Orbit-Uary | Christofer Degrér

caps lock Moondialed No +***** *****8 (Orbit-Uary), 2018

MA thesis exhibition, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm

(caps lock Moondialed No +***** ***** “upright infinity symbol”) Orbit-Uary, 2018

4k video (loop: 13 min 54 sec)

"During a filmatization of an evasion from a narrative reproduced by flashback-producing childhood trauma(s), a crowd of twins sublet the apartment in which they grew up in for one year. Because of how this is just after and before brought into being through "X" showing a user-edited trailer of the 2007 film My Winnipeg by Guy Maddin, and because the trailer was shown in a park outside that very same apartment, a hobby-schizoanalytical ritual is performed in a moonlit park (it’s not the same park anymore. It changed. You’ve changed too. You’re not the same [also you haven't changed one bit, it’s so great that you’re doing all of those things (you should keep doing all of those things)]) involving an analog alarm clock with an inexplicable hole in it, the gesture of a man in a trenchcoat asking if you ”wanna buy a watch?” (but of course [right again] it's misconstrued as him asking if you "wanna buy" and if "he can watch"), and anti-electric candles. All contained within a co-authored impulse and a delayed arrival of a pizza ordered from pizzeria Marco Polo. Things start to feel originatory. What if the inclusion of footage of the moon as a plot device that works to move a story forward was and/or is a graphic representation of time in the shape of eight slices (an antagonism of an upright infinity, a 4, a standardized printout, an "x-marks-the-spot" type "x" mark)—and what if this new moon was and/or is played by conclusively benzodiazepinal aspects of deterritorialization/that very same ubiquitous flatbread? What if the moon was and/or is really very "instead" a celestial body? Pervasive; occuring; expired? And what if the apt(.) trench coat personality calls the absent moon “that”—that which “has always been hidden,” but pronounced “dad” instead of “that”? I’d hire an actor to play myself who responds by getting to the bottom of the bottomlessness of this founder hole (w/out a double “u” as that would implicate "us"), but that would mean to use the equivalent of a tainted inheritance that I, or anyone, incidentally posses at that very moment. In order to omit another body (in order to summon a final machine) I tattoo a copy of 50% of my own biological cause, something along the lines of a father in the form of psoriasis, on my wristwatch-wrist in the shape of the island where some hypothetically fit "blood money" (hello "_") comes from in the first, or second, place. A thorny path toward an attainably unattainable optimal resolution opens—"

Installation view (left to right): Beach Map (#1), 2018, pencil (Faber-Castell 9000 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2H, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 3B, Staedtler Tradition 110 3B, and Faber-Castell 9000 2B) on Bosch p60 c470 sandpaper, 28 x 23 cm; Beach Map (#2), 2018, pencil (Faber-Castell 9000 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2H, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 3B, Staedtler Tradition 110 3B, and Faber-Castell 9000 2B) on Bosch p60 c470 sandpaper, 28 x 23 cm; Beach Map (#3), 2018, pencil (Faber-Castell 9000 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2H, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 3B, Staedtler Tradition 110 3B, and Faber-Castell 9000 2B) on Bosch p60 c470 sandpaper, 28 x 23 cm; Beach Map (#4), 2018, pencil (Faber-Castell 9000 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2H, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 3B, Staedtler Tradition 110 3B, and Faber-Castell 9000 2B) on Bosch p60 c470 sandpaper, 28 x 23 cm; Beach Map (#5), 2018, pencil (Faber-Castell 9000 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2H, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 3B, Staedtler Tradition 110 3B, and Faber-Castell 9000 2B) on Bosch p60 c470 sandpaper, 28 x 23 cm; Beach Map (#6), 2018, pencil (Faber-Castell 9000 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2H, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 3B, Staedtler Tradition 110 3B, and Faber-Castell 9000 2B) on Bosch p60 c470 sandpaper, 28 x 23 cm; Beach Map (#7), 2018, pencil (Faber-Castell 9000 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2H, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 3B, Staedtler Tradition 110 3B, and Faber-Castell 9000 2B) on Bosch p60 c470 sandpaper, 28 x 23 cm; chroma key-painted locked door toward another space and/or presupposed elsewheres; (caps lock Moondialed No +***** ***** "upright infinity symbol", 2018, 4k video (loop: 13 min 54 sec) playing on Panasonic Viera TX-55AX630E, headphones, splitter cords, iPhone charger, extension cords; gallery wall paint-painted and chroma key-painted bench (metal, MDF), TV monitor: 76 x 124 x 29 cm, bench: 45 x 140 x 45 cm; Re-/de-captivated decapitated hydra (asterisked starred eyes for still life with rose thorns from a rose bush picked at midnight under an absent full moon on chroma key-painted artificial roses with almost all petals picked off submerged in flat sparkling water [rose-flavored] in repaired but leaking bought and handmade glass vase on wall paint-painted MDF pedestal), 2018, rose thorns from a rose bush picked at midnight under an absent full moon on chroma key-painted artificial roses with almost all petals picked off submerged in flat sparkling water [rose-flavored] in repaired but leaking bought handmade glass vase on wall paint-painted MDF pedestal, one drop of chroma key paint, 138 x 30 x 30 cm; Beach Map (#8), 2018, pencil (Faber-Castell 9000 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2H, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 3B, Staedtler Tradition 110 3B, and Faber-Castell 9000 2B) on Bosch p60 c470 sandpaper, 28 x 23 cm; and Untitled (In an again of an “As usual, the void inside of me is growing. I hate my life. I hate everyone else more. They’re all mindless clones preoccupied with mundane things. But then again, my life’s not any better. I’m just as stupid as they are.”-pollinated forgetfulness taking space and time and spacetime at a fleeting moment of aquarium-backside-patterned lightyear, another secondary libertarian cocoon on medievalist wheels on a razor-sharp razor’s edge emits the faintest of turquoise-energy-powered blacklight, tainted playlists disengage so as to render this something that has something to do with something that’s absolutely not all that robotic at all.), 2018, flat sparkling tap water and rolled-up Ramlösa (Ramlösa Original) label used to snort one line of sea salt within Ramlösa (Ramlösa Original) bottle (50 cl, expiration date: 15.04.2019), 22 x 7 x 7 cm; as well as various varying encompassments, dreams, aspirations, and unincluded parts

Photo: Jean-Baptiste Berangér

Installation view (left to right): Beach Map (#1), 2018, pencil (Faber-Castell 9000 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2H, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 3B, Staedtler Tradition 110 3B, and Faber-Castell 9000 2B) on Bosch p60 c470 sandpaper, 28 x 23 cm; Beach Map (#2), 2018, pencil (Faber-Castell 9000 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2H, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 3B, Staedtler Tradition 110 3B, and Faber-Castell 9000 2B) on Bosch p60 c470 sandpaper, 28 x 23 cm; Beach Map (#3), 2018, pencil (Faber-Castell 9000 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2H, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 3B, Staedtler Tradition 110 3B, and Faber-Castell 9000 2B) on Bosch p60 c470 sandpaper, 28 x 23 cm; Beach Map (#4), 2018, pencil (Faber-Castell 9000 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2H, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 3B, Staedtler Tradition 110 3B, and Faber-Castell 9000 2B) on Bosch p60 c470 sandpaper, 28 x 23 cm; Beach Map (#5), 2018, pencil (Faber-Castell 9000 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2H, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 3B, Staedtler Tradition 110 3B, and Faber-Castell 9000 2B) on Bosch p60 c470 sandpaper, 28 x 23 cm; Beach Map (#6), 2018, pencil (Faber-Castell 9000 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2H, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 3B, Staedtler Tradition 110 3B, and Faber-Castell 9000 2B) on Bosch p60 c470 sandpaper, 28 x 23 cm; and Beach Map (#7), 2018, pencil (Faber-Castell 9000 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2H, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 3B, Staedtler Tradition 110 3B, and Faber-Castell 9000 2B) on Bosch p60 c470 sandpaper, 28 x 23 cm; as well as various varying encompassments, dreams, aspirations, and unincluded parts

Photo: Jean-Baptiste Berangér

Installation view (left to right): Beach Map (#3), 2018, pencil (Faber-Castell 9000 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2H, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 3B, Staedtler Tradition 110 3B, and Faber-Castell 9000 2B) on Bosch p60 c470 sandpaper, 28 x 23 cm; Beach Map (#4), 2018, pencil (Faber-Castell 9000 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2H, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 3B, Staedtler Tradition 110 3B, and Faber-Castell 9000 2B) on Bosch p60 c470 sandpaper, 28 x 23 cm; Re-/de-captivated decapitated hydra (asterisked starred eyes for still life with rose thorns from a rose bush picked at midnight under an absent full moon on chroma key-painted artificial roses with almost all petals picked off submerged in flat sparkling water [rose-flavored] in repaired but leaking bought and handmade glass vase on wall paint-painted MDF pedestal), 2018, rose thorns from a rose bush picked at midnight under an absent full moon on chroma key-painted artificial roses with almost all petals picked off submerged in flat sparkling water [rose-flavored] in repaired but leaking bought handmade glass vase on wall paint-painted MDF pedestal, one drop of chroma key paint,138 x 30 x 30cm; Beach Map (#5), 2018, pencil (Faber-Castell 90002B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2H, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 3B, Staedtler Tradition 110 3B, and Faber-Castell 9000 2B) on Bosch p60 c470 sandpaper, 28 x 23 cm; red permanent marker marks on floor, 4 x 4 cm; and Beach Map (#6), 2018, pencil (Faber-Castell 9000 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2H, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 3B, Staedtler Tradition 110 3B, and Faber-Castell 9000 2B) on Bosch p60 c470 sandpaper, 28 x 23 cm; as well as various varying encompassments, dreams, aspirations, and unincluded parts

Photo: Jean-Baptiste Berangér

Detail: Re-/de-captivated decapitated hydra (asterisked starred eyes for still life with rose thorns from a rose bush picked at midnight under an absent full moon on chroma key-painted artificial roses with almost all petals picked off submerged in flat sparkling water [rose-flavored] in repaired but leaking bought and handmade glass vase on wall paint-painted MDF pedestal), 2018, rose thorns from a rose bush picked at midnight under an absent full moon on chroma key-painted artificial roses with almost all petals picked off submerged in flat sparkling water [rose-flavored] in repaired but leaking bought handmade glass vase on wall paint-painted MDF pedestal, one drop of chroma key paint, 138 x 30 x 30 cm; and

chroma key-painted locked door toward another space and/or presupposed elsewheres; as well as various varying encompassments, dreams, aspirations, and unincluded parts
Photo: Jean-Baptiste Berangér

Installation view (left to right): Beach Map (#7), 2018, pencil (Faber-Castell 9000 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2H, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 3B, Staedtler Tradition 110 3B, and Faber-Castell 9000 2B) on Bosch p60 c470 sandpaper, 28 x 23 cm; Re-/de-captivated decapitated hydra (asterisked starred eyes for still life with rose thorns from a rose bush picked at midnight under an absent full moon on chroma key-painted artificial roses with almost all petals picked off submerged in flat sparkling water [rose-flavored] in repaired but leaking bought and handmade glass vase on wall paint-painted MDF pedestal), 2018, rose thorns from a rose bush picked at midnight under an absent full moon on chroma key-painted artificial roses with almost all petals picked off submerged in flat sparkling water [rose-flavored] in repaired but leaking bought handmade glass vase on wall paint-painted MDF pedestal, one drop of chroma key paint, 138 x 30 x 30 cm; red permanent marker marks on floor, 4 x 4 cm; chroma key-painted locked door toward another space and/or presupposed elsewheres; and (caps lock Moondialed No +***** ***** "upright infinity symbol", 2018, 4k video (loop: 13 min 54 sec) playing on Panasonic Viera TX-55AX630E, headphones, splitter cords, iPhone charger, extension cords; gallery wall paint-painted and chroma key-painted bench (metal, MDF), TV monitor: 76 x 124 x 29 cm, bench: 45 x 140 x 45 cm; as well as various varying encompassments, dreams, aspirations, and unincluded parts

Photo: Jean-Baptiste Berangér

_C7A5422.jp Installation view (left to right): (caps lock Moondialed No +***** ***** "upright infinity symbol", 2018, 4k video (loop: 13 min 54 sec) playing on Panasonic Viera TX-55AX630E, headphones, splitter cords, iPhone charger, extension cords; gallery wall paint-painted and chroma key-painted bench (metal, MDF), TV monitor: 76 x 124 x 29 cm, bench: 45 x 140 x 45 cm; as well as various varying encompassments, dreams, aspirations, and unincluded parts Photo: Jean-Baptiste Berangér g

Installation view (left to right): (caps lock Moondialed No +***** ***** "upright infinity symbol", 2018, 4k video (loop: 13 min 54 sec) playing on Panasonic Viera TX-55AX630E, headphones, splitter cords, iPhone charger, extension cords; gallery wall paint-painted and chroma key-painted bench (metal, MDF), TV monitor: 76 x 124 x 29 cm, bench: 45 x 140 x 45 cm; as well as various varying encompassments, dreams, aspirations, and unincluded parts

Photo: Jean-Baptiste Berangér

_C7A5412.j Installation view (left to right): Red permanent marker marks on floor, 4 x 4 cm; Re-/de-captivated decapitated hydra (asterisked starred eyes for still life with rose thorns from a rose bush picked at midnight under an absent full moon on chroma key-painted artificial roses with almost all petals picked off submerged in flat sparkling water [rose-flavored] in repaired but leaking bought and handmade glass vase on wall paint-painted MDF pedestal), 2018, rose thorns from a rose bush picked at midnight under an absent full moon on chroma key-painted artificial roses with almost all petals picked off submerged in flat sparkling water (rose-flavored) in repaired but leaking bought handmade glass vase on wall paint-painted MDF pedestal, one drop of chroma key paint, 138 x 30 x 30 cm; Beach Map (#8), 2018, pencil (Faber-Castell 9000 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2H, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 3B, Staedtler Tradition 110 3B, and Faber-Castell 9000 2Bpg

Installation view (left to right): Red permanent marker marks on floor, 4 x 4 cm; Re-/de-captivated decapitated hydra (asterisked starred eyes for still life with rose thorns from a rose bush picked at midnight under an absent full moon on chroma key-painted artificial roses with almost all petals picked off submerged in flat sparkling water [rose-flavored] in repaired but leaking bought and handmade glass vase on wall paint-painted MDF pedestal), 2018, rose thorns from a rose bush picked at midnight under an absent full moon on chroma key-painted artificial roses with almost all petals picked off submerged in flat sparkling water (rose-flavored) in repaired but leaking bought handmade glass vase on wall paint-painted MDF pedestal, one drop of chroma key paint, 138 x 30 x 30 cm; Beach Map (#8), 2018, pencil (Faber-Castell 9000 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2H, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 3B, Staedtler Tradition 110 3B, and Faber-Castell 9000 2B) on Bosch p60 c470 sandpaper, 28 x 23 cm; and Untitled (In an again of an “As usual, the void inside of me is growing. I hate my life. I hate everyone else more. They’re all mindless clones preoccupied with mundane things. But then again, my life’s not any better. I’m just as stupid as they are.”-pollinated forgetfulness taking space and time and spacetime at a fleeting moment of aquarium-backside-patterned lightyear, another secondary libertarian cocoon on medievalist wheels on a razor-sharp razor’s edge emits the faintest of turquoise-energy-powered blacklight, tainted playlists disengage so as to render this something that has something to do with something that’s absolutely not all that robotic at all.), 2018, flat sparkling tap water and rolled-up Ramlösa (Ramlösa Original) label used to snort one line of sea salt within Ramlösa (Ramlösa Original) bottle (50 cl, expiration date: 15.04.2019), 22 x 7 x 7 cm; chroma key-painted locked door toward another space and/or presupposed elsewheres; and the cyan from the sea posing as a free mirror under the influence of a sky, 2018, chroma key-painted rose thorns from a rose bush picked at midnight under an absent full moon, chroma key-painted artificial falling spring rose leaves replacing a lost airborne shipment of clipped yellow-naped Amazon parrot (Amazona auropalliata) wing feathers (tracking # UA102823501US) on rose bush branch gathered at night, and suction cup on acrylic-mounted inkjet print, 120 x 80 x 40 cm; as well as various varying encompassments, dreams, aspirations, and unincluded parts

Photo: Jean-Baptiste Berangér

Detail (left to right): Beach Map (#8), 2018, pencil (Faber-Castell 9000 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2B, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2H, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 3B, Staedtler Tradition 110 3B, and Faber-Castell 9000 2B) on Bosch p60 c470 sandpaper, 28 x 23 cm; and Untitled (In an again of an “As usual, the void inside of me is growing. I hate my life. I hate everyone else more. They’re all mindless clones preoccupied with mundane things. But then again, my life’s not any better. I’m just as stupid as they are.”-pollinated forgetfulness taking space and time and spacetime at a fleeting moment of aquarium-backside-patterned lightyear, another secondary libertarian cocoon on medievalist wheels on a razor-sharp razor’s edge emits the faintest of turquoise-energy-powered blacklight, tainted playlists disengage so as to render this something that has something to do with something that’s absolutely not all that robotic at all.), 2018, flat sparkling tap water and rolled-up Ramlösa (Ramlösa Original) label used to snort one line of sea salt within Ramlösa (Ramlösa Original) bottle (50 cl, expiration date: 15.04.2019), 22 x 7 x 7 cm; as well as various varying encompassments, dreams, aspirations, and unincluded parts

Photo: Jean-Baptiste Berangér

the cyan from the sea posing as a free mirror under the influence of a sky, 2018

Chroma key-painted rose thorns from a rose bush picked at midnight under an absent full moon, chroma key-painted artificial falling spring rose leaves replacing a lost airborne shipment of clipped yellow-naped Amazon parrot (Amazona auropalliata) wing feathers (tracking # UA102823501US) on rose bush branch gathered at night, and suction cup on acrylic-mounted inkjet print,as well as various varying encompassments, dreams, aspirations, and unincluded parts

120 x 80 x 40 cm

Photo: Jean-Baptiste Berangér