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Høyblokka around 1960

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Earlier this year I was asked to contribute in a rather special exhibition: Høyblokka Revisited – http://hoyblokkarevisited.wordpress.com/ –  It was all about the Government Quarter after the terror acts on July 22nd.    I made two sketches.  My opinion was – and still is – that music and sound was needed on the memorial site.  I suggested a  particular melancholic folk song from the Sognefjord.   Yesterday I realized Aftenposten (Norway’s largest newspaper) paid positive attention to my idea – http://www.osloby.no/oslopuls/kunst_og_scene/Hoyblokka-revisited—lekent-tenkt-og-tegnet-7519707.html#.U6sZdcaxo49

Nicholas Møllerhaug ønsker å spille av lyden av et stev i området.   Som Erling Viksjø brukte synlige steinpartikler i sin naturbetong, har norske folketoner ofte spor av mange individuelle steder og tradisjoner i seg, påpeker han. Slik skapes en oppfinnsom, lyrisk, parallell til Viksjøs materialbruk.” 

   

Nicholas Møllerhaug: Kvedar/Betong

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Angelo,  Susama (or more formal: professor Chatterjee) and me in prof. Chatterjee’s apartment;  Wood Street 10 – an Victiorian townhouse next to the posh Saturday Club. November 1993.

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I  came to Calcutta to work for Mother Teresa  – but Calcutta turned out to be so much more. I was 18 years old and I met a metropol filled with contrasts maintained especially by my wonderful landlady Susama. (She’d been professor in English at Rabindranath Tagore’s experimental outdoor university in Shantiniketan). She deeply disliked Mother Teresa. Today I can admit I understand her dislike somehow. I got to know Mother personally through some unfortunate coincidences: i got severe typhoid fever and was reconvalesent in one of her monasteries. What really opened my eyes this year was though Susama – and Satyajit Ray’s films (llustrated below by a poster from his film Abhijan) and Pasolini’s poetry. I got to know Pasolini through my dear Italian co-worker, rescuer-turned-into-nurse – and friend – Angelo.

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Satyajit Ray (1962): “Abhijan (The Expidition)”. Original Movie Poster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGY6e6e2sK0