Bjørn Melhus

Bjørn Melhus

59 (1966-01-01)
Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany

Bjørn Melhus is a German-Norwegian media artist.

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SUGAR 2019 (7)

In a post-apocalyptic world not dissimilar to the present, SUGAR, a humanoid robot that can feel, think and dance, is sent out to bring a human touch back to humanity. SUGAR finally encounters a HON (Human Organism Normal), a post-influencer who, in an underground techno cell, poses in a sort of eternal commercial. SUGAR tries to free HON from his prison of routines, speech and movement loops and seeks to build a true encounter – an interaction, a dialogue.
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Das Badezimmer 2011

In reference to the trailer of Psycho (USA 1960), narrated in German by Alfred Hitchcock himself, a gardener with a chainsaw guides us through the premises of the Herbert Gerisch Foundation in Schleswig-Holstein 51 years later. The visit ends, just like in the original trailer…, in a bathroom.
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Far Far Away 1995

With her green bow in her hair, a naïve Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz embodies an aspect of the artist’s own personal context. She is dreaming about going beyond the confines of her urban surroundings, amongst thousands of flickering windows in apartment blocks, to travel somewhere over the rainbow. As she stumbles upon her yellow brick road, a bedside telephone, her communications take her far far away, becoming entangled in her obsession with connecting to this far away place. Swept into a cyclone of dizzying imagery, she becomes somewhat more realized, sceptical about who she is and her dreams. Much like the ubiquity of television, her dreams are nothing more than commodified imagination that has nonetheless shaped her life. In this fairy-tale land, she desperately tries to find her way back home.