‘The Taxi dialogues’ my first solo exhibition at Berlin Blue Art Space in Berlin, Germany.
3 Posters with a story of things that happened in taxi
Video artwork ‘The Taxi Dialogues’
A video installation featuring voice recordings from taxi rides that the artist recorded in the past three years with supporting internet-found footage. It captures casual encounters with taxi drivers, where a set of conversational rules apply, and have not changed their ways for a long time. It is an encounter that can not happen anywhere else. In a taxi, you do not stick to a role. It is a liminal non-place, only to get you from A to B.
„The recordings are from Taxi rides that I have taken myself in Reykjavík, Berlin, New York and London. I started doing it when I was very boozy. I continued to record every single ride for the next three years and I never had any idea what to do with it. I searched for TAXI on youtube and went on page 12. Page 12 is very far back. I did this to find all these weird videos that I then cut together on my built in moviemaker app. This is the result“