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Anders Weberg, “HERE ALL ALONE”, 2015, total installation of sound and video art (Courtesy of HERE ALL ALONE)
HERE ALL ALONE / Total installation of sound and video art Anders Weberg
University of Copenhagen
June 3-7 2015
The White Factory
Novozymes
Hillerødgade 35-37
2200 Copenhagen N
Denmark
Hereallalone.dk
Contact: [email protected]
HERE ALL ALONE, a total installation of sound and video art in ‘the white factory’ at Nørrebro, is the first
solo show by Swedish artist Anders Weberg in Denmark.
The installation continues Anders Weberg’s examination of identity construction in a contemporary context,
through site-specific video explorations of urban textures and layers of meaning. Through the mediating
optics of a mobile device, which increasingly reprograms our experience of the world, the artist brings the
audience on an aesthetic journey behind the material surface of the factory and underneath an emotional
skin of our cultural condition. Here, immersed in responsive audiovisual installations, we experience an
uncanny confrontation with anxiety, fear and alienation.
The “now” in Copenhagen is a time of growing insecurity and anxiety where recent violent events have
confronted us with glimpses of a fear-focused world. Inside the zone of the factory, the artist Anders Weberg
challenges these themes definitive of our current condition as potentially unlimited and endless, as
descriptive a dystopian (yet potential) future condition. The abandoned and decaying old enzymes factory
remains as a ruin, a new ‘point zero.’ We find ourselves, here, confronted with the feeling of being in an
emotionally desolated world— all alone.
The installation raises questions like: What does it mean to feel “all alone”, socially excluded from a
community, or alone among each other? How do we deal with being actors in a culture of decaying trust and
increasing alienation?
“I have tried to remake this place, filled with so much history, into a multi installation, where the images,
sound and the place itself blend together and invite the visitor for a seamless emotional roller coaster, which
in some ways is controlled by themselves,” says Anders Weberg.
The installation unfolds through large scale, sound and other media installations that respond to the intuitive
movements of the audience. Walking through the factory, the audience will experience various embodied
encounters with the installations that mirror how we engage with the world in a mediated reality increasingly
conditioned by surveillance, feedback from invisible computing and overlays of virtual realities.
Departing from the aesthetic universe of Weberg’s installation, an audiowalk, written and spoken by writer
Benedicte Gui de Thurah Huang, guides the audience on a narrated tour through the labyrinth spaces of the
old factory.
Following the exhibition, a symposium on June 12, Critical Aesthetics in Urban Digital Art, continues a
conversation on curatorial concerns, critical discourses and the urgent potential of urban digital art,
presenting Maurice Benayoun, Anders Weberg and Kassandra Wellendorf, moderated by Tanya Toft.
Here All Alone is curated by Tanya Toft with research and curatorial assistance from the students of Critical
Curating: Urban Digital Art at Institute of Arts and Cultural Studies, Copenhagen University:
Zahra Al Ziheiri, Nina Cramer, Aaron Dishy, Levi Easterbrooks, Helene Gamst, Camilla Jaller, Noémie le
Bouder, Pedro Filipe da Silveira, and Mikkel Stig Rørbo.
Software artist duo: NULEINN, Rine Rodin & Magga Ploder.
Web developer: Michael Hansen.
Technical production: Jorma Saarikko.
The white factory is made available for this exhibition through collaboration with GivRum, which will present
the exhibition project in the same space at the City Link Conference, October 30, 2015. www.city-link.org.
HERE ALL ALONE is supported by