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ARTHEMIST Lighthouse 48 documents a year of performance actions by Norwegian artist Bjørn Venø. Across 54 filmed gestures, 54 still images, and experimental poetry, the book becomes a ritual of transformation-an invitation to perceive beyond the surface of art and language. Shot and written on the island of Venøya, Lighthouse 48 merges photography, performance, text, and philosophy into a single act of creation. Each page oscillates between documentation and incantation, image and word, presence and absence. Grounded in Venø's philosophy of Arthemy-art as alchemy-the work challenges the commodification of art and the passive gaze of modern spectatorship. It is not a record of art made for display, but a living archive of struggle, perception, and becoming. Bjørn Venø (b. 1979) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans performance, photography, text, sound, and moving image. His projects have been exhibited at Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum, Fotografiens Hus, and internationally.

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Bjørn Venø (b. 1979, living and working in Norway) is an Arthemist, an artist blending art and alchemy. His multidisciplinary practice spans photography, video, performance, writing, drawing, and sound. He coined the term Arthemist, a fusion of art and alchemy to define a practice grounded in intentional action and transformation. Working through free association and intuition, his art investigates energy, failure, identity, gender, and metaphysics through the lens of transformation and the attributes of the fool. His work is both a conduit for exploration and an invitation into presence of mind. Venø is the author of ARTHEMIST STATEMENT 2.6: Why create art that nobody asked for? and has exhibited at institutions including Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum, Førde, Norway, Norton Museum of Art, Florida, United States, and Museum Palazzo Riso.Palermo, Italy. www.bjornveno.com Hans-Georg Moeller is a Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Macau. He authored numerous books including You and Your Profile: Identity after Authenticity, Genuine Pretending: On the Philosophy of the Zhuangzi (both with Paul D'Ambrosio), The Moral Fool: A Case for Amorality, The Radical Luhmann, and The Philosophy of the Daodejing, (all with Columbia University Press). He is content creator of the YouTube philosophy channels Carefree Wandering and Philosophy in Motion.

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