Exhibitions related to the topic of smoking:

✗ No Oduur (Your Smoke Draws Me In), September 8 – October 27 2012, Oslo10, Basel
✗ Stop Being So Attractive I Can't Get Anything Done, March 16 – 24 2012, Autocenter, Berlin
✗ No Oduur, January 19 – March 4 2012, at Space, London.
The exhibitions were accompanied by the printed publication Second Hand Smoke


"When a man is travelling on the trails, and has strong tobacco with him, he thinks so much he is a man, he feels high up… Whenever he meets a man, he has
to smoke before he travels. He thinks: “I am going to treat him before we travel.” He thinks: “I am a man” when he does that. When two men first meet on the
trail, then one of the men always says “Let’s sit down.” Then they always sit down, they rest. Then one of them takes out his pipe. “Friend, let’s smoke.” Then he
lights his pipe. Then he smokes, he himself smokes first. All do that way, smoke first before they pass it. Then he passes it to that one he has met. Then he smokes
in turn, he is being treated. He smokes in turn the same pipe. Then they finish smoking. Then the other one in turn takes out his pipe. He treats him back, the one
who has treated him. He says to him in turn: “You would better smoke my tobacco.” He says: “Friend, I am going to treat you back.” Then he smokes it himself first.
He does the same way, smokes first. Then he says: Well, friend, your tobacco is strong.” Then the other says: “Well, friend, no.” He denies it. He kind of smiles as he
says “Well, friend, no.” Then they are through smoking. He gives back the other fellow’s pipe. He can hardly put it back in the sack, his hand trembles. His tobacco is
so strong. He is tasting it yet in his mouth. It takes them a long while to smoke. It takes them a long time to finish.
Then they say: “All right, let’s travel, and I am
going
to travel, too. Then, friend, goodbye.”
From: J. Harrington, 1932. Tobacco Smoking among the Karuk Indians of California. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of America Ethnology Bulletin 94. Washington D.C.: GPO.




 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No Oduur (Your Smoke Draws Me In), September 8 – October 27 2012, Oslo10, Basel





Stop Being So Attractive I Can't Get Anything Done, March 16 – 24 2012, Autocenter, Berlin.



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* “Air Vent / Butt Stop (TFL)”, 2012. Materials: steel, glue, cigarettes, chewing gum, ash. Dimensions 30x240cm.
** "Cigarette Ends Here (Smoking Men)", 2012 and "Cigarette Ends Here (Smoking Pregnant Woman, Baby, and Friend)", 2012. Digital print on silk. Dimensions 220x130cm (edition of 3 + 2ap)
*** “Air Vent / Butt Stop (Riverside)”, 2012. Materials: steel, glue, spit, cigarettes, ash. Dimensions 60x240cmx16cm.

Also shown are: "Air Vent / Butt Stop (Lucifer Match)", 2012. Materials: steel, cigarettes, spit, chewing gum. Dimensions 30x60cm.
"Air Vent / Butt Stop (Poor Health)", 2012. Materials: aluminium, spray paint, cigarettes, sand, chewing gum, and various found objects. Dimensions 30x60cm.
"Air Vent / Butt Stop (Smoking Suit)", 2012. Materials: steel, cigarettes, glue, chewing gum, spit. Dimensions 60x120x16cm.
"Cigarette Hedgehog #1", 2012. Materials: polyurethane foam, acrylic paint, varnish, cellophane. Dimensions 27x30x40cm, 2012.
"Cigarette Ends Here (Impotence)", 2012. Materials: digital print on silk. Dimensions 130x80cm.

 

No Oduur, January 19 – March 4 2012, at Space, London,

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4 Silk works (all 130x80cm, edition of 5 +2ap): "Cigarette Ends Here (The Global Cigarette)", 2011. "Cigarette Ends Here (Tobacco and Self-control)", 2012.
"Cigarette Ends Here (Smoking Men)", 2012. "Cigarette Ends Here (Smoking Pregnant Woman, Baby, and Friend)", 2012.

Metal bucket with snow and cigarettes. "Cigarette Hedgehog #1", polyurethane foam, acrylic paint, varnish, cellophane. Dimensions 27x30x40cm, 2012.

Metal objects on wall:
* "Air Vent / Butt Stop (Poor Health)", 2012. Materials: aluminium, spray paint, cigarettes, sand, chewing gum, and various found objects. Dimensions 30x60cm.
** "Air Vent / Butt Stop (Smoking Suit)", 2012. Materials: steel, cigarettes, glue, chewing gum, spit. Dimensions 60x120x16cm.
*** "Air Vent / Butt Stop (Lucifer Match)", 2012. Materials: steel, cigarettes, spit, chewing gum. Dimensions 30x60cm.
**** "Air Vent / Butt Stop (Public Smoker)", 2012. Materials: aluminium, spray paint, cigarettes, and various found objects. Dimensions 30x60cmx16cm.