FLAKK, or that extraordinary sensation of being abroad even when at home, curated by Andrea Kroksnes and Per Gunnar Tverbakk, The Nordic House, Reykjavik, 2000.

See project description.

 
 
The Museum of lunar surface findings was an impromptu museum that happened on the day of the moon landing in a large catering tent on the beach. We had discovered that by digging up the beach, a whole lot of interesting garbage emerged, as well as lots of dangerous glass that we were worried would hurt any of the barefoot children frolicking in the landscape with us. We set up these signs, cleared several tables and asked people to help picking up the junk, creating a collective display of cultural residue that one day might very well be found on the moon's surface. I brought a box of these items back with me to NYC and the museum was exhibited in a glass showcase at the first screening of the video at the Swiss Institute in 1999 and then again here in Iceland.
 
 
When I arrived to the Nordic House I found this unbelivably great painting by Icelandic Superstar artist Erro hanging in the Xerox copy room! The female director of the institution had found it offensive and put it out of public sight. I brought it out in the entrance where it hang as a backdrop to the screening of my own video. If I could own one painting in the world it would be this one. A year later, curator Gianni Jetzer and I managed to borrow it for the exhibition Welcome Back to Earth at Kunsthalle St. Gallen.

See Welcome Back to Earth