NRK has created a photo report based on my still standing project that I carried out last year. It’s a bit comical that they’ve called me “Professor Stillstand”. When I defended my PhD in 2008, I was actually named Dr Air Guitar.
The concept was to stand still every day, for ten minutes, around midday. I recorded motion data using my mobile phone hanging around my neck and heart rate data from my sports watch. I’m now analyzing this data, and it will be included in the book Still Standing that I’m working on. Here’s an overview of all the sessions, one line per month.
One of the rules of the project was that I had to stand still in a new room each day. I made audio and video recordings of all the rooms. I will use this in my ongoing project AMBIENT: Bodily Synchronization to Audiovisual Rhythms. Here are average images of some of them.
I have been working with stillness and micromotion since 2010, first in the Sverm project, then MICRO. Along the way, we have organized the Norwegian Championship of Standstill many times and launched Oslo Standstill Database. I have learned a lot, even though I probably have more questions than answers. That is what I am writing about now.