Underskog

GO ON BE ON

Snorre Hvamen

Galleriet i Steenstrupsgate

Åpning lørdag 25. februar kl. 12:00

Søndag 26. februar fra kl. 12:00 – 16:00

Lørdag åpner et konglomerat av ideer, materialer og prosjekter initiert av Snorre Hvamen. Kanskje det
er en utstilling, men kanskje det er heller en kamp for og i mot mening som utspiller seg i rommet.
Kampen kan manifesteres på ulike måter, er det kropp mot sjel, er det nytelse mot forstand, deg mot
meg eller de mot oss? Hvor enn man snur og vender på GO ON BE ON, finner man hele tiden mening
og ikke mening. Referansene varierer i takt med materialene og Hvamen bruker både institusjonen
KHiO og seg selv i denne elegante snublingen over muligheter og ikke-muligheter. Fremtiden er
avlyst.

”Emancipation driving the confined body in to escapism, always looking for that which is beyond, able
to do nothing more than simulate the presence. A presence lacking the pensiveness of movement that
leads to thought, action that leads to reaction with in the integrity of an existence, an intelligence
without self-consciousness.

Accept this plunder, exercised in every moment and aspect of your life.

We can no longer match the perfection of our technological devices. What we produce is beyond our
imagination and our representation. Confronted with the lack of any hope to achieve the simplest of
goal, what is there to do but to go on, through and be on what ever were expected to be possible. The
end of history has forced the expected narrative to evolve in to being part of it self. A narrative
devoted to make debris out of unmediated reality. In waiting and expecting and having faith in the
future one only harvest a overwhelming feeling that there is no future. The future is canceled.

Deprived all knowledge, left only with the pre-linguistic sensation of that heap of bone and flesh
burdened and pulled down towards a rest, not ever to rise again. The poet must expend herself with
warmth and prodigality to increase the power of collective intelligence.

Poetry and therapy (thera-poetry) will be the forces leading to the creation of a cognitarian self-
consciousness: not a political party, not the organization of interests, but the reactivation of the
cognitarian sensibility.

The ignorance of the general intellect is the starting point, after the future.

Why are the cognitariat weak, and disunited, and unable to assert their right as laborers, and their
knowledge as researchers? Because they live in a dimidiated form, because their brain is detached
from their body, because their communication communicates less and less, more and more freezing
sensitive life. The new space of activism is here, in the connection of poetry, therapy, and
paradigmatic creation.”

-Snorre Hvamen++