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ART INSTALLATION IN A SUIT AT CLARION COLLECTION HOTEL ARCTICUS
(free entry)

~Saturday Oct. 14. 9:00-14:00
and
~Sundag Oct. 15. 9:00 - 12:30

ARTIST CONVERSATION
(free entry)

~Sundag Oct. 15. 14:30 -15:00 at Harstad Kino:Sal 2.
With: Live Drønen, Beth von Undall, Sue de Beer (Sue de Beer is participating online)

In a suite at the hotel Clarion Arcticus Harstad, Suspended in Celluloid presents two works dealing with questions around ghostliness, social-psychological phenomena, and the affective impacts of technology.

Beth von Undall’s Jailbreak Brenna 0.1 (2023) is a video game based on the game-theoretical premise ‘the prisoner’s dilemma’, featuring the underground Berlin-persona Brenna O. In the exhibition, viewers are invited to lay down on the hotel bed and decide on whether they want to conspire with or betray this alluring figure.

On the grand room’s other screen, Sue de Beer’s The Ghosts (2011) similarly includes figures from the artists’ own circle: in this film painter Jutta Koether appears in the role of a hypnotist, whose powers lead distressed clients into dream-like states of confusion and hallucination. Within the walls of the hotel room’s decades-old interiors, the longing and desire emanating from both works seems to be suspended in the air.

Curated by Live Drønen, whose longer text on the presentation will be available in the suite.

*The exhibition title is borrowed from a monologue in Sue de Beer’s The Ghosts: “When I sleep I see you suspended in celluloid, a slow moving black and white film that brings you to me in fragments, small disembodied landscapes that rush in and out of focus.”