Anja Høvik Strømsted and Jasmin Hurst, Inflatable Cinema, 2018
In 2018 we bought an inflatable cinema to screen our and others films. This is a cinema, although not the ‘real thing’, not the comfortable seatings in a major movie theatre, not the big screen, not the popcorn, still no copy. It’s its own thing. It’s an inflatable jumping castle looking thing, although scarier since it’s plain black. It looks like it’s screening some pornography or worse inside, because of it’s ugliness. It’s a sort of trash culture, but inside there’s a space for contemporary art. It can pop up in your hood and play with the possibility of reaching the audience immediately without any detours. The inflatable cinema questions the ‘institution’, such as the museum, the gallery and the movie theatre and the privilege of high culture.
In the Meat of a Functioning Heart, Hvitsten Salong, Norway, 2018
In the Meat of a Functioning Heart, Sommerøya, Norway, 2018
