Exhibition: Other voices – art & everyday life

Opening: Friday 19th of June 2009, 17-20

Exhibition period: 20th of June – 23rd of August 2009

Location: Museum of Contemporary Art, Stændertorvet 3A, 4000 Roskilde, + 45 46 31 65 70 www.samtidskunst.dk. Open: Tuesday-Friday 11-17, Saturday-Sunday 12-16

What is your experience of this work of art? And what is art to you? Museum of Contemporary Art has asked different groups and associations in Roskilde questions like these. The answers to these questions are presented to the audience at the exhibition Other voices – art & everyday life. A selection of soundworks, videoworks, photos, drawings and objects, all of them focusing on intimate events in everyday life, are presented in homelike settings in the exhibition.

”Art is to stop for a moment and look at oneself with the eyes of another person”. ”Am I well entertained? Is it art, then?” ”I will experience that I am another person after having experienced art”. These sentences are just extracts of the thoughts and interpretations of selected works of art in the exhibition. The audience is also invited to write down their thoughts in the exhibition and in that way share their experiences with others.

On his way through the exhibition the visitor can lean back in the settee in the living room with a cup of coffee while the phone is ringing in Christian Marclay’s videowork Telephones. Nature is seen through the window in Kassandra Wellendorf’s videowork Outside, while Per Højholt takes a closer look at nature in the television documentary Naturen er min frakke (Nature is my coat). With the soundwork Pause Jacob Kirkegaard gives the audience a well-deserved rest at the tile-topped table in the kitchen. In the soundwork John & Yoko from The Wedding Album Yoko Ono and John Lennon are calling for eachother in the bedroom.

”The question is how much the finger crutches actually change. Is it possible for art to come into existence out of constraint?” This is how a citizen in Roskilde experiences Su-Mei Tse’s videowork Das Wohltemperierte Klavier in which the outstretched fingers of a pianist are bandaged. At Lisa Stömbeck’s videowork Lady in Red the audience is invited to enter into the woman’s thoughts and write a note in a diary. In the library the audience can take a closer look at Berty Skuber’s mail art objects. Finally the audience is invited to sit down at the desk in the office and look into the newly launched fluxus homepage Festival of Fantastics – www.festivaloffantastics.com. The exhibition presents works of art from the key areas of the museum collection: Word, image and sound or fusions thereof, from 1950 until today. In addition to that the exhibition presents works of artists who have previously exhibited at the museum. Some of the objects in the exhibition can be described as works of art in the traditional sense while others are used to document happenings and performances.

Artists:

Akio Suzuki; Azza El-Hassan; Berty Skuber; Christian Marclay; Christian Yde Frostholm; Ewa Jacobsson; Geoffrey Hendricks; Hanna Hartman; Hans Peter Stubbe Teglbjærg; Hans Sydow; Jacob Kirkegaard; Joan La Barbara; John Cage; John Lennon; Jonas Olesen; Joseph Beuys; Juha Valkeapää; Kassandra Wellendorf; Kira Kira (Kristin Björk Kristjansdottir); Ko Nakajuma; Kurt Schwitters; Lars Bukdahl; Laurie Anderson; Lisa Strömbeck; Michael H. Kirkegaard; Nam June Paik; Outi-Illuusia Parviainen; Paul Panhuysen; Per Højholt; Per Vers (Per Uldal); Staffan Mossenmark; Su-Mei Tse; Thorkell Atlason; Ulrich Eller; Vagn Steen; Yoko Ono; Øystein Hauge

For more information please contact:
Curator Tine Seligmann, tine@samtidskunst.dk / +45 46 31 65 70

Curatorial assistant Dorthe Godsk Larsen dorthegh@hotmail.com