Zeigen at Nikolaj Kunsthal

benandsebastian are participating in Zeigen. An Audio Tour through Copenhagen, an exhibition curated by Karin Sander at Copenhagen’s Nikolaj Kunsthal. Sander invited the participating visual artists to make a sound piece, any kind of sound, description, reading, music or whatever that would translate their work or working process into sound and make it “visible”. benandsebastian will be showing their sound piece ‘You are welcome to live in the museum during opening hours’, which takes the form of a read letter exchange between the artists and the director of the Danish Museum of Art and Design, Anne-Louise Sommer.

Zeigen. An Audio Tour through Copenhagen opens on the 15th of November and runs until the 26th of January 2014.

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Homecomings at HORSE

benandsebastian have participated in an exhibition curated by Cassandra Edlefsen Lasch and Annabelle von Girsewald. The exhibition was inspired by Hreinn Friðfinnsson’s House Project (1974) & Georges Perec’s Espèces d’espaces (1974).

HORSE is a project space and former horse stable at 93 Boxhagener Strasse, Friedrichshain, Berlin.

Other participating artists include:  Anton Burdakov, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez, Eric Ellingsen, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Elín Hansdóttir, Florian Neufeldt, Sophia Pompery.

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Present Absence

DAMn°: “I detect an invisible presence hovering between the individual meanings and histories of each piece – your own or those of the museums’ collections. Would you also describe this ephemeral linkage as a work of its own?”

benandsebastian: “Absolutely. We see Phantom Limbs both as a single work and as a series of fragments. The Phantom Limbs exhibition creates its own ghost network of implied absences. We see these absences as having the capacity to link things together. When someone loses an arm or a leg, it is the continuation of sensation in that amputated limb that allows the body to accept and employ a prosthetic limb as part of itself. We’re fascinated by this capacity for absences to create dynamic connections and these are at the core of the exhibition.”

Interview with Cassandra Edlefsen Lasch, DAMn° magazine 33

Phantom Limbs

benandsebastian’s ongoing Phantom Limbs exhibition project has been on view during the course of the last year at Trapholt Museum of Contemporary Art following the initial show at the Danish Museum of Art and Design in Copenhagen.

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