“Two Rivers” explores two different marginalized socio-political and cultural spaces of globalization. Rather than polarizing the two site-specific installations shown question the conditions, which function as basis for processes of exclusion and concepts of Otherness by reflecting on coexistence in and of material and spiritual spaces and Beings. One Hundred Ten Thousand investigates the subject of graveyards in demolished, or due for demolition, suburban villages of Beijing, the complexity and dynamics of these conditions as well as the metaphorical possibilities of rituals, phenomena and beliefs related to burials and cremations in contemporary China.The birds should quiet down now, they always […]
Past exhibitions
The Girl Who Never Was
Swedish artist Erik Bünger performs “The Girl Who Never Was” in the Skaftfell gallery. In 2008 an American researcher rediscovers the lost traces of the first recorded voice ever: the 148-old voice of a little girl singing the French lullaby “Au Clair de la Lune”. One year later another researcher experiments with the playback speed and manages to prove that what the fragment actually contains, is the voice of a full-grown man. This exact same lullaby is the song sung by the artificial intelligence HAL in the French version of Stanley Kubrick’s ”2001 A Space Odyssey”. As HAL dies his […]