S H W A N DLER QARADAKI
  • BIOGRAPHY
  • FILM & VIDEO
    • Sharp As A Knife
    • The Tattooed Sun
    • TO MY CHILDREN
    • SALT KISS (Part I)
    • SALT KISS (Part II)
    • SALT KISS (Part III)
    • Russian Rulette
    • NAZDAR
    • Norwegian Code
    • ZORBAS DANCE IN SNIPETORPSTREET 27
  • Mixed Media
    • Fragrant Deception
    • Halo of Shame Ph.d
    • A Trip With My Father In The Town
    • The Golden Wish
    • QARADAKI AS PRIME MINISTER
    • Diaries From A Distance
    • Heaven before a battle
    • Unknown Numbers
    • Be Patient
    • Property Painting - in collaboration with Fredrik Værslev
    • You talking to me? OK, I'm going to paint your thinks
    • Absolutt Veto in collaboration with Johannes Høie
    • Between Faces
    • You die so slowly you think you’re alive
    • Mixed Media
  • TEXT
    • The Tattooed Sun, by Oda Bhar 2020
    • EN AURA AV FORNEDRELSE, av Arve Rød 2021
    • Experience and effect, by Synnøve Merie Vik 2018
    • QARADAKI AS PRIME MINISTER, by Kate Pendry 2016
    • The Golden Wish, by Line Ulekleiv 2020
    • Abrupt movements on the map, by Tommy Olsson 2013
    • The World Through A Prism
    • KURDISTAN UNDER THE SIGN OF THE FUTURE, BY MARKO STAMENKOVIC
    • You talking to me? OK, I'm going to paint your thinks 2013
    • TRACE OF A FRIENDSHIP by Kate Pendry
    • A letter from Adnan Hassanpour
  • Book
    • The Christmas Star​
    • Distance, in collaboration with Mette Karlsvik
  • Commissions
    • The Story of Light And Darknes
    • Emergency hospital in Oslo
    • Between Faces
    • Vika Indiogo
    • Skien krisesenter
    • Grip Dagen
    • Internasjonalt Hus - Stavanger
  • Contact

You die so slowly you think you’re alive

                                                        YOU DIE SLOWLY YOU THINK YOU’RE ALIVE

You Die So Slowly You Think You’re Alive, year 2011
Performance (duration 12 min.), drawing size 120 x 120 cm. 
Cooperation with: Tone Berg Størseth
Installation views: Skien kunstforening, Skien
Photo credit: Tone Berg S.

​This performative work, realized together with Tone Berg Størseth, is based on a time-consuming drawing process which Tone produced over the period of three months preceding the actual performance. The drawing consists of a 150X150cm sheet upon which the motif of repeated, thin freehand strokes is applied, in an uninterrupted manner - from top to bottom of the sheet and drawn from left to right. The drawing functions as a documentation of one’s existence over time. During the performance at Skien kunstforening, Shwan used this drawing as the substrate for recording his own mark. In the course of a few minutes, he covered Tone’s drawing with paint, so that the lines would no longer be visible. These two different records appear equally important in the history of the sheet. The work focuses on what has happened within the motif’s limited surface and may be read as a production process with the intention of making the existence of two participants look more concrete, despite their different cultural preferences: a symbolic act that functions as a meeting point for their individual artistic oeuvres and various issues connected with identity and existence.


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  • BIOGRAPHY
  • FILM & VIDEO
    • Sharp As A Knife
    • The Tattooed Sun
    • TO MY CHILDREN
    • SALT KISS (Part I)
    • SALT KISS (Part II)
    • SALT KISS (Part III)
    • Russian Rulette
    • NAZDAR
    • Norwegian Code
    • ZORBAS DANCE IN SNIPETORPSTREET 27
  • Mixed Media
    • Fragrant Deception
    • Halo of Shame Ph.d
    • A Trip With My Father In The Town
    • The Golden Wish
    • QARADAKI AS PRIME MINISTER
    • Diaries From A Distance
    • Heaven before a battle
    • Unknown Numbers
    • Be Patient
    • Property Painting - in collaboration with Fredrik Værslev
    • You talking to me? OK, I'm going to paint your thinks
    • Absolutt Veto in collaboration with Johannes Høie
    • Between Faces
    • You die so slowly you think you’re alive
    • Mixed Media
  • TEXT
    • The Tattooed Sun, by Oda Bhar 2020
    • EN AURA AV FORNEDRELSE, av Arve Rød 2021
    • Experience and effect, by Synnøve Merie Vik 2018
    • QARADAKI AS PRIME MINISTER, by Kate Pendry 2016
    • The Golden Wish, by Line Ulekleiv 2020
    • Abrupt movements on the map, by Tommy Olsson 2013
    • The World Through A Prism
    • KURDISTAN UNDER THE SIGN OF THE FUTURE, BY MARKO STAMENKOVIC
    • You talking to me? OK, I'm going to paint your thinks 2013
    • TRACE OF A FRIENDSHIP by Kate Pendry
    • A letter from Adnan Hassanpour
  • Book
    • The Christmas Star​
    • Distance, in collaboration with Mette Karlsvik
  • Commissions
    • The Story of Light And Darknes
    • Emergency hospital in Oslo
    • Between Faces
    • Vika Indiogo
    • Skien krisesenter
    • Grip Dagen
    • Internasjonalt Hus - Stavanger
  • Contact