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The First Place

A small publication largely inspired by the idea of a french Situationist dérive „an unplanned journey through a landscape” as a method to explore the city. During the first months after moving to Oslo, I spoke with other immigrants, gathering their opinions about living in the city. Our conversations and the stories they told me have been collected in this self-created zine and presented on the group exhibition at Kunsthøgskolen in Oslo.

Making my own rules

I created my own set of rules that determined where I went and with whom I spoke. I always looked for the first person that didn't appear to be Norwegian and initiated a conversation with him/her. As we talked, I asked about the first place they saw when they arrived in the city for the first time – this became my next destination, where I searched for my next interlocutor.