Last week to explore a major survey show on Street Photography at Øksnehallen in Copenhagen. My installation INTERVENTIONS of a man walking alone across Europe to Kosovo in 1999 is included.
New Canadian adventure /
Planning my next adventure with Senator Philip Ozouf...the North-Atlantic cod fisheries in The Gaspe Peninsula, Canada where Jersey firms in the 17th, 18th & 19th centuries administered merchant capital flow of exotic commodities as a blueprint for a future offshore island finance industry. Interestingly enough, it was a Jersey Banking crisis in the 1880s that ended the very profitable transatlantic trade...another excellent example of Jersey operating as an Entrepôt.
Financial support towards travel costs from Jersey Arts Trust greatly appreciated! @JerseyArtsTrust @philipozouf @archisle1
Editing and sequencing Mãori book /
Te Ahi Kã - The Fires of occupation is a book about a river that is the lifeblood of the Maori people is beginning to take shape. Heartfelt thanks to Ania Nałęcka-Milach and Rafal Milach for their hard work editing and for their generous spirit in understanding a delicate story.
Farewell party at Sputnik Photos HQ /
Good luck in your new office and best wishes for future adventures...Sputnik Photos
Exhibition talk at Øksnehallen /
'My idiosyncratic performance during 78 days across the European landscape is an inquiry into distance - the journey itself. It is the existence of the journey, and not the essence of the destination. Kosovo is not the subject of my work but a mere stop to my journey. My position is akin to that of a passer-by constantly trying to situate himself in a moving environment. Each intervention is another fragment of the story that is being invented and a challenge to the narrative and economic structure of Western representation. A movement through images and the memory of them experienced in a non-chronological, non-linear way.'
A conversation with Jens Olof Lasthein and myself begins in 30 mins about our work from the Balkan region and beyond at Øksnehallen
Street Photography 1917-2017 - A Tribute to the Everyday /
We are open...In Copenhagen #gadefotografi #enhyldesttilhverdagen#oeksnehallen #dgibyen
INTERVENTIONS - A walk across Europe to Kosovo /
This installation explores the notion of communication, not only as a visual language, but communication as a set of relationships between art and life, war and peace, spectator and creator, memory and language. Thinking it as a long-distance phone call - trying to make sense of the other receiver's non-sense, replacing the phone with organic, singular activity - the installation is in effect a documentation of a man alone walking through Europe to Kosovo. The walk is not to make sense out of something seemingly senseless. French contemporary thinker, Jean-Luc Nancy, has already written that the Sense of the World has come to an end.
Installation in Copenhagen beginning to take shape /
Installation in Copenhagen beginning to take shape. 3000 sqm of an alternative history of Street Photography told trough specific projects, series, photo books, films and other visual documentation by 80 international artists. Grand opening Tue 26 June at Øksnehallen organised by DGI-byen. Read more here http://www.dgi-byen.dk/oeksnehallen/gadefotografi/
