Ear City
Solo show in the temporary exhibition space BANKO in VM Bjerget (VM Mountain) in Ørestaden, Copenhagen, Denmark
The exhibition Ear City takes point of departure in Italo Calvino’s book The Invisible Cities. The book consists of conversations between Marco Polo and Kublai Kahn, and 55 descriptions of cities, which all are metaphors for different aspects of our own world. The book is used as an entry point to making an exhibition in the new part of Copenhagen, Ørestaden (Ear City directly translated), which is dominated by huge blocks of award-winning, modern architecture in a flat landscape with an elevated railway cutting through the utopian ghost town. The building that houses the exhibition space features big images of a mountain on two of the sides and wooden, luxurious terraces on the other sides.. Making a new construction, the show, in this architectural construction, and the on-going construction of the city, using constructions of the mind and the universe seemed like a logic thing to do.
Liesegang
2009
Liesegang projector (OHP/DV/slide), image of Liesegang sandstone formations (transparents/jpgs/slides)
Nagaras/Seraphim
2009
Composition of sound recordings of singing sand and singing glass, Whispering Windows loudspeaker system
Duration: 4:40
‘Nagaras’ are drums, used in Turkey and Caucasus, but similar drums were well known in the ancient Egypt. A ‘seraphim’ is a glass harmonica, a tableau of wine goblets, named after the highest rank of angels.
‘Singing sand’ is a phenomenon, which exists, under the right circumstances, in desert across the world, and throughout history there has been numerous account of the phenomenon, among others in Marco Polo’s travel journals.
Sound file will be uploaded soon!
Cochlea
2009
Text addition to Italo Calvino’s The Invisible Cities
’Cochlea’ is the latin name for the inner ear, the snail, which is filled with liquid and also the home of the balancing ability.
Cities and the sound:
Cochlea
The curious thing about the city Cochlea is, that when you have to find it among the other cities, you realise, that it exists in any of them. It’s just one house, but on the inside you’ll find the other houses, an infinite row of smaller houses, with doors opening inwards in a dizzying deep. The curious thing about Cochlea, when you have to find it among other cities, is that it exists in all cities. One house, with several, infinitely smaller houses, inside. Doors open dizzying deep, inwards. The curious thing about Cochlea is its existence in all cities. It’s only one house, with houses inside. Doors open dizzying. Cochlea is in every city. All houses are in one house. Dizzying doors. All doors in houses in Cochlea dizzies inwards. Everything in Cochlea dizzies inwards. Cochlea dizzies inwards. Cochlea dizzies. Cochlea. Cochlea.
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55…
Apophenia Pareidolia
2009
Collages on glass plates
’Apophenia’ is the experience of seeing patterns and connections in vague or meaningless data. ’Pareidolia’ is a psychological phenomenon, where a weak stimulation is perceived as significant, an image or a sound, as for instance seeing faces, where there are none
Geology of Mars
Photograph of a meteorite from Mars and photographs of the surface of Mars
Four Seasons / Half Life
3D renditions of Digital Elevation Models based on the Half Life logo and photographs of Mount Jackson, Rocky Mountains, Mount Vernon og Grand Canyon
Coca-Cola Cochlea
Scanning Electron Microscopy of Cochlea, the inner ear, and photograph of a Coca-Cola can, found in the desert of Tabernas in Spain
Sunset on Mars
Photographs of sunset and sand dunes on Mars
Sahara Scarab
Scanning Electron Microscopy of scarab and Digital Elevation Model of Sahara
Pinball Planet
Forest of carbon nanotubes and 3D rendition of Digital Elevation Model of Mars
Ice Age Mars in Frozen Pool
Artist’s impression of the ice age on Mars and 3D rendition of ice pool on Mars
Singing Sand and Desert Glass
Micrograph of singing sand grains and photographs of Libyan Desert Glass, created by a large aerial meteor burst
Halcyon Days at The Bird Bath
Photographs of kingfishers (Halcyonidae species) and Scanning Electron Microscopy of snow crystals
Blood Bunny
Scanning Electron Microscopy of blood cells and Integrated X-ray Fluorescence (IXRF) Scanning Electron Microscopy of nano bunny head sculpture
Nano Flower Arrangement
Scanning Electron Microscopy of nano flowers, coloured in Adobe Photoshop
Marigold Liesegang
Liesegang rings in Petri dish and test tubes
Arab Scarab
Photograph of scarab and satellite photograph of the Saudi Arabian desert
Bulls Eyeing Bacteriophage Replica
Two Scanning Electron Microscopies of a bull made from two-photon photo-polymerization (two lasers, several layers of transparent resin) and Scanning Electron Microscopy of Focused Ion Beam nano sculpture of T4 bacteriophage, made out of diamond coal
Humans With Wings of Animal Skin
The ten original inkblot cards from ’Rorschach Test – Psychodiagnostic Plates’
Blood and Bump Map of Jesus Turin Shroud
The burial shroud of Jesus in Turin, thermographic photography of the blood stains on the shroud and 3D Terrain Projection of face from the shroud
Toilet Thinker
Scanning Electron Microscopies of Rodin’s The Thinker and a toilet in two-photon photo-polymerization
Familiar Faces on Mars
Photographs of the surface of Mars
Silurian People on Moon Face with a Hat of Cheese
Photographs of millimetre-sized fossils of people, found by Chonosuke Okamura in polished sandstone from the Silurian period, artist’s impression of tortilla with an image of Jesus, discovered by Mario Rubio in New Mexico and photograph of cheese sandwich with image of The Virgin Mary, discovered by Diane Duyser in Florida
Two Tutankhamun Teenage Nano Guitar Kings
Two photographs of sculptural reconstructions of Tutankhamun, the teenage king of the ancient Egypt and Scanning Electron Microscopy of high voltage electron beam lithography sculpture in silicone crystal
Ibama Pegasus
Scanning Electron Microscopy and optical photograph of nanolithographic sculpture of carbon nanotubes (Nanobama), image of IBM logo made with atoms using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope and Scanning Electron Microscopy of Focused Ion Beam nano sculpture of Pegasus, made out of a particle of diamond dust
Yellow Snow Smiley
Scanning Electron Microscopy of snow crystal and a nuclear microscope image of a nano structure smiley made using platform-based DNA origami
The exhibition Ear City takes point of departure in Italo Calvino’s book The Invisible Cities. The book consists of conversations between Marco Polo and Kublai Kahn, and 55 descriptions of cities, which all are metaphors for different aspects of our own world. The book is used as an entry point to making an exhibition in the new part of Copenhagen, Ørestaden (Ear City directly translated), which is dominated by huge blocks of award-winning, modern architecture in a flat landscape with an elevated railway cutting through the utopian ghost town. The building that houses the exhibition space features big images of a mountain on two of the sides and wooden, luxurious terraces on the other sides.. Making a new construction, the show, in this architectural construction, and the on-going construction of the city, using constructions of the mind and the universe seemed like a logic thing to do.
Liesegang
2009
Liesegang projector (OHP/DV/slide), image of Liesegang sandstone formations (transparents/jpgs/slides)
Nagaras/Seraphim
2009
Composition of sound recordings of singing sand and singing glass, Whispering Windows loudspeaker system
Duration: 4:40
‘Nagaras’ are drums, used in Turkey and Caucasus, but similar drums were well known in the ancient Egypt. A ‘seraphim’ is a glass harmonica, a tableau of wine goblets, named after the highest rank of angels.
‘Singing sand’ is a phenomenon, which exists, under the right circumstances, in desert across the world, and throughout history there has been numerous account of the phenomenon, among others in Marco Polo’s travel journals.
Sound file will be uploaded soon!
Cochlea
2009
Text addition to Italo Calvino’s The Invisible Cities
’Cochlea’ is the latin name for the inner ear, the snail, which is filled with liquid and also the home of the balancing ability.
Cities and the sound:
Cochlea
The curious thing about the city Cochlea is, that when you have to find it among the other cities, you realise, that it exists in any of them. It’s just one house, but on the inside you’ll find the other houses, an infinite row of smaller houses, with doors opening inwards in a dizzying deep. The curious thing about Cochlea, when you have to find it among other cities, is that it exists in all cities. One house, with several, infinitely smaller houses, inside. Doors open dizzying deep, inwards. The curious thing about Cochlea is its existence in all cities. It’s only one house, with houses inside. Doors open dizzying. Cochlea is in every city. All houses are in one house. Dizzying doors. All doors in houses in Cochlea dizzies inwards. Everything in Cochlea dizzies inwards. Cochlea dizzies inwards. Cochlea dizzies. Cochlea. Cochlea.
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55…
Apophenia Pareidolia
2009
Collages on glass plates
’Apophenia’ is the experience of seeing patterns and connections in vague or meaningless data. ’Pareidolia’ is a psychological phenomenon, where a weak stimulation is perceived as significant, an image or a sound, as for instance seeing faces, where there are none
Geology of Mars
Photograph of a meteorite from Mars and photographs of the surface of Mars
Four Seasons / Half Life
3D renditions of Digital Elevation Models based on the Half Life logo and photographs of Mount Jackson, Rocky Mountains, Mount Vernon og Grand Canyon
Coca-Cola Cochlea
Scanning Electron Microscopy of Cochlea, the inner ear, and photograph of a Coca-Cola can, found in the desert of Tabernas in Spain
Sunset on Mars
Photographs of sunset and sand dunes on Mars
Sahara Scarab
Scanning Electron Microscopy of scarab and Digital Elevation Model of Sahara
Pinball Planet
Forest of carbon nanotubes and 3D rendition of Digital Elevation Model of Mars
Ice Age Mars in Frozen Pool
Artist’s impression of the ice age on Mars and 3D rendition of ice pool on Mars
Singing Sand and Desert Glass
Micrograph of singing sand grains and photographs of Libyan Desert Glass, created by a large aerial meteor burst
Halcyon Days at The Bird Bath
Photographs of kingfishers (Halcyonidae species) and Scanning Electron Microscopy of snow crystals
Blood Bunny
Scanning Electron Microscopy of blood cells and Integrated X-ray Fluorescence (IXRF) Scanning Electron Microscopy of nano bunny head sculpture
Nano Flower Arrangement
Scanning Electron Microscopy of nano flowers, coloured in Adobe Photoshop
Marigold Liesegang
Liesegang rings in Petri dish and test tubes
Arab Scarab
Photograph of scarab and satellite photograph of the Saudi Arabian desert
Bulls Eyeing Bacteriophage Replica
Two Scanning Electron Microscopies of a bull made from two-photon photo-polymerization (two lasers, several layers of transparent resin) and Scanning Electron Microscopy of Focused Ion Beam nano sculpture of T4 bacteriophage, made out of diamond coal
Humans With Wings of Animal Skin
The ten original inkblot cards from ’Rorschach Test – Psychodiagnostic Plates’
Blood and Bump Map of Jesus Turin Shroud
The burial shroud of Jesus in Turin, thermographic photography of the blood stains on the shroud and 3D Terrain Projection of face from the shroud
Toilet Thinker
Scanning Electron Microscopies of Rodin’s The Thinker and a toilet in two-photon photo-polymerization
Familiar Faces on Mars
Photographs of the surface of Mars
Silurian People on Moon Face with a Hat of Cheese
Photographs of millimetre-sized fossils of people, found by Chonosuke Okamura in polished sandstone from the Silurian period, artist’s impression of tortilla with an image of Jesus, discovered by Mario Rubio in New Mexico and photograph of cheese sandwich with image of The Virgin Mary, discovered by Diane Duyser in Florida
Two Tutankhamun Teenage Nano Guitar Kings
Two photographs of sculptural reconstructions of Tutankhamun, the teenage king of the ancient Egypt and Scanning Electron Microscopy of high voltage electron beam lithography sculpture in silicone crystal
Ibama Pegasus
Scanning Electron Microscopy and optical photograph of nanolithographic sculpture of carbon nanotubes (Nanobama), image of IBM logo made with atoms using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope and Scanning Electron Microscopy of Focused Ion Beam nano sculpture of Pegasus, made out of a particle of diamond dust
Yellow Snow Smiley
Scanning Electron Microscopy of snow crystal and a nuclear microscope image of a nano structure smiley made using platform-based DNA origami