TERRAFORM 2023

TERRAFORM – IN KNUD VIKTOR’S SOUND TRACKS was a residency program in connection with the exhibition PUT YOUR EARS TO THE GROUND – Sound Painter Knud Viktor on Samsø, where a group of contemporary artists participated in a joint work stay at Agerupgård, Samsø and in Bang & Olufsen’s former research studios at Sound Art Lab, Struer. The four invited artists worked during three weeks with Knud Viktor’s oeuvre and working methods, as a starting point for their own contemporary practice.

Participating artists:

MELISSA VAN DRIE (FR)
is a researcher, performer and writer from France who works with how sound, hearing and listening are important aspects of world-making: how different humans and non-humans use sound to sense and understand their respective environments.

NANNA ELVIN HANSEN (DK)
is an artist and filmmaker based in Copenhagen, whose practice often focuses on issues related to feminism and migration politics. She often investigates these questions through a collective and collaborative process of film, video and sound production.

SARAH SIKORIE (NO)
is an artist from Oslo who works with sculpture and installation, with a particular interest in the processual formation of our kinship and coexistence with other species. Her works are based on site-specific interactions.

LIEVEN MARTENS (BE)
is an artist from Antwerp, Belgium. He creates conceptual music that hovers between field recordings, ambient, musique concrète and modern composition. He investigates the “sound of islands”, where he has been inspired by the rhythms of archipelagos.

05.08.2023, 6pm
Agerupgård, Agerup 6, 8305 Samsø
Knud Viktor: IMAGE IX – L’ARMOIRE – quadraphonic concert + Akvarel / Boblerne – short film + lecture by Jan Stricker (Institut for Dansk Lydarkæologi) + TERRAFORM – I Knud Viktors Lydspor – premieres + Jonas Olesen DJ set and book presentation

Knud Viktor’s quadrophonic work ‘IMAGE IX – L’ARMOIRE’ and short films ‘Akvarel’ and ‘Boblerne’ are this evening going into dialogue with premieres of the four artists’ new sound works. The program is introduced by Jan Stricker, radio host at The Lake and co-founder of record label Institut for Dansk Lydarkæologi, who have published and reissued some of Knud Viktor’s works. This same evening, sound artist and author Jonas Olesen will present his book Pionerer & Outsidere – Dansk Elektronisk Musik 1928-1980 and play music samples with a special focus on Danish electronic composers who have used nature and animal sounds.

Terraform – In Knud Viktor’s Sound Tracks is a collaboration between Sound Art Lab, Samsø Municipality’s Art Council and Terraform.

Curators:
Jenny Gräf Sheppard
Jan Stricker

More info about the Knud Viktor exhibition: https://knudviktorsamsoe.dk

The residency was funded by The Danish Art Foundation, Sonning-Fonden and Art Music Denmark.

TERRAFORM 2021

ADA VAN HOOREBEKE (BE)
ALEXANDER HOLM (DK)
CHRIS SHIELDS (US/IR)
EEVA RÖNKÄ (FIN)
GIJS DEDDENS (NL)
JANI ANDERS PURHONEN (FIN)
WILFRED WAGNER (DK)
ZOË C. MILLER (US)

[EN] Eight international artists have throughout 2021 had the opportunity to live and work on the island for two weeks. They have explored and worked with the island’s resources to experiment, produce and develop new works and publications. A special focus has been put on serial works and multiples, artworks that are produced in several copies and thus can be easily distributed.

In their meeting with the island, technology has served them as a sensory tool, as the artists have used instruments such as metal detectors, surveillance cameras, microphones, scanners and photographic exposure to highlight and document a number of elements specific to the life and nature on Samsø. The results range from original artworks, texts, video and audio recordings to multiples made of different materials such as screen prints, wine, ceramic sculptures and more.

The project received support by Statens Kunstfond and Samsø Municipality.

[DK] Otte internationale kunstnere har i løbet af 2021 haft mulighed for at bo og arbejde på øen i to uger hver. De har udforsket og arbejdet med øens ressourcer for at eksperimentere, producere og udvikle nye værker og udgivelser, hvor der er lagt et særligt fokus på serielle værker og såkaldte multiples, kunstværker der er fremstillet i flere kopier og dermed nemt kan distribueres.

I mødet med øen har teknologi tjent kunstnerne som sensorisk værktøj, idet de har brugt instrumenter som metaldetektorer, overvågningskameraer, mikrofoner, scannere og fotografisk eksponering til at fremhæve og dokumentere en række elementer specifikke for livet og naturen på Samsø. Resultaterne spænder fra originale kunstværker, tekster, video- og lydoptagelser til ​​multiples lavet af forskellige materialer som serigrafiske tryk, vin, keramiske skulpturer m.m.

Projektet har modtaget støtte fra Statens Kunstfond og Samsø Kommune.

About

[EN] TERRAFORM is an artist-in-residency program on the island of Samsø in the danish Kattegat sea. TERRAFORM wants to convey and support innovative artistic practice that is both sustainable and communal. The perspective of the project is to establish permanent workshops for art production with an associated residency program on Samsø, where international artists have the opportunity to enter into dialogue with the island community. In close collaboration with local actors and institutions, the project wants to create a framework in which work can be done in solidarity and art produced locally, with available materials, methods and techniques.

[DK] TERRAFORM er et artist-in-residency program på Samsø. TERRAFORM ønsker at formidle og understøtte en nytænkende kunstnerisk praksis der både er bæredygtig og fællesskabsfremmende. Projektets perspektiv er at etablere permanente værksteder for kunst produktion med et tilknyttet residency program på Samsø, hvor internationale kunstnere har mulighed for at træde i dialog med ø-samfundet. I tæt samarbejde med lokale aktører og institutioner vil projektet skabe rammer hvori der kan arbejdes solidarisk og produceres kunst lokalt, med tilgængelige materialer, metoder og teknikker.

Contact us here:
terraform.island@gmail.com

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