Highlighting antipodes cafe’s interest in transparency, its ‘theater of operations’ took part of æHouse as its office room, laying bare processes and flaunting minutiae of the development of the whole æSeries.

æStudio was formed by reusing the top barrack from “æDEG15“–which in fact, it was previously used by the road authorities as part of an information center/show room.
It was placed on ground floor on two locations (Kvadraturen and Jordal), both in the encounter of the city and its construction sites. It included an outdoors area with two tables and chairs, and an indoors corner for sharing a cup of black coffee and motley information.


Timeline:

2009 / Uruguay “El café de Usted”. First ideas: Studio, Café, Gallery, (other ideas where on the table, as residency and Guest room)
2011 / Finland Embassy? Second thoughts included explorations on foreign mission.
2012-2016 / Norway antipodes café Founded as studio the first day of 2012. In October 2013, the idea of “encounters with construction sites” was added to the table. In early 2014, antipodes café was registered in Norway as a Non profit organization exploring everyday life on a daily basis.
2013 / Oslo, Norway æGalleri First domestic explorations: Studio, Café, Gallery, Home.
2015 / Barcode, Oslo, Norway æInformasjonssenter Exploration in the encounter of the city and its construction with a meeting room.
2016 / Barcode, Oslo, Norway. (*) æDEG15 First time wide open to public with functions of Studio, Café, Gallery core first ideas…
2016-2018 / Sørenga, Oslo, Norway Stored Our ‘theater of operations‘ was sleeping in a border of a construction site, while we polished æHouse and removed any sort of gallery idea related to it.
2016-2018 / Barcode, Oslo, Norway æ2etg A hidden room under construction? A city under construction has places and no places.
2018-2019 / Kvadraturen, Oslo, Norway æStudio (i) Building a city without cars? We are in.
2019-2020 / Jordal, Oslo, Norway æStudio (ii) Jordal Idretspark: great stop for an athletic barrack.

 

(*) VR-2016



Project Support (2017.06)
Research for locations:  2018
Allowance to use areas related to constructions – free of charge.
Plots:
Bymiljøetaten Bilfritt byliv Grev Wedels plass 1b, 2018.11 – 2019.08
Bymiljøetaten

Vann- og avløpsetaten

Jordal Idrettspark
Jordalgata 16, 2019.09 – 2020.08

 

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