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Tale of the Bee. This new work by Jacob Kirkegaard draws inspiration from the now extinct and nearly forgotten European tradition; Telling the Bees, which involved informing bees about important events in a person's life or in the world by whispering or singing messages into beehives. According to the myth, as bees had access to the underworld and could act as messengers. The artwork Tale of the Bee flips the tradition and questions whether bees have something to tell us. Kirkegaard has made a 24-hour sound recording inside a beehive. The sounds of the bees are then printed on vinyl. The sound waves are ultimately transcribed back into panels of beeswax produced by the bees from the same hive. Part of the exhibitoon Super Organism at Munkeruphus, Denmark. Exhibition period: May 26 - Oct 20. Opening on May 25th.

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Vandet Kommer - Jacob Kirkegaard, Toke Lykkeberg, Eske Kath and others will be part of debate panel organised by New Carlsberg Foundation. Folkemødet, Bornholm, June 14

Deutschlandfunk Kultur - Hörspiel und Feature broadcasts Jacob Kirkegaard's LANDET, June 21

Tale of the Bee. This new work by Jacob Kirkegaard draws inspiration from the now extinct and nearly forgotten European tradition; Telling the Bees, which involved informing bees about important events in a person's life or in the world by whispering or singing messages into beehives. According to the myth, as bees had access to the underworld and could act as messengers. The artwork Tale of the Bee flips the tradition and questions whether bees have something to tell us. Kirkegaard has made a 24-hour sound recording inside a beehive. The sounds of the bees are then printed on vinyl. The sound waves are ultimately transcribed back into panels of beeswax produced by the bees from the same hive. Part of the exhibitoon Super Organism at Munkeruphus, Denmark. Exhibition period: May 26 - Oct 20. Opening on May 25th.

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New collaboration with Vokalensemblet Vigdis: Interpretation for voice by Jacob Kirkegaard, of Danish pioneer of electronic music Else Marie Pade's Havkongens Slot and Alfeland. Place and date: Vridsløselille Statsfængsel (DK) Premiere on May 4th at 2pm and 5pm, and May 5th at 5pm.

Jakobe TALKS: For the interview series Drive & Doubt - voices for the future, Jacob Kirkegaard will interview transdiciplinary artist Magnus Pind . The interview will be recorded and stored away until year 2050. Jakobe TALKS is an artistic collaboration between Rebekka Bohse Meyer and Jacob Kirkegaard. Jakobe Performing Arts, Frederiksberg, Denmark, May 12. Starting at 2pm. Free entrance.

Crossfire. 8-speaker sound installation at SPOR Festival, Aarhus (DK) May 22-25. Opening May 22 at 5pm.

Tale of the Bee. This new work by Jacob Kirkegaard draws inspiration from the now extinct and nearly forgotten European tradition; Telling the Bees, which involved informing bees about important events in a person's life or in the world by whispering or singing messages into beehives. According to the myth, as bees had access to the underworld and could act as messengers. The artwork Tale of the Bee flips the tradition and questions whether bees have something to tell us. Kirkegaard has made a 24-hour sound recording inside a beehive. The sounds of the bees are then printed on vinyl. The sound waves are ultimately transcribed back into panels of beeswax produced by the bees from the same hive. Part of the exhibitoon Super Organism at Munkeruphus, Denmark. Exhibition period: May 26 - Oct 20. Opening on May 25th.

Island Eye Island Ear. Ongoing research project into David Tudor's never released IEIE. Field trip and research to Lofoten, northern Norway. Collaboration with art historian and director Marianne Hultman / North Norwegian Art Centre, Phil Edelstein and John Driscoll of Composers Inside Electronics (USA), author and artist You Nakai (Japan), SIAF Lab (Japan) and director of E.A.T. Julie Martin (USA). Part of LIAF - Lofoten International Art Festival in the fall of 2024.

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LEAVING NO ONE BEHIND - A video compilation by Jacob Kirkegaard focusing on the voices and real-life stories of waste reclaimers
highlighting their journeys, challenges and aspirations.
All films were made by Jacob Kirkegaard and produced by UN-Habitat, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and The Circulate Initiative. South Africa, Nigeria, Vietnam and India, 2023
The videos were premiered in November 2023 for an event focused on the voices of waste reclaimers. It was 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. Watch the videos at CPH:PIX. Available until April 2025.

Jakobe TALKS: For his interview series Drive & Doubt - voices for the future, Jacob Kirkegaard will interview his friend and colleage over 30 years: Bjørn Svin. The interview will be recorded and stored away until year 2050. Jakobe TALKS is an artistic collaboration between Rebekka Bohse Meyer and Jacob Kirkegaard. Jakobe Performing Arts, Frederiksberg, Denmark, April 14

DIGESTON - FOOD WASTE - Invisible yet Omnipresent.
What happens to it when it leaves our eyesight? How are cities and villages designed to get rid of it? And how can we optimize its reuse? Thinking in terms of digestion means thinking in terms of connections. Join us for a conversation centring on food waste and urban metabolisms, and hear about what happens to food waste - from packaging to peel. How are cities and villages designed to eliminate waste, and how can we redesign and reuse it? Can waste be used as a building material? Waste is the future.
Organized by CAFx (Copenhagen Architecture Festival). Place and date: Halmtorvet 27, Copenhagen, April 17 4:30pm.

Workshop in composition / sound art held by Jacob Kirkegaard. Other workshops by Angélica Négron and Qasim Naqvi. Organised by Anders Filipsen / Autor / KODA / Danish Composer's Society. Oremandsgaard, DK, April 21-27

100 år med Else Marie Pade. A talk (in Danish) by Jacob Kirkegaard about the life and work of Else Marie Pade, and about their collaboration creating Svævninger (released by Important Records, USA). At Albertslund Bibliotek. Free entrance. April 20, 7pm.

Developing on two new works; Hypogeum - a commission by New Carlsberg Foundation and Tale of the Bee for an exhibition at Munkeruphus. Both works out in Spring 2024. Read more on the 'current' link above.

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Jacob Kirkegaard presents his sound work on agriculture; THE LAND, at Copenhagen Architecture Festival (CAFx). The even begins with a talk between Kirkegaard and specialist in nature conservation and communication Alexander Holm introduce the sound work. Cinemateket, Copenhagen, March 2nd

TESTIMONIUM will be shown as part of CPH:DOX, Copenhagen DK, March 18th.

Jakobe TALKS: For his interview series Drive & Doubt - voices for the future, Jacob Kirkegaard will interview Jakob la Cour. The interview will be recorded and store away until year 2050. Jakobe TALKS is an artistic collaboration between Rebekka Bohse Meyer and Jacob Kirkegaard. Jakobe Performing Arts, Frederiksberg, Denmark, March 17

Developing on two new works; Hypogeum - a commission by New Carlsberg Foundation and Tale of the Bee for an exhibition at Munkeruphus. Both works out in Spring 2024. Read more on the 'current' link above.

F E B R U R A R Y 2 4

Developing on two new works; Hypogeum - a commission by New Carlsberg Foundation and Tale of the Bee for an exhibition at Munkeruphus. Both works out in Spring 2024. Read more on the 'current' link above.

Artist talk and concert at European Film College, Ebeltoft, Denmark, Feb 21.

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