APRIL 2026
MARCH 2026
The time in their wonderful house will be devoted to work on my forthcoming vinyl album for The Helen Scarsdale Agency. Skywave is my new sound work that I composed from shortwave radio transmissions: number station broadcasts of morse sequences, coded voices, and the noise that exists between frequencies. These transmissions are not merely relics of the past; they remain active today. Once used to transmit covert messages across borders, shortwave still serves as a discreet channel for communication among states and intelligence networks.
This work was commissioned by WDR's legendary radio program Studio Akustische Kunst. This is the 2nd time that Studio Akustische Kunst invites me to create a piece for them. First time was back in 2006 - 20 years ago - where I composed Iron Wind from sensor recordings that I made of the iron fences long the Rhine river and across the brides. Listen to Skywave HERE. Testimonium Lisboa is a new multi-channel sound and video work of mine commissioned by and created for Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, Portugal, and curated by Raquel Castro of Lisboa Soa.
The work is part of my Testimonium series on waste that listens to 'the way of the waste'. Testimonium Lisboa listens to the Portuguese capital, its massive and pulsating machinery that aims to carry the waste out of sight, smell and mind.
Location: Sound Room at Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal. Period 31 Jan – 18 May 2026
Review of Testimonium Lisboa HERE.
FEBRUARY 2026
I'll be in Berlin working with long time friend and colleague Alexander Hacke for a new project. More info will be announced soon.
TESTIMONIUM LISBOA Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, Portugal:Testimonium is an immersive, multichannel sound installation series that invites visitors to listen to waste and to sense the sound texture of thrash as it reveals its invisible pulsations.
The project is part of ‘(de)composition’, a sound art programme curated by Raquel Castro that emerges as an artistic response to the growing waste crisis, inviting the public to reflect on human existence in a world of consumption and discarding.
In Portugal, my Testimonium series continues titled Testimonium - Lisbon. It listens to the way of the waste in the Portuguese capital, its massive and pulsating machinery that aims to carry the waste out of sight, smell and mind.
Location: Sound Room at Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal. Period 31 Jan – 18 May 2026
JANUARY 2026
TESTIMONIUM LISBOA
Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, Portugal:
Testimonium is an immersive, multichannel sound installation series that invites visitors to listen to waste and to sense the sound texture of thrash as it reveals its invisible pulsations.
The project is part of ‘(de)composition’, a sound art programme curated by Raquel Castro that emerges as an artistic response to the growing waste crisis, inviting the public to reflect on human existence in a world of consumption and discarding.
In Portugal, my Testimonium series continues titled Testimonium - Lisbon. It listens to the way of the waste in the Portuguese capital, its massive and pulsating machinery that aims to carry the waste out of sight, smell and mind.
On 31 January the exhibition opens. On this afternoon I will be in conversation curator Raquel Castro. For the opening I have also composed a piece based on my recordings of waste which I will perform live in collaboration with the Portuguese flutist Clara Saleiro.
Opening of installation with live performance: 31 jan 2026
Period 31 Jan – 18 May 2026
Location: Sound Room at Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
DECEMBER 2025
For some of this month I'll be in New Jersey working with my long time colleague and friend Julie Martin of Experiments in Art and Technology on a podcast documenting the story of E.A.T. in sound.
NOVEMBER 2025
This month I am mainly working with my long time colleague and friend Julie Martin of Experiments in Art and Technology on a podcast documenting the story of E.A.T. in sound.
The project began in 2014 when I stayed at Julie's place in New Jersey and discovered her vast sound archive of the E.A.T. years. I offered to help her digitise it. Listening to all these amazing recordings, a common wish grew to use all these sounds to build an audio documentary that would be narrated by Julie. Since the project is non-for-profit - something we have never applied for any funding for - the work has had many breaks over the years - as Julie puts it; "life intrudes!".
However, all chapters documenting the legendary 9 Evenings event from 1966 will soon be ready.
A bit about the story:
A remarkable group of artists and dancers took part in the 9 Evenings project, among them John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Öyvind Fahlström, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor, and Robert Whitman. On the technical side, the collaboration featured leading engineers such as Billy Klüver, Max Mathews, John Pierce, Manfred Schroeder, and Fred Waldhauer.
The 9 Evenings series originated as an idea shared by Bell Labs engineer Billy Klüver and artist Robert Rauschenberg. Initially intended for the Stockholm Festival of Art and Technology, the plan was eventually abandoned, but the spark of collaboration remained. Interest spread among New York’s avant-garde artists, and soon a group of Bell Labs engineers—mostly Klüver’s colleagues—volunteered their time to explore what art and technology could achieve together. Over the course of ten months, they designed and built custom tools and systems that became essential to the artists’ performances.
A 1967 issue of Western Electric Magazine described those first meetings vividly. The artists, used to abstraction, found the engineers’ explanations overly technical; the engineers, in turn, struggled to understand the artists’ free-form ideas. Communication was slow, but curiosity kept them in the room. One evening, an engineer finally suggested, “Why don’t we show them what’s possible?” Soon they were demonstrating encoders, equalisers, and systems that could manipulate light, sound, and motion. Portable decoders, functioning as early programmable computers, caught the artists’ attention.
Excitement spread quickly. Questions flew across the table:
• Could a platform hover freely in space?
• Is there a fabric that stretches without end?
• What about projecting films simultaneously across ceiling, floor, and walls?
• Could a performer be cued silently from backstage?
• Is there a way to make a tennis racket amplify the sound of the ball?
Many of these once-fantastical ideas became realities during 9 Evenings. The success of those experiments inspired engineers Billy Klüver and Fred Waldhauer and artists Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman to fund the organisation Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), a not-for-profit service organization whose goal was to promote collaborations between artists, engineers and scientists.
I will give a talk about my work for the students at Krogerup Højskole, DK, Nov 4
OCTOBER 2025
ART, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY – SCI_ART SYMPOSIUM, CANADA;
SCI_ART brings together artists, scientists and scholars for a multi-city program of panel discussions, artist talks, performances, screenings and workshops, offering a wide range of perspectives on artistic and scientific collaboration.The symposium examines emerging art forms and technological innovations that arise when research and creative practice intersect. Many of the participating artists and thinkers address some of the most urgent issues of our time - from environmental degradation to pressing social challenges—opening pathways to new ways of perceiving and reimagining the world:
* SCI_ART at the Italian Cultural Institute in Montréal (Oct 2):
This roundtable, with Teresa Almeida (Portugal), Jacob Kirkegaard (Denmark), Felix Lenz (Austria), Luca Spano (Italy) and Swamp_Matter (Netherlands – Slovenia), brings together international artists who work at the intersection of art and science. The discussion will focus on the artists’ collaborations with scientists and their research about the anthropocene, climate change, technology and speculation. Moderated by Camille Bédard (Montreal – Quebec). Oct 2nd.
* SCI_ART at SAW CENTRE in Ottawa (Oct 4-5):
Bridging the Divide: Humans, Animals and Nature
Speakers: Jacob Kirkegaard (Denmark), Fiona McDonald (Ireland) and Swamp_Matter (Netherlands – Slovenia)
Moderator : Cindy Stelmackowich
Copenhagen Architecture Biennial & Lydbrøndene:
Hypogeum is a sonic journey into Copenhagen’s colossal sewer system: a sensuously compelling and precise mapping of an underworld known only to a few. I composed this new work of recordings that I made from the city’s subterranean stormwater tunnels, sewer pipes, pumping stations, and majestic water reservoirs with cistern-like chambers and vertical colonnades.
Presented for the first time to the public, Hypogeum is installed at Lydbrøndene (Sound Wells) on Solbjerg Plads in Frb, Copenhagen. It unfolds through 32 loudspeakers buried in the wells of the square. This unique speaker system creates a striking encounter with the hidden infrastructures that keep the city alive.
"If architecture, as historian Mark Wigley has remarked, is “the art of hiding the pipes,” then Hypogeum is an anti-architectural act: a work driven by the urge to render the hidden tangible—and by a fascination with the invisible in a world where almost everything feels far too visible and transparent." CAFx.
Sunday the 21st of October at 4:30pm! Cold beers and free entrance! After Sunday HYPOGEUM can be experienced every day between 5:30 PM and 6:00 PM until the biennial’s conclusion on October 19.
SEPTEMBER 2025
Rued Langgaard Festival, Ribe, Denmark:
Vanitas - Fantasies of Grandeur is a new work for field recordings and cello
that I have composed together with cellist and composer Jakob Kullberg. While it builds on the main theme in Rued Langgaard's opera Antichrist, it works with sound recordings that I recorded at the gallows hill (Galgebakken) in Ribe during midnight in Spring of 2025. Executions were carried out at the gallows hill until the mid-18th century.
Jakob Kullberg: cello. Jacob Kirkegaard: field recordings and cello.
Live performances on Friday and Saturday Sep 5 & 6, 2025
Copenhagen Architecture Biennial and Museum of Copenhagen:
The Sound of Water in the City. Conversation and listening session:
Join us for a sensory conversation about sound, water, and change, and experience historian Jakob Parby and me in a dialogue about the many sounds connected to water in the city. What do the sounds from sewers, harbor basins, and stormwater ponds tell us about the city – past and present?
We will listen to rushing sewer flows and other resonant underwater recordings and gain insight into how sound and environment are connected. The conversation revolves around climate, urban development, and the role of the senses in understanding of the city, woven together with listening examples and reflections. The talk and listening session invite to both immerse yourself and discover new perspectives on something as everyday—and vital—as water.
HYPOGEUM – A new sound installation by Jacob Kirkegaard
Copenhagen Architecture Biennial & Lydbrøndene:
Hypogeum is a sonic journey into Copenhagen’s colossal sewer system: a sensuously compelling and precise mapping of an underworld known only to a few. Mty work is composed of recordings that I made from the city’s subterranean stormwater tunnels, sewer pipes, pumping stations, and majestic water reservoirs with cistern-like chambers and vertical colonnades.
Presented for the first time to the public, Hypogeum is my newest work and it is installed at Lydbrøndene (Sound Wells) on Solbjerg Plads in Frb, Copenhagen. It unfolds through 32 loudspeakers buried in the wells of the square. This unique speaker system creates a striking encounter with the hidden infrastructures that keep the city alive.
"If architecture, as historian Mark Wigley has remarked, is “the art of hiding the pipes,” then Hypogeum is an anti-architectural act: a work driven by the urge to render the hidden tangible—and by a fascination with the invisible in a world where almost everything feels far too visible and transparent." CAFx.
Sunday the 21st of October at 4:30pm! Cold beers and free entrance!
After Sunday HYPOGEUM can be experienced every day between 5:30 PM and 6:00 PM until the biennial’s conclusion on October 19.
HYPOGEUM – A talk and listening session about Jacob Kirkegaard's new work on the Copenhagen sewer system:
Copenhagen Architecture Biennial & Gloria cinema, Copenhagen:
The event interweaves excerpts from Hypogeum, Kirkegaard’s personal anecdotes and reflections from working on the project, in conversation with Morten Meldgaard, associate professor at the Royal Danish Academy, School of Architecture, and a former collaborator of Kirkegaard. With a professional background in film and architecture, Meldgaard draws connections between the subterranean recordings and the cultural, historical and aesthetic dimensions of the city’s infrastructure.
Cinema Gloria, Copenhagen, Sep 28 at 12:00 noon.
The Green Land
at The National Gallery of Iceland.
Exhibition dates: July 5 - Sep 21.
AUGUST 2025
I am performing a surprise concert at Sonoscopia's No Noise 10 event in Porto, Portugal on August 2.
The Green Land
at The National Gallery of Iceland.
Exhibition dates: July 5 - Sep 21.
Watch short film about The Green Land and filmmaker Inuk
HERE
And watch our aritst talk at The National Gallery of Iceland from July 2025
HERE
JULY 2025
The Green Land, a work by Inuk Silis Høegh created in close collaboration with me is on view
at The National Gallery of Iceland.
Join us for an artist talk with Inuk and myself, moderated by Pari Stave, on June 4 at the museum Reykjavik, Iceland.
Exhibition dates: July 5 - Sep 21.
Watch short film about The Green Land and filmmaker Inuk
HERE
JUNE 2025
What is the Work / What is the World. I'm interviewed by Robert Barry for Van Magazine.
My new work The Grey Zone (Neverwhere) is commissioned by and for
MOMENTUM Biennial:
In this passage through the forest, sound recordings of a radioactive space are combined with the natural sounds of the forest. The recordings of a radioactive swimming pool were captured inside the Zone of Alienation in Chernobyl, Ukraine.
The sound of water dripping from the ceiling over the swimming pool is played through speakers placed in trees alongside
the natural pathway.
The work is a tribute to Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 film Solaris. At the end of the film, the
protagonist returns to Earth after disturbing encounters with alien sentience on the planet of Solaris. He looks at his
friend through the window to his house. Inside his house, water drips from the ceiling and realities are reversed. Moss,
Norway June 14 - Oct 12
I’ll be performing live at the opening of the MOMENTUM Biennial with Permanent Cloud, a work that captures the resonance of humanity’s ever-expanding digital memory, stored within the mechanical heart of the Cloud.
The piece is composed from sounds and vibrations that I recorded at a vast data center in Germany, using sensors that I placed directly on various parts of its servers. Moss Church, Norway, June 14
Frugtbar
is a group exhibition on fertility:
I am part of this exhibition with my work Tale of the Bee
which 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.
Tale of the Bee flips the tradition and questions whether bees have something to tell us.
I made a 24-hour sound recording inside a beehive. The sounds of the bees were then printed on vinyl.
Ultimately I transcribed the sound waves back into panels of beeswax produced by the bees from the same hive.
Vejle Kunstmuseum, Denmark. Opening on June 19.
MAY 2025
Interview portrait of 'waste reclaimer' Amos from Kenya:
This is another film that I created for the
The Circulate Initiative,
New York, which is part of the ongoing project VOICES, -
my on going collaboration with The Circulate Initiative. Watch the new film
HERE.
Some of my films from this series were also produced in close collaboration with UN-HABITAT, Nairobi, Kenya.
Watch more of the videos at
CPH:PIX.
APRIL 2025
Artist talk as part of seminar on sound and listening. Organised by
Center for Sound Studies at University of Aarhus,
Moesgaard, Denmark. April 30
MARCH 2025
I am honoured to have received
New Carlsberg Foundation's
prestigious Artist award. Here's a
film
that JJ Film created about me for this special occasion.
FEBRUARY 2025
Naufragium: Opening of new permanent work commissioned by and for
Museum of Copenhagen.
Naufragium was generously supported
by Ny Carlsbergfondet, Det Obelske Familiefond and Augustinus Fonden.
Link to
article in Danish
Field trip and location scouting in Moss, Norway on occasion of a new work that I've been invited to create for MOMENTUM Biennial in Summer 25
JANUARY 2025
Thrilled to announce my new vinyl album
Snowblind
released by The Helen Scarsdale Agency (USA). Jim Haynes writes:
"With Snowblind, Kirkegaard turns to history, and a poetic, failed attempt for a team of Swedish explorers to reach the North Pole
by balloon in the late 19th Century. Perhaps driven by blind adventurism, perhaps consumed by his own delusions, S.A. Andrée
launched this ill-fated flight in July 1897, registering only two days in the air before crashing into the ice and ultimately
failing to navigate the frigid waters and ice floes. Yet documentation of their expedition - photographic, scientific, and
diaristic - survived, to be discovered some thirty years after their deaths.
“I wanted to created a cold and hostile album, where there is no escape, no warmth and no happy ending,” as Kirkegaard explains about
Snowblind. “Yet, I wanted to leave out any immediate drama. It is the creeping shock, the icy feeling from realizing what has been
lost and that there’s no escape.” Yes, Snowblind is a very bleak album, but one that eschews the isolationist, long-form drone of
conceptually similar works by Thomas Köner, Lustmord, Werkbund, and Lull with interconnected constellations of cryptic tone,
thrumming reverberation, arctic bluster, and a plethora of harrowing sonic proclamations."
This month I will also be installing my new 7-channel sound work Naufragium at the
Museum of Copenhagen.
This permanent work was commissioned by and for the museum and supported by Ny Carlsbergfondet, Det Obelske Familiefond and Augustinus Fonden.
The Calendar and Current section of this website will no more be written in third-person but instead by myself.
DECEMBER 2024
Else Marie Pade 100 years:
Jacob Kirkegaard performing his and Else Marie Pade's collaborative work Svævninger.
On the same evening Jakob Kuhlberg presents his interpretation of Pade's "Et spil for cello". DR Koncerthuset, Dec 2.
NOVEMBER 2024
Klub Kreatur:
Extrations: One of the central stars of this performance are stones. Stones as instrument, as mineral body,
as sensuous scenography, and as a dance partner for a flamenco dancer.
Director and performer Nana Francisca Schottländer, Composer Jacob Kirkegaard, Performers Juan Pino, Gustav Carl Rey Henningsen,
Frederkke Bahn- Performer, production assistant, and dramaturgical sparring Nadja Mattioli.
Performance at Sort/Hvid, Copenhagen, Oct 28
OCTOBER 2024
Field recording trip for new film (more info to come). Rocky Mountains, Canada, Oct 16-23
RAUSCH:
Jacob Kirkegaard plays live as part of the sleepover event Rausch. Backsteinboot, Berlin, Germany, Oct 25
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 exhibition Super Organism at Munkeruphus, Denmark. Exhibition period: May 26 - Oct 20. Opening on May 25th.
SEPTEMBER 2024
A video portrait of waste reclaimer 'Cipto' from Jakarta, Indonesia. A film by Jacob Kirkegaard. Produced by
The Circulate Initiative.
Watch the film HERE.
Museum of Copenhagen
Field recording trip for new work Naufragium, commissioned by and for Museum of Copenhagen. Recordings in Venice, Italy, Sep 2-5
Opus Mors
Skovhuset - Kunst & Natur, Værløse, Denmark, Sep 1
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 exhibition Super Organism at Munkeruphus, Denmark. Exhibition period: May 26 - Oct 20. Opening on May 25th.
AUGUST 2024
Vigdis & Jacob Kirkegaard
SMK Fridays: Against All Odds, Aug 30
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 exhibition Super Organism at Munkeruphus, Denmark. Exhibition period: May 26 - Oct 20. Opening on May 25th.
JULY 2024
SKABERTRANG
‘Skabertrang - sommerhøjskole om kunst og kreativitet’ Krogerup Højskole, DK July 1-2
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 exhibition Super Organism at Munkeruphus, Denmark. Exhibition period: May 26 - Oct 20. Opening on May 25th.
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..
JUNE 2024
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 exhibition Super Organism at Munkeruphus, Denmark. Exhibition period: May 26 - Oct 20. Opening on May 25th.
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.
MAY 2024
New collaboration with Vokalensemblet Vigdis: Interpretation for voice by Jacob Kirkegaard, of Danish pioneer of electronic musicElse Marie Pade's Havkongens Slot and Alfeland. Place and date: Vridsløselille Statsfængsel (DK) Premiere on May 4th at 2pm and 5pm, and May 5th at5pm.
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 Festivalin the fall of 2024.
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.
APRIL 2024
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.
MARCH 2024
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 communicationAlexander 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.
FEBRUARY 2024
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.
JANUARY 2024
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 at Kungliga Musikhögskolan, Stockholm, Jan 24.