LAUNCH OF INTENTIONAL ART AT DOME OF VISIONS ON SØREN KIRKEGAARDS SPACE IN COPENHAGEN

"According to Eastern mystics, occultists, and Amazonian shamans, there is only one consciousness that expresses itself through the creative medium of space and time.
This consciousness fragments itself into myriad tiny shards in order to learn about its own expressive capacities. If this view is correct, then the intention of civilization should be to mesh all of these fragments back together into a harmonic, ever-changing whole. We could explore university in diversity, and overcome the false dualism between the individual and collective by reimagining our world as a collaborative work of art."

Daniel Pinchbeck, 2014

On May 16th 2014 at 6:00PM, Intentional Art will be launched in Copenhagen. A wonderful group of people have been asked to be part of the launch event and panel in connection to the launch. They are:

(photo by Martin Lehmann/Politiken)

Gry Worre Hallberg operates in the intersection of performance art, research, activism and future studies continuously executed in 1:1 co-created experiments such as Dome of Visions, Sisters Academy and In100Y.

 She currently works on the project Sensuous society: Beyond economic rationality – Suggesting a sensuous mode of being in the world. For many years she has aimed at enriching environments with an aesthetic dimension through the use of performance art, universe design and ‘fiction pimping’. 

Gry is the co-founder of a range of organisations and movements within the field of performance art applied in a series of different everyday-life contexts. Besides her performance art practice she is an Associate at Performance Design, Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies at Roskilde University. 
Furthermore, she is the Artistic director and head curator of Dome of Visions and the performance curator of the Roskilde festival.

(photo by Jan Grarup/Politiken)

Ole Fogh Kirkeby is a Danish philosopher and a professor at Copenhagen Business School in the Philosophy of Leadership. He is a Doctor of Philosophy from Aarhus University, graduated with honours, 1994, with the dissertation "Event and Body-mind. A phenomenological-hermeneutic Analysis". He has an MA (mag.art.) in the History of Ideas from Aarhus University. As a professional philosopher, Kirkeby focused on the event as the centre of being. In order to describe the event, he conceived it as a way in which the body-mind (his neologism) absorbed the event by being absorbed by it. 

The media in which this takes place is language. Thus Kirkeby combined the theory of language games, and the phenomenological tradition, with its emphasis on self-reflective being (Heidegger), and the theory of bodily incorporation developed by Merleau-Ponty, interpreted through the Stoic vocabulary of the event, into an epistemological theory of the way in which we are “evented”. In his philosophical trilogy about the event, with the volumes Eventum Tantum – The Ethos of the Event  Beauty Happens, The Aesthetics of the Event and The Self happens and The Event of Consciousness, he created a new framework for approaching the event.

More about Ole HERE

Jonathan Lang has spent more than 10 years in marketing working with hologram projection, emerging technologies, digital, social and all that other stuff healthy, ambitious, young, marketing professionals should be doing, for clients all over the world. In an attempt to save his soul (my soul actually – I don’t have an agent writing this stuff for me) he left marketing to find the meaning of life or something meaningful to spend it on. Companies spend gazillions of dollars every minute communicating empty messages with the only purpose of perpetuating consumption.I am curious to explore how big a difference just a fraction of those resources can make if they are used to actually make a difference and change something in the world - for the better


Check out Jonathan's Site HERE

Jonas Hvid Søndergaard graduated from The Royal Danish Art Academy as a painter. After many years 
of reserach into the Theosophy and Occult aspects of art, he is now one of the great inspirations to the young Danish art scene, travelling into the same areas. Theosophy is considered a part of the broader field of esotericism, referring to hidden knowledge or wisdom that offers the individual enlightenment and salvation. The theosophist seeks to understand the mysteries of the universe and the bonds that unite the universe, humanity, and the divine. The goal of theosophy is to explore the origin of divinity and humanity, and the world. From investigation of those topics, theosophists try to discover a coherent description of the purpose and origin of the universe.

One of the sacred meanings associated with the symbolism of the Triangle is the fiery aspiration of the human soul towards higher unity. Psychologically it represents the urge to escape from duality or the extension represented by the base of the triangle, a movement towards an origin or an irradiating point at the apex.

The Flower of Life is considered to be a symbol of sacred geometry, said to contain ancient, religious value depicting the fundamental forms of space and time. Sacred geometry can be described as a belief system attributing a religious or cultural value to many of the fundamental forms of space and time. According to this belief system, the basic patterns of existence are perceived as sacred, since contemplating one is contemplating the origin of all things. By studying the nature of these forms and their relationship to each other, one may seek to gain insight into the scientific, philosophical, psychological, aesthetic and mystical laws of the universe.

More about Jonas HERE

(photo by Anders Nikolaj Højrup Sørensen)

Claus Ankersen is a writer, performer and spoken-word artist who studied Communivation and Philosophy at Aarhus University and University of California in Santa Barbara, along with Anthropology at Copenhagen University. He has been part of The Triangle Project since 2008 and have often been likened to beat poet Allen Ginsberg and Hunter S. Thompson. 

 

The above "TOXIC TUESDAYS" video was made by Anders Nikolaj Højrup Sørensen and first time 
shown in connection to The Triangle Project screening event in connection to CPH:DOX 2013.

More about Claus HERE

Rasmus Nordqvist, Chairman of the board of The Alternative. Rasmus works as designer and teacher within fashion design. with a special focus on sustainability and talent development. He has in the past worked with projects combining art and fashion. Last fall he was part of the initiative group behind The Alternative.

The Alternative is a generous, action-oriented international party with a special focus on serious sustainable transition, everyday democracy and the entrepreneurial creative power of society and individuals. A party which has the courage to imagine a radically different future.It is important for The Alternative to emphasise the significance of culture and art and their role in the development of other life values and life strategies than material consumption and financial wealth.

More: http://alternativet.dk

Jacob Fuglsang Mikkelsen is the initiator of Intentional Art & The Triangle Project. After working on
various projects and concepts, he found himself not being able to explain what he was doing. 
He was just doing it. Fuglsang Mikkelsen was working on the idea of collaboration and finding issues he felt
was important to shine light on. This led him to the need to figure out a definition of what he felt he was doing
along with being inspired by various theories and actions of Intention, Collaboration, Spirituality, Activism and
Power of Now. Thus Intentional Art came about.

See more about Jacob's work HERE

It will take place at Dome of Visions
Søren Kirkegaards Plads by the Black Diamond Public Library
May 16th 2014

More info HERE

UPDATE



And here is an edit of the panel debate - in Danish

INTENTIONAL ART LAUNCH AND PANEL AT GERSHWIN HOTEL PRESENTED BY NEKE CARSON

Nicollette Ramirez (above) will be in the panel following the launch of Intentional Art and is a curator, art dealer, writer, performer, producer and events organizer with over ten years of experience being an arts advocate, promoting artists and their work in various media, including visual arts, performance, music, film and literature. Ms. Ramirez’s projects have often combined artists from diverse backgrounds working in several different media in new and unfamiliar locations. She has also written creatively and journalistically for print and online publications as well as for gallery and museum catalogs.

Daniel Pinchbeck (born 15 June 1966) is an American author living in New York's East Village. He is the author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism and 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. 

He is a co-founder of Evolver, a lifestyle community platform that publishes Reality Sandwich, an online magazine centered around spirituality, philosophy and activism.  

He has written for many publications, including Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, The Village Voice, and Rolling Stone. In 1994 he was chosen by The New York Times Magazine as one of "Thirty Under Thirty" destined to change our culture through his work with Open City. He has been a regular columnist for a number of magazines, including Dazed & Confused. (Wikipedia)

The text presenting the first draft of Intentional Art is written by Ann-Sofie Nielsen Gremaud (b. 1981).

She is a Danish/Swiss researcher of cultural history, currently based in Reykjavík and have studied Art History and Scandinavian Literature at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.

Her PhD thesis is about crypto-colonial elements in Icelandic nation building and the importance of landscape imagery. She is affiliated with the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen as a postdoctoral fellow with the research project Geographies of Crisis: Post-Industrial Landscapes in the North Atlantic as a part of a larger joint research project. Currently she is a visiting scholar at the Edda Center of Excellence at Háskóli Íslands (Reykjavík, Iceland).

The Moderator of the panel debate will be Katherine Jánszky Michaelsen,  a professor in the History of Art Department, and chair of the Master of Arts program in Art Market: Principles and Practices at the Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY. Before FIT she taught at Columbia University, Brooklyn College, Marymount Manhattan College, and Stern College, Yeshiva University. In 2006 she co-taught a seminar on Biblical Jurisprudence at Columbia Law School, and in 2007 and 2008 she was guest lecturer at Istanbul Technical University in Turkey. 

Michaelsen earned her PhD from the Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, specializing in modern art. Her dissertation, Archipenko, The Early Work, 1908-1920, was published by Garland Publishing, New York, in the Outstanding Dissertations in the Fine Arts series. She is author of many articles and catalogue essays, and was guest curator at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC of Archipenko, A Centennial Tribute; and of Andor Weininger, From Bauhaus to Conceptual Art at the Kunsteverein, Düsseldorf, an exhibition that traveled to various venues in Europe, and the Neuberger Museum in Purchase, New York.

At Columbia University she was awarded a four-year Graduate Faculties Fellowship, and she has been the recipient of research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Michaelsen conducted radio interviews in French with New York art world personalities for L’Art Aujourd’hui, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Radio Canada; worked as art gallery administrator, represented artists, and served as art consultant for private and corporate clients. She is a member of the National Advisory Council, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York; the Board of Directors of (contemporary music) Ensemble Sospeso, New York; and ArtTable, the national organization for professional women in the arts.

Noah Fischer is an artist and activist based in New York. His sculptures and performances are activated by the rhetoric, symbols, and currencies that condition one’s public identity as participant in a culture or economy. After attending Columbia University, Fischer (MFA 2004) moved to the Netherlands on a Fulbright, initiating a collaboration with the Berlin-based theatre group andcompany&Co and touring with performances which playfully explore economic ideology. His sculptural exhibitions such as Rhetoric Machine (2006, Oliver Kamm Gallery NYC) and Electrical Forest (2009) and Pop Ark (2008, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels) explore the official rhetoric of 20th Century technological and political progress. 

Following the crash of 2008, Fischer exited from the private art market.  In 2011, he collaborated with the Aaron Burr Society on a performance series called Summer of Change speaking out about economic injustice in public performances on Wall Street months before the Occupy Movement was initiated in New York.  Since September 2011, Fischer merged his practice with the Occupy Movement, initiating action groups Occupy Subways and Occupy Museums. Fischer participated in the 7th Berlin Biennial as a member of Occupy Museums and in “Truth is Concrete” at the Steirischer Herbst,  Graz 2012.  Currently Fischer is developing a “market action” called Debtfair (debtfair.org) and engages in a new series of videos. He is also involved in a new international stage of Occupy Museums called Winter Holiday Camp.  

More about Noah's work HERE

Sisters Hope operate in the intersection of performance art, research, activism and pedagogy. They are working proactively toward manifesting a more sensuous and poetic educational system.

A storm rages outside, but behind sturdy walls, the sisters are doing important experiments: while the old world is falling apart, they investigate what values to base the new world on. A long time ago, the sisters became aware that something would happen to the world they knew, and so they formed a school – Sisters Hope. Since then, they have inspired youths from the entire nation, nourished the ground and planted special seeds. The time has ripened. It is ripe. It is time for the birth of Sisters Academy, the unity of inspirations, the reaping of visions – A place open to fresh and fleshy ideas. A place where the dream you just dreamed is as important as the breath you take. A place where the ambience touches your soul as the light fades. A place where memories of the past is turned into hope for the future…

Sisters Hope was founded in 2007 by Anna Lawaetz and Gry Worre Hallberg. In the fictitious universe they personify Coco and Coca Pebber – the twin sisters and the headmistresses of the school Sisters Hope.

More about Sisters Hope HERE

Gabriel Don is a multidisciplinary artist or Renaissance woman who works in a variety of mediums.
She received her MFA in creative writing at The New School, where she worked as the chapbook and reading series coordinator. Her work has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Great Weather for Media's anthology The Understanding Between Foxes and Light, A Minor, Westerly and is forthcoming in Mascara Literary Review and The Legendary. She has appeared in visual poems such as Woman Without Umbrella and Unbound. She started several reading-soiree series, is editorial staff at LIT and participates in live art events around New York. Gabriel Don is also available on Amazon as a Bookdress who has performed in various literary, art and public spaces including the MET.

The Danish artist Jacob Fuglsang Mikkelsen who is the facilitator of The Triangle Project and Founder of CO2 Green Drive, will join the panel and talk about how the above mentioned projects fits in under the framework of Intentional Art. More about Jacob's work HERE

The evening will be hosted by Neke Carson

Gershwin Hotel
7 East 27th Street
Friday April 18th 2014

More about the event HERE