Archive of work
Building Democracy, 2009
A Collaborative film project with visual artists Lasse Lau and Khaled Barakeh, sound engineer Max Schneider and cinematographer Alexander Du Prel
First part of the project was realized by travelling with a caravan through European suburbs from June 18 – July 5
Production of 3 collaborative films, later screened outside at public events in the suburbs we worked with.
Exhibited at Overgaden Institute For Contemporary Art, Cph. (DK)
Environmental Justice, 2009
Parade, poster campaign, seminar and exhibition.
From Cph Faelled to Kunsthal Charlottenborg
With Nis Roemer
In collaboration with Marie Gadegaard from Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Project descripion:
Environmental justice refers to inequitable environmental burdens borne by groups such as racial minorities, women, residents of economically disadvantaged areas, or residents of developing nations. Environmental justice proponents generally view the environment as encompassing “where we live, work, and play” (sometimes “pray” and “learn” are also included) and seek to redress inequitable distributions of environmental burdens (pollution, industrial facilities, crime, etc.) and equitably distribute access to environmental goods such as nutritious food, clean air & water, parks, recreation, health care, education, transportation, safe jobs, etc. Self-determination and participation in decision-making are key components of environmental justice. According to a compilation of thoughts by several notable EJ organizations, root causes of environmental injustices include “institutionalized racism; the commodification of land, water, energy and air; unresponsive, unaccountable government policies and regulation; and lack of resources and power in affected communities.
My Land, My Water, 2008
Exhibition: Green Art – Waterways,
At: Salo Museum Of Contemporary Art, Salo (FI)
Landscape is not simply an object to be looked at, but an instrument of cultural Force, A Central Tool In The Creation Of National Identities And The Construction Of Power. Landscapes Exert A Subtle Power Over People, Eliciting A Broad Range Of Emotions And Meanings. The Images In This Film Seem So Familiar. We All Know Them And We Have An Impression Of These Sites Even If We Have Never Been There. [A Two-Channel Videoinstallation. 20:00 Minutes]
Landscape and Power, 2008
With Nis Roemer
Exhibition:
Land Of Human Rights, Rotor, Graz. 2009
Katastrofenalarm, NGBK, Berlin 2008
Woman In Ttansition, 2006
Video performance and installation
Shown at “Her Position in Transition “, Vienna, Austria. Catalogue
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN ART FESTIVAL
Recorded in front of a live audience at Wolke 7. March 5. 2006.
Videoinstallation at Wolke 7 March 6 – March 18. 2006.
Projectdescription:
An interactive video performance.
The audience is asked a set of questions to be answered, translated and repeated by a performance artist sitting in another space connected through a headset. A camera is pointing at her projecting her image in the front space where the audience is sitting. The video projections showing the woman’s face reiterate the audiences answers, leads us to consider that identity and gender is a construction and how this is translated into different cultural and linguistic contexts.
Spatial Resignation, 2006
At Mind the gap
Smack Melon Gallery, DUMBO Brooklyn, NYC (US)
With Lasse Lau
Guest Curators Eva Diaz and Beth Stryker
Also shown at: Secondary Cities, 2005
Rooseum Testsite, Malmø (SE)
Mind the Gap examines the residual spaces of cities: spaces left over as a result of zoning, unclaimed spaces that are taken over for use by marginal communities, ‘dead zones’ deemed un- or underdeveloped by master planners who intend to take over common grounds, and the spaces between spaces that are the unintended by-products of urban and architectural design. This exhibition presents work by artists that considers these residual spaces and so-called ‘urban voids’ as places of particular interest, as sites for invention and do-it-yourself intervention. Through sculpture, photography, video, performance, and urban-scale architectural interventions, these projects amplify and animate the urban void as a space for renegotiating the increasing circumscription of the public sphere.
Recent debates in New York City and elsewhere about the governmental use of eminent domain in annexing public land for private use have pointed to the diminished public control over broad swaths of urban centers. The artists included in this exhibition exacerbate this tendency by occupying, altering, or otherwise testing the motivations and conflicting interests behind urban planning: they ask who formulates such plans and who benefits from them. Hosted by Smack Mellon Gallery in DUMBO, Brooklyn, Mind the Gap is located on one of many waterfront areas in which cycles of deindustrialization, blight, and gentrification— patterns in which “dead zones” feature prominently—have been enacted and challenged. Mind the Gap foregrounds such contestatory practices.
WHO’S NEXT WHAT’S NEXT? 2002
At “FUNDAMENTALISMS – of the new order “
Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK.
Curated by Charlotte Brandt Bagger, Lars Bang Larsen and Cristina Ricupero. Catalogue available.
Poster Campaign in New York and Copenhagen, 2 round-table discussions in Copenhagen and New York respectively, focusing on cultural and historical bonds between different representations of “Otherness”.
Exploring the territory. Questioning the environment, 2002
Exhibiton; Nye Spor i Nørrebroparken
Public Space Nørrebroparken, Cph. (DK).
Curated By: Kirse Junge Stevnsborg
Workshop with 2 local schools, interviews citizens around Nørrebroparken, architecturaal models for a new park in collaboration with students, posters hung in lampposts alongside walking and biking paths in the park.
