Real World or places that don't exist

If you transcribe the birth dates and age of Carl Oskar Linné and Marius Moldvær into coordinates, you will get a set of coordinates that either will place you in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, or just off the coast of Africa.

Welcome to the opening on Thursday the 18th of October from 17.00 and onwards.

During the opening evening a one year travel and research project by Marius Moldvær and Carl-Oskar Linné will be presented: A series of photographs and a newly produced book.

There will be a special price for the book and a little bar, cash only. From about 20.00 Gustav Svärdhagen and Anders Nilsson will play some music.

Opening hours
October 18: 5-10 pm
October 19-23: 2-7 pm
October 24-27: by appointment

About the project
If you transcribe the birth dates and age of Carl Oskar Linné and Marius Moldvær into coordinates, you will get a set of coordinates that either will place you in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, or just off the coast of Africa.

This point is given significance by our action, as these coordinates had no meaning, before now. The numbers were a part of the geographical mapping system for the world. We can measure how deep the sea is, map the terrain of the seafloor and together with the coordinates it would give us complete topographical information of this area. But through the action of pinpointing our birthdates in the geographic coordinate system we create a set of cultural and personal reference points that will exist aside any prior significance the place had.

A place does not exist until we create it, or rather place it within a system: A geographical position within a system of coordinates, x meters below or above sea level and so on. By creating a new context for this point in our atlas we can now understand and further misunderstand it.