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6 Big Things to Talk About in 2022 / 2023: The Association of Jersey Architects sponsored by Normans Builders Merchants are excited to announce Jacob Kirkegaard, a Danish Sound Artist is visiting Jersey to give a talk about his project "The Sound of Waste".
Jersey Museum Lecture Theatre, Weighbridge Place, St Helier. Jersey Island. Dec 12.
Art-2023 / Art for a Healthy Planet 2023 with works by James Turrell, Wolfgang Tillmans and Jacob Kirkegaard: The full version of TESTIMONIUM can currently be viewed.
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Jakobe Performing Arts invites you to an artists’ talk on Experiments in Art and Technology by Julie Martin with sounds by Jacob Kirkegaard. Sunday Nov 19 from 2pm to 4pm. Location: Rolfsvej 10, kld. t.h. 2000 Frederiksberg (Copenhagen), DK
Julie Martin is the current director of Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), that was founded in 1966 to provide artists with access to engineers, scientists and new technology. Julie Martin will tell the story of E.A.T., that began in 1966 when a group of ten New York artists, choreographers and composers and thirty engineers and scientists from Bell Telephone Laboratories collaborated on a series of innovative dance, music and theater performances titled "9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering”. Julie will also talk about E.A.T.’s later projects such as the Pepsi Pavilion at Expo ’70 in Osaka, Japan and the realisation of David Tudor’s work “Island Eye Island Ear”. During Julie’s talk, Jacob will play excerpts from sounds recordings of these E.A.T. projects.
Over the last years, Julie and Jacob have worked with her large sound archive creating an audio documentary, “The Story of E.A.T.” They will talk about this collaboration and play excerpts from the chapter on Jean Tinguely’s and Billy Kluver’s collaboration on “Homage to New York,” a large sculpture that destroyed itself in the garden of MoMA in New York in 1960.
Jacob is also working with Julie on releasing sound works from her archive. The live recordings of John Cage’s work at 9 Evenings (Variations VII) as well as recordings from Davids Tudor’s experiments from India 1969 were released on vinyl by TOPOS and it is possible to purchase the vinyl releases at the event as well as to hear excerpts of upcoming releases. Hosted at Jakobe's studio on Frederiksberg. Jakobe TALKs is hosted by Rebekka Bohse Meyer & Jacob Kirkegaard.
Art-2023 / Art for a Healthy Planet 2023 with works by James Turrell, Wolfgang Tillmans and Jacob Kirkegaard: The full version of TESTIMONIUM can currently be viewed.
WASTE WISE CITIES: The United Nations Human Settlement Programme / UN-HABITAT in Nairobi, Kenya has hired Jacob Kirkegaard to develop new sound- and video interviews with waste reclaimers in Johannesburg and Soweto, South Africa. The interview series is part of the United Nation's WASTE WISE CITIES project creating awareness of plastic waste. The videos will be presented at the Intergovernmental Negotiating Commitee in Nairobi, Kenya, November 13-19
Voices of waste reclaimers in Lagos, Nigeria. New videos by Jacob Kirkegaard and executively produced by GIZ for the the Intergovernmental Negotiating Commitee organised by United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi, Kenya, November 13-19
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Jacob performs his two works CROSSFIRE and AION, live, at PARADOKS - Festival for Video Art - at the edges of documentary, Leipzig, Germany, October 13
Art-2023 / Art for a Healthy Planet 2023 with works by James Turrell, Wolfgang Tillmans and Jacob Kirkegaard: The full version of TESTIMONIUM can currently be viewed.
WASTE WISE CITIES: The United Nations Human Settlement Programme / UN-HABITAT in Nairobi, Kenya has hired Jacob Kirkegaard to develop new sound- and video interviews with waste reclaimers in Johannesburg and Soweto, South Africa. The interview series is part of the United Nation's WASTE WISE CITIES project creating awareness of plastic waste. The videos will be presented at the Intergovernmental Negotiating Commitee in Nairobi, Kenya, November 13-19
Voices of waste reclaimers in Lagos, Nigeria. New videos by Jacob Kirkegaard and executively produced by GIZ for the the Intergovernmental Negotiating Commitee organised by United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi, Kenya, November 13-19
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MOCA Climate Conversations: Fluid States: 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. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles USA, Sep 30
For the opening of GOLDEN DAYS FESTIVAL; live performnace of THE LAND by Jacob Kirkegaard. At Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark, Sep 1st.
THE GREEN LAND / ARCTIC CREATURES
The Green Land at Nordatlantens Brygge, Copenhagen, Denmark; June 10, September 10
PERMANENT CLOUD by Jacob Kirkegaard is a new sound and visual installation created especially for Mori Art Museum.
The work captures the sound of humanity's rapidly growing digital memory stored in the mechanical heart of the Cloud.
Jacob Kirkegaard made audio recordings at a massive data center in Germany with sensors placed directly on different parts of its servers. These sounds of the mechanical Cloud are combined with video footage he shot of natural clouds.
Permanent Cloud is installed in a darkened room on the 53rd floor of the Mori Tower. The sound recordings of the Cloud play through four speakers located in the corners of the room. Video recordings of clouds are projected through three parallel semi-transparent hanging projection screens onto the large floor-to-ceiling window at the other end of the room, which is covered by a darkening film. Through this last projection surface can be seen the real clouds and the Tokyo skyline beyond that become integral parts of the work. Mori Art Museum 20th Anniversary Exhibition: World Classroom, Tokyo, Japan. April 19 - September 24, 2023
WASTE WISE CITIES: The United Nations Human Settlement Programme / UN-HABITAT in Nairobi, Kenya has hired Jacob Kirkegaard to develop new sound- and video interviews with waste reclaimers in Johannesburg and Soweto, South Africa. The interview series is part of the United Nation's WASTE WISE CITIES project creating awareness of plastic waste. The videos will be presented at the Intergovernmental Negotiating Commitee in Nairobi, Kenya, November 13-19
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TIME TO LISTEN - The Ecological Crisis in Sound and Music: Presenting 8-channel versions of Testimonium and Landet as installation and Landet performed live at Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany Aug 19-20
THE GREEN LAND / ARCTIC CREATURES
The Green Land at Nordatlantens Brygge, Copenhagen, Denmark; June 10, September 10
PERMANENT CLOUD by Jacob Kirkegaard is a new sound and visual installation created especially for Mori Art Museum.
The work captures the sound of humanity's rapidly growing digital memory stored in the mechanical heart of the Cloud.
Jacob Kirkegaard made audio recordings at a massive data center in Germany with sensors placed directly on different parts of its servers. These sounds of the mechanical Cloud are combined with video footage he shot of natural clouds.
Permanent Cloud is installed in a darkened room on the 53rd floor of the Mori Tower. The sound recordings of the Cloud play through four speakers located in the corners of the room. Video recordings of clouds are projected through three parallel semi-transparent hanging projection screens onto the large floor-to-ceiling window at the other end of the room, which is covered by a darkening film. Through this last projection surface can be seen the real clouds and the Tokyo skyline beyond that become integral parts of the work. Mori Art Museum 20th Anniversary Exhibition: World Classroom, Tokyo, Japan. April 19 - September 24, 2023
WASTE WISE CITIES: The United Nations Human Settlement Programme / UN-HABITAT in Nairobi, Kenya has hired Jacob Kirkegaard to develop new sound- and video interviews with waste reclaimers in Johannesburg and Soweto, South Africa. The interview series is part of the United Nation's WASTE WISE CITIES project creating awareness of plastic waste. The videos will be presented at the Intergovernmental Negotiating Commitee in Nairobi, Kenya, November 13-19
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DVINA, live at KUNSTHAL 44, Møn, Denmark. Part of INTERMEZZO and in collaboration with Riga biennial
DVINA is a portrait in sound of one of Riga’s most important landmarks: the river Daugava. No water sound is used in this work. Instead, vibration sensors were attached to the iron fences along the river. The movement of water, wind and passing ships causes the iron to vibrate. Like leaning an ear to the fences, the sensors attached to the iron invites the listener into the structure of the fences where the massive and endless force and stream of the river unfolds in a resonating microcosm of iron. Originally composed for SKAN Festival in Riga, Latvia, 2007. FB link.
THE GREEN LAND / ARCTIC CREATURES
The Green Land at Nordatlantens Brygge, Copenhagen, Denmark; June 10, September 10
PERMANENT CLOUD by Jacob Kirkegaard is a new sound and visual installation created especially for Mori Art Museum.
The work captures the sound of humanity's rapidly growing digital memory stored in the mechanical heart of the Cloud.
Jacob Kirkegaard made audio recordings at a massive data center in Germany with sensors placed directly on different parts of its servers. These sounds of the mechanical Cloud are combined with video footage he shot of natural clouds.
Permanent Cloud is installed in a darkened room on the 53rd floor of the Mori Tower. The sound recordings of the Cloud play through four speakers located in the corners of the room. Video recordings of clouds are projected through three parallel semi-transparent hanging projection screens onto the large floor-to-ceiling window at the other end of the room, which is covered by a darkening film. Through this last projection surface can be seen the real clouds and the Tokyo skyline beyond that become integral parts of the work. Mori Art Museum 20th Anniversary Exhibition: World Classroom, Tokyo, Japan. April 19 - September 24, 2023
WASTE WISE CITIES: The United Nations Human Settlement Programme / UN-HABITAT in Nairobi, Kenya has hired Jacob Kirkegaard to develop new sound- and video interviews with waste reclaimers in Johannesburg and Soweto, South Africa. The interview series is part of the United Nation's WASTE WISE CITIES project creating awareness of plastic waste. The videos will be presented at the Intergovernmental Negotiating Commitee in Nairobi, Kenya, November 13-19
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A 20-minute version live performance of Kirkegaard's THE LAND (LANDET in Danish) - a pulsating and immersive work composed from sound- and vibration recordings of the mechanical aspects of Danish agriculture. Recorded on a pig- cattle- and a chicken farm, as well as at the ‘Danish Crown' pig slaughter house, detailed sensor recordings of the vibrating, roaring machinery of agriculture invites the listener out to the land and into an incessant, almost hypnotizing universe of sound; a condition that the endless pulse of the food industry generates. KØS Klub Sommerfest. KØS, Køge, June 10 (2pm-4pm)
OPENING: THE GREEN LAND / ARCTIC CREATURES
You are invited to the festive openings of this summer's two exhibitions The Green Land / Arctic Creatures.
Nordatlantens Brygge, Copenhagen, Denmark; June 10, 2023, at 3pm.
ARTIST TALK – Inuk Silis Høegh and Jacob Kirkegaard
Meet the visual artist Inuk Silis Høegh (GL) in conversation with sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard (DK) on the film installation The Green Land: During the recording of The Green Land Inuk Silis Høegh invited the sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard to collaborate. As Inuk Silis Høegh needed to entrust the sound of his film to another artist with challenging perspectives, no one better for the task is Jacob Kirkegaard, whom have recorded sound from everything in-between Greenland’s ice cap, Trump’s wall in Mexico, dead bodies and landfills. How did the collaboration develop between an artist with a loss of hearing, and a sound artist’s microphone recording the almost inaudible. How did they in collaboration find the right balance between image- and sound narration?
Nordatlantens Brygge, Copenhagen, Denmark. June 11, 2023, at 15.00
Jacob Kirkegaard presents his collaboration with Else Marie Pade (1924-2016): Svævninger. Live performance at The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland present, World Expo, Exposition Universelle 2023. Stockholm Sweden, June 14.
Recording project with Taiwanese (Denmark based) percussionist Ying-Hsueh Chen.
PERMANENT CLOUD by Jacob Kirkegaard is a new sound and visual installation created especially for Mori Art Museum.
The work captures the sound of humanity's rapidly growing digital memory stored in the mechanical heart of the Cloud.
Jacob Kirkegaard made audio recordings at a massive data center in Germany with sensors placed directly on different parts of its servers. These sounds of the mechanical Cloud are combined with video footage he shot of natural clouds.
Permanent Cloud is installed in a darkened room on the 53rd floor of the Mori Tower. The sound recordings of the Cloud play through four speakers located in the corners of the room. Video recordings of clouds are projected through three parallel semi-transparent hanging projection screens onto the large floor-to-ceiling window at the other end of the room, which is covered by a darkening film. Through this last projection surface can be seen the real clouds and the Tokyo skyline beyond that become integral parts of the work. Mori Art Museum 20th Anniversary Exhibition: World Classroom, Tokyo, Japan. April 19 - September 24, 2023
WASTE WISE CITIES: The United Nations Human Settlement Programme / UN-HABITAT in Nairobi, Kenya has hired Jacob Kirkegaard to develop new sound- and video interviews with waste reclaimers in Johannesburg and Soweto, South Africa. The interview series is part of the United Nation's WASTE WISE CITIES project creating awareness of plastic waste. The videos will be presented at the Intergovernmental Negotiating Commitee in Nairobi, Kenya, November 13-19
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Speaking at Nuclear Cultural Heritage, On Barsebäck, Chernobyl, Olkiluoto and Fukushima. Malmö, SE, May 10
Field recording trip at the ARoS extention construction site. New piece for ARoS, Aarhus, DK
New work: The Turbines Ensemble. Commissioned by - and performed live on boat at Sonic Narratives, Timisoara, Romania, May 28
PERMANENT CLOUD is Jacob Kirkegaard's new sound and visual installation commissioned by the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan.
The work captures the sound of humanity's rapidly growing digital memory stored in the mechanical heart of the Cloud.
Mori Art Museum 20th Anniversary Exhibition: World Classroom, Tokyo, Japan. April 19 - September 24, 2023
WASTE WISE CITIES: The United Nations Human Settlement Programme / UN-HABITAT in Nairobi, Kenya has hired Jacob Kirkegaard to develop new sound- and video interviews with waste reclaimers in Johannesburg and Soweto, South Africa. The interview series is part of the United Nation's WASTE WISE CITIES project creating awareness of plastic waste. The videos will be presented at the Intergovernmental Negotiating Commitee in Nairobi, Kenya, November 13-19
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Field trip to South Africa: WASTE WISE CITIES: The United Nations Human Settlement Programme / UN-HABITAT in Nairobi, Kenya has hired Jacob Kirkegaard to develop new sound- and video interviews with waste reclaimers in Johannesburg and Soweto, South Africa. The interview series is part of the United Nation's WASTE WISE CITIES project creating awareness of plastic waste. The videos will be presented at the Intergovernmental Negotiating Commitee in Nairobi, Kenya, November 13-19
Permanent Cloud is Jacob Kirkegaard's new sound and visual installation commissioned by the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan.
The work captures the sound of humanity's rapidly growing digital memory stored in the mechanical heart of the Cloud.
Mori Art Museum 20th Anniversary Exhibition: World Classroom, Tokyo, Japan. April 19 - September 24, 2023
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Kirkegaard introduces the film THE COLOR OF ICE with a short work composed from sound of melting ice in Greenland. CPH:DOX, Nationalmuseet, March 19
Jacob Kirkegaard is playing two concerts at MAERZ MUSIK: His otoacoustic piece LABYRINTHITIS and his 2012-collaboration with Else Marie Pade (1924 - 2016) SVÆVNINGER. Berlin, Germany, March 25 & 26.
INTERVIEW: Stille existiert nur in unserer Vorstellung. Groove Magazine. By Sarah Neumann. For Maerz Musik, Berlin.
WASTE WISE CITIES: Continuing his 2019 sound work on waste and waste management TESTIMONIUM, the United Nations Human Settlement Programme / UN-HABITAT in Nairobi, Kenya is continuing their collaboration Jacob Kirkegaard developing new sound works and interviews for WASTE WISE CITIES creating awareness of plastic waste.
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Jacob is speaking at Digital Heritage Symposium - Recording Full Site Value in London, U.K. On Feb 23
WASTE WISE CITIES: Continuing his 2019 sound work on waste and waste management TESTIMONIUM, the United Nations Human Settlement Programme / UN-HABITAT in Nairobi, Kenya is continuing their collaboration Jacob Kirkegaard developing new sound works and interviews for WASTE WISE CITIES creating awareness of plastic waste.
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WASTE WISE CITIES: Continuing his 2019 sound work on waste and waste management TESTIMONIUM, the United Nations Human Settlement Programme / UN-HABITAT in Nairobi, Kenya is continuing their collaboration Jacob Kirkegaard developing new sound works and interviews for WASTE WISE CITIES creating awareness of plastic waste.
Jacob Kirkegaard is working with director of Experiments in Art & Technology Julie Martin digitising and releasing
Artist talk at SKOVHUSET Kunst og Natur, Værløse, DK, Jan 22
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