'bygninger', letter performance, HCØ Hus, Copenhagen

23 May 2015

HCØ Hus
H.C. Ørsteds Vej 69 - Frederiksberg, DK
23.05.15 17pm

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.

hand drawn facade on envelope

about the artists:
in her work author Lea Løppenthin portrays structures and systems we are surrounded by presenting the reader with a diagnosis of the society.

Marie Thams' work departs from an interest in human intention, will and potential together with an interest in discussing the conditions of the arts and investigate the valuation of artistic activities in today's society.

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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700IS - 10 year anniversary exhibition

22 Jan 2015

New exhibition - in Reykjavík, opening January 22, at the Nordic House.

I'm going back to Iceland for the second half of my residency at 700IS reindeerland - this time to take part in the 10 year anniversary exhibiton of 700IS.

And as artist in residency at 700IS Reindeerland I will be exhibiting the video installation sjálfboðavinna and also present a selection of DK based colleagues, namely Amalie Smith, Maj Hasager and Jóhan Martin Christiansen.

700IS Morphin, invitation and programme

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Book launch - MAKING ROOM

18 Dec 2014

Welcome to the launch of the MAKING ROOM publication
18 December, 2014 at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Oslo Plads 1, DK - 2100 Copenhagen from 5 - 8 pm.
The launch is part of Den Frie's Christmas event - so there will be glögg, happy people and the book will be sold for a reduced price.

For more about the project MAKING ROOM. Nordic Artists, Institutions and Artist Institutions in the Modern Breakthrough and Today see here.

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Let's think of it as actually making room - as a question of re-making, re-arranging, moving matter aside or discarding it, so that other things can come into play. To make new room and to invent other spaces, like adding a balcony to your apartment - making room without taking room - and at the same time gaining a better view.

MAKING ROOM is a symposium, held between October 31 and November 1, 2013 at Den Frie Copenhagen, about the self-organised, about artists, institutions and artists’ institutions, and now also this publication, presenting the reworked and edited versions of talks and papers given at the symposium.

MAKING ROOM combines art historical research with the thinking of present artist-run institutions and their relation to the institutional landscape they operate within. Thus MAKING ROOM briefly forgets the recent past, and connects the self-organised landscape of today’s Nordic countries with an ontological institutional history of the late nineteenth century. MAKING ROOM aims to investigate and discuss the parallels and possible relations between contemporary artist-run spaces and the early artist associations and institutions of the Modern Breakthrough in the Nordic countries.

Contributions Hugo Hopping, Michael Bank Christoffersen, Kitty Corbet Millward, Kristín Scheving, Jan Cox, Mikkel Thelle, Sydhavn Station (Anne Skole Overgaard, Sonja Lillebæk Christensen, Jens Axel Beck and Thorgej Steen Hansen), Honza Hoeck, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, and representing our partner institutions: Anna Scram Vejlby from The Hirschsprung Collection, David Jackson from University of Leeds and Kirse Junge-Stevnsborg from Den Frie.

Organised and edited by Marie Thams and Hannah Heilmann et al.

Teaser MAKING ROOM Publication

The project is supported by:
Grosserer L. F. Foghts Fond
Logo Den Frie
Logo Statens Kunstråd
Logo Novo Nordisk
Logo Arts & Humanities Research Council

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