Localmotives is a web-magazine on contemporary art and culture. It is mainly written in Scandinavian languages. On this page we present a selection of texts and projects in English along with an overview of the editions.
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originally presented in english or translated for this selection


selection of sound-, film- and photowork with or without text or spoken word


10.0
A GOOD LIFE
(April 2003)
Projects on urban life



This edition is is done in flash and includes several films and photo projects. You willl need a flashplayer to view it. Click the image to the left to enter.



Favourite link:
HÖREN SIE BITTE UND
SPRECHEN SIE NACH

75 days in Berlin with a digital camera. Photo project by Geir Egil Bergjord

9.0
THEATERPOLITICS &
POLITICAL THEATER
(December 2002)



Political theater – on the premices of Art, article written by Tore Vagn Lid

German speaking readers can enjoy this article in it's original language:
Die Antworten sind präzise Fragen,
article by Dirk Pilz



Favourite link: Transiteateret

8.0
SHOWCASE NO
(July 2002)
Including 8 songs with flashanimations and a free downloadable CD



Special material,
Monoblock B interviewed by Geir Egil Bergjord

Videoex 2002,
Patrik Huber, leader of videoex in Zürich, interviewed by Geir Egil Bergjord



Music with flashanimations:
Monoblock B – Hit eins

Hard hitting electro
Noxagt – Mek It Burn
Instrumental grindcore punk

The Sauda Experience
Text and Photo by Geir Egil Bergjord

Favourite link: Micromusic

7.0
ECONOMY
(December 2001)
13 artists doing projects concerning ECONOMY



New York World Trade Center
Video by Alexandra Kostrubala

Retail Art in The Network Society
Flash-animation by Anna Karin Rynander

Visapaintings
By Terje Nicolaisen

Rp and the world, version 4
Project by Elisabeth Jarstø

Favourite link: EPMC

To the right:
participants in the EPMC in Lund, Sweden, in march 2002


Enredando – Spania
Eurozine – Europa
Extra! – Holland
Faklen – Danmark
Fucine Mute – Italia
IMC Indymedia - Verden
Media Watch – Slovenia
Megafon – Sverige
Modkraft – Danmark
Neural – Italia
Ny Tid – Finland
Red Pepper – England
Schnews – England
Sourze – Sverige
Stockholms Fria Tidning – Sverige
Svojtok – Slovenia
Tidsskriftverkstan Väst – Sverige
Yelah - Sverige

6.0
TRUTH
(October 2001)
Texts on the great Norwegian writer Arne Garborg



Garborg and Nietzsche,
by Eivind Tjønneland




C1-100 (soundpoetry),
by Charles Bernstein

Favourite link: UBU-WEB

5.0
NETART
(June 2001)



We are sorry, but due to technical reasons this edition is temporarily unavailable.



4.0
CULTURAL WRITING
(March 2001)



Mediadinosaures,
article by Jostein Gripsrud

Smalltalk from a peptimistic forefather,
by Marshall Mc Luhan




Favourite link: Eurozine


3.0
PLACES/BECKETT
(October 2000) visit the full Scandinavian version where there is more on Landart and Beckett and suburbia



Art of a human scale, catalogue-essay by Trond Borgen

Utopia – or Feasting during a Plague, catalogue-essay, by Einar Børresen

The reality of the unreal, article on Beckett, by Eoin O’ Brien

But Not In the Eye: Becketts comedy, article on Beckett, by Fintan O’ Toole

From Identity to Sameness, article on Beckett, by Mikkel B. Zangenberg



Berlin – Ostbahnhof, photo and sound project by Lars Ø. Ramberg

Tailpiece, the Beckett-poem (song), by Kvitretten

Utopia
Extracts from the exhibition


Favourite link: Finnegans Web

2.0
SOUNDART/POPLYRICS
(July 2000)



Cut and paste – Collage and the art of sound, essay by Kevin Concannon

Thought Conductor # 2, writings on their own work,
by Bruce Gilchrist & Jonny Bradley

Cageisms, by John Cage




Norwegian soundart in four samples:
Do you believe in b devedeze dva
by Per Platou
Garden by Siqurest
Cyclopean vision in the future dawn of global capitalism by Prosub union
The voice of the devil by Ulver

Favourite link: Ballongmagasinet

1.0
HUMOUR
(May 2000)



Waiting on humour, essay by Jan Inge Reilstad (NEW)

Behind a painted smile (on Vibeke Sjøvoll),
by Francis Mc Kee



Spiderwoman
video by Jannicke Låker

Rafi Vakkis (Deep In the Valley),
Elvis sung in Lap language by Geir-Tore Holm.

Make me laugh, art project by Vibeke Sjøvoll

Localliving:
Helgesensgt. 82 D, Oslo,
photo project by Søssa Jørgensen & Geir-Tore Holm

Favourite link: Cirkus Cirkör