Invisible Objects

  • Type: event
  • Location: Hauser Plads 16 A , 1127 Copenhagen K , Denmark  http://princegallerycph.com/
  • Starts: Jun 3 2016 at 7:06PM
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As I sit by my living room table, eating watermelon, writing this text the air around me is full of the wireless signals from neighbours, nearby companies and passing tourist buses. I stare at the screen and I synchronise my breathing to the rhythmic flashes of the Cursor on the screen. 

I stare at the little plastic box in my window stilt that weaves my most intimate communications into the vibrating layers of wireless networks that fill most of the public spaces of the city I inhabit. Nano vibrations that heat up the city streets, making room for new animal species and plants. An invisible metronome setting the pace of those walking in the street,  hearts pumpling in sync with the ebbs and flows of radio waves.

As I sit there surrounded by invisible objects and phenomena. Things that, over time, have become so familiar to me, that I have stopped registering their existence. I wonder how I can track these invisible objects down, how I might once again, flush them out in to the open and make them visible to me again ? 

I access a random open wireless network, to Google something or other.  But all that I manage to access is a single line of text that twists its way across the screen:  "Hello, fellow Citizen. Let the yourself become invisible, a non virulent algae bloom in the sea of, a weird religion or an intense and all-consuming hobby network. Together we can steer the development of our host society in a less stable direction, without becoming dominant. "  

As night falls the unchanging blueish light from the screen keeps my body thinking that it is day time, and objects around me start to emanate wireless signals. The stool that I am sitting on broadcasts disinformation and the watermelon on th table floods the neighbourhood with hundreds of fictitious wireless networks. In the kitchen some left over pasta from last night is broadcasting a modified version of the Internet and I wonder who might be on the receiving end of these signals.  

The show consists of a mixture of casts of everyday objects and PU foam blobs that broadcast wireless networks as well as a video with interviews of members of the culture that produced these objects.

Kristoffer Ørum (b. 1975) is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and organiser based in Copenhagen, Denmark. His physical, digital and performative work creates new associations for familiar objects and phenomena, ranging from the complexity of economic terms, to physical effects of wireless networks.
His projects have been exhibited, performed and screened extensively both in Copenhagen and in Internationally in places such as New York, Helsinki, South Korea, Rome, Berlin and Moscow.

Prince Gallery:Prince Gallery is a contemporary art gallery exhibiting international and Scandinavian artists. Founded by Eric and Martine Prince and located in the center of Copenhagen between Norreport Station and Rosenborg Castle. http://princegallerycph.com/

Thanks to:
Statens Kunstfond, Statens Værksteder for Kunst

Realised with the help of:
Tomas Skovgaard, Kaspar Holm & Erik Nørgaard Gravesen

Role-players:
Nina Runa Essendrop, Nicolai Strøm Steffensen, Alex K Uth, Caroline Koren Raffnsøe & Nilas Dumstrei

Hauser Plads 16 A , 1127 Copenhagen K , Denmark 
http://princegallerycph.com/
Tues – Fri, 12.00 – 16.00
Saturday,  11.00 – 16.00