1998 "I'll bring you home - Contemporary memory"

outdoor live installation with100 taxies

Exhibitions:

1998 This installation took place at 4:30 to 5.00 in the morning on Thursday November 26. 1998 in Kirkeveien, Oslo

7.11.98 Lecture VICTOR LIND, CONTEMPORARY MEMORY at NIFCA: Pictures for the Blue Room, Vigelandsmuseet, Oslo.

Presse:
1999 Yearbook of Norwegian Art s.100
Kat. NIFCA: Pictures for the Blue Room 7.11-6.12.98-Lecture VL s. 63-66
Aftenp. 27.11.98 Lotte Sandberg
Billedkunst 8-98 m/foto og intervju
Aftenp. 7.12.98 Anders Eiebakke svarer Lotte Sandberg
Aftenp. 9.12.98 Tone Wikborg og Nils Messel
Dagbl. 25.11.98
KK 28.11.98
Aftenp. 26.11.98

I ordered 100 taxies for half an hour.
The installation created a 700-metre illuminated, transient axis . The audience and members of the press were given a historical document - which thereby was made public for the first time.
This installation took place at 4:30 to 5.00 in the morning on Thursday November 26, 1998.

History:
At 4:30 a.m. on Thursday, November 26th, 1942, the deportation of Jews started in Norway.
300 Norwegian operatives assembled at the the State Police headquarters at Kirkeveien.
A hundred hired taxis were waiting at Kirkeveien for the transportation of the Jews.
That day, 530 Norwegian Jews were brought down to the harbour, where the German ship Donau took them to Auschwitz. Eleven of them survived.
Police inspector Knut Rød, a Nazi and Head of the State Police in Oslo, led the arrests of the Jews.
The Norwegian courts acquitted police inspector Knut Rød of all charges after the war.
Rød served in the Oslo police until June 30th 1965.
At least four members of the Norwegian Resitance Movement, who worked at the State Police (double agents), participated in key positions in the deportation of the Jews.
None of them has been prosecuted for their participation in the genocide.