JACOB KIRKEGAARD

Preview for 2012

Confirmed participation in group shows:
*    SPATIUM at KUMU Art Museum in Tallin, Estonia, January - May.
*    Freq_Out at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden. February
*    Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2012 at Gift Lab in Tokyo, Japan. February - March.
*    STREET LIFE – BERLIN at ARKEN - Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. May - July
*    SILENCE at the Menil Collection and at the Rothko Chapel in Texas, USA. July - October.

Sound scores & field recording for film:
*    Feature film 40 DAYS OF SILENCE - by Uzbek director Saodat Ismailova
*    Documentary about albino children in Tanzania - by Danish director Camilla Magid

Other projects in 2012:
*     In collaboration with Scenatet, transcribing & recording CHURCH (4 ROOMS) & LABYRINTHITIS for string and wind instruments.
*     Throughout 2012 Kirkegaard will also be creating PHILIA - a commissioned permanent installation for the University of Copenhagen.

Next FREQ_OUT happens in Stockholm in February 2012!

Click HERE for link to Moderna Museet and HERE for link for Facebook link

AION (DVD) On 26th of April 2011 - 25 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster the 1st release on FONIK WORKS was released

On Sunday the 27th of March Jacob Kirkegaard will premiere Labyrinthitis Variations together with the string quartet Messerkvartetten. The concert will take place at the Medical Museion in Copenhagen Denmark. Labyrinthitis Variations is Kirkegaard's first collaboration with a string quartet. More info (in Danish) can be found HERE

TOUCH RELEASES: Since all Jacob Kirkegaard's albums (Eldfjall, 4 Rooms, Labyrinthitis & Soaked with Philip Jeck) are now sold out, Touch have made them available as 320kbps digital downloads editions. Go to TouchShop to find out more

IMPERIA
On March 10, 2011 TRKirstein & Jacob Kirkegaard will release their collaboration IMPERIA, a work based on sound recordings made at the nuclear power plant Barsebäck in Sweden. The CD can be purchased through the FONIK WORKS shop

B A N D E R A

New sound work by Jacob Kirkegaard to be premiered live at SPOR Festival in Aarhus, May 7th 2010, 11pm

Jacob Kirkegaard's new work BANDERA (flag in Spanish) consists of audio recordings of the flagstaff masts, which are installed in front of the building ‘U.S. Interests Section’ in Havana, Cuba. The installation was designed by the Cuban government to shadow for an electric newspaper, which the U.S. government has used for years to disseminate anti-communist propaganda from the building. However, last year the U.S. government chose to turn off the electric newspaper. The conclusion was that the messages did not reach satisfactory because of the 'obstructions', which had been placed in front of the electric newspaper. They alluded to these approximately 50 masts, all with black flags with a white star in the middle. These anti-imperialist flags are also metaphorically interesting because it - according to Jacob Kirkegaard - symbolizes the wall that exists between two countries with distinct ideologies. On one side of the flag wall is the U.S.’s only bastion on Cuban soil. In front of the flags is the space Anti-imperialist Tribune. Jacob Kirkegaard got special permission to place his accelerometer (sensitive contact microphone) to the masts, in this heavily guarded and inflamed area around the house. BANDERA feels the pulse of the state between U.S. & Cuba anno 2010.

H A U S D E R M A H R E

Hotel Marienbad 008
Jacob Kirkegaard. Haus der Mahre
Thursday, March 18, 2010, 7pm

In Norse mythology, “mares” or “albs” are small black goblins that, at nighttime, slip into houses through keyholes and sit down on the sleepers tearing their hair and inducing nightmares. In English the word “mare” both stands for this evil nightly spirit as well as for a female horse.

With his new work House of Mare, the Danish sound and media artist Jacob Kirkegaard presents a foray into one of the most common and most fascinating phenomena of unintentionally produced human sounds: the noises we make while we sleep. The artist invited 16 guests to individually spend one of 16 subsequent nights in the suite of KW's Hotel Marienbad. During their sleep, he captured the sounds they made – movements, snoring, murmurs or sleeptalking – adding them to the sounds made by the previous guests. The result is a multi-layered composition that invites its listeners to experience an acoustic dream-memory of the hotel room.

Hotel Marienbad 008. Supported by the Friends of KW Institute for Contemporary Art.
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststr. 69
D-10117 Berlin

R E W I N D
A new sound piece created on commission for soundwalk.com
Will be online by mid February 2010.

S A B U L A T I O N
Live premiere at Club Transmediale, Berlin, January 28th, 2010!
Click here for info about SABULATION
Click here for info about upcoming shows

S P E C U L U M S P E C U L I

SPECULUM SPECULI is an experiment that operates at the very core of radio broadcasting: Working with precision-ground magnifiers and mirrors, sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard dissects the ostentive silence and passivity of empty broadcasting studios. Through amplification and feedback processes, he reveals the hidden life breath of spaces that are usually thought of as "acoustically dead" and inactive.

Jacob Kirkeaard is pleased to announce that his new piece 'Double Take' is being shown at the White Noise exhibition
at James Cohan Gallery in New York.
'Double Take' is an 11 x 14 inch pigment print, printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag paper 308gsm and is a limited edition of six.
Click here to read the whole press release.

Jacob Kirkegaard is featured with a two-page interview (By Anne Hilde Neset) in the July 09 issue of The Wire magazine

Announcing LYDIA LUNCH & JACOB KIRKEGAARD: 'FORGET TO BREATHE' - which is an audio companion (CD) to Lydia Lunch's new book AMNESIA.
See this LINK for more information. You can also listen to some tracks on their myspace page.