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Dolce vita



Maj 2019



DA

rømme, flygtighed, (u)opnåelighed, indtagelse og fordeling af goderne.

Installationen består af 118 kg. sukker. I loftet hænger en *sukkertang, som man kan forsøge at styre på samme måde som vi kender det fra forlystelsesparker, hvor man kan putte en mønt i automaten og prøve lykken med at fange et stykke legetøj.

I værket Dolce Vita putter man ikke en mønt i, men istedet sender man 1 kr. via sin mobiltelefon. Udover det absurde i at tangen aldrig ville kunne samle et eneste sukkerkorn op, er den heller ikke koblet til nogen motor, så forsøget på at prøve lykken her er dømt til at mislykkes. Pengene som publikum sender, når de forsøger, går til Red Barnet.


*En sukkertang er et redskab til at tage en sukkerknald fra sukkerskålen, uden at røre den med fingrene.




EN

About dreams, volatility, attainability, consumption and distribution of the goods.

The installation consists of 118 kg. caster sugar. Above hangs a *sugar tongs, which you are invited to try to control in the same way as we know it from amusement parks, where you can put a coin in a machine and try your luck at catching a toy. In this work, you don't put a coin in, but instead you send DKK 1 via your mobile phone.

Besides the absurdity that the tongs would never be able to pick up a single grain of sugar, it is also not connected to any motor, so the attempt to try your luck here is doomed to failure. The money that the audience sends goes to Save the Children.


*A sugar tong is a tool for taking a lump of sugar from the sugar bowl, without touching it with your fingers.



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