PANEL DISCUSSION: THOUGHTS ON CURATING
Kopenhagen Contemporary presents a panel discussion on the living art institution. Two directors will present their ideas on how to create vibrant, social and performative art institutions today. The new director of Kunsthal Charlottenborg Mark Sladen, will talk about the visions for the future of the institution and Jacob Fabricius, director of Malmö Konsthall, will talk about the public art exhibition Polis Polis Potatismos. The following discussion is moderated by Judith Schwarzbart, PhD fellow in performative curating. The event will be in English.
OPENING
Welcome to the opening of Children of the New Age by Søren Martinsen and Time Out of Mind by Rose Eken. In connection with Rose Eken’s exhibition there will be an opening concert from 6pm with the Danish duo Straight From The Harp, consisting of Jarno Varsted and Signe Lützen Varsted, who are the only ones in the world to use harmonica, drum machine and vocals as the central elements.
PHD DEFENCE
The defence of Maria Finn’s PhD thesis Images Between the Word and the Film will take place within the exhibition. The thesis which investigates the relationship between literature and film, with a focus on the use of stills from feature films based on literature, is an interdisciplinary project written at both the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and University of Copenhagen, Department of Comparative Literature. The PhD defence will be in Danish. Please note that the doors will be closed at 1pm sharp.
IMAGES BETWEEN THE WORD AND THE FILM
In the exhibition Images Between the Word and the Film Maria Finn presents both old and new works, showing how her artistic practice has been influenced by - and has influenced her work on the dissertation Images Between the Word and the film, which she wrote at Copenhagen University and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
The dissertation examines the relationship between literature and film, which also applies to the artworks in the exhibition. In a series of cinematic collages Finn mixes still photographs and drawings with text fragments from literature or film scripts, creating a series of fragmented narratives in several layers.
CONVERSATION & READING
Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen and Thomas Krogsbøl Andersen will have a conversation about art and life in pleasant and relaxed surroundings. Thomas Krogsbøl Andersen will read excerpts from his poetry and the evening continues with a conversation in which the audience is more than welcome to participate – there will be no winners and no losers in this evening’s debate. The event will be in Danish.
WE DON'T REJOICE! A status on the nation Constitution Day 2010
WALK
10.00am-12.00pm: Marginalised - Welfare Geography in NV/Bispebjerg, walk by Gåafstand (Pia Rönicke & Nis Rømer). The walk focuses on the architecture and location of welfare institutions. How is equality installed in the cityscape? Are institutions distributed equally geographically? The tour begins at Bispebjerg Hospital and continues past some of the municipal institutions that have been placed in the area recently. Venue: Bispebjerg station at Tagensvej. We finish by Nørrebro Station and proceed to Overgaden.
SPEAKERS
1.00pm: Frans Jacobi, artist
1.15pm: Georg Metz, journalist
1.30pm: Carsten Juhl, Associate Professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
1.45pm: Tomas Lagermand Lundme, artist and author
2.00pm: Michala Bendixen, social critic and active in Flygtninge under jorden
2.15pm: Drude Dahlerup, professor of political science at Stockholm University
2.30pm: Pablo Llambias, author and head ofForfatterskolen
2.45pm: Martin Erik Andersen, painter and professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
3.00pm: Abdul Wahid Pedersen, Imam and founder of Islamic-Christian Centre
3.15pm: Maja Lee Langvad, author
3.30pm: Ellen Nyman, actress
3.45pm: Center for Vild Analyse, critical think tank
4.00pm: Peter Laugesen, poet
4.15pm: Sherin Khankan, religion sociologist and chairman of Forum of critical Muslims
4.30pm: visAvis, magazine about asylum and migration
4.45 Dagmar Krøyer, artist and chairman of the board in UKK
-the speeches will be in Danish
FILM SCREENINGS
5.30pm: världens lyckligaste folk by Swedish journalist Lena Sundström
6.00pm: Confrontation in Copenhagen by the Danish-Palestinians instructor Awad Jourmaa
The event is a prelude to the group exhibition Danmark 2010 – en vejledning til nationen for ’verdens lykkeligste folk’, which opens on 25 June.
GUIDED TOUR
Join artist Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen for a guided tour of his exhibition 'Daywalker, giv slip'. In Danish.
FILM SCREENING: EZRA JOHNSON
The video animation What Visions Burn (2006) by the American artist Ezra Johnson imagines an elaborate art heist and the dramatic aftermath of the crime. In a story that addresses the corruption of New York City, Johnson uses jump cuts, close ups and grainy textures to suggest an air of surveillance and suspense. A soundtrack of realistic street noise, chatter and music punctuates the narrative web connecting the series of paintings. This is the third and last screening in a series of projected works by contemporary international artists, dealing with the changing American landscape, both real and fictional, curated by Milena Hoegsberg. Duration 22:27min. Courtesy of Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York.
BOOK LAUNCH
This Saturday the new poetic anthology, Antologi, Encyklopoesien, published by Arena, will be launched. This will be celebrated with a reception with readings by some of the contributors accompanied by a sturdy glass of wine. The purpose of the anthology has been to challenge the dictionary and the encyclopaedic tradition and authority. Contributors include Peter Adolphsen, Peter Laugesen, Ursula Andkjær Olsen, Lars Bukdahl, Claus Carstensen, Lars Skinnebach, Knud Steffen Nielsen and Kaspar Bonnén. The reading will be in Danish.
FILM SCREENING: DUBBIN & DAVIDSON
The film, Nobody Shoots a Broken Horn (2009) by the American artist duo Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson is a ballistic tale of hunting and working on White Sands Missile Range. In the deserts of New Mexico, speculation and experimentation are shaped by misleading scale and apparent emptiness. In this terrain science fiction becomes non-fiction, nuclear weapons are tested, rockets propelled, and exotic species introduced. This is the second screening in a series of projected works by contemporary international artists, dealing with the changing American landscape, both real and fictional, curated by Milena Hoegsberg. Duration 13:43min.
ARTIST TALK: LUCY RAVEN
Lucy Raven will present a lecture with slides on her research into Daybreak, a large residential development, initiated on the wasteland of the US’s second largest copper production site in Utah. Although the mine runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, only about 6 miles from Daybreak, realtors focus little on the present day conditions of the mining industry, but use its history as a selling point. Raven’s lecture will reflect on the use and reuse of land by an industry, which continuously requires more land for the isolation and neutralization of the millions of tons of toxic waste it produces each year, and on the current state of the American economy in the building of one of the country’s largest planned communities on top of its old waste pile.
SCREENING: CHINA TOWN BY LUCY RAVEN
Lucy Raven’s film China Town traces copper mining and production from an open pit mine in Nevada to a smelter in China, where the semi-processed ore is smelted, refined and made into copper wires, eventually used to satisfy the growing demand for electricity in China. The video follows the elaborate production process, which only yields a small percentage of copper, pointing to the disproportionate relationship between the waste and the power generated in both countries as a by-product. Composed entirely of animated digital still photographs and ambient sound, recorded on location, the work dwells poetically on the industrial landscape in a post industrial era and in today’s global economic system. The project is curated by Milena Hoegsberg. Duration 51:30 min.
ARTIST TALK: KASPER AKHØJ
With a slide lecture in the shape of a travelogue, Kasper Akhøj will introduce the enormous amount of research that underlies the exhibited project, Abstracta, and the book about the project, which is under development. The Abstracta project started when Akhøj participated in a research project in the former Yugoslavia in 2006. In the former state-owned department stores and museums waiting to be refurbished, he came across an elegant and simple display system that resembled a minimalist sculpture from the 1960s, left as a mysterious relic from communism that nobody really knew anything about.
ART PUBLICATIONS 2010
FRIDAY
5.00-8.00pm Opening of the exhibition Underskov and 2x15 min. wake concert by Smittekilde, with SKULL PUMP and LR
SATURDAY 24 April
1.30-2.00pm Reading: Skægmanden fra Varde Live – Author Jens Blendstrup and artist Rikke Villadsen
2.30-3.30pm Talk: Artist and scenographer Kirsten Delholm about the exhibition Undercover at The Royal Library
Film screening: Third Ear-productions
4.00-4.30pm Reading: Fuglene er i vinduet – Artist and author Tomas Lagermand Lundme
Leporello – filmscreening (11 authors, 11 artist, 11 books, 11 films)
5.00-6.00pm Talk: Associate professor at Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at University of Copenhagen Tania Ørum about her new book De eksperimenterende tressere
7.00-9.00pm Concert: Mouritz/Hørslev Projektet
SUNDAY 25 April
1.30-2.00pm Conversation: Headmaster at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Mikkel Bogh and the French/Danish artist Colonels about his new book Dictionary
Leporello – filmscreening (11 authors, 11 artist, 11 books, 11 films)
2.30-4.00pm Panel Diskussion: Reflections on the art(ist) book as a medium - Publisher and artist Jesper Fabricius, publisher Mathias Kokholm and Associate professor at Department of Art History at Århus University Lars Kiel Bertelsen.
Filmvisning: Third Ear-productions
4.30-5.00pm Performance: Nikolaj Zeuthen Show
Kunstpublikationer 2010 er støttet af Statens Kunstråd Litteraturudvalget og Christianshavns Lokaludvalg.
EXHIBITION: UNDERSKOV
Underskov is an exhibition about art publications and books. Rikke Bakman, Signe Parkins and Rikke Villadsen/Udkast(2) all work with books and storytelling through pictures - somewhere between comics, art books, graphic novels and fanzines. The exhibition Underskov makes the book's features available in other forms and examine what the book might when it constitutes an object in a room.
WAKE & RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION: FORLAGET SMITTEKILDE
Smittekilde have chosen to pull the plug. The respirator was rotten to the core and patched together with two small worn pieces of duct tape... But don't be sad, there are other things planned for the future that you'll get great pleasure from as an artist and as a fan.
You are cordially invited to the funeral feast, retrospective exhibition, concert and presentation of the last two convulsions:
CPH ROCK WORLD # 2: NOIZEWORLD
by Søren Mosdal & Jacob Ørsted.
After three years, the dynamic duo Oersted & Mosdal is back with their cool comic about music nerd Charley Brunswick and his unfortunate stories from the Copenhagen underworld ...
This time Charley may have found the perfect opening act for the Japanese noise artist Hari Gabaman. But a surprise awaits him when it appears once again to be one of his friend of Mickey's antics.
SMITTEKILDE #11:
The very-very last edition of the popular zine, consisting only of text. An anthology with contributions by Daniel Milan, Thorgej Steen Hansen, OD Dødsprinsen, Zven Balslev, Jacob Ørsted.
PRESENTATION & DEBATE: WARM AIR, COLD FACTS AND ARTS' RIGHTS
Terms such as censorship, self-censorship and free speech are often used interchangeably in the contemporary debate - not least in the world of art. But the concepts are mixed up and so is the debate. This evening Ph.d. fellow Nanna Thylstrup will explain art’s quite unique position in the Danish legislation, and highlight some of the issues related to the contemporary discussion of censorship. When can you for example talk about censorship? And what exactly is self-censorship? The presentation will take its point of departure in a number of historical examples of art projects that have balanced on the edge of the law, including street art, interventionist art, and iconoclastic art. Finally there will be a panel discussion with lawyer Asger Thylstrup, gallerist Jesper Elg and Steen Svanholm from Dansk Kunstnerråd.
BOOK LAUNCH, PRESENTATION & PERFORMANCE
Art critic Torben Sangild will present his new book "Objektiv sensibilitet" (trans. Objective Sensibility). The book is about feelings, expressions, and objectivity in art from Duchamp’s ready-mades up till today. The book addresses themes such as expression, experience, and autonomy and calls for a revoke of the old divide between perception, thought, and feeling. The event will end with a rap performance by Goodiepal.
Come along for the lounge atmosphere and the electronic music.
CONVERSATION
Jakob Jakobsen will introduce and discuss the overall programme around Billed Politik (trans. Image politics) - a project that addresses the potential of the image as a political tool, both within visual arts, films and theatre - in a conversation with art historian Mikkel Bolt. Besides the exhibition the project includes two books, a film programme, a seminar and the play AFKAK where Jakob Jakobsen have chosen to invite the audience on a bus trip arround Nørrebro, from Mjølnerparken to Brorsons Kirke ending at Blågårds Plads.
PERFORMANCE – VAMPIRE TALK PART 2
Trine Mee Sook Gleerup presents the second part of her performance trilogy, Vampire Talk which deals with the interrelationship and the convergence of identities between
the vampire and the transnational adoptee. In the interface of race, globalization, representation and colonialism, the performance thematises internalized racism, identity, ‘otherness’, international adoption, sex and family relations, in an enlightening, ironic and semi-autobiographical way.
SCREENING AND CONCERT
Jeanette Hillig will show the documentary "Never Not an Artist" about the American artist Richard Tuttle.and give an introduction to the exhibition. The evening will be embraced by a musical reinterpretation of the piece "Helas Avril" by the Medieval Italian composer Matteo da Perugia. Countertenor: Valdemar Villadsen, cello: Live Johansson, toy piano: Lasse Schwanenflügel Piasecki.
CONVERSATION - CURATING AND PERFORMATIVITY
Curator Dorothea Jendricke (DE) and artists Thomas Kratz (DE) and Ryan Siegan-Smith (UK) will talk about performativity and curatorial practice. The conversation takes its point of departure in the exhibition "Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line"which opens 3 March at Malmö Konsthall. The exhibition is curated by Dorothea Jendricke and Thomas Kratz and Ryan Siegan-Smith are among the participating artists.
Dorothea Jendricke currently resides in Malmö invited by Residency Far Away So Close and will take up the position as director of Neue Aachener Kunstverein in April 2010.
The conversation will be in English.
BOOK LAUNCH AND SLIDE SHOW
Visual artists Randi & Katrine will launch their new book The House in your Head with slides, coffee, and cake. The book shows a collection of anthropomorphic houses, which resemble human faces. Two openings in a facade is all that is needed to evoke the perception of a face and the feeling of a pair of eyes looking at us. The book is connected to Randi & Katrine’s installations at Gl. Strand in Copenhagen, 2008, and Gallery Factory in Seoul, South Korea, 2009.
BOOK LAUNCH, PRESENTATION AND FILM SCREENING
Artist Nanna Debois Buhl will present her new artist’s book A Journey in Two Directions in conversation with curator and art historian Louise Wolthers along with a screening of her film Looking for Donkeys. Drinks will be served. The book displays Buhl’s recent works examining Denmark's colonial past in the intersection of Afro-Caribbean, American, and Danish histories, and takes us on a journey through archives and streetscapes, islands and museums. The book includes contributions from Naja Marie Aidt, Johanna Burton, Edgar O. Lake, Thomas J. Lax, Tone Olaf Nielsen, and Louise Wolthers and is designed by Anni’s, published by Revolver Publishing. In the 15 min. film, the artist traces the Danish colonial history on the Virgin Islands through her search of the 400 feral donkeys on the island of St. John, brought there by the Danish colonizers in the 18th century.
Opening
Welcome at the opening of Jakob Jakobsen’s Image Politics – Fragments of Contemporary History Considered as Tragedy and Jeanette Hillig’s Last Visit to Brøndby Strand.
Work Work
A Completely Normal Exhibition will be added an extra artistic dimension as we set up an evening with events addressing a normal as well as a more divergent audience. Being an ordinary person is about being more than just yourself. The grassroots organisation “Os Almindelige Mennesker” (trans. ”We the Ordinary People”) (aka Ulla Hvejsel) invite people from all stratums of society to an educational pep talk with hints and methods on how to perpetrate self-deception. The evening also offers a performance by the Swedish artists Catti Brandelius and Anna Kinbom who constantly change characters and employ alter egos in order to shatter the limits of what is normally considered ordinary. We guarantee a night beyond the usual when we round off A Completely Normal Exhibition.
Performance – What’s Cooking # 9
Helena Hei-Sook Park’s three part cooking performance scrutinizes our idiosyncratic every-day routines. Through a staging and distortion of a housewife’s cooking session an otherwise intimate and closed space is opened and turned inside out. With 25 Primus stoves, rice, a black cape, and fruity ice cubes the performance focuses on the multitasking hostess, the female psyche, and religious fusions.
Helena Hei-Sook Park is kindly supported by The Danish Visual Arts Agency
Performance – Så ti dog stille! (trans. Be Quiet!)
The ordinary and the notion of ”the silent majority” will be examined and elaborated anew when artist Ulla Hvejsel invite the audience to a general educational performance. An expert in silence with great experience in holding back views has been invited by ”the silent majority” in order to quietly initiate the people, who are able to hear, the considerations about ways in which to be quiet. In other words the performance will be a hushed celebration of the potential of the ordinary and silence.
Book Launch – Den lille røde kunstbog (trans. Little Red Art Book)
Michael Norre’s Den lille røde kunstbog revolves around the intentions behind the artistic practice and how it inevitably is connected to our society and living conditions when art is interesting at any rate. Furthermore the book is about how styles and trendy philosophies come and go – the grand scale narratives and the smaller ones. Boiled down it could also be: Malerei mit einem aber dabei! Diamond Docs Press, 100 pages, 95 paintings, and quotations, in pocket-book format. For more information please visit www.dkart.dk
CONVERSATION
Who represents death?
A dialogue about the gravestone between the test subject from Das Beckwerk and former bishop Jan Lindhardt.
The conversation will be in Danish.
RECORD RELEASE AND CONCERT
The experimental Copenhagen-based company Escho documents moments of spontaneity, file the transitory and offer new, unusual and vibrant sounds from Denmark and beyond. Escho invite all interested to the release of the long awaited LP compilation Æsjo. The album contains 19 unreleased tracks
from Escho’s songbook. On this festive occasion Thulebasen, Iceage, Kim Las, Olieidol, and Lamburg Tony will give live performances. Two new records with the idiomatic titles 2004-2009 vol. 1 and 2 by Mit Nye Band will also be released at this indulgent event. Please visit www.escho.net for more information.
SEMINAR: SUBURBS, ART AND ARCHITECTURE
On the occasion of the book launch of "SOUP – A Temporary Art and Architecture Project in Urbanplanen", Overgaden and CPH:DOX will host a seminar on the role contemporary art may play in urban development. Apart from a presentation of the SOUP project itself, Dutch artist Jeanne van Heeswijk, German architect and curator Sonja Beeck, and Irish artist and writer Mick Wilson will all give lectures. This will be followed by a critical discussion on the potential and obstacles of socially engaged art moderated by philosopher Kristoffer Weiss. The seminar continues under CPH:DOX’ wings throughout the day. For further information please visit www.cphdox.dk. Please note that the seminar will be held at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Kgs. Nytorv 1.
PERFORMANCE : THE CATALYST X
Yvette Brackman's (US/DK) performance The Catalyst X takes over where Bertolt Brecht left off with his learning plays. The performance takes as its starting point events which have taken place on the Russian Kola peninsula in the last few years. The project consists of video, sound, and a play written by Brackman, and explores themes of globalization, repression and the cultural survival of indigenous groups living in Northwest Russia.
PRESENTATIONS AND DEBATE: IDENTIFICATION OF TERRAIN VAGUE
What happens when cities and people change their values, content, and opinions? Most people have heard of public housing areas but have never been there – or have suppressed that they have. We no longer know what places like Farum Midtpunkt and Avedøre Stationsby really contain only that they need to be thoroughly reconsidered. Architect and chairman of Docomomo Ola Wedebrunn, artist Mette Kit Jensen, and museum director Poul Sverrild from Cultural Heritage municipality Hvidovre will give presentations and hereafter open the debate.
BOOK LAUNCH
In 2007 Henrik Vibskov and Andreas Emenius started working on 'The Fringe Projects' – a series of ten projects which have unfolded in magazines, museums, and in a restaurant in cities such as Copenhagen, Zurich, Milan, Paris, Rotterdam, and Tokyo. Everything is gathered in the book which will be launched Vibskov-Emenius-style.
Vibskov & Emenius is a collaborative art project of Henrik Vibskov and Andreas Emenius, both graduates from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. In 2007, they began working on 'The Fringe Projects' - ten works in form of installations, sculptures, performances, video, and self-portraits, exploring illusion, surface, and movement.
All ten fringe projects, the production process including sketches and an essay by Hannah Heilmann, have been compiled in the book 'The Fringe Projects 1-10' (144p Episodes Publishers). It was published in conjunction with their exhibition at Zeeuws Museum in Middelburg, the Netherlands in 2009.
PRESENTATIONS AND DEBATE: ART IN THE SUBURB
On the occasion of the International Architecture Day in Copenhagen Overgaden hereby invites you to two presentations and a debate on the challenges that are associated with art projects in the concrete surburbs. First the artists Lise Skou and Lasse Lau will talk about their current exhibition Building Democracy – Mapping the Real. The two artists are interested in how the modernistic city planning has evolved from utopia to reality and has succumb to social and political conditions. Then Kenneth A. Balfelt will talk about the projects he has made in public housing areas and discuss the socially interventionist art’s possibilities and pitfalls. The debate will follow.
The event is supported by Arkitekturens Dag
RECORD RELEASE AND CONCERT
NSOM is an orchestra of 35 participants conducted by sound artists Michael Mørkholt and Anders Lauge Meldgaard, using simple graphical scores and systems to apply the programmed premises of computer music to the analogue and acoustic orchestra and the organic nature of the orchestra to computer music. NSOM is releasing an interactive LP box set with four records. Not a traditional music release, but a do-it-yourself music kit. The records contain loops, parallel tracks, empty grooves etc. It's a non-static release with never-ending mixing options that instigate the listener to gather her own compositions from the listening material. At this reception the music pieces in the box will be played along side the live orchestra that recorded the material.
Mobile cinema
The caravan from the exhibition Building Democracy – Mapping the Real that has been used as a mobile film studio on the journey through Europe will turn into a satellite cinema and visit different suburbs around Copenhagen. The caravan will end up at Storkespringvandet, where Lise Skou and Khaled Barakeh will screen four films.
Lecture
The newly published and favourably reviewed book "Broderskabet. Den eksperimenterende Kunstskole 1961-69" (trans. "The Brotherhood. The experimenting Art School 1961-69") written by Lars Morell is the framework for this evening’s lecture. Morell will talk about his book and the art life of the 1960’s, which with its happenings, pop art, minimalism, concept art and social experiments is a prerequisite of the contemporary art scene.
Seminar
Graffiti is an expression everyone know and most people have an opinion about. The opinions however usually divide into two - those who are for and those who are against! To reflect upon graffiti as a part of contemporary visual culture, and pay interest to it´s potentials are most often not part of a public debat. With the seminar we take graffiti seriously as a cultural phenomenon which has been a consistently developing part of cities since the early 1970s.
The seminar consists of three presentations followed by a discussion. For more information see www.overgaden.org and www.fastvideo.dk/pixel
