Grinding Onions
6:27 min. 1995
Grinding onions shows two women performing in a trivial scene from daily life – grinding onions.
The video deals with the collective experience in crying which can be seen as a feminism statement about female circumstances as well as the construction opens up for our collective experience with in crying and confronts the spectator with suffering as a concept.
Udstillinger:
2023 Bevæg dig bevæg mig, ARKEN Museum for Modern Kunst, DK
2017 SY - M A Y S P A C E, Waterloo, Sidney, AUS
2015 DRIFTING, The Laźnia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk, PL (SOLO) *
2013 Nikolaj Kunsthal, FOKUS Videokunstfestival 2013, Copenhagen, DK *
2012 Photovisa, IV International Festival of Photography, Krasnodar, RU
2010 TERRAIN VIDEO - VIDEO PÅ KANTEN, Holstebro Kunstmuseum, DK
2002 Book Fair – Forum, København, DK
1999 Switch 1, Arte, French Television, FR
1998 Künstlerhaus Dortmund, DE
1997 Konstbrus, Södertälje Konsthall, SE *
1997 Manifestation Internationale Video et Art Electronique, Champ Libre, CA*
1996 Den Haags Gemeentemuseum, World Wide Video Festival, Haag, NL *
1996 Elektroniske understrømme, Kunst and Video in Europe, National Gallery of Denmark, KBH, DK *
1996 Stichting Centrum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Maastricht, NL
1996 Video Art Plastique, 10´emes Centre d´Art Contemporrain de Basse-Normandie, FR
1995 CRAWL – 7 experimental videoes from Aarhus Film Workshop, DK *
Erhvervet af Aros DK, Bonns Kunst Museum DE, SMK Statens Museum for Kunst DK.
Tekster:
Humour as an Avant-Garde Strategy in Three Generations of Feminist Art - by Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam
Videologier 2 page 27-29 af forfatter Lars Movin
Wunderkammer #18, Afrivning a løg - AroS
Risking reality -The videos of Birgit Johnsen and Hanne Nielsen” by Gitte Ørskou, exhibition catalogue, Viborg Kunsthal, 1999
Med virkeligheden som indsats - Birgit Johnsen og Hanne Nielsens videoer” by Gitte Ørskou, - exhibition catalogue, Viborg Kunsthal, 1999
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Chicken Con Carlo
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Construction of space
Territorielle udsagn
I am so fucking happy
Gokker
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