Other Projects

“Minute Gestures of Indeterminate Significance (Fredericia Project)” is a series of 11- 10.85 cm x 15.3 cm postcards produced for the Mine Felt 7000 Exhibition in Fredericia, Denmark in the summer of 2009. The exhibition invited artists to make public works around the city. The postcards were distributed at various cafes and bars, installed in typical free postcard racks among other commercial cards. The photographic images document interventions made in public sites discovered while wandering through the city. In a sense, they borrow from earlier works that documented ephemeral actions performed both in public and private space, works that are at the same time photographic, performative, sculptural and linguistic. In the Fredericia work, questions of urban space, history and site are combined with those prior concerns. 

Minute Gestures of Indeterminate Significance

For Minefelt 7000, I present a series of eleven postcards, distributed throughout Fredericia at cafes, bars and restaurants, similarly to Go-Cards. Each of the two-sided cards contains a color image (taken August 2009), and information relating to the depicted location. Sponsored by town developer Fredericia C, the cards were devised as a response to an invitation to create a site-specific work while on a [DIVA] residency in Aarhus.

The postcards are intended to function on multiple levels, addressing several issues. These include, though are not limited to: tourism – both conventional and “art tourism”; notions of citizenship, belonging, and being on the “outside”; uses and entitlements of public and private space; how a city represents itself to a casual visitor, as well as to itself; problems of producing contextual art works – inviting artists unfamiliar with a place to make works dealing with its geophysical, social, political, or other aspects; recent changes in Fredericia – economic transformations, demographics, industrial and harbor zone redevelopment. 

“Muchas Gracias/Thank You” is a work made by casting a styrofoam take-away container from a Mexican restaurant in Marfa, Texas in polyurethane.

“Something by the Sea” was a project done with 15 local artists in Århus, Denmark in the summer of 2009, in conjunction with the Jutland Art Academy.

“Handla” was a project done at the Malmö Art Academy and the Coop Konsum Market in Malmö, Sweden in 2003. The work involved performing shopping at a local market, writing and recording internal monologs of the “‘shoppers,” and a video installation using footage from the market surveillance cameras.