Sketch, London
The End of the Professional Teenager at The Gallery at Sketch, London. In collaboration with Bjarne Melgaard in conjunction with Pollock Fine Art. Video installation on 12 projectors, four channel video (360 degrees) in the combined gallery and restaurant.
12 November–20 December 2003.
Video installation, direction, editing, animation by Halvor Bodin. Based on drawings by Bodin and Melgaard, footage from the feature film Hallo Baby from 1976, raw material from Bodin’s short film Hydrophobia from 1999 and found footage by Melgaard. The looping soundtrack for this installation was a pre-listening of the album Delìrium Cordìa by Fantômas (with package design by Martin Kvamme). Courtesy Ipecac/Mike Patton. The prototypes for the Anabolic Warrior doll and the embroided paintings was a collaboration between Maha Toys/Maharishi/Hardy Blechmann and Bjarne Melgaard. Curated by Mehrnoosh Khadivi.
Additional products made for this exhibition/installation was printed invitation, vinyl stickers, wall mounted vinyl typography, ads in Tate Magazine, Frieze Magazine and Blueprint Magazine.
More documentation on Flickr.


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