Marie Thams

Den umulige ikke-handling, af Maria Bordoff

01 Oct 2015

Som led i min aktuelle udstilling Handlingens resonans (dobbelt udstilling med Maj Hasager) på Viborg Kunsthal, har forfatter Maria Bordoff skrevet en perspektiverende og samlende tekst "Den umulige ikke-handling"

Plakat og tekst kan findes på tryk på udstillingen - og kan downloades som pdf her eller læs ved at klikke på billederne.

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For my current exhibition Handlingens resonans [The resonance of action] at Viborg Kunsthal (a two-person show with Maj Hasager), writer Maria Bordoff has written a text that puts our exhibition into perspective and links the two artists' work together.

English translation of the text below.

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Alt_Cph - Copenhagen's art fair focusing on artist run space

12 Sep 2015

This weekend - September 12 & 13 the tenth edition of Alt_Cph is happening - a Copenhagen art fair with focus on artist run spaces.
I will be contributing to two projects: as part of the Work Book by Hour Editions and in contemporary address' project bygninger with a letter performance. Read the descriptions of the projects below:

Work Book

Francis Patrick Brady
Kerry Downey
Ditte Ejlerskov
Maj Hasager
Simen J Helsvig
Mount Analogue
Michala Paludan
Christian Camacho Reynoso
Jenny Richards & Jens Strandberg
Marie Thams

Hour Editions is participating in Alt_Cph 2015 the tenth edition of Copenhagen’s art fair focusing on international artist-run platforms for contemporary art.

For the fair we have invited 12 artists to compile a reader based on the themes set out in the Not not work project, namely the complexities of labour, work and production in the contemporary art practice. Existing somewhere between a scrapbook and the conventional anthology of academic writing one might expect, the book will be assembled and bound during the three days of the fair by the visitors. The reader will be available to those who participate in what can be seen as an unwaged internship at Hour Editions for the duration of the production of their copy of the book (approx. 5 minutes).

Hour Projects
Frederiksborgvej 1A, 3tv
2400 Copenhagen NV
Denmark
www.hourprojects.info

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contemporary address

bygninger [buildings]
HCØ Hus
H.C. Ørsteds Vej 69 - Frederiksberg, DK
23.05.15

Lea Løppenthin / Marie Thams
Lars Fynboe / Frederik Hesseldahl
Lotte Løvholm / Maria Bordorff

bygninger [buildings] is a marking of the socio economic dynamics’ impact on cultural life and movement in urban space. the critical reflection builds on the demolishing of a specific building housing artist's workshops and a gallery that will be transformed into a supermarket and a parking lot.
bygninger materializes into a two-sided gesture that centers around a literary piece bygninger created by author Lea Løppenthin on the condition of the specific house. the first sentences from the Løppenthins work has been written on the facade of the building and will remain a "noisy" gesture in the streetscape until the house is torn down. a time lapse video documentation of the demolishing and the deconstruction of the writing will be made available on this site. visual artist Marie Thams has created a conceptual piece consisting of 300 letters addressed to the house with Løppenthin's "bygninger" inside. the piece is performative in that the audience in the exhibition space is invited to take a letter home with them and send it to the address after the house is gone.

contemporary address is an relfective space for artists to dwell on urgent matters in collaboration with curators Maria Bordorff and Lotte Løvholm

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New exhibition: Handlingens resonans

22 Aug 2015

The resonance of action [Handlingens resonans]
Works by Maj Hasager & Marie Thams

August 23 - November 8, 2015
Opening August 22 at 2 - 4 pm
Viborg Kunsthal, Riddergade 8, DK - 8800 Viborg

On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary for women's right to vote in Denmark, Maj Hasager and Marie Thams has let their artistic practices join forces in an exhibition project, where gender and political positioning are the central aspects, and where the action and today's feminism are brought into play.

In the exhibition they let their work – in all their difference – complement each other and together create a whole. The exhibition thus consists of sound pieces, slide projection, archival material and a large spatial installation on the ground floor, as well as historical fragments of text blending with visual, symbolic gestures in Viborg Kunsthal's front garden and a returning performance in the centre of Viborg.

Both artists work continually with political issues: Where Hasager departs from extensive archival research and material in a critical and information-driven view on the writing of history, Thams' approach is a more abstract and visual exploration of her own bodily and political experiences.

As the title puts forward, the exhibition is about taking action, and about the resonance that action creates. It is a clean cut that opens all gates – in order to hold all actions accountable: the individual action, the collective action, history-writing's action, the artists' own action, the Kunsthal's action – even non-action and its resonance is examined. Because even when we do not take action, we act.

For more information on the artists:
Maj Hasager (b. 1977): majhasager.net
Marie Thams (b. 1982): mariethams.com

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