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Categories: Installation
Keywords: Self-Portrait | Consumer Culture
Relevant passages:
Yvonne Volkart «Monstrous Bodies: The Disarranged Gender Body as an Arena for Monstrous Subject Relations»
Works by Bjørn Melhus:
Blue Moon
Departure – Arrival/Arrival – Departure No Sunshine Primetime Weeping
Bjørn Melhus
«Again & Again/The Borderer»
In the video installation «Again & Again,» Melhus tells—not without humor—the story of a person engaged in an inner dialogue on the subject of reproduction, only to be rejected by the clone whose qualities are superior to his own. The possibility of multiplying oneself ends in a loss of subjectivity. While in this case Melhus questions the identity of the self set before a genetically-altered living situation, in his preceding works he exposed the self as being the projection surface of medial images.
