sehen – hören – dänen
A collaborative weekend organized by the "Künstlerhaus" & "mex". Performance, Installation, Video & Music from Denmark as a part of the days of Scandinavian Culture in Dortmund
8.5.–10.5.1998
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Künstlerhaus
Sunderweg
D-Dortmund
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With: Jindrich Biskup, Steen Carlsen, Peter Frimand, Berndt Jaspers, Birgit Johnsen, Martin Klapper, Jacob Tue Larson, Hanne Nielsen, Superflex Music and Svend Thomsen.

The Anterior entrance area of the Künstlerhaus offered a looped video projection by Birgit Johnsen + , Hanne Nielsen, that shows a man laying on a table with his penis elevated and moved by a toy plane, that is tied up to his foreskin with a thin rope. Another video of the artist duo showed them grinding onions, looking into the camera and trying not to cry. Jacob Tue Larsen presented a slide-installation of pictures taken from his neighborhood and tourist magazines, along with easy chairs, sofas and free drinks. Svend Thomsen offered a selection of documentary videos that featured interviews with sound artists. Superflex did some DJ-ing along to a video loop, that was shot by a dog. The Saturday afternoon was dedicated to early Danish experimental movies. In the evening Martin Klapper and Jindrich Biskup improvised on toys and "floor-percussion". Sunday featured the circular speed videos of Peter Frimand. while Berndt Jasper and Steen Carlsen finished the Danish weekend with probably unmentionable. If you happen to understand German you might dig this quotation from an original and for my limited possibilities untranslatable text by Berndt and Steen: »Das Objekt wringt sich in das Subjekt (...) Bei der Gleichzeitigkeit von Penetration and Radiation, Durchzug and Schleuderkapazität schwankt der Zeitreisende zwischen den hin and her schießenden Extrakten
and versinkt auf der Stelle.«