2008-2009

CLOSING DOWN OVER RADIO BROADCAST: SOUNDART RADIO: During 2009 GilbertandGrape are closing down, reprocessing all their things and returning the Moose to the Sunset. As we do this we invite you to join us to draw pictures each Tuesday at 12.30pm (GMT) over the SoundArt radio broadcast 102.fm to mark the event.

Each week we will draw one of our things together with our radio broadcast audience. We will then pass the object into our local economy for further use by giving it to our nearest thrift store. >READ MORE

FIELD NOTE BOOK: NEW MEDIA COMMISION HOW2 JOURNAL: LONE RANGING ROMANCE 2004 - 2009 is a longing for larger than life hotdogs, utopian cream cakes, kaleidoscopes of Volvos and epic proportions.GilbertandGrape have made the pledge to drive from the south to the north of Norway in a 1967 Volvo Amazon with their lone ranger, a 20 kilo stuffed moose head in the back seat. Driving through urban and rural landscapes with the immense dedication and commitment to their quest to return the lone ranger to the sunset in Nordkapp where the midnight sun never sets.
The field notebook presents a cross section of their journey so far and orientation of the detours they have encountered. It invites the reader to contribute an instruction for a detour to the project in the form of a drawing. VIEW PROJECT

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2006-2007

RITUAL REPORTAGE ARCHIVE: Ritual Reportage featured as one of eight winning projects in the The Net Art Open 2006, the best online art blogged. > Stunned.org Read more>. Between

HOTDOG IS THE ONLY ENGLISH WORD IN HER VOCABULARY –PERFORMANCE In this collaborative building project GilbertandGrape invite the audience to build a bannana fountain for their town or city. The audience are invited to recall a fountain or water feature to contribute to the structure. Commissioned for the 4th annual Transmodern in Baltimore U.S.A 2007.

MISSING YOU MOSTLY - PERFORMANCE
GilbertandGrape work to create actions performed together with the viewers. One action performed in Norway and one in UK. The two performers run into the night thinking about people they miss and cannot physically be with. We send our wishes into the night. Theme: How one may find a physical condition despite being geographically or physically separated. The piece was commissioned and premiered in Southampton UK and performed at 2nd
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HOTDOG IS THE ONLY ENGLISH WORD IN HER VOCABULARY – VIDEO INSTALLATION The film is based on the following exercise: Choose a photograph of a woman that has been accused of creating stereotypical attitudes about her culture and gender. Based on the photograph; improvise gestures and behaviour you think might have led to this. Theme: Translation, finding means of enriching text, language and thinking. Premiered for KISSS at Conical Gallery Melbourne, Australia Read More>

LONE RANGING ROMANCE: Durational. Driving a Volvo amazon through the coast of Norway and England, interviewing volvo enthusiasts we meet on our drive/way. We look to document a fragrance of nostalgia. Another quest is to return the lone ranger(elg)to the sun never setting in Nordkapp. Lone ranging romance - our epic storyline for the next 3 years. Read More>
LONE RANGING ROMANCE BLOG-REPORT FROM 3 YEAR DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE Read More>

PIRAT-TAXI – PERFORMANCE GilbertandGrape guide audience from the city centre to the East side where we discuss the theme: politics of architecture. A collaboration with Tou Scene, RKS and the Architect firm Helen & Hard.

2004 -2005

LONE RANGING ROMANCE: Durational. Driving a Volvo amazon through the coast of Norway and England, interviewing volvo enthusiasts we meet on our drive/way. We look to document a fragrance of nostalgia. Another quest is to return the lone ranger(elg)to the sun never setting in Nordkapp. Lone ranging romance - our epic storyline for the next 3 years. Read More>

BY THE WAY- PERFORMANCE
We set up a painting of a sunset 2mx3m and place a stuffed a moose head in front. We make a fictional frame for a cliché from which we ask our audience to choose a nostalgic song spend some time and discuss the Theme: idea of clichés and iconography. The piece toured in Norway 2005.
Performance Tou Scene, Stavanger, (N). Performance Weekend, Kunstbanken, Hamar, (N). Kuba Pavilion, Oslo, (N). Atelier Nord, Oslo, (N). Lecture, Blogging in Public Spaces & Performance. UKS, Oslo, (N) geekfest (UK).Read More>

KIOSK CORRESPONDANCE: INTERACTIVE NETWORKED PERFORMANCE Performing from a remote location/phone booth we communicate with our gallery and online audience by live phone and internet. In this performance we plant suspicion of the fake and the documentary.
Escalator International, TEH, The Junction, Cambridge, UK. Function IV, Nottingham, UK . Theatre Do 2, Barbican Theatre, Plymouth, UK, EEC04, London UK, Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger, (RKS) NorwayLife/Art Festival Vlepo Gallery NY,USA. Ignition Digital and Live art Platform, Penzance, UK. >Read more

PIRAT TAXI-PERFORMANCE:Tou Scene, Stavanger, Norway. Rogaland Art centre (RKS) curated by Localmotives, Stavanger Norway

LIVE REPORTAGE: We send live reports to our blogs. Our online meeting point and exchange of ideas. Live Reportage featured as one of eight winning projects in the The Net Art Open 2006, the best online art blogged. > Stunned.org Read more>

SPIROGRAPHS we partake in a postcard exhibition and exhibit our first two spirographs- To be continued Masters Mystery Show,Ritz Carlton,Florida, USA

NO. 53 6 minutes video, the first filming of one of our 53  actions/rituals. We would like to film the other 52.The Hell Fire Dining Club. KUNSTHALLE wien project space, Karlsplatz, Vienna.

ESTHER AND CARMEN During the 3 hour performance we read a list of 53 rituals, consequently naming to Hollywood icons we see as ambassadors of escapism. By immersing ourselves with this rhetoric we are conjuring artifice and questioning a becoming. Elevator, The National Review of Live Art, Glasgow UK

2003

ESTHER AND CARMEN During two 3 hour performances over consecutive days. We read a list of 47 rituals and repeat 10 minutes actions with 6 objects whilst playing back to back Hawaiian records. We hope to create a sense of fictional continuity, perhaps also a nudging of nostalgia? Contexture03 Dartington College of Arts, Devon,UK

PEEP LIVING GilbertandGrape perform within closed doors in a bath room for 24 hours. The audience has access by watching our actions through peeping holes installed in the doors. By pushing the time frame we explore questions on closure and the politics of cinematic language Oslo Open, Oslo, Norway

2002

PEEP LIVING Three hour durational performance over three days. GilbertandGrape perform in three private rooms behind closed doors. The audience witness our actions through peeping holes installed in the doors. We look to frame the blur between private/public and object/subject.

TRAVELLING LIGHT-AN ONGOING PERFORMANCE-EUROPE Transporting a 20 kilos stuffed moose head (the lone ranger) is an ongoing action in our work. The moose has been transported in a series of performances throughout Europe. We look to provoke thoughts on contemporary mobility.

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PRINTED TEXTS

HKS, Bergen,Norway invited to contribute with a booklet to the HKS archive. www.b-open.no

UKS, Oslo Norway invited to contribute with a booklet to the UKS archive. www.uks.no

RKS, submitted 40 postcards