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, William Demant Fonden, 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, William Demant Fonden, Region Nordjylland, 15. Juni Fonden, Aalborg Kommune, UMMK, and Himmerland Boligforening as part of an ongoing artist-initiated program.
S for Sound, S for Solidarity:
“The Collective Voice”
Featuring Aalborg Artist’s Association (AAAA)
“The Collective Voice”
Featuring Aalborg Artist’s Association (AAAA)
The Collective Voice is a site-specific sonic workshop and visual artist gathering featuring Aalborg Artist’s Association (AAAA).
The Collective Voice seeks to provide an experimental format for the collective expression of creative and critical voices in a welcoming environment. The gathering draws inspiration from speeches, songs, discussions, chants, people’s mics and other forms of sound utilized to express solidarity and unity across public protests, strikes, and other activistic and organizational contexts. The Collective Voice will provide a platform for understanding the local situation in Aalborg, in which artists often experience economic, social, and institutional challenges, as well as function to contextualize this in relation to wider artistic struggles and broader global frameworks.
The Collective Voice takes place at a time when artistic cultural policy in Northern Jutland is tenuous; funding is being cut, Kunsthal Nord has closed, Aalborg University is slated to remove entire cultural departments, and municipal studios are in jeopardy. This is in a climate where local artists stated they experienced exclusion, marginalization, and are lacking a seat at the table in many decisions that immediately affect their socio-economic and cultural positions. The Collective Voice seeks to provide a space for expression free from (self-)censorship, drawing on historical forms that share knowledge, create new awareness, and energize audiences.
A special thank you to Radio alHara راديو الحارة, Håndværkerhuset, Korma, Håndværkerhuset, TWIIID, Morten Poulsen, and Nikolaj Legaard for helping in the realization of this project.
The Collective Voice seeks to provide an experimental format for the collective expression of creative and critical voices in a welcoming environment. The gathering draws inspiration from speeches, songs, discussions, chants, people’s mics and other forms of sound utilized to express solidarity and unity across public protests, strikes, and other activistic and organizational contexts. The Collective Voice will provide a platform for understanding the local situation in Aalborg, in which artists often experience economic, social, and institutional challenges, as well as function to contextualize this in relation to wider artistic struggles and broader global frameworks.
The Collective Voice takes place at a time when artistic cultural policy in Northern Jutland is tenuous; funding is being cut, Kunsthal Nord has closed, Aalborg University is slated to remove entire cultural departments, and municipal studios are in jeopardy. This is in a climate where local artists stated they experienced exclusion, marginalization, and are lacking a seat at the table in many decisions that immediately affect their socio-economic and cultural positions. The Collective Voice seeks to provide a space for expression free from (self-)censorship, drawing on historical forms that share knowledge, create new awareness, and energize audiences.
A special thank you to Radio alHara راديو الحارة, Håndværkerhuset, Korma, Håndværkerhuset, TWIIID, Morten Poulsen, and Nikolaj Legaard for helping in the realization of this project.
Friday, October 31st:
Workshop & Gathering from 4:00 - 7:30 pm
Håndværkerhuset (Second Floor Meeting Room), Kattesundet 20, 9000 Aalborg
Program:
4:00 pm Presentation & Group Discussion (Scott William Raby & Kamilla Mez)
5:30 pm Collective Vocalization Exercises
6:30 pm Food & Drinks
Workshop & Gathering from 4:00 - 7:30 pm
Håndværkerhuset (Second Floor Meeting Room), Kattesundet 20, 9000 Aalborg
Program:
4:00 pm Presentation & Group Discussion (Scott William Raby & Kamilla Mez)
5:30 pm Collective Vocalization Exercises
6:30 pm Food & Drinks
AAAA, or the Aalborg Artist’s Association, is a hybrid non-profit organization and collective artist-run initiative. Founded in 2019, it is located in Aalborg and also operates in the greater Northern Jutland Region of Denmark. The organization’s goals focus on creating better economic, social, and political circumstances for contemporary and visual artists working in Aalborg. AAAA is a multi-faceted organization that acts as an independent political advisor, arts policy platform, artist collective, project space, and social forum.
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
Click here for full episode no. 3 (soundcloud)
Listening Session from 2:00 - 3:30 pm
*Online Broadcast Event with Radio alHara راديو الحارة
Click here for full episode no. 3 (soundcloud)
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.