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DECEMBER 07

SWEDEN A 16-channel sound installation of the work "SPHERE" will be shown at the exhibition "Let There Be Light" Konsthallen in Luleå, Sweden Nov 10 - Dec 9.



NOVEMBER 07

GERMANY Concert at LABOR SONOR Berlin Nov. 5th.

SWEDEN A 16-channel sound installation of the work "SPHERE" will be shown at the exhibition "Let There Be Light" Konsthallen in Luleå, Sweden Nov 10 - Dec 9.

DENMARK. I am invited by Juliana Hodkinson to speak at the University of Copenhagen. I will also be speaking at Designhøjskolen in Jutland. Nov 19th & 20th



OCTOBER 07


SWEDEN Performance & talk at GAS in Gotenburg, Oct 6th

AUSTRIA '4 Rooms' at Steirishcer Herbst Festival in Graz, Oct 10th

DENMARK Creation of new work - NAT - in collaboration with visual artist Bjørn Staal. NAT will be performed live at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek as part of the Copenhagen Culture Night Oct 12th

GERMANY The exhibition 'Transterritoriale Generation' will be featuring the foto series HOTEL CHORNOBYL. At the KHM, Cologne, October 12th - 25th.

DENMARK Contributing with a sound work for the exhibition "SALON #1 -Dansk Kunst NU!" at the auction house LAURITZ.COM. The exhibition takes place at LAURITZ KUNSTHAL from Oct 25th.

SPAIN Performance at SONIKAS, Madrid. Oct 28th

HOLLAND AION is exhibited at OFF SCREEN - spatial soundings & silent musicalities. Arranged by Nederlands Media Art Institute Aug 25th - Oct 7th.



SEPTEMBER 07

DENMARK. LABYRINTHITIS is the title of Jacob Kirkegaard's new sound work which is based on sounds from his own ear. Commissioned work by the Medical Museion in Copenhagen. LABYRINTHITIS will be officially premiered in Copenhagen on September the 2nd. Read a more HERE

TURKEY. New work to be created and presented at THE HALL. Part of the TRIANGLE PROJECT and the ISTANBUL BIENNIAL. Istanbul Sep. 7th - 9th

AION is exhibited at Paraflows 07, Vienna Austria. September 13th-23rd

LATVIA. I will be creating a new work -VANSU- together with Leif Elggren for the project SKAN in Riga. Sep 28th

HOLLAND. New work for the ZXZW festival in Tillburg. Sep 23rd.


HOLLAND. AION is exhibited at OFF SCREEN - spatial soundings & silent musicalities. Arranged by Nederlands Media Art Institute Aug 25th - Oct 7th.



AUGUST 07

DENMARK. A new Danish horror film 'KOLLEGIET' by Martin Barnewitz with electricity sounds by Jacob Kirkegaard. The film is produced by Nordisk Film. Premiered at the cinema Metropol in Copenhagen August 10th. (KOLLEGIET is also on Myspace)

HOLLAND. AION is exhibited at OFF SCREEN - spatial soundings & silent musicalities. Arranged by Nederlands Media Art Institute Aug 25th - Oct 7th.

DENMARK. New music for 'PRODUCT' - a radio drama monolgue written by Mark Ravenhill. To be performed live at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, August 31st. Read more HERE and HERE.



JULY 07

DENMARK. Roskilde Festival. Participating with a one-hour track for the lake. Bathing guests can listen with their ears under water.

UK. Performance at Cecilia Wee's event Rational Rec in collaboration with the London Musician's Collective, London. July 3rd.

KALININGRAD/RUSSIA. Residency 'Acoustic Diagnostic' at the National Centre for Contemporary Arts.



JUNE 07

IRAN. "Eldfjall - live in NYC" will be featured at the exhibition "...I am longing for and I don't know what..." in Gallery "House of Artists" and "Gallery Tarahane Azad" in Tehran. Curated by Leila Pazooki Between 15th - 21st.



MAY 07

BELGIUM AION is being exhibited at Courtisane Festival in Gent. May 3-6.



APRIL 07

USA. 'BROADWAY'. New commisioned work for the Swiss Institute in New York City. The exhibition runs from March 20th to May 1st.

GERMANY. For RADIO TESLA I will be presenting some of my earlier works such as the radio piece 'Heaven-Turned Eye' (Collaboration with Gry Bagøien) and 'Loop Tower' (Sound recordings of the spinning mechanism of the Berlin TV tower) and more. I will also play the concert: 'TonLage'. TESLA April 18th & 20th

GERMANY. AION live at AUSLAND in Berlin. April 19th

GERMANY. Playing at KULTURBUNKER in Cologne Germany April 28th



MARCH 07

DENMARK. Presenting AION at Torben Sangild's seminar LYD-RUM. The seminar takes place at the Royal Academy of Architecture, Copenhagen March 9th.

USA. BROADWAY. Freelance curator Marie Koelbaek Iversen has initiated my collaboration with the Swiss Institute in New York City , who have kindly invited me to create a new work for their gallery. The work BROADWAY is named after the Swiss Institute's location in Manhattan. The exhibition will be shared with photographer Georg Gatsas. Opening reception is March 20, 6 - 8 PM or from 9 - 10 PM (See web) The exhibition runs til May 7th.

USA. Concert for dry ice and light bulbs. I will be playing together with Jeff Surak at Warehouse Next Door in Washington DC, March 22nd.

ITALY. A collaboration with the Italian director Italo Nunziata setting up an opera composed of two opera pieces in one act, 'Erwartung' by Schönberg and 'Francesca da Rimini' by Rachmaninov. My contribution to this opera -which will be about hell- will be entirely visual (video projection). Besides from the opera team of Teatro la Fenice, two other artists, Marzia Migliora and Hannu Palosuo, will attend. Teatro La Fenice, Venice. Italy. First performance will happen on March 16th and the last happens on the 24th.

BELGIUM. 4 ROOMS/AION. Presented by Odradek in collaboration with De Witte Zaal. The concert happens at De Witte Zaal, Posteernestraat 64 in Ghent. Mar 30th

HOLLAND. 4 ROOMS/AION. Concert. IMPAKT FESTIVAL, Utrecht Mar 31st
See interview in the Dutch net magazine KRAAK (Dutch language)



FEBRUARY 07

GERMANY. MUSIK IN DEN HÂUSERN DER STADT. Solo performance. Organized by Kunstsalon in Cologne. Kunstraum BLAST. Cologne Germany, Feb 3rd

LATVIA. One of the two kings of Elgland-Vargaland Leif Elggren meets with Minister of the Ministry Appearing and Disappearing Lands Jacob Kirkegaard, to celebrate KREV hymns being played live through the wires of the bridge; Vansu tilts. Riga Feb 8th - 10th.

PRAGUE. AION to be presented at Skolská28 Gallery. + I will be holding a workshop at the film academy FAMU. The workshop will be held together with John Grzinich from Poland. Opening on the 16th & lectures and workshop on the 17th & 18th.

GERMANY. GRUEN. The animation film Grün made by Niky Bilder with music by Jacob Kirkegaard is shown at the Berlinale 2007

HUNGARY. Presenting the 6th Freq-Out installation for the Dreamlands Burn exhibition at Mücsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest Hungary. The work will be crated on site and opening of the exhibition is February 23rd. Dreamlands Burn is kindly supported by Danish Art Council.



JANUARY 07

THAILAND. We are happy to present the 5th Freq-Out installation in cooperation wih The Land Foundation in Chiang-Mai Thailand. The work will be created on site and opening of the exhibition is January 13th. My travel grant is generously sponsored by the Danish Arts Council's Committee for Visual Arts.

NORWAY. AION will be part of the at the group exhibition "The Air Is Wet With Sound". It is arranged by the brand new gallery REKORD in Oslo. Opening is on Jan 19th, 7 pm.

BRAZIL. AION is exhibited at "Zeitgenössische Analogie – Brasilien Deutschland“ in Brazil. Cooperation: Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC), Goethe-Institut São Paulo, Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM). Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil 26.01.2007 – 25.02.1007. Opening on January 25th

 

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