Live performance and artist conversation with Anne Hilde Neset, nyMusikk
In addition to his installation MELT at Fotogalleriet, there will be a live performance by Kirkegaard of his renowned work ISFALD (2013). Isfald is the Danish word for ‘Icefall’, one of the many names for ice formations in the Arctic. Based on the recordings of calving glaciers with a hydrophone, which makes it possible to record sounds travelling from hundreds of kilometres away, Kirkegaard reassembles the recorded sound in his live performance.
Accompanied by a conversation with Anne Hilde Neset (nyMusikk) discussing the relationship between sound and photographic image, including the notion of field recordings - a vital element in Kirkegaard’s work.
In MELT, a new installation created for Oslo’s Fotogalleriet, he combines environmental recordings brought back from the Ilulissat iceberg in Greenland, above the Arctic Circle, into an immersive audio-visual work that amplifies the sound of calving glaciers, the traumatic creaks and groans of melting ice, and the chilling blasts of Arctic storms. Using microphones placed underwater and drilled into ice, he reveals a world of distant, booming sound even when the immediate area appeared to be silent.
MELT is part of Fotogalleriet’s Arctic-themed group show, ‘For a gentle song would not shake us if we had never heard a loud one’, curated by Stephanie von Spreter. At the exhibition on 9 September Kirkegaard will also perform his piece ISFALD and give an artist talk as part of Ultima Academy: see separate listing.
The installation opens 8 September.
Jacob Kirkegaard is an artist and composer who work in carefully selected environments to generate recordings that are used in compositions, or combined with video imagery in visual, spatial installations. Based in Berlin, Kirkegaard has presented his works at galleries, museums and concert spaces throughout the world, including MoMA in New York, LOUISIANA in Denmark, KW in Berlin and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. The participation of Jacob Kirkegaard is supported by The Danish Arts Foundation.
In collaboration with Fotogalleriet and nyMusikk.
