Aktiviteter - Skolen for mediekunst

Medieskolen ledes af professor og billedkunstner Jan Jin Kaisen. På denne side kan du se og læse mere om skolens talks, seminarer, undervisning og meget andet.

May 22-26: Lecture, Workshop and studio visits Hyunjin Kim  

Presentation & seminar

Frequencies of Tradition, Frequencies for Sustainable Future
How can tradition be engaged with as a mode of environmental sustainability? Although negative perceptions have alienated tradition as a source of patriarchal, authoritarian, hierarchical, and outdated customs, tradition still connects various generations, transmits values of community, and serves as a living archive of the future emergence of cultures. This presentation first examines how traditions are entangled with different modes of andro-modernization in East Asia. Furthermore, it will address possible wisdom for sustainability through artistic investigation and practices derived from or adapted from tradition, such as community belonging, resilience, symbiotic life with nature, spirituality, and de-anthropocentric thinking.

The following seminar will read a couple of articles in the book “Arts of Living on A Damaged Planet” (edited by Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson, Elaine Gan, and Nils Bubandt) and, over the urgency of the global climate crisis, will discuss theories suggesting a de-anthropocentric multispecies worldview and the different practices of worldmaking narratives.

Hyunjin Kim

Hyunjin Kim is a curator and writer in Seoul. Kim was recently the Artistic Director of Incheon Art Platform 2021 and the KADIST Lead Curator for Asia, with which she developed her three-year program, Frequency of Tradition. She also worked as the curator of the Korean Pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, 2019, a co-curator of the 7th Gwangju Biennale (2008), and the Director of Arko Art Center, Seoul (2014–15). Her numerous curatorial projects include Frequencies of Tradition (KADIST, SF, 2022, /IAP, Incheon, 2021/ Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, 2020), History Has Failed Us, But No Matter (Korean Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2019), 2 or 3 Tigers (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2017), Gridded Currents (Kukje Gallery, Seoul, 2017), Tradition (Un)Realized (Arko Art Center, Seoul, 2014), and Plug-In #3-Undeclared Crowd (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2006). Kim has also curated and written for artists such as Seulgi Lee, Nina Canell, Hwayeon Nam, Haegue Yang, Jewyo Rhii, and Seoyoung Chung, and commissioned performance/theater works of Sung Hwan Kim, siren eun young jung, and Jewyo Rhii, among others. In addition, Kim was a member of the advisory board for the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2014–16) and a jury member for the DAAD Berlin artists-in-residence program (2017–18)

February 13, 10.00-16.00, 2023: Introduction of Julie Edel Hardenberg: “Born into colonial power structures – decolonising my mind.” Location: Media School.

March 27-31, 10-16: Seminar with Julie Edel Hardenberg  

Julie Edel Hardenberg (b. 1971) was born and raised in Nuuk, Kalaallit Nunaat/Greenland. She studied art in Finland, Norway, and England before gaining her MA in Art Theory and Communication at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.  

For the past 25 years, she has worked with identity and (post-) colonial perspectives as an overall theme. With roots in Nordic and Inuit cultures, she has an insight into different Inuit-Kalaallit/Greenlander’s identities and self-understanding. At the same time, her work explores the economic and social interdependencies between Denmark and Greenland and their impact on Greenlanders, caught in a shared identity between power and powerlessness. 

Hardenberg has produced five books besides international exhibitions, recognitions, and public tasks. Her work has been honorary appointed or nominated by: Nordic Council Literature Prize; Danish Association of Book Craft; Vest Nordic Childrens Literature Prize; White Raven Book – International Youth Library; Liviafond Prize; Carnegie Art Award; Anna Norlander Priset, Henry Heerup Hæderslegat.  

Julie is based in Copenhagen where she recently has acquired the Novo Nordisk Foundations Mads Øvlisen Ph.D. scholarship: 

In my PhD project “Between power and powerlessness- the de / colonized mind ” I will examine the colonial memories and experiences that exist among the population in Greenland. With previous artistic studies of the Danish colonial history’s political influence in Greenland, I will in my project turn the focus on what I call the de / colonized mind, exposed to crucial political and cultural influence from Denmark. 

The project’s hypothesis is that when you are born and raised in a society that is built with colonial structures and thought patterns, it is not always that you as a citizen are aware of your own contribution to reproducing the colonial system. Therefore, the project aims to examine the more invisible aspects of the colonial structures and shed light on the impact it has on the citizens / society: How do descendants of colonialism carry the colonial heritage with them? What are the processes you take on when you want to fit in or stand out? 

Seminar: “During a 5-day seminar/workshop, I will present the students to my various artistic research methods and how this process has led to a decolonization of my mind. The students will be expected to try out some of my methods, throughout these 5 days.”

December 5 and 6 from 10-16, 2022

Tinne Zenner is a visual artist, filmmaker and programmer based in Copenhagen. She holds an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2016). Working with analogue film, 3D renderings and spatial installation, her work moves between the cinema and exhibition space while exploring the structures, in which layers of history, politics and collective memory are embedded. In recent years, her work has been critically engaged with the physical and cultural traces of the Danish colonial past and present in Greenland. 

Her films have been shown at a number of international film festivals including New York Film Festival, CPH:DOX, Courtisane, Oberhausen, EMAF, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Image Forum Tokyo and EXiS, and her installation work exhibited at museums and galleries internationally. Several exhibitions and works have been created through a multifaceted research-collaboration with visual artist Eva la Cour. 

Zenner is part of the programming team at EMAF – European Media Arts Festival alongside Katrin Mundt, Mason Leaver-Yap and Philip Widmann. She is a co-founder and member of Sharna Pax (formed in 2013), a film collective based in London and Copenhagen working between the fields of anthropology, documentary and visual arts, and also part of Terrassen – a roving cinema in Copenhagen that engages with the social life of film.

Website: tinnezenner.com