Morten Knudsen
Rika djur is a dramatized compilation of video recordings made between 2002 and 2005 by Sara Sjölin, her close friend and accomplice My, and Sara’s extended family. It uses this rough biographical material to examine communication across generations, technologies and species. The manipulation of the original recordings is minimal and lies mainly with the editing process.
One might label the film a bio-com, edited with a humorous, tender gaze at Sara’s own, as well as her family’s, desire to document and glorify everyday situations and moments. The film is a playful portrait of this desire and a testament to how the camera nourished and magnified the theatrical aspects of a tightly-knit community in a small Swedish town. Sara Sjölin’s practice often relies on highlighting parts of the artistic process that are usually peripheral in a finished work, the leftovers and surplus from the initial desire to make art. In Rika djur she extracts from this a sincere humor, the joy of parallel perspectives. In this way, the film makes these recorded memories seem anticipatory of Sara Sjölin’s current artistic practice, as if they’ve been waiting to be represented.








In the audio piece Eva, direct observation blends with speculation to paradoxically create a connection where there can be none, or one that isn’t known. By putting forth prejudice and passed-on mythological ”knowledge” – basically anthropomorphic – about snakes, it is as if Eva sheds the skin of interspecies relations. Sara’s speech is structured like a message, as on a voicemail, addressing a listener without expecting a response. Here is also a way of making a very concrete and visual description turn abstract, by holding back information about the object described. As it unfolds, this description becomes a narrative about ways of relating to the strange and unfamiliar. On a greater scale, this speech makes us think about how the gap between a domesticated animal and a wild one is bridged by discourse itself.


Stefan Plahn
Stephanie Bech
Banaan Al-Nasser
Frederik Næblerød
Marco Spörle
Interview in the radio: about Ida Retz Wessberg’s two sculptures for the MFA Degree Show 2018 and about the french sculptor Camille Claudel (NB: Sorry, only in danish):
https://www.radio24syv.dk/programmer/croque-monsieur/27555413/billedkunstner-ida-retz-wessberg
Radio-interview: om Ida Retz Wessbergs to skulpturer til Afgang 2018 og om den franske skulptør Camille Claudel:
https://www.radio24syv.dk/programmer/croque-monsieur/27555413/billedkunstner-ida-retz-wessberg

Champion, reversed
2018
(detail of cast in plaster).
Champion, reversed
2018
(detalje, afstøbning i gips).

Camille Claudel (left) and Jessie Lipscomb in their studio in Paris, around 1907.
Camille Claudel (til venstre) og Jessie Lipscomb i deres atelier i Paris, cirka år 1907.

Camille Claudel: La Vague
1897-1903
Onyx Marble, bronze
(Photo from book)
Camille Claudel: La Vague
1897-1903
Onyx marble, bronze
(Foto fra bog)

Filling power
The air
around the down
to fill the jackets
Fyldkraft
Luften
rundt om dunet
til at fylde i jakkerne
Sebastian Hedevang
Panda Politics

Ching Ching (1972 PINGWU – 1985 London)
Photo: David Stjernholm

Jennie (1937 Sichuan – 1937 SS Andre)
Photo: David Stjernholm

Ling-Ling (1970 Baoxing – 1992 Washington D.C.)
Photo: David Stjernholm

Yen Yen (1972 Sichuan – 2000 Vincennes)
Photo: David Stjernholm

Lan Lan (1969 Baoxing – 1979 TOKYO UENO)
Photo: David Stjernholm




Chi-Chi (1955 Sichuan – 1972 London)

Kinga Bartis

Get some sleep.
Don’t give advice.
Take care of your teeth and gums.
Don’t be afraid of anything beyond your control. Don’t be afraid, for
instance, that the building will collapse as you sleep, or that someone
you love will suddenly drop dead.
Eat an orange every morning.
Excerpt from: Ron Padgett, How to be perfect Ron Padgett, “How to Be Perfect” from Collected Poems Copyright © 2013 by Ron Padgett
Get some sleep.
Don’t give advice.
Take care of your teeth and gums.
Don’t be afraid of anything beyond your control. Don’t be afraid, for
instance, that the building will collapse as you sleep, or that someone
you love will suddenly drop dead.
Eat an orange every morning.
Excerpt from: Ron Padgett, How to be perfect Ron Padgett, “How to Be Perfect” from Collected Poems Copyright © 2013 by Ron Padgett

Detail, oil on canvas 6×9 cm
detalje, olie på lærred 6×9 cm


MFA Degree Show Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2018
Afgang Udstilling, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2018

MFA Degree Show Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2018
Afgang Udstilling, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2018
Kristoffer Raasted
1988, The School of Media Arts Skolen for Mediekunst & The Painting Department & Malerskolen http://kristofferraasted.dk https://orchiddomain.github.io/Silver opera
Silver pool
calm
surface
Light blue paint
Silver humming bird
purple feathers
pink feathers
You are onomatopoetica

Great glaciers still covered central america
a mosaic of multi-coloured stones
Glass screens & moveable internal walls
Dynamism of volumes & vertical space

Enigmatic silhouettes,
information-packed
defy easy description.
sometimes /
an intimate measure
of understanding
seems to be floating
in the taste
of the spicy chillies
and curries.

Melon postcards
Mango postcards
Jungle postcards
Postcards&melon
postcards
Garden postcards
Postcards
Podcast from the garden
Passion fruit podcast
Humming bird

Architectural space.
on the outskirts of the capital in a desert of volcanic rock.
clinging closely to the lichen-covered trunk.
It shone in seven bands of colour.

Pattern of circles
the whirlpools in the water
leafs drift by
raindrops draw
a pattern of circles
the light is sepia
earlier today
a beautiful detail
a million falling
drops on the tracks
we took the train
the amber museum is closed
we’ll buy some maxi singles
instead
i’ll follow you back
to the station
we talk in the door
opening

texture in the digital realm
generating sterile
ear dancing
dancing ear
the dot is black
emotions of the voice
acorns
i went to two meetings today
and cleaned two fridges

dust
microphones
Versailles
continous
continually
flowers
flowing
flows
ice flowers
ongoing
isblomst
en sammenhængende
flydende strøm af toner

Silent bamboo
gas silo echo
tonight I feel a lot older
I truly enjoy listening

Dice caleidoscope
ultimatively
royal moments
royalty
eggs
opera cocoon
gut
endless moments
one after the other
enters into your life
from outside of time

Ockie Basgül Dogan
Frederik Worm
The School of Walls and Space + The School of Conceptual and Contextual Practices,
Frederik Worm, ‘Enduring Innocence’, 2018. Detail, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2018.

Frederik Worm, ‘Hedonistic Sustainability’, 2018. Detail, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2018.

Frederik Worm, ‘Hedonistic Sustainability’, 2018. Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2018.

Frederik Worm, ‘Enduring Innocence’, 2018. Detail, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2018.

Frederik Worm, ‘Enduring Innocence’, 2018. Detail, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2018.

Frederik Worm, ‘Enduring Innocence’, 2018. Installation View, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2018.
Emilia Bergmark
emiliabergmark.comHeaven and Earth, 2018
You take a box of instant mashed potatoes and a jar of apple sauce. You open the jar, you twist it, you twist it quite hard. You open it, you empty it out, now if you can’t empty it all out, use a spoon, and then, you add the instant mashed potatoes and then you have Himmel und Erde. Heaven and Earth!
Heaven and Earth is a dish by Anni Albers. It is also the title of Emilia Bergmark’s graduation work from Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, an installation featuring interior elements, sculptures and a monologue by a bitter tea kettle.
All textiles in the installation are generously sponsored by Kvadrat.

‘A bitter tea kettle is a seasonal worker in a life-style cafe at The International Art Space Station that orbits Earth. It is off-season now, so she is back on Earth to have her first exhibition in the art-world. She is an aspiring mixed media artist and her pieces mainly explore motives of edibles, such as vegetables, sandwiches, cheese and ham. However she admits to feeling disappointed with how the show came out. She feels that it is too heavy and a bit stiff, perhaps due to the gravity of the context.’ 1
1.The synopsis for the sound piece ‘Heaven and Earth’, Emilia Bergmark, 2018

‘[Addressing the visitor entering the room] Welcome! Come in! [Paus] Would you like a cookie? They’re Madeleines.
Me? Oh, I’m part of the tea-set. [Gesturing towards the sofa] Sit down! Have a cookie! I usually serve tea in a life-style cafe at The International-Art-Space-Station that orbits Earth – Yes! – a life-style cafe – in space! – It’s a cultural outreach program launched by NASA – to promote contemporary art in outer space. [Paus] But it’s off-season now, and as worker in space I have to come down to Earth at least once a year to avoid OSTEOPOROSIS – that’s when your bones get brittle – living in weightlessness causes bone loss you see [jokingly] – so if I’m not careful I may fall to bits, loose my handle, chip my spout. [Addressing the listener] So, while I’m down here I have to build up my bones again – I just came from a Pilates session at the fitness centre. [Paus. Associating, talking to herself more than to the viewer] As a little teapot I was called short and stout… [Self-pitying] I had terrible body complex after that! [Paus, almost crying] I stopped eating sweets! Madeleine cookies used to be my favourites! [Paus] I.. I didn’t touch them for years!
[Snaps back to service persona, cheerful]… Sorry, did you try the cookies? Go on, have a bite!’2
2. Excerpt from the sound piece ‘Heaven and Earth’, Emilia Bergmark, 2018


‘It’s a potato… yes, it’s a sculpture ‘A Kilo of Potatoes’…’3
3. Excerpt from the sound piece ‘Heaven and Earth’, Emilia Bergmark, 2018

‘What are you looking at? [as if looking around] Yeah – that’s ‘Ham and Cheese and Toast’. [Paus- filler] Eh…
Did-did you ever think about ham? That a slice of ham is a picture of a ham, made of ham. And, did you ever think about vegetarian ham? That vegetarian ham is a picture of a ham… not made from ham.’ 4
4. Excerpt from the sound piece ‘Heaven and Earth’, Emilia Bergmark, 2018

I made a sculpture recently, it’s inspired by Constantin Brancusi’s ‘Bird in Space’ – Do you know that piece? It’s a bronze sculpture – abstract – it communicates the notion of flight itself rather than describing the appearance of any particular bird… or something… [To herself] It could be seen as rather phallic, but perhaps that’s just me… Anyways… I made a sculpture inspired by ‘Bird in Space’. But it’s less abstract… more… Figurative! [Matter a fact] It’s a cucumber. When I was working on it in my room at the space-station I would joke about it and call it [jokingly]’Cucumber in Space’ [paus] But it’s just a joke… Down here it’s bad-taste to joke about Brancusi. It’s all quite serious down here in the art-world I’ve noticed. 5
There it is, the cucumber, it’s over there. [Pointing] Look, just over there!
5. Excerpt from the sound piece ‘Heaven and Earth’, Emilia Bergmark, 2018

Voice: Lisa Lind Dunbar
Music arrangement: Simon Brinck
Recording: Hannibal Andersen
Photo credits: David Stjernholm
THANK YOU: Martin Erik Andersen, Moa Alskog, Aurora Bergmark, Sara Bergmark, Karin Bergmark, Birgit Bergmark, Viktor Billund, Inge Friberg, Raffaele Gallina, Maria Gondek, Karen Harsbo, Maria Lepistö, Olof Olsson,
Henrik Reimann, David Stjernholm, Joel Stoorhöök, Franco Turchi and The Royal Danish Academy for Fine Arts.
The project has been generously supported by the Fund for Immaterial Labour of the Royal Danish Art Academy and Carl Friesendahls Minnesfond. All textiles in the installation are sponsored by Kvadrat.
George Koutsouris
http://georgekoutsouris.com/Materials:
Plastic cable pipes, normal and black MDF, wood, sound absorptive material, acoustic fabric, acrylic mirror, steel fasteners, 8-channel electroacoustic installation, (loudspeakers, microphones, PC, 15’ real-time echo composition), text.
Dimensions variable.
Sponsored by Dietzel Univolt, Dayton Audio, Akustikstoff.com, Homatherm, TræfiberDanmark ApS, Odeon A/S, Rias A/S.
Photo by David Stjernholm.

Photos by George koutsouris.




Photo by David Stjernholm.

Photo by David Stjernholm.

Photo by George Koutsouris.

Photo by David Stjernholm.

Fabian Wigren
1987, The School of Media Arts Skolen for Mediekunst & The School of Media Arts & Skolen for Mediekunst www.fabianwigren.comInheriting Troubles
Video, 25.50 min
In ”Inheriting troubles”, I want to explore the relationship between the documentary filmmaker (me) and the Subject (Towe). I have known Towe for 8 years and been filming her for 7. Towe is diagnosed with Asperger syndrome and ADHD. When I first met her she had given up on the outside world, fed up with the constant misunderstandings and conflicts with her surroundings, she had locked herself up in her apartment. However, through games on facebook, Towe found a new context and new community of friends from all around the world. Filtered through the screen of her laptop the world became clear, exciting and meaningful again.
Growing up with a chronic disease (Rheumatism) and myself being a gamer, I could relate to her situation. Through her story, I could see myself more clearly: a 13-year-old filtering the world through a screen as the reality of the outside was too much. Later, a 20-something aspiring documentarist, trying to make sense of the world through a lens and the screen of a camera. We have a kinship in the choice of alienating ourselves from the outside world. But in the process of making this film, I have become increasingly worried that I will exploit her precarious situation. I have been afraid of the unavoidable, filtering her story through my own gaze and translating it to something else that she can’t relate to. Something that she is not.

Emil Alenius Boserup
Asta Lulu Refn
Louis Scherfig
The School of Walls and Space Skolen for Mur og Rum & The School of Sculpture Charlottenborg & Billedhuggerskolen Charlottenborglouis.scherfig@gmail.com

Photo: David Stjernholm
CRUDE SPACE (XENOGRAPHY), 2018, refrigerators, light diffuser, paint, PET, color print, styrofoam, lights, cables, text.

Photo: David Stjernholm

Photo: David Stjernholm

Photo: David Stjernholm

Photo: David Stjernholm

Photo: David Stjernholm

Photo: David Stjernholm

Lip sync is an installation consisting of sculpture, sound and video depicting the discussion of emotional labour, whith a focus on the usage of the female voice in narrative technologies and urban soundscapes. the female voice as a normative guidence in daily routes, cinema and contemporary video essay. A monolouge script discusses these problematics.

Anna Kristine Holmberg
Louka Anargyros
1992, The School of Language, Space and Scale Skolen for Sprog, Rum og Skala & The School of Sculpture Charlottenborg & Billedhuggerskolen Charlottenborg loukaanargyros@hotmail.frLeatherboys, 2018
painted ceramic


photo by David Stjernholm

photo by David Stjernholm

photo by David Stjernholm

photo by David Stjernholm