Opening: Friday 24 March, 7–10pm
Exhibition: 25 March – 7 May 2023
Venue: UKS, Keysers gate 1

From 1956 to 1977, freewheeling Norwegian psychiatrist Dr. Carl Wilhelm Sem-Jacobsen experimented on patients at Oslo’s Gaustad Hospital by implanting electrodes into their brains, without their consent. For the past six years, Martin White has combed through the archive of Dr. Sem-Jacobsen, carefully building a story that bears witness to the dense entanglement of Gaustad Psychiatric Hospital, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the US Military, Airforce and Navy, NASA and the Psycho Pirate, a comic book character.

*Image: Martin White, "Big Science Issue #003”, 2023. Scan of ink and pencil drawing from the archive of Dr. C.W. Sem-Jacobsen.