OVERVIEW PUBLIC SESSIONS
In the framework of my research into Asger Jorn´s writing and thinking I organize public sessions with special guests. The guest´s practice, knowledge, insights, or responses are informative to my research, or steer the direction that I take on a particular topic. Oftentimes, the sessions also responded to the context of the hosting institution, or to a specific request. Making the sessions public is a way to share and dialogue with audiences. Below is an overview of the the sessions that took place so far. I also post more detailed reports.
PRODUCERS-PARASITES-HOSTS (ATHENS MIX)
A collaborative performative lecture with Amsterdam-based artist Annabel Howland as part of “The Non-Serious Lectures” (on economy and value) programme of the Athens Biennial – AGORA, 2013. The lecture took place Thursday 28 November 2013, at the deserted National Bank of Greece Building (former Stock Exchange), in Athens.
HILDE GOES ASGER WITH MATTIN
Hilde goes Asger with Mattin consisted of a semi-public reading session, a performance by Stockholm-based (sound) artist Mattin and a lecture by myself at Casco, office for art, theory and Design in Utrecht, NL. The performance and lecture took place Sunday 12 Jan 2014, coinciding with “Utrecht’s Cultural Sunday”, and as part of Casco’s collective research (Un)usual Business on a new form of economy based on “weak” theory of “community economies.”
L’ARCHITECTURE SAUVAGE – ASGER JORN’S CRITIQUE AND CONCEPT OF ARCHITECTURE
A talk and interview with Silkeborg-based researcher, critic and teacher Ruth Baumeister at Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam. This session took place Saturday 22 February 2014. Rob Voerman’s architectural installation ‘The Fifth Season’ conceptually and physically framed the event.
THE GRAMMAR OF SUBSTANCE
A talk by Berlin-based artist Shannon Bool and myself in the framework of the exhibition ‘Shana Moulton – episodes from Whispering Pines’ at Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem, NL. The talks took place on 16 March 2014, coinciding with ‘de Haarlemse Lente’.
THINKING THROUGH MATTER
A talk by Ferdinand Ahm Krag and myself in the framework of the exhibition ‘Asger Jorn – Restless Rebel’ at the Statens Museum for Kunst / National Gallery, Copenhagen. The talks took place Saturday 22 March 2014.
COMPARATIVE VANDALISM
‘Comparative Vandalism’ was an exchange of thoughts on Asger Jorn’s Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism hosted by Officin Books, Paper and Prints Copenhagen. With Niels Henriksen, Ellef Prestsæter and Nicolas Malevé as special guests and with Søren Andreasen, Helle Brøns, Louise Hold Sidenius, Marie Kølbæk Iversen, Jørgen Michaelsen, and Teresa Østergaard Pedersen. The session took place Sunday 6 July, 2014.
PILLAR HUGGERS
A workshop and an exhibition at Or Gallery, Berlin. With Antonis Pittas, Johann Arens, Jay Tan, Klaus Weber, Christoph Keller, Hilde de Bruijn, Shannon Bool, Hadley+Maxwell. Exhibition dates: January 23 – April 18, 2015
KLARA LIDÉN, PILLAR HUGGER
A lecture by me, discussing the work of Klara Lidén (1979) through the lens of Asger Jorn’s ideas on vandalism. The lecture took place on January 6, 2016.
ASGER JORN: THINKING IN THREES
A session with Athens-based artists Kostis Velonis and Yiannis Isidorou hosted by Circuits and Currents, the Project Space of the Athens School of Fine Art. The session took place on January 8, 2016.