New text published KRITISK MASSE I FLYDENDE FORM?

18 Oct 2018

This one is only in Danish...

KRITISK MASSE I FLYDENDE FORM?
Af Marie Thams

"Kan man tale om en kritisk masse i det billedkunstneriske felt? En masse i det faglige kollektiv, og en masse der opstår i og omkring kunsten i dens fysiske og sanselige dimension, i sit kritiske og diskursive potentiale og i den udveksling der lægges op til mellem værk og publikum? Og kan en opmærksomhed for kunstens kritiske masse være med til at øge forståelsen for hvordan felt og værk allerede agerer politisk? Den masse og det dobbelt-begreb vil jeg gerne rejse sejl for her, som reaktion på diskussionen om hvorvidt kunstnere er aktive nok i samfundsdebatten (igangsat af Kulturministeren på Røddingmødet i august) og for at påpege et stærkt aspekt af kunstens bidrag til, ja netop samfundet. ..."

Udgivet d. 18. oktober 2018 på IDOART.DK

Læs den her: https://www.idoart.dk/blog/kritisk-masse-i-flydende-form

KRITISK MASSE I FLYDENDE FORM, 2018

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Review of "The Object is to Change the Soul"

06 Jun 2018

Review of the exhibition "The Object is to Change the Soul" at Heartland Festibal, written by Nina Wöhlk on KUNSTEN.NU

Read the review "Lyse stemmer og prekære forhold" (only in Danish) here

Within My Voice, 2018

Installation view, Within My Voice, Marie Thams, 2018. 6-channel sound installation.

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New Exhibition – Heartland Festival

30 May 2018

Heartland Temporary - The Object is to Change the Soul.

"Heartland Festival has this year invited curator Iben Bach Elmstrøm to compose an exhibition in Egeskov Castle’s Renaissance Gardens. The exhibition consists of works by four Danish contemporary artists: Ditte Gantriis, Lea Guldditte Hestelund, Marie Thams and Kirsten Astrup.

The exhibition The Object is to Change the Soul is concerned with how we seem to be controlled from the outside, while everything depends on how we control ourselves from within. Four Danish artists are invited to investigate today's seductive tales of individualism and the flourishing subject that is both in body and mind, in energetic transformation and self-development. The artists investigate how we today in Western culture cultivate identity through new forms of presentation and self-realization mechanisms through sculptural works, sound installations and performances. The Renaissance Garden around Egeskov Castle creates a unique scene for the exhibition, as the Renaissance culture’s basic philosophy was based on the cultivation of individualism and presents man as an extraordinary and self-contained creature.

Today, we often operate in different professional contexts, where internal self-management is a crucial quality parameter. We are self-working, self-motivating, and self-improving; we are our own experts, own employers and own entrepreneurs in the discipline of success. The self-production and identity of our time arise through new social exchanges, as well as through ideals and norms that arise as a result of the development of a career society. A rationality best expressed by the English Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: "The Economics are the method - the object is to change the soul," from which the exhibition partially borrows its title.

The exhibition is a survey of how individualism looks in our contemporary age. Despite Michel Foucault's declaration of the death the sovereign subject, Western urban individual subjectivity still flourishes both in body and mind. The individual is set above the collective, in the hunt to cultivate success, competition, and personal distinctiveness. The exhibition aims to give form to a power factor that seems to come from outside, but is imposed from within as psychically internalized desire."
– Iben Elmstrøm, curator

For more infomation:
http://www.heartlandfestival.dk/
http://www.agency.idoart.dk/

programme, Heartland Festival

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