The first official monograph dedicated to Morten Viskum, one of the most
controversial contemporary artists in Norway. This volume collects the
controversial artist's work in which he uses unconventional
tools--including medical equipment, dead animals, cancer cells, and a
deceased man's hand--to challenge the relationship between science and
ethics, and what art can morally embrace. He became internationally
known in 1995, when he conducted his "Rat/olive project." In the course
of two days, he replaced the content of 20 olive jars with newborn rats
across 20 grocery stores in the five largest cities in Norway. Since
then, he has been regarded as one of the most controversial contemporary
artists in Norway. Through his performative works he has shed light on a
fear of the ephemeral and the strange that pervades our culture.