When Lovise and Sofia emigrated in 1912

This picture was taken when my two Great Aunts Sofia and Lovise immigrated to Canada in 1912. Here they are with some friends and their sister Ida, photographed in Bodø before they left. According to the family myth they wanted to travel with Titanic, but couldn't get tickets, and so they left with the ship they could get tickets for, Cunard Line's Ivernia. They sailed in march, a month before Titanic did.

The passenger list for Ivernia, with Sofia and Lovise's names.

On October 19th I am going to Southampton to travel over seas with Cunard Line's Queen Mary 2 Southampton-New York in 6 days. I am sure quite more luxurious than in 1912...

Check Queen Mary 2's bridge web cam

We Belong to the Same Tree

is the title of my work in the exhibition A Proposal for Articulating Works and Places that is on in Palazzo Riso Museum of Contemporary art in Palermo. Open until November 2010.

Photography, objects, text and drawings

From the opening:

We Belong to the Same Tree

Passport used to emigrate from Norway to Canada in 1917. Used by my Grand Uncle Arnt and Grand Aunt Lovise, and their children. Locks of hair from the family members are sewed into the Passport

We Belong to the Same Tree

A proposal for Articulating Works and Places

Documentation from the exhibition A proposal for Articulating Works and Places as it is shown in the GAM gallery of Modern Art, and the Palazzo Riso in Palermo from July-November. Not all the work is presented here.

The participating artists for A proposal for Articulating Works and Places (PartII) are

Sofia Aguiar, Mustapha Akrim, Francis Alÿs, Yto Barrada, Faouzi Bensaidi, Tomás Colaço, Cláudia Cristóvão, Ninar Esber, Patricia Esquivias, Seamus Farrell, Jean-François Fourtou, Pedro Gómez Egaña, Isaac Julien, Hassan Khan, Faouzi Laatiris, Heidi Nikolaisen, Otobong Nkanga, Catherine Poncin, Younès Rahmoun, Batoul S’himi, Kathryn Smith, NaoKo TakaHashi, Nontsikelelo Veleko, and James Webb.

Yonès Rahmoun - Ghorfa_4, Al-âna / Hunâ

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Isaac Julien - WESTERN UNION: small boats

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Kathryn Smith - Psychoegraphies: The washing away of Wrongs

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Claudia Cristovâo - Le Voyage Imaginaire

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Pedro Gomez-Egaña - Field and Force

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Nontsikelelo Veleko - Grafitti