The Desert Club Weapon

Anja Høvik Strømsted and Jasmin Hurst, “The Desert Club Weapon”, photography and objects, 2013, “MOLT!“, group exhibition, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin

We resort to escapism turning into an unbecoming character of a cavewoman with a club weapon, while the “real” world of culture war, empire building and pornography has not changed the slightest. This hybridised ‘mad scene’ in the iconic Sahara desert, exhibited in a glass box, examines themes of modern identity, westernisation, history and the future, community and isolation, gender, and entertainment and popular fictions. This is both political reaction and psychedelic absurdity. In an array of contradictory practices it is both virus and utopia.

Anja Høvik Strømsted is an author, filmmaker, and multidisciplinary artist born in Oslo. She has studied Creative Writing at Telemark College University and Gothenburg University Valand School of Fine Arts and Film production (M.F.A.) at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. She has produced works of fiction, short and feature films, animation films, music and music videos, photography, and visual arts that have won prizes and screened in India, Germany, the U.S., Italy, Great Britain, Spain, Sweden, Iceland, and Norway among other countries. The duo Strømsted and Hurst has made numerous projects since 2012. They also run the literary press S & H Press and the film production company Flipsnip Films and Hurst Production.

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Contact: anjahovikstromsted(at)gmail.com

Jasmin Hurst gained her MFA in Fine Arts from Trondheim Art Academy and a Diploma from Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences and Hiroshima Art Academy. Her work has won prizes and has been screened and exhibited in Germany, Japan, Egypt, Norway, India, the US, Great Britain, Spain, Sweden, Iceland, and Italy, among other countries. The duo Strømsted and Hurst has made shorts, features and animation films, and numerous music videos and art projects since 2012. They also run the literary press S & H Press and the film production company Flipsnip Films and Hurst Production.

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Contact: jasminhurst(at)web.de