FROM THAT PLACE, AS SOON AS MY EYES ARE OPEN, I CAN NO LONGER ESCAPE. NOT THAT I AM NAILED DOWN BY IT, SINCE AFTER ALL I CAN NOT ONLY MOVE, SHIFT, BUT I CAN ALSO MOVE IT, SHIFT-IT, CHANGE ITS PLACE, THE ONLY THINGS IS THIS: I CANNOT MOVE WITHOUT IT. I CANNOT LEAVE IT THERE WHERE IT IS, SO THAT I; MYSELF, MAY GO ELSEWHERE. I CAN GO TO THE OTHER END OF THE WORLD; I CAN HIDE IN THE MORNING UNDER THE COVERS, MAKE MYSELF AS SMALL AS POSSIBLE. I CAN EVEN LET MYSELF MELT UNDER THE SUN AT THE BEACH-IT WILL ALWAYS BE THERE. WHERE I AM. IT IS HERE, IRREPARABLY: IT IS NEVER ELSEWHERE. MY BODY, IT’S THE OPPOSITE OF UTOPIA: THAT WHICH IS NEVER UNDER DIFFERENCE SKIES. IT IS THE ABSOLUTE PLACE, THE LITTLE FRAGMENT OF SPACE WHERE I AM, LITERALLY, EMBODIED. MY BODY, PITILESS PLACE.
contempory art oslo
“Suppose I were to give you a key ring […] with a hundred keys, and I was to tell you that one of these keys will unlock it, this door we imagine opening in onto all you want to be, as a player. How many of the keys would you be willing to try?’
[…]
‘Well, I’d try every darn one,’ Rader tells Lyle.
[…]
‘Then you are willing to make mistakes, you see. You are saying you will accept 99% error. The paralyzed perfectionist you say you would stand there before that door. Jingling the keys. Afraid to try the first key.”
THE AIM OF MULTIVERSAL IS TO DISCOVER INDEPENDENT REALITIES (MUSICIANS, ARTISTS, PERFORMERS, AND SPACES) CONCENTRATING ON SOUND AND IMPROVISATION (NOT AS A GENRE BUT AS A METHOD), CREATING PLATFORMS AND OCCASIONS THAT THESE REALITIES CAN MEET, COLLABORATE AND CREATE/ELABORATE NEW IDEAS AND PROJECTS.
CURATORIAL APPROACH OF MULTIVERSAL FOCUSES ON NON-COMMERCIAL AND LESS-VISIBLE REALITIES (IN OTHER WORDS, UNDERGROUND, D.I.Y.) AND HAS THE OBJECTIVE TO FACILITATE ENCOUNTERS, CONSIDERING THE PARALLELISMS, EXISTING OR NON(YET)EXISTING COMMON AND UNCOMMON ASPECTS OF THE PROJECTS, PEOPLE AND SPACES INVOLVED.