‘Pataphysician / Artist / Writer / Musician / Dandy Highwayman.

Born 1880, in the mountainous countryside of northern Norway, where he was brought up among roaming hordes of bandits and bootleggers (which should account for his staggering lack of culture, foul mouthed discourse and barbarous manners). In 1906, in the guise of cat burglar he stole the gem of the Norwegian education system, a BA degree from the Art Academy of Bergen (Norway); the sobbing dean declared to the outraged public: “This BA should have served our community in the hands of a responsible and righteous citizen, but now it has fallen into the hands of pure, unbridled evil, and will no doubt be turned into a malignant tool of subversiveness!” The vicious fiend is now rumoured to have infiltrated the Piet Zwart Institute here in Rotterdam, disguised as something as inconspicuous as a student, but he will no doubt elope from there in the near future with one funky chunk of MA diploma in Fine Arts. Beware! “The creative artist is a criminal, the critic merely a detective.”

Photo credits:
The ‘Pataphysician at work in his studio
Photo: Jacqueline Forzelius (staged by Terje Øverås), 2007
Bag of meat, toiletbrushes, stepladder, bicycle, electromagnetic photon projector, beautifying mist.