Pictures taken by Jacob Kirkegaard
Jacob Kirkegaard x MSJ
Exhibition- and technical design
at Tønder Kunstmuseum.
Flowerhaus were in colab with Jacob Kirkegaard and MSJ making the exhibition "Mellem Rum" at Tønder Kunstmuseum come to live. We did both consult, design and built across 6 sound installations in the beautifull halls of the museum.
Read more about the installations further down the page.
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M E L T
Jacob Kirkegaard © 2016. 40 minutes.
12 speakers, red light and haze.
White double-wall square or rectangular space.
Speakers hidden ceiling.
MELT is composed of recordings of different stages of ice melting, moving from violent sounds of ice caps grinding against each other, to trickling sequences and flows of water. MELT traces how water moves through different aggregate phases, from solid to liquid, changing the combination of molecules irrevocably.
All sounds were recorded in Greenland by Kirkegaard in 2013 and 2015
A N I M A L
Dyret / Animal. Video work. Created for Kunstmuseet i Tønder, Denmark © 2020
Thanks to Natural History Museum, Aarhus, Denmark
Animal combines the sound of a 'wild boar fence' combined with video of stuffed wild boars.
The sound recordings of the fence were made with vibration sensors placed on its surfaces in strong wind.
The so-called wild boar fence is a 70 km long metal fence errected by the Danish State in 2019
on the otherwise invisible borderline between Denmark and Germany.
M E M B R A N E
MEMBRANE is a sound and visual portrait of the growing border wall that separates Mexico and the U.S.
This long metal barrier takes many forms and is made of many different materials, as it winds and twists several thousand kilometers through deserts, plains, and mountains, crossing Native American land, national parks, and even city streets to end in the Pacific Ocean
Kirkegaard travelled along the wall from El Paso to Tijuana, stopping at sites on both sides of the wall to shoot video and to record ambient sounds of the surrounding landscape a well as the inner sounds of the metal structure: By attaching vibration sensors directly to the wall at each site, he captured the resonant frequencies of the different wall structures
Membrane, with its panoramic vistas and penetrating close up views of the wall, reveals that this seemingly desolate and silent area of the American Southwest is alive with light and shadow, and especially with sound, the sound of the wall itself
Membrane, 37 minutes
Jacob Kirkegaard © 2020
O P U S M O R S ( 4 )
A sound work on four significant environments for the immediate post-mortem.
Four listening spaces for one of the existential and natural aspects of being alive, which is death. The project portrays four sound environments that the human body commonly will be surrounded by or exposed to in the immediate post mortem: a morgue, an autopsy, a cremation and the decomposition - events that no one will ever get to sense on their own bodies because of the very fact of death.
The work is an immersive, intimate and powerfully detailed sonic meditation into the four significant death spaces.
1 - O P U S A U T O P S I A
Detailed near-field sound recordings of a full autopsy starting with opening the corpse,
following the removal and slicing and cutting open all the organs and brain, to finally returning all the organs,
closing and washing the corpse. This work demonstrates each unique sonic timbre of the human organs.
2 - O P U S P U T E S C O
Sound recordings made at a forensic study facility where donated corpses are placed in an enclosed nature area to decompose
while being studied. This work was made from near-field sound recordings of decomposing corpses recorded with
measurement microphones placed 1 cm above - as well as with vibration sensors inside the corpses.
