f.eks. is
a roaming exhibition platform for contemporary art that seeks to generate
critical and speculative dialogues between audiences, artists, and broader
publics. f.eks. produces temporary art events that are
located in and around the urban spaces of Aalborg and the Northern Jutland region – activating architecture,
infrastructure, ecological sites, and public spaces through a series of live
art engagements. These include
performances, talks, workshops, readings, pop-ups, social installations,
screenings, and many other forms of interactive and ephemeral art making.
f.eks. is an award-winning, non-profit organization supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, Den Jyske Kunstfond, Augustinus Fonden, Det Obelske Familiefond, Ny Carlsbergfondet, Region Nordjylland, 15. Juni Fonden, Aalborg Kommune, UMMK, and Himmerland Boligforening as part of an ongoing artist-initiated program.
f.eks. is an award-winning, non-profit organization supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, Den Jyske Kunstfond, Augustinus Fonden, Det Obelske Familiefond, Ny Carlsbergfondet, Region Nordjylland, 15. Juni Fonden, Aalborg Kommune, UMMK, and Himmerland Boligforening as part of an ongoing artist-initiated program.
Bodies of Waves is a new iteration of the site-specific sonic art project Bodies of Waves by Razan Sabbagh (SY/DE).
Bodies of Waves uses sound as an artistic tool to delve into the complex interplay between language devices in mass media and the profound issues of migration, colonialism, and climate change. Bodies of Waves appropriates, collages, and examines audio from media outlets’ use of water as a linguistic metaphor to frame refugees and migrants. Terms such as “flood” and “wave” not only evoke images of overwhelming natural forces, but also subtly perpetuate colonial attitudes, reducing individuals to faceless masses and increasing notions of “otherness”. Bodies of Waves also confronts a modern form of colonialism: climate change.
This is the third episode of the ongoing program S for Sound, S for Solidarity (SfS, SfS) - an audio infrastructure for artists co-founded by f.eks. and artist Yazan Khalili in 2023. SfS, SfS seeks to utilize sonic and radio programming to highlight artistic, socio-political, and cultural conversations in relation to localized power dynamics and broader geo-political contexts, launching public sonic artworks, listening sessions, and radio broadcasts that connect Northern Denmark to wider global contexts in collaboration with partner Radio alHara راديو الحارة.
A special thank you to Radio alHara, Huset i Hasserisgade, Korma, Thomas Birket-Smith, and Morten Poulsen for helping in the realization of this project.
Bodies of Waves uses sound as an artistic tool to delve into the complex interplay between language devices in mass media and the profound issues of migration, colonialism, and climate change. Bodies of Waves appropriates, collages, and examines audio from media outlets’ use of water as a linguistic metaphor to frame refugees and migrants. Terms such as “flood” and “wave” not only evoke images of overwhelming natural forces, but also subtly perpetuate colonial attitudes, reducing individuals to faceless masses and increasing notions of “otherness”. Bodies of Waves also confronts a modern form of colonialism: climate change.
This is the third episode of the ongoing program S for Sound, S for Solidarity (SfS, SfS) - an audio infrastructure for artists co-founded by f.eks. and artist Yazan Khalili in 2023. SfS, SfS seeks to utilize sonic and radio programming to highlight artistic, socio-political, and cultural conversations in relation to localized power dynamics and broader geo-political contexts, launching public sonic artworks, listening sessions, and radio broadcasts that connect Northern Denmark to wider global contexts in collaboration with partner Radio alHara راديو الحارة.
A special thank you to Radio alHara, Huset i Hasserisgade, Korma, Thomas Birket-Smith, and Morten Poulsen for helping in the realization of this project.
Thursday, June 26th:
Listening Session from 2:00 - 3:30 pm
*Online Broadcast Event with Radio alHara راديو الحارة
(Access the digital link here)
Listening Session from 2:00 - 3:30 pm
*Online Broadcast Event with Radio alHara راديو الحارة
(Access the digital link here)
Razan Sabbagh’s practice explores identity, sociopolitics, and questions oppressive power structures, such as investigating the infrastructure of institutions, prisons, and other liminal spaces. Sabbagh often collects oral narratives and stories or appropriates and reconfigures existing texts, interviews, and testimonies as a starting point for her work. Through installation, video, sound, and performance her work explores the relationship between art, activism, aesthetics, and power. She has participated in numerous exhibitions globally, including at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Kampnagel, and Thalia Theater, Hamburg (DE), Simian, Copenhagen (DK), the Sharjah Art Museum (AE), the Goethe Institute, Paris (FR), Kunshalle Bremen (DE), f.eks., Aalborg (DK), and Casino Display in Luxembourg (LU).
f.eks. is exhibiting three episodes of S for Sound, S for Solidarity at Simian as part of the group exhibition and festival for Art Spaces Under.
Under is a hybrid format, combining exhibition and social space, with performances, panel discussions and concerts. It seeks, if only for a moment, to capture an art scene and to present visitors with some of the many elements that constitute the artworld. Under is shaped by a curatorial strategy that places strong emphasis on co-authorship, collaboration, and community. Under is a fragment of a larger scene. Within Simian’s space, it manifests as a gathering of gestures, objects, and social encounters - together unfolding a story of a transgressive, diverse, and ever-changing art scene.
Under is co-curated by Fafaya Mogensen and Nikolaj Stobbe in collaboration with Simian. The exhibition is kindly supported by 15. Juni Foundation, Amager Vest Lokaludvalg, Fondet for Dansk-Svensk Samarbejde, PASS (Center for Practice-based Art Studies), Restaurant Babylon, Rådet for Visuel Kunst and the Danish Arts Foundation.
Featured Episodes:
S for Sound, S for Solidarity by Yazan Khalili & Scott William Raby (1:03:18 min)
A Different Set of Ears: The Egholm Alliance by Morten Poulsen (45:00 min)
(preview) Bodies of Waves by Razan Sabbagh (25:00 min)
Under is a hybrid format, combining exhibition and social space, with performances, panel discussions and concerts. It seeks, if only for a moment, to capture an art scene and to present visitors with some of the many elements that constitute the artworld. Under is shaped by a curatorial strategy that places strong emphasis on co-authorship, collaboration, and community. Under is a fragment of a larger scene. Within Simian’s space, it manifests as a gathering of gestures, objects, and social encounters - together unfolding a story of a transgressive, diverse, and ever-changing art scene.
Under is co-curated by Fafaya Mogensen and Nikolaj Stobbe in collaboration with Simian. The exhibition is kindly supported by 15. Juni Foundation, Amager Vest Lokaludvalg, Fondet for Dansk-Svensk Samarbejde, PASS (Center for Practice-based Art Studies), Restaurant Babylon, Rådet for Visuel Kunst and the Danish Arts Foundation.
Featured Episodes:
S for Sound, S for Solidarity by Yazan Khalili & Scott William Raby (1:03:18 min)
A Different Set of Ears: The Egholm Alliance by Morten Poulsen (45:00 min)
(preview) Bodies of Waves by Razan Sabbagh (25:00 min)
Saturday, May 17th:
Exhibition Opening Party from 2:00 - 10:00 pm
Simian, Kay Fiskers Plads 17, 2300 Copenhagen
PROGRAM:
3:00 PM Welcome Reading with Henning Lundkvist, Fafaya Mogensen and Nikolaj Stobbe
4:00 PM Panel talk: The Future is Self-Organized moderated by Stine Hebert (Center for Practice-based Art Studies, PASS) with participants: Ville Laurinkoski (Jennifee-See Alternate), Karin Bähler Lavér (skēnē) and Scott William Raby (f.eks.)
5:30 PM Welcome Reading with Louis Scherfig and Marianne Torp
6:00 PM Deja-Vu by coyote
7:30 PM Performance: Eve by Ville Laurinkoski
(See full program here for more events and info)
Exhibition Opening Party from 2:00 - 10:00 pm
Simian, Kay Fiskers Plads 17, 2300 Copenhagen
PROGRAM:
3:00 PM Welcome Reading with Henning Lundkvist, Fafaya Mogensen and Nikolaj Stobbe
4:00 PM Panel talk: The Future is Self-Organized moderated by Stine Hebert (Center for Practice-based Art Studies, PASS) with participants: Ville Laurinkoski (Jennifee-See Alternate), Karin Bähler Lavér (skēnē) and Scott William Raby (f.eks.)
5:30 PM Welcome Reading with Louis Scherfig and Marianne Torp
6:00 PM Deja-Vu by coyote
7:30 PM Performance: Eve by Ville Laurinkoski
(See full program here for more events and info)
Participating Platforms: All all all, Cantina, C.C.C., Collega, coyote, f.eks., Institut Funder Bakke, inter.pblc, Jennifee-See Alternate, Lagune Ouest, Matteo Cantarella, Sharp Projects, skēnē, Vermilion Sands.
Artists Presented: Anders Hergum, Asger Dybvad Larsen, Ayesha Ghaoul, Cecilie Norgaard, Clara Lena Lagenbach, Emilie Bausager, Henriette Heise, Ida Schrader, Jens Hüls Funder, Johan S. Wieth, Kai Führer, Kaare Golles, Kevin Malcolm, Kristina Nagel, Morten Poulsen, Razan Sabbagh, Sanna Helena Berger, Sara Sjölin, Scott William Raby, Stacey de Voe, Udsigt, Ville Laurinkoski, Yazan Khalili.
Artists Presented: Anders Hergum, Asger Dybvad Larsen, Ayesha Ghaoul, Cecilie Norgaard, Clara Lena Lagenbach, Emilie Bausager, Henriette Heise, Ida Schrader, Jens Hüls Funder, Johan S. Wieth, Kai Führer, Kaare Golles, Kevin Malcolm, Kristina Nagel, Morten Poulsen, Razan Sabbagh, Sanna Helena Berger, Sara Sjölin, Scott William Raby, Stacey de Voe, Udsigt, Ville Laurinkoski, Yazan Khalili.
S for Sound, S for Solidarity, Episode 2:
“A Different Set of Ears: The Egholm Alliance”
Morten Poulsen (DK)
“A Different Set of Ears: The Egholm Alliance”
Morten Poulsen (DK)
A Different Set of Ears: The Egholm Alliance is a sonic art project and audio essay by artist and composer Morten Poulsen.
The project takes its point of departure in the Danish national government’s controversial decision to build a highway across Egholm - a rural island located in the Limfjord waters near the city of Aalborg, Denmark. Egholm is often promoted by the local municipality as a calm and silent refuge for humans, and as a unique natural setting just outside the post-industrial urban periphery. The island is home to much animal and plant life that will be greatly impacted by the mega-project Egholmlinjen. Therefore, to understand the place from other perspectives, in A Different Set of Ears: The Egholm Alliance, Morten Poulsen listens together with the island - its inhabitants and local citizens who organize against the highway, but also the fauna and flora - including a very special willow tree. Weaving together a post-human sensation of entanglement, the audio essay proposes a change in our listening position, that can afford us with means to create new narratives about the relation between ourselves and the environments we are a part of.
This is the second episode of the ongoing program S for Sound, S for Solidarity (SfS, SfS) - an audio infrastructure for artists co-founded by f.eks. and artist Yazan Khalili in 2023. SfS, SfS seeks to utilize sonic and radio programming to highlight artistic, socio-political, and cultural conversations in relation to localized power dynamics and broader geo-political contexts, launching public sonic artworks, listening sessions, and radio broadcasts that connect Northern Denmark to wider global contexts in collaboration with partner Radio alHara راديو الحارة.
The project is supported by The Danish Arts Foundation. A special thank you to Radio alHara, Huset i Hasserisgade, Korma, Louise Faber, Henrik Mørch, Rosanna Børsting, Henrik Sakstrup, Urt Willemoes, Annika Holmes, Marilia Fotopoulou, Thomas Munk-Petersen, Bente Jensen, Mikhail Karikis, Scott William Raby, Rikke Ehlers Nilsson, and the plants and animals that inhabit Egholm.
The project takes its point of departure in the Danish national government’s controversial decision to build a highway across Egholm - a rural island located in the Limfjord waters near the city of Aalborg, Denmark. Egholm is often promoted by the local municipality as a calm and silent refuge for humans, and as a unique natural setting just outside the post-industrial urban periphery. The island is home to much animal and plant life that will be greatly impacted by the mega-project Egholmlinjen. Therefore, to understand the place from other perspectives, in A Different Set of Ears: The Egholm Alliance, Morten Poulsen listens together with the island - its inhabitants and local citizens who organize against the highway, but also the fauna and flora - including a very special willow tree. Weaving together a post-human sensation of entanglement, the audio essay proposes a change in our listening position, that can afford us with means to create new narratives about the relation between ourselves and the environments we are a part of.
This is the second episode of the ongoing program S for Sound, S for Solidarity (SfS, SfS) - an audio infrastructure for artists co-founded by f.eks. and artist Yazan Khalili in 2023. SfS, SfS seeks to utilize sonic and radio programming to highlight artistic, socio-political, and cultural conversations in relation to localized power dynamics and broader geo-political contexts, launching public sonic artworks, listening sessions, and radio broadcasts that connect Northern Denmark to wider global contexts in collaboration with partner Radio alHara راديو الحارة.
The project is supported by The Danish Arts Foundation. A special thank you to Radio alHara, Huset i Hasserisgade, Korma, Louise Faber, Henrik Mørch, Rosanna Børsting, Henrik Sakstrup, Urt Willemoes, Annika Holmes, Marilia Fotopoulou, Thomas Munk-Petersen, Bente Jensen, Mikhail Karikis, Scott William Raby, Rikke Ehlers Nilsson, and the plants and animals that inhabit Egholm.
Wednesday, March 26th:
Live Listening Session and Talk from 4:30 - 6:30 pm
Huset i Hasserisgade (Concert Hall)
Hasserisgade 10, 9000 Aalborg
Note: the event is free of admission and anyone can attend, no sign up is necessary. The event will be primarily in English (with some Danish). Free snacks and refreshments will be available.
Click here for full episode no. 2 (soundcloud)
Live Listening Session and Talk from 4:30 - 6:30 pm
Huset i Hasserisgade (Concert Hall)
Hasserisgade 10, 9000 Aalborg
Note: the event is free of admission and anyone can attend, no sign up is necessary. The event will be primarily in English (with some Danish). Free snacks and refreshments will be available.
Click here for full episode no. 2 (soundcloud)
Morten Poulsen works at the intersection between sound art, artistic research, social engagement, and activism. With sound, listening, and participatory-based processes, he explores socio-political structures, often focusing on gender, power relations, climate change, and the ways in which they intersect. His artistic work has been shown across different art institutions such as Kunsthal Aarhus, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Kunstbygningen i Vrå, SixtyEight Art Institute, c4 projects, and Skjold Contemporary in Copenhagen (DK). His artistic research has been presented at the PARSE Biennial for Artistic Research, Gothenburg (SE), and Seismograf (DK). As a musician, Morten Poulsen has toured internationally with the underwater concert AquaSonic. He was educated at the International Center for Knowledge in the Arts in Copenhagen (2022) and graduated with an MA in Music Creation from the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen in 2021.