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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New exhibition at SPECTA Gallery

22 Feb 2018

Group show opening February 22 at Gallery SPECTA, Peder Skrams Gade 13 DK - 1054 Copenhagen K.

altered still o(h)n no mr. B.

More on: specta.dk

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Performance lecture: "O(h)n no mr. B"

09 Dec 2017

O(h)n no mr. B.
- A question of stepping into character with a risk of (sudden) disappearance

At the finissage of the exhibition I would prefer not to, December 9, 3.30pm at meter, Copenhagen, I will be giving a performance lecturer:

In the performance lecture o(h)n no mr. B. Marie Thams again addresses Bartleby, the protagonist of Melville's short story Bartleby the Scrivener (1853).
With o(h)n no mr. B. Thams aims to tackle the possible no, which Bartleby testifies to. With point of departure in their initial meeting in 2010 she looks at the development of her investigations and interest for Bartley's “preferring not to” until today, zooming in on the possibility to act in negation. With renewed focus on her original question to Bartleby: "What did you do before stopping doing so?", the mood is marked by continued insistence on ungraspable production and human “unproductive” will (seen in the light of the late-capitalist logics of the labour market), now joint with a call for action to mr. B.

altered still o(h)n no mr. B.
Altered still from projection, "O(h)n no mr. B.", Marie Thams 2017

Invitation and program from meter:
We invite you to join us for a day with performance lecture, live music, meditations and a bit of christmas spirit in the form of apple fritters and glögg to mark the ending of half a year trying to prefer not to.

Program:
1-3pm - meditation over art(work)
with Anu Ramdas & Kristoffer Ørum
Tickets can be purchased at Billetto.dk or at the door and cost 20 dkr.

3.30pm - O(h)n no mr. B.
- A question of stepping into character with a risk of (sudden) disappearance
Performance lecture by Marie Thams
Free of charge.

4.15-5pm - apple fritters and glögg

5.15 - Superman pt.0.2 - live sound by Peter Birkholm
Free of charge.

Supported by the Danish Arts Foundation & the City of Copenhagen

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