VIDEO FEATURES
Sometimes it makes no sense to explain one's own work. Recorded in France, 2015
Film about Jacob Kirkegaard. Produced by JJ FILM in collaboration with New Carlsberg Foundation. Year: 2025. Director: Henrik Lundø, producer: Mads Jørgensen, Editor: Henrik Lundø. Duration: 05:35. Language: Danish with English subtitles. Thanks to HOFOR.
VOICES: Cipto (Jakarta, Indonesia, 2024). A film by Jacob Kirkegaard.
This video premiered as part of a compilation of videos on waste worker voices at a session hosted by The Circulate Initiative at the UN Responsible Business and Human Rights Forum, Asia-Pacific.
Waste worker interviewed: Cipto from Jakarta, Indonesia. With thanks to Mahija Parahita Nusantara Foundation. Video created by Jacob Kirkegaard with footage provided by fondlab
MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles: Climate Conversations: Fluid States
The MOCA Climate Conversations series seeks to create a space for collective learning and dialogue, providing a platform for engaging with pressing topics, fostering awareness, and inspiring action around the diverse facets of climate, culture, and environmental justice.
Session 1: Artist-Led Activism Isfald (Excerpt) by Jacob Kirkegaard. This sound work captures the deep booms of calving icebergs and the high pitched crackling of melting ice. Commissioned for the Louisiana Museum and recorded in Greenland in 2013. Excerpted work is courtesy of the artist.
Island Eye Island Ear - Julie Martin interviews Margaretha Åsberg, LIAF2024
Inuk Silis Høegh & Jacob Kirkegaard – artist talk about The Green Land. Nordatlantens Brygge, 2023.
Simultan Festival: ""...on our way back, the boat vibrates with the force of the engines from the Water Plant,
through an immersive sound composition that will transport you to the heart of Europe's oldest hydropower plant,
performed by Jacob Kirkegaard and created especially for this occasion.
In operation since 1910, the old hydroelectric plant in Timisoara generates electricity from the Bega River
and is considered a notable example of industrial architecture from the 1900s. Using sensor recordings of the plant's
essential mechanical structure and live underwater recordings from the powerful Bega river, Kirkegaard has crafted a
hypnotic soundscape that captures the interplay between man-made technology and the natural world.
Sonic Narratives, Simultan Festival, Timisoara, Romania, 2023
Artist talk: Jacob Kirkegaard, Danish Sound Artist: "The Sound of Waste"
Association of Jersey Architects / AJA Public Talks, Jersey Island, 2023
VOICES: Empowering waste workers on the path to a just transition
This video premiered at a side event focused on waste worker voices co-hosted by The Circulate Initiative and UN-Habitat in Nairobi during the third session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-3) to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment.
Individual video credits:
Vietnam Video by The Circulate Initiative Waste worker interviewed: Nguyen Thi Thanh Thuy from Binh Dinh, Vietnam. With thanks to the United Nations Development Programme. Video created by Jacob Kirkegaard with footage provided by Do Khuong Duy. South Africa Video by UN-Habitat Interviewee: Patrick Sphiwo from Johannesburg, South Africa. With thanks to African Reclaimers Organisation. Video created by Jacob Kirkegaard. India Video by The Circulate Initiative Interviewee: Kumuda from Bengaluru, India. With thanks to Hasiru Dala Innovations. Video created by Jacob Kirkegaard with footage provided by Vaishali Bhatia. Nigeria Video by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Interviewee: Friday Oku from Lagos, Nigeria. With thanks to the Association of Scraps and Waste Pickers of Lagos. Video created by Jacob Kirkegaard.
Testimonium 8-channel sound installation - ADK, Berlin, 2023
Jacob Kirkegaard - THE LAND, 2022
Field recordings for Permanent Cloud. Recording at data center in Germany, 2022
The Royal Life Guards Music Band (Denmark) plays Crossfire by Jacob Kirkegaard.
Klang Festival, Live at the Royal Theatre, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2022
Crossfire, 2022
Jacob Kirkegaard recording the sound of butterflies for his multi-channel piece Chaos Edge. Botanical Garden in Copenhagen, Denmark, Summer 2022
Field recordings for 'The Land' at Danish farm, 2021
Onassis Foundation: Jacob Kirkegaard live at Borderline Festival, Athens, Greece, 2021
Field recordings for 'Crossfire' with the Danish Armed Forces, 2021
"When I listen, I have to be quiet. Sound Artist Jacob Kirkegaard"
LOUISIANA CHANNEL, Denmark 2021
Jacob Kirkegaard's solo exhibition "Mellem Rum" at Museum Sønderjylland, Tønder, 2021
Jacob Kirkegaard: Some say the world will end in fire, Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark, 2020
Portrait of artist Jacob Kirkegaard and the making of TESTIMONIUM
This portrait was created by John Grzinich on ocassion of the exhibition "NOT out of
sight, NOT out of mind", Spring 2019
Island Eye Island Ear
Julie Martin introduces Variation VII / Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark, 2019
TOPOS and Julie Martin performs John Cage's Variations VII at Copenhagen Contemporary, DK, 2019.
TOPOS were Jacob Kirkegaard, Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard and Tobias Kirstein.
Documental | Encuentro Tsonami 2019 | Practicas Sonoras en Contextos de Crisis. Valparaiso, Chile, 2019
Jacob Kirkegaard - Eustachia for 18 Ears, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2019
Jacob Kirkegaard - OPUS MORS live excerpt @ Simultan, Timișoara, Romania 2019
Kryptogen Rundfunk & Jacob Kirkegaard - Sound Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, May 2019
Excerpt of Jacob Kirkegaard's choir piece 'Morgue' composed for BLOOM -
Festival for Nature and Science in Copenhagen. 'Morgue'' was performed at the
Cisterns by two choirs simultaneously; ARS NOVA Copenhagen and Allegrokoret, May 2019
Jacob Kirkegaard playing Testimonium - Sound Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, May 2019
Sine sweep for 10 oscillators (Excerpt) by Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard & Jacob Kirkegaard. Aarhus, 2019
Alt & Intet solo exhibition at ARoS, 2018
Jacob Kirkegaard: Alt & Intet. Solo exhibition at ARoS, Aarhus, Denmark 2018
Jacob Kirkegaard: The sound installation 'Transmission' for the exhibition Tale of an Ocean, Cartagena, Spain, 2018
We like We & Jacob Kirkegaard: Time is Local. A 12-hour long piece composed for and at
Thorvaldsens Museum in Copenhagen. Part of G((o))ng Tomorrow Festival, November 2017.
'Vestindiske Forestillinger' by Jacob Kirkegaard & Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard, Overgaden, Copenhagen, 2017
Aarhus Pigekor rehearsing Jacob Kirkegaard's 'Eustachia for Voices', Aarhus, Denmark 2017
Jacob Kirkegaard at Sonic Topographies, Greece, 2015
Jacob Kirkegaard in postmatters, nyc, 2014. Early awareness of sound.
Jacob Kirkegaard: Solámok. Excerpt from Rehearsal at Ribe Domkirke, Rued Langaard Festival, 2014
Jacob Kirkegaard at Centro Cultural São Paolo, Brazil, 2014
Video of Jacob Kirkegaard's sound installation 'Tørst' Denmark, 2013
Darren Almond & Jacob Kirkegaard Interview: Beyond the Arctic Void, Louisiana Channel, Louisiana - Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, 2013
Metal Machine Merkato, Jacob Kirkegaard in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2012
Else Marie Pade & Jacob Kirkegaard talking at her home, August 2012
Live at RoboClub #2, DK, 2011
Roskilde Unheard, Jacob Kirkegaard's sound installation for Roskilde Festival, 2010
Loop Tower at Vacant, Tokyo, Japan, 2010
Live excerpt from Lydia Lunch & Jacob Kirkegaard at the Marble Church, Copenhagen, 2010
Lydia Lunch & Jacob Kirkegaard: Noumena. From the album Forget to Breathe, Spain, 2010
JG Thirlwell & Jacob Kirkegaard exploring Booming Dunes / Singing Sands, Oman, January 2009
Trailer for the performance 'Rusland' by Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt,
with soundtrack by Jacob Kirkegaard. Nyaveny, Copenhagen, 2009.
Live excerpt from from Jacob Kirkegaard live at NS16 during ZXZW in Tilburg, Holland, 2007
VANSU. Leif Elggren & Jacob Kirkegaard, SKAN festival, Riga, Latvia, September 2007
Festival Numero-Projecta__9_Nov06, Lisbon, 2006
Jacob Kirkegaard recording VLF / Natural radio of the Northern Lights vs. Aurora Borealis, Iceland, 2004
Jacob Kirkegaard, video for his track '1201 København' (From the album 01.02, January 2003), 2001
Æter - Jacob Kirkegaard & Gry Bagøien. Vandliljer. Music video by Morten Meldgaard, 1999.
'Words on Wires' by Æter - Jacob Kirkegaard & Gry Bagøien.
Black Balloon. Æter - Jacob Kirkegaard, Zaki Hyrland & Gry Bagøien, Live in Copenhagen, 1998
"Månen" by Æter - Jacob Kirkegaard, Zaki Hyrland & Gry Bagøien, Live at Anorak, Berlin, June 1997
Æter - Jacob Kirkegaard, Zaki Hyrland & Gry Bagøien, Live at KuLE, Berlin, Germany, June 1997
A New Youth - interview, 1989
A New Youth - Råhede Rock (live), 1989. A New Youth were: Henrik Sørensen (Vocals), Jacob Kirkegaard (Guitar), Mads Eskildsen (Drums).
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