AHC x Roskilde Festival 2024
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Rasmus Søndergaard Johannsen , Jonas Kjeldgaard Sørensen , Jean Marc Routhier , Banaan Al-Nasser , Yujin Jung
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For the second year in a row, AHC entered an exciting collaboration with Roskilde Festival and presented five artists to contribute with a site-specific work for this year’s Art & Activism program. The artists were Jonas Kjeldgaard Sørensen, Banaan Al-Nasser, Yujin Jung, Jean Marc Routhier and Rasmus Søndergaard Johannsen.
The five artists created site-specific works which werelocated all over the festival area. Already during the warm-up days, Jonas Kjeldgaard Sørensen performed the work The Wagon of Mutter Courage, which took place at Flokkr.
On the festival site, Banaan Al-Nasser presented an installation at Gloria’s facade. Inside Gloria, the multi-media installation In Memory of Home undfolded, where different voices found a common narrative rooted in negotiations about home.
The South Korean artist Yujin Jung also turned the gaze towards her origins in her pieces for Roskilde Festival. Jung performed the work Ceremonial Recurrence, where she prepared seaweed soup while creating a live sound scape. In addition to the performance, the audiovisual work Longing Energies: Ceremonial Demise, created in collaboration with artist Gabriel Bott, was shown several times on the screens next to Orange Stage.
In The Garden on the festival site, Rasmus Søndergaard Johannsen presented his glass mosaic sculpture, Bow. The sculpture actws as an extension of the collective symbol or a totem, which created a space on the festival site to retreat from the intensity of the festival.
In the same area, Jean Marc Routhier created the work Untitled “May the rain fall at proper time” 2, which consisted of colorful ‘flags’, inspired by Tibetan prayer flags, composed of candy banknotes and contrasting objects that create a dialogue between the spiritual and the material.
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BANAAN AL-NASSER
Banaan Al-Nasser (b. 1982) is a Jordanian/Palestinian mixed-media artist. In her practice, she investigates identity and cultural issues. Banaan Al-Nasser’s works are often decidedly social, poetic and political. Her life experience has led her to juxtapose and examine spirituality, creativity and human values in both the Middle East and the West. Her works often take the form of everyday objects, charged with symbolic value that crosses and challenges national borders, class divisions and cultural narratives.
Banaan Al-Nasser, MFA graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2018. Her works have been exhibited at venues including ARoS Aarhus Art Museum (Aarhus), Fatamorgana (Copenhagen) and Betty Nansen Teatret (Copenhagen).
JEAN MARC ROUTHIER
Jean Marc Routhier (b. 1987) is based in Copenhagen. He graduated from the Sculpture School at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2015 of which three years took place at the Universität der Künste in Berlin.
Routhier works experimentally and cross-media, both in his individual practice, where he mainly works with print, sculpture, and installation, and in various artistic and curatorial collaborations. His work is conceptual and often balanced between pure abstractions and the informative. Through the works, Routhier examines questions about the construction of a subject and the existence of an objective truth.
JONAS KJELDGAARD SØRENSEN
Jonas Kjeldgaard Sørensen (b. 1993) graduated from the Funen Art Academy in 2018. Since, he has developed a performative praxis that tells stories about our contemporary imagination. By dealing with historical research through the lens of speculative narratives, he imagines other realities instead of accepting the existing.
For the exhibition William, it’s not a dream at TRANSIT in 2022, he created the alter ego THE WEAPON GRINDER, to allow him to see the warzone as a showroom. Seen as the SKJALD of The War Machine, the figure navigates through topics of contemporary brutality, the liquid genealogy, and the collapse of masculinity.
Singing has recently entered the praxis, as a seductive force, to sing forward the dark spirit of capitalism. He performs in fictions, with theatrical awareness, and has shown his work internationally. This autumn he is touring with the new performance Spittoons and Black whole.
RASMUS SØNDERGAARD JOHANNSEN
Rasmus Søndergaard Johannsen creates process-lead works with a strong focus on textile art. The repetitive processes involved in production, rhythms of action and pattern repeats typically provide the starting point for the content and form of his long-term projects, which require extensive familiarisation with intricate work techniques.
Rasmus Søndergaard Johannsen studied at Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, exhibited at Kunstverein Göttingen, Kunsthalle Darmstadt and KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin and is initiator and curator of the exhibition space Kunsthal Thy that opened in 2023.
YUJIN JUNG
Yujin Jung (b. 1988, South Korea) explores cultural and philosophical implications of folklore, oral history and myth through sound, voice, text and moving images to contemplate our contemporary world and current climate through diverse forms of sound installation and narrative-based sonic-visual work.
holds a BA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College in London (2013), and a MA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen (2021). Her most recent solo exhibition was Intervals #2 at PLATFORM in Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen (2022), and she participated in the jury-selected group exhibition OPEN SYSTEM at UKS in Oslo (2023). She received work grants from The Danish Arts Foundation for the years of 2022/23.
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