[inter/meta/trans] The League experiments in NORWAY

Sun Aug 12 21:24:51 EDT 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  ³Ladies and Gentlemen of the press and public, we
present to you The Childhood Machine!²

LADEMOEN KUNSTNERVERKSTEDERS VISNINGSROM FOR KUNST!
Sted: Babel, Mellomveien 4, Trondheim
Periode: 17.08. - 26.08. 2007
Åpningstider: torsdag-fredag kl 14 - 18, lørdag-søndag kl.12 - 16
Åpning Fredag 17. AUG  KL. 19  21

THE LEAGUE OF IMAGINARY SCIENTISTS ER ÅRETS GJESTEKUNSTNER FRA LOS ANGELES
AND NORWAY 
> 
> The League of Imaginary Scientists http://www.imaginaryscience.org is a
> non-exclusive society for creative scientists, mechanically-inclined artists,
> absurdist inventors, and self-proclaimed quacks (think subterfuge meets
> centrifuge).  The League specializes in building mega-media constructions of
> scientific mythologies.  Media artist Lucy H. G. is a returning LKV
> artist-in-residence http://www.lkv.no/gjeste-arkiv-lucy-griesbach.htm, having
> worked and exhibited in Trondheim in winter, 2005
> http://www.workofbox.com/catalog/beneath3.html.  As Dr. L. Hernandez Gomez,
> she acts as coordinating researcher for the League, pulling from the
> collective creativity of local and remote artists to realize interactive
> mega-media installations.  Collaborators for The Childhood Machine include
> Matt Solomon from Los Angeles, artists Anne Helga Henning and Pål Bøyesen of
> Trondheim, with remote engineering by Jeremy Schwartz and Steve Shoffner in
> Los Angeles and sound development by Imaginationandmymother in London.
> 
> The Childhood Machine, presented at Babel Art Space, is an interactive kinetic
> installation that incorporates newer-than-new age idea therapy to transport
> viewers to their past  a return to childhood.  The League¹s engineering
> division developed The Childhood Machine in the hopes of reversing the
> psychological and ecological damage wrought by Western Civilization.  The
> machine is designed to reverse Progress in a complicated process of regression
> that requires precise mental and atmospheric conditions (78% childlike
> curiosity and 22% humidity).  Visitors to the exhibit, as children, will
> inevitable grow up again:  time, it is revealed, is a bi-cycle.
> 
> The exhibition includes the interactive childhood machine, a participatory
> fill-in-the-timeline of the collective childhood of the city of Trondheim, a
> documentary on the development of The Childhood Machine, artifacts from
> childhood, and an acoustic flight of fancy.  In addition, an online search
> engine will permit viewers to search time¹s index for isolated moments in
> childhood.  The machine itself works in coordination with mental exercises
> developed by Ms. MU.
>   
> Dr. L. Hernandez Gomez will give a lecture on the regressive process of
> decivilization at the opening reception on Friday, August 17th.
> 
> This exhibition was made with the support of the Royal Norwegian General
> Consulate, the community of artists at Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder, Trondheim
> Electronic Arts Centre (TEKS), Clas Ohlson, and the city of Trondheim, whose
> discarded bicycles proved constructive.

 ARTIST AT WORK:  Dr. L. Hernandez Gomez reverted to childhood during the
project¹s development

> This interactive, mechanized mega-media installation requires your unabashed
> gleeful participation.  The Childhood Machine reveals the collective
> trajectory of humanity through time, backwards.  Join the League of Imaginary
> Scientists on a mechanical foray into the past, to answer these questions...
What happens when bicycles mate?   Is regression necessarily a bad thing?
How to proceed, backwards?

/// The Childhood Machine is a contraption designed to heal humanity, by
reversing the seemingly untreatable condition called PROGRESS.
Participating researchers include Doctors L. Hernandez Gomez, J. Johansen,
Stephan Schleidan, and Wm. T. Madmann from Los Angeles, with imaginary
therapist Ms. MU (Anne Helga Henning) and imaginary male Pål Bøyesen from
Trondheim; acoustic exercise provided by Dr. Imaginationandmymother.

³When you feel something is problematic but you don¹t know the name of it
yet  the space that is there that you don¹t see.²
> - Ms. MU diagnosing the ailment called Western Civilization
> 
The League of Imaginary Scientists leads in the area of especially soft
science.  League specialists involved in constructing The Childhood
Machine...
[]::: Imaginary Therapist Ms. MU specializes in idea therapy, the new
practice for solving problematic situations caused by Western Civilization.
[]::: The subhuman boy, Pål Bøyesen, is an imaginary male constructed from
the collective memory of Norwegian fairytales.
[]::: Inverse Biologist Dr. L. Hernandez Gomez examines the external state
of the internal organs. Connecting the Dots is her recently published manual
to the human body.
[]::: Professor J. Johansen, an expert in bagology, is the inventor of the
bottomless paper bag.
[]::: The illustrious Dr. Stephan Schleidan, the founder of tunnel theory,
is the only scientist known to conduct his research within a black hole.
[]::: Evil genius Professor William T. Madmann, recipient of the Josef
Mengele award in 1973, is best known for his seminal research on kitten
asphyxiation.
[]::: Dr. Imaginationandmymother specializes in acoustitherapy for the
ligyrophobic.

Hilsen Babel / Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder
Følg Babels utstillingsvirksomhet på www.babelkunst.no

    The League of Imaginary Scientists:  www.imaginaryscience.org

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