jon eriksen

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Jon Eriksen (b.1976) is a visual artist and noise musician. Jon Eriksen has worked mainly with video for the past several years. His main focus has been on extreme cultures and his silent video installations have been dominated by collisions, noise theory, and overdrive aestethics. His recent video works and installations deal with the subcultures and dialectics of extreme music and film. His video works are made from found material; he utilizes short snippets from television and feature films and works with them in loops and cut-up sequences. Eriksen's latest works, Deliverance (2008), Curtains (2008) and Transfixed (drone for a blackout) (2007), stem from an interest in the depiction of violence in film and literature. All three works deal with a fluidity of sentiment, voyeurism, and the urge to view death and horror up close. The artist’s book Deliverance is the newest addition to a series of works in which Eriksen works with subtle undercurrents in horror literature and film. The book consists of more than three hundred distilled descriptions of violent scenes from horror films. The book is a methodical and reductive project that exposes some of the most fundamental parameters in violent film; in the texts all individual characters and motivations have been abandoned. What remains are only the physical acts of violence, detached climaxes. The selection of scenes and the dry tone of the book highlight some of the inherent themes and the basic problematics of these fil

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