BEING: Texas
BEING 2010-2012
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Filmed: 2012.
Location: the Royal College of Art, London
Content rating: Mature for profanity and nudity
As a fool you shall always fail, you shall either fail by staying a fool or by becoming a hero, but it is in failure you will succeed.
As an Artist, Bjørn Venø's approach has been to use the guise of the fool, for that is a character that is unbound from any paradigm and the fools gaze is not influenced by preconceptions. A distinction has to be made between the natural fool and the licenced fool. The natural fool is the one who has no language; whilst the licenced fool walks between the borders of language and nonsense, but never grows roots in either place.
Venø's starting point was heterosexual male identity and with the series ‘BEING’ he looked at two classic male heroic icons through the eyes of the fool, to investigate if it would reveal the male heroic ideal as a utopian dream and the figurative hero as a poster boy for their time. Thor Heyerdahl a representation of the Norwegian man, the underdog with a crazy idea that leads to success and Audi Murphy embodying the American dream, a man who can make his fortune from nothing.
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BEING: Documentation RCA SHOW 2012
Royal College of Art graduation show 2012.
The Royal College of Art is the world's most influential postgraduate institution of art and design
RCA archive of the exhibit:
https://wayback.archive-it.org/16274/20240309173523/https://www.rca.ac.uk/students/bjrn-ven/ -
Xenia Cheex interviews Bjørn Venø at ...
Filmed: 2012.
Xenia Cheex has once more traveled over to the fabulous UK from Poland. This time to interview AMAZING! artists from the Royal College of Art degree show.
"My second interview this week was with the handsome and talented artist Bjørn Venø, defiantly one of my favourites." - Xeni...
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BEING: Audie Murphy - Live test
Filmed at Royal College of Art 13.12.2011
One of the first live performance actions by Bjørn Venø, it was a test for the video BEEING: Texas
Bjørn Venø tries to become Audie Murphy the most decorated war hero and celebrated movie star.
