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The collection started 23 March 2009
Hair received by 29 July 2012 08:30 GMT:

3575
Day 1360

Participation:
0,0000504% of the worlds population

Worlds population:
7 088 241 849

Lists:
Participants

Embassies

Read more:

English

German
Norwegian
Polish
Russian
Spanish
Swedish

Articles:
Hordaland 2009
Bergens Tidende 2009
Bergensavisen 2009

Other collections:
The Soap Bubble Collections
The Galaxy Collection

Related works:
The Nearly Forgotten
Second Memory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 





DIARY


29 DECEMBER 2012
3500 hairs has been collected.

8 SEPTEMBER 2011

3000 hairs has been collected.

1 AUGUST 2011
50 embassies has been established.
See here for more information.

24 OCTOBER 2010

2000 hairs has been collected
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14 OCTOBER 2010
30 embassies has been established.

17 JUNE 2010
First 20 embassies has been established in:
Norway, Japan, USA, France, Denmark, Spain, UK, Venezuela.


9 JUNE 2010


3 MAY 2010
The first embassy has been established. See here for more information.

25 MARCH 2010

The collection is now one year old. 1159 individual hairs were collected in the first year. Collecting will continue for a period of 7 years.
Aim 1: To collect in one hair from everyone in the world who wants to give a hair.
Aim 2a: All collected hairs will remain together for eternity.
Aim 2b: So that they can all meet eachother and enrichen their life-experience.
Aim 3: Not to be completely sure of how the project will develop.
Aim 4: That all administrative tasks will completely collapse.

 

Collection material and info
Write down your information on a small piece of paper,
then attach a single hair to the backside of the paper with a post-it note or tape.
Send by post to:
kurt Johannessen
Hans Hauges Gt. 1b
N-5033 Bergen


IMPORTANT:
The information about the participants and their hair will be separated.
It is not possible to link the hair to the person.

For questions, please mail:
kurt@zeth.no

PHOTOSESSIONS



4. June 2009 - 402 hair

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Upcoming Hair Collection offices:


Previous Hair Collection offices
:

The New York Art Book Fair 27-30 Septem. 2012


Amiens, France 1 August 2012
by embassy no 014


Rosendal 7 July 2012
Tromsø Bibliotek 18 February 2012
Voss Bibliotek 8 November 2011
Gloppen Bibliotek 2 November 2011
Galerie KUB, Leipzig, Germany, 8 October 2011
Open Space, Victoria, Canada 21 October 2011
Camsun Coll., Victoria, Canada 20 October 2011
University of Victoria, Canada 20 October 2011


Artic Challange, Andørja, Norway 9 July 2011


Amiens, France 9 July 2011
by embassy no 014

KIO, Oslo, Norway 31 May 2011
Fridalen Skole, Bergen, Norway 29 April 2011


Ramshorn, Glasgow, Scotland 25 February 2011



Goangzhou Live, China 11 December 2010

Bergen Artmuseum 21 November 2010
Bergen Artmuseum 20 November 2010


Art College, Belfast N-Ireland 15 October 2010


Bergen Kunsthall 19 September 2010



Interakcje, Piotrkowi Trybunalski 14 May 2010


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