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Excerpts from the video Soil Cycle

Photographers: Ingerlise Øllgaard and Mikkel Ulriksen

Sound: Jacob Kirkegaard + Nana Francisca Schottländer

Edit: Nana Francisca Schottländer 

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The Soil Repository is new land, equivalent to 1% of the total Copenhagen area. Before it became the Soil Repository it was ocean.

Then an iron fence was pounded into the ocean floor and thi filling began in two sections: one for clean soil and one for contaminated soil. After 8-9 years of filling it is now complete, lying on the outermost point of the Copenhagen Northern Harbour.

Throughout a year I conducted research in and worked with the Soil Repository - and landscape in constant flux in a living choreography between soil, humans, machines and all the other forms of life, that come into being here.

Along the path other artists were invited into the dialogue with this hyper anthropocene landscape, and this became three interrelated projects: the exhibition HABITAT + in the Tunnel Factory, the performance series Bodyscaping taking place at the actual Soil Repository as part of Metropolis 21 and a publication published by Antipyrine.

The three formats relate curiously and critically to the dynamics that shape a landscape like the Soil Repository and, through its different angles invites the audience to join into the research process.

The project was produced by Metropolis 2021 and Supported by Bikubenfonden and Københavns Kommunes Billedkunstråd

 

Participating artists in the exhibition (alphabetically): 

 

Ari Lin Sixten (sculpture)

Ingerlise Øllgaard (video)

Jakob Kirkegaard (sound and composition)

Lise Bjerre Schmidt (objects)

Marine Gastineau (photography)

Mikkel Ulriksen (video)

Nana Francisca Schottländer (curation and collaborations with the participating artists)  

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Exhibition documentation: David Stjernholm