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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: 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 from South Africa for WASTE WISE CITIES creating awareness of plastic waste.
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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: 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 from South Africa for WASTE WISE CITIES creating awareness of plastic waste.
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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: 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 from South Africa for WASTE WISE CITIES creating awareness of plastic waste.
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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: 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 from South Africa for WASTE WISE CITIES creating awareness of plastic waste.
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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: 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 from South Africa for WASTE WISE CITIES creating awareness of plastic waste.
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Field trip to South Africa with the United Nations Human Settlement Programme, UN-Habitat's WASTE WISE CITIES:
Continuing his 2019 sound work on waste and waste management TESTIMONIUM, the United Nations is continuing their collaboration Jacob Kirkegaard developing new sound works and interviews for WASTE WISE CITIES creating awareness of plastic waste.
Johannesburg, South Africa.
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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