DAV - NOTHING HAS AN END

Materiality changes – all the time and we can not do anything about it. 
The whole materialities are in a constant change. 
Human influence changes this constant change of materiality. 
No matter how much time passes – nothing will ever be gone. 

SNOW 
WOOD 
PLASTIC 
STONE 
HUMAN BODY 

These five materialities should be analyzed closer in this DAV. 

HUMAN BODY 
The human body changes all the time – it gets older and after a while the organs stop working and it is called dead. After time it can turn into ground or - including the human influence - it can turn into ash and smog. 
The substance changes and we can change the substance, 
but we will never get rid of it. 
The thick black line represents the human influence during the process of change of the different materialities. 
Some materialities cross the black influence-line: 
for example WOOD-> if we burn it, it turns into ash and smog. If we don’t, it turns into ground naturally. 
Some materialities – like SNOW or STONE cross the human-influence-line, but they are cutted, which represents the possibility for a human influence, but the change might and will also happen without it. ( Snow -> Water -> Steam ) 
PLASTIC is chosen the represent to „unnatural“ materialities. It crosses the human-influence-line many times, which shows that we can use and change it, but will never get rid o fit again. 
After 450 years a plasticbottle turns into ground again. With human influence it can turn into ash and smog. 

Nothing is ever gone. Nothing is ever lost. No matter how much time passes. 

Passing of moments

Dies slowly...

Dies slowly...
“He who becomes the slave of habit,
who follows the same routes every day,
who never changes pace,
who does not risk and change the color of his clothes,
who does not speak and does not experience,
dies slowly.

He or she who shuns passion,
who prefers black on white,
dotting ones "it’s" rather than a bundle of emotions, the kind that make your eyes glimmer,
that turn a yawn into a smile,
that make the heart pound in the face of mistakes and feelings,
dies slowly.

He or she who does not turn things topsy-turvy,
who is unhappy at work,
who does not risk certainty for uncertainty,
to thus follow a dream,
those who do not forego sound advice at least once in their lives,
die slowly.

He who does not travel, who does not read,
who does not listen to music,
who does not find grace in himself,
she who does not find grace in herself,
dies slowly.

He who slowly destroys his own self-esteem,
who does not allow himself to be helped,
who spends days on end complaining about his own bad luck, about the rain that never stops,
dies slowly.

He or she who abandon a project before starting it, who fail to ask questions on subjects he doesn't know, he or she who don't reply when they are asked something they do know,
die slowly.

Let's try and avoid death in small doses,
reminding oneself that being alive requires an effort far greater than the simple fact of breathing.

Only a burning patience will lead
to the attainment of a splendid happiness”

Tid og rom, vind og hav.

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//DAV - time

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DAV | Sands of time

DAV - written text about time - Jøran

It is so different from home(and 71 red sticks)

DAV: All encounters in life are reunions after long times apart | Sam

A long time ago, a Norwegian girl went to Paris alone to study. She could not really speak French at that time, so as one boy from the Far East in the class. That is a good reason they stayed together all day. Since they do not have a common language, the communication was often using body language, but somehow they managed to understand each other, and became very close friends.

The girl left Paris suddenly. In the era of writing letters, they have never heard from each other again.

40 years later the girl has became a great Norwegian artist. After one of her personal exhibition is held, she receive an email:

"Anne Katrine, are you? I'm Nishino!"

The boy, Nishino Yoshiaki is now the director of the The University Museum, The University of Tokyo. As a professor he published books about art, books making, Japanese-French related. He then sent the girl his works, all the way from Japan to the edge of the world. He visited Norway afterward. The two good friends can finally communicate by fluent English and French, Nishino stayed in the small blue house at the beach for a few days, they climbed the mountain together even they are both more than 60 years old. Nishino read and loved some of the girl's poems, so he create a very special book for these poems, as a gift to his dearest friend.

And that is the story of A K Dolven.

I was very touch by the story, as a lone wanderer for all these years. Remind me of all these friends in my life, we could not really fully communicate because of the languages, but showed mutual support, helping and caring. Sadly I have not heard from some of them for a long time.

Dolven could never imagine that there would be another boy from the Far East, talking to her in her own house, the "Edge of the world", reading Nishino's book and her poetry in the small blue house, and climb with her together.

She wants us to spend few days on thinking about "time". I was, and I am still thinking of this great friendship and its story. It reminds me of my favorite quote:

"All encounters in life are reunions after long times apart."

Dedicated to A K Dolven and Nishino Yoshiaki

Who Made this?

I look for the first time at this thing I have found. [...]
and I am perplexed.
Then I ask myself the question; who made this?

lines in the snow

DAV // Anna Liisa // Light performance

  

The performance took place one evening after dinner at Anne Katrine's studio and consisted of darkness, a thermal blanket and a flashlight, with this as soundtrack:

numbers - DAV

The sound of the fishing rod and nature around.

 Each picture represent a time. From new to old to older. The sound shall represent the time of the wooden structure. As the wood thoughens over time. 

review #4: fieldwork + assignment #5: flexibility

Tuesday march 21 - review assignment #4: fieldwork

lille auditorium

11.00 - 18.00 all students and teachers

15 minutes each

Wednesday march 22 - assignment #5: flexibility

10.00-11.00 lecture: the Perforated Landscape: Kjerstin Uhre
11.00-12.00 literature talk: Bateson + new assignment #5: flexibility
(the text: Gregory Bateson, Ecology and Flexibility in Urban Civilization, in Steps to an Ecology of Mind is available in the studio library)
12.00-13.00 lunch
13.00-14.00 DAV talk
14.30-15.30 open lecture: Contested Landscapes: Kjerstin Uhre

DAV // washed up over time

Subject: DAV // Teacher: Anne Katrine Dolven // Assignement: Time // 

Students: Sveinung, Arnulf and Stine Elise

Result:

Time spent walking along the beach and shoreline looking for trash or treasures washed up over time. 

Can someone's waste be valuable for someone else? Can we give it a new use? It was an endless row of questions. 

We found: a plastic boat, a russian log, a drink dispenser, an aluminum rod, styrofoam, rope, glass, shotgun shell, pottery pieces, seaweed, snails and shells.

The boat, log and drink dispenser got a new value as a wind shelter, stools and a fireplace. By using the rope we pulled the boat up from the shore. The russian timber has a historical tradition for use as material for buildings in the area.

The rest organized neatly, ready to be reused.