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Video From the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter Archives 1968-2011. Artists: John Cage, Kjartan Slettemark, KILLL, Arne Nordheim, Stephen O`Malley, Mauricio Kagel, MoHa!, Christopher Nielsen/Masselys, Stian Skagen & Monica Winther. This DVD presents seminal works of music, performance, dance, theater and installation art from the nearly 50-year history of Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (HOK). When HOK founder Sonja Henie exclaimed that she wanted the Beatles to play at her art center, in essence she expressed its founding ambition to produce and stage a lively cross-artistic program that captured the contemporary spirit of the day in live form. This release is filled with previous unreleased material from HOKs history, and shows for the first time Kjartan Slettemark dressed up as a poodle in 1975, Mauricio Kagels commisioned piece EX-POSITION from 1978, and the brilliant recording of John Cage reading Muoyce in 1983. And now we take the first step into the future.

"A museum that looks like it came straight from the set of Tarkovsky's Solaris is the subject of 2 documentaries and a slew of video performances. Arne Nordheim made the soundtrack for one of the documentaries. Mauricio Kagel appears conducting a choral group while dancers cover themselves in strips of cloth or chase each other. And there's also weird Norwegian ice skating routines, avant garde operas, a silent demonstration of how to work a cassette deck, a man prancing around while dressed in a poodle costume, John Cage singing, a drone metal band, & more. Tracklisting: Epoke, A Forum of the Arts, Terje Rypdal-Orfeus vender seg og ser på Eurydike, Hal Clark-A silent tour of the Norwegian Studio for Electronic Music, Kjartan Slettemark-Poodle performance at HOK, Mauricio Kagel-EX-POSITION, Lasse Thoresen-Skapelser, John Cage-Muoyce, Stian Skagen & Monica Winther-The Inward Rising, KILLL-Live at HOK, MoHa! and Idan & Anu-Fire & Ignorance, Stephen O'Malley-Le Petit Geante/Masselys/Christopher Nielsen & Matt Willis-Jones-Jimmy Polaris." Weirdo Records