they should create different pathways to the web sites content, which is determined by ones gender and or sexual orientation, that features media and support that is relevant to the visitor.  To the websites credit, they do tell male and gay victimise where they can get help in the FAQ section and under the "Need Help?" heading.  What say you? 
 ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:10:29 +0100</pubDate><category>Thoughts</category></item><item><title>Work Featured in the Magazine Sleek</title><link>http://iloapp.bjornveno.com/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=135</link><description><![CDATA[        You can download the magazine as a  pdf  or by it  here , issue #31 AUTUMN 2011  The magazine has different themes from issue to issue, this one looks at gender and identity. I received the physical copy in the post yesterday, it is exquisite and the content and writing is top notch. I must say it is a secret dream come true to see my work used in a larger context. They are featuring work from the MANN series, specifically chapter I and II  Visit the web site  Sleek Mag        
 ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 18:31:25 +0100</pubDate><category>Info</category></item><item><title>Kon Tiki the Feature Film</title><link>http://iloapp.bjornveno.com/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=134</link><description><![CDATA[       My recent artistic practice has ben looking at Heros of Old, in particular Thor Heyerdahl the adventure and scientist who sailed on a raft from South America to Tahiti to prove a theory.    My approach was to use a picture of the hero as a base for a video performance. The intention was not to recreate the picture but to use it as a stage of performative exploration. See picture above, a cropped still of the performance.   My fascination with Heyerdahl is not al to do with the Heroic, to some extent he is also a trickster figure, a character who goes against the norm. I'm particularly fond of his reasoning for going to Fatu Hiva the most remote island he could find and i quote:  " A terrible war had just raged. Now they were inventing new types of arms, worse than ever before. Disagreements in politics, in morals, in philosophy, in religion. Who could feel safe to follow in the footsteps of such a generation? It was better to begin to look for a safer side-track. I began to feel like a prisoner calmly preparing to jump off a train that was on a wrong track. " Thor Heyerdahl describing his thoughts in 1930 for the book "Fatu-Hiva, Back to Nature"  But I'm not the only one to take inspiration from Heyerdahl, there has ben a expedition  Tangora  that recreated the Kon Tiki voyage and most recently production has started on a feature film to be released this time next year and hear are some bits I stole from their face book page.                       Links:  English article from  newsinenglish.no   Facebook page  facebook.com/kontikifilmen   The official website  kontikifilmen.no           
 ]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:46:37 +0100</pubDate><category>Inspiration</category></item><item><title>Depression and the living dead</title><link>http://iloapp.bjornveno.com/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=133</link><description><![CDATA[        I have worked with patients suffering from various forms of dementia which led me to the opinion that they were in fact living dead or what popular culture likes to cal Zombies, however the only brain that would be devoured would be their own and the memories that would remain would be the oldest, their childhood. I told my self that I would rather die then become a shell of my former self.  And now over to anxiety and depression, which paralyses you, creates an uncontrollable fear that puts you in to a lethargic state where nothing maters, and pushes you into a downward spiral that is difficult to brake out of. Some say that it is an illness of the week minded, I think not, one would not say a sports athlete is week because he often injures him self? One would say that it is because he puts him self in harms way.  I went for my dreams with al the furry I had in me, but maybe I went too close to the sun and it burned away my spirit, leaving behind a shell cocooned in anxiety and depression, but with enough awareness to realise its predicament, which makes me wonder, what is worse dementia or depression?  The answer is easy if one reminds one self that dementia is a one way ticket to oblivion whereas depression is not a death ticket, but merely a state of darkness from which one can rise once more.  And now over to something completely different, computer games, or maybe not, I can not think of any other visual entertainment that makes you any more lethargic. No mater what I play, be it solitaire, Tiny Tower or Bioshock the result is the same, it pacifies you to the extent where I wonder if it is a modern form of lobotomization.  And finally a big statement from thin air, said in a Holy Artist kinda way, I say that there is something wrong with a society that places everything one wants on a silver plater. We should cast away the illusion that happiness can be bought, and see the truth, that happiness needs to come from real struggle and perseverance, not game simulations, not material fulfilment and not passive consumption of media. Stop lobotomising your selves, brake out of the BOX. However it is wise to remember that the thing itself is not at fault, it is how you chose to use it, but are we making that choice or is there a guiding hand?          
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