“Scat Skat Skatt”
by Tony Oursler
Scat Skat Skatt by Tony Oursler. Photo: Einar Aslaksen.
Scat Skat Skatt
- Unveiled 2019
- Materials Video
- Artist Tony Oursler
- Where Show on map
Since the 1970s Tony Oursler has been a pioneering multimedia and video artist. He is especially well known for his combination of video, sculpture, and performance. As part of a generation who experienced the rise of mass media and the digital age, Oursler investigates the complex relationship between humans and technology. Wireless communication, youth culture, issues of privacy, identity and security are all themes that he explores with humor and irony.
An artist who defies convention and who does not shy away from the surreal and absurd, Oursler had visions and ideas for a multimedia installation in a public bathroom. The marrying of Christen Sveaas’ ambition to commission the world’s most spectacular toilets with Oursler’s ever-evolving practise has resulted in a thought-provoking installation. Inspired by puppet shadow theatres, the artist has created a “gender shadow play”, projected directly on to the monumental opaque glass staircase on the lower floor of The Twist. The play unfolds as a ritualistic dance, challenging stereotypes of gendered behaviour, body language, sexual hierarchy and assertions of power.
Inside the twelve bathroom stalls, projected on to the walls, Oursler has created individually scripted video performances. Using a kaleidoscope technique that zooms in on the lips of actors, the projections appear to be of talking vaginas and anuses. Inspired by scat music and vocal improvisation—and using plenty of humor—these recitals explore Freudian concepts of self, addressing body taboos and contemporary political issues while mimicking bodily sounds. The voyeuristic eyeballs that are projected onto spheres in the ceiling complete this surreal toilet experience.
Scat Skat Skatt by Tony Oursler. Photo: Einar Aslaksen.
Scat Skat Skatt by Tony Oursler. Photo: Einar Aslaksen.
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01 Ståle Kyllingstad, Installation
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02 Nils Aas, Consul Anders Sveaas, 1840-1917
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03 Nico Widerberg, Time
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04 Beate Juell, Stallion
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05 Kristian Blystad, Playing horse
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06 Bjarne Melgaard, Octopus
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07 Kjell Nupen, Stille, Stille/Mediteraneo
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08 Kjell Nupen, Mediteraneo
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09 Edgar Ballo, Blå tulipan
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10 Anne-Karin Furunes, Christen Sveaas
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11 Olafur Eliasson, Viewing machine
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12 Siri Bjerke, Mounts of the Samurai The Third Day
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13 Fernando Botero, Female Torso
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14 Tony Cragg, Articulated Column
The energy and shape of the sculpture easily give associations to the surrounding natural landscape, especially the water and the waterfall's fierce power/energy.
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15 Fabrizio Plessi, Movimenti della Memoria
This installation is placed inside the Wood Pulp Mill
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16 Elmgreen og Dragset, Forgotten Babies # 2
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17 Marianne Heske, Homage to Leo the Lion
The sculpture is placed inside the Wood Pulp Mill
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18 Shintaro Miyake, Welcome to our Planet
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19 Kristin Günther, Hesten
The sculpture is placed inside the Wood Pulp Mill
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20 Tony Cragg, I'm Alive
This sculpture, with the fitting title I’m Alive, at first glance looks like a powerful creature meandering forward.
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21 Tony Cragg, Bent of mind
Bent of Mind looks as though it is constantly growing and changing. The two profiles, which make up the sculpture’s main motive, constantly change character as you move around the sculpture to see them from different angles.
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22 Petroc Sesti, Energy-Matter-Space-Time
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23 Magne Furuholmen, Hypnos Descending
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24 Elmgreen og Dragset, Warm Regards
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25 Anish Kapoor, S-Curve
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26 Oldenburg og van Bruggen, Tumbling Tacks
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27 Thomas Bayrle, Sternmotor Hochamt
You´ll find Sternmotor Hochamt inside the Furnace House, just outside The Wood Pulp Mill
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28 Marc Quinn, All of Nature Flows Through Us
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29 John Gerrard, Pulp Press (Kistefos)
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30 Fredrik Raddum, Teddy - Beast of the Hedonic Treadmill
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31 Fredrik Raddum, Catastrophic road Signs, Sun
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32 Per Inge Bjørlo, Slektstrea, Genbanken
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33 Phillip King, Free to Frolic
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34 Jeppe Hein, Modified Social Benches Kistefos
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35 Jeppe Hein, The Path to Silence
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36 A Kassen, River Man
River Man by the artistic collective A Kassen took form as liquid bronze was poured directly into the waters of the Randselva river.
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37 Ilya Kabakov, The Ball
The installation, with its location in the midst of nature, can be seen as a commentary on man's relationship with nature.
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38 Tony Cragg, Castor & Pollux
With Castor & Pollux, Cragg takes a new and radical step in the development of the Rational Beings series. Raw muscle power and animal energy are just some of the things you experience in the encounter with this monumental work.
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39 Lynda Benglis, Face Off
Benglis visited Kistefos and became inspired by the landscape and atmosphere of the site, Scandinavian mythology, and folklore. The sculpture can be seen as partly frozen waterfall, partly giant.
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40 Yayoi Kusama, Shine of Life
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41 Mark Manders, Silent Studio
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42 Giuseppe Penone, Identity
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43 Elmgreen & Dragset, Point of View, Part 1
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44 Elmgreen & Dragset, Point of View, Part 2
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45 Tony Oursler, Scat Skat Skatt
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46 Lawrence Weiner, Stedsspesifikk skulptur
This sculpture is placed in two different locations in the park.
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47 Magne Furuholmen, The Birthright
Text and letters have always been central as a pictorial element in Furuholmen's work. What happens if you deconstruct sentences, break them down into single words or put them together in new combinations?
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48 Carol Bove, PASANASAP
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49 Ida Ekblad, A DEADLY SLUMBER OF ALL FORCES
Ekblads sculpture is a fascinating hybrid of her artistic practices. The work is a sculptural collage made of fragments from her own paintings.
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50 Pierre Huyghe, Variants
The work comprises artificial intelligence, 3D-scanned objects, living creatures and organisms, and offers something completely unique in the sculpture park.
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51 The Twist Gallery
The Twist is a gallery, a bridge, and a sculpture, all in one. The 1000 square meter building twists into a sculptural form and spans 60 meters across the Randselva river. The building was designed by the Danish star architects BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and is named as a "must-see" cultural destination by the New York Times, Bloomberg and The Telegraph, among others.
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52 The wood pulp mill
The production at Kistefos stopped in 1955, but the buildings and machines have been preserved. Several of the machines have been set in motion once again, creating a "living factory" for Kistefos' visitors.
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53 Marianne Heske, Blue
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54 The Guardian & Bench by Tatiana Trouvé
The essence of Kistefos is encapsulated in the sculptures, inviting contemplation and reflection. These works allude to the workers’ community which was a defining feature of Kistefos until the mid-1950s, while also mirroring distinctively Norwegian values and ruminating on the universal human experience.
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55 Tatiana Trouvé, The Guardian & Bech
Essensen av Kistefos er kapslet inn i skulpturene og inviterer til ettertanke og refleksjon. Verkene henspiller på arbeidersamfunnet som preget Kistefos frem til midten av 1950-tallet, men speiler også verdier som er særnorske og som drøfter det universelle ved det å være menneske.
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56 Kader Attia, Whistleblower
The artwork consists of six blue glass sculptures placed in the forest south of The Twist.
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