The Exquisite Capabilities of the Flying Carpet
The Dreadful Sound when the Fish went Fishing
Into The Pyramid
The Ruins of the Future
Penetrating Pores of Construction
Mutated Small Town Limbo
The Boat
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INTO THE PYRAMID
Inhabiting Abandoned Spaces.
The project consists of:
Video, 3 Projections, duration 15 min.
8 Photos and a series of site-specific wooden constructions.
In 2007 Kjærgaard travelled alone to the Russian abandoned city, The Pyramid, just by the Polar Circle. She wanted to examine the Architecture of the Abandoned society (a russian communist utopia, on Norwegian ground left in 1998, now a ghost town) and the mine-constructions.
This is the basis for her ongoing project about utopian ideas falling to the ground, and spaces left by man, to fall back into nature, and become something else. This became the project; The Mourning Shed, which was exhibited at the 10th Istanbul Biennale as a part of The Triangle Project at The Hall. For the film, MO Kjærgaard had enfant terrible, brilliant composer Goodiepal/Gæuodjiparl van der Dobbeltsteen to create a tune for the film that she showed.
Again in the summer of 2008, Mie Olise Kjærgaard returned to The Pyramid City. This time with a professional film photographer and on a grant from the Danish Art Council. She Inhabited the city for several days, with a gunman at her side, as Polarbears can attack at any time.
INTO THE PYRAMID. Video 3 projections, 15 mins.The 3 Projections are projected side by side, with each their sound underneath. The left projection, Silent interiours with the dust hanging in the air. Swimmingpool, Libary, Hotel, Hospital, Gym, Music Room - all abandoned.
The sound is recorded on site, but of an inhabitation the spaces. Slamming doors, playing with the ball, Playing the Piano, playing cards, throwing dices, walking, running; these sounds then are produced into a sound scape. This sound is loudest when the middle projection is silent, as the Goodiepal sound starts the video blackens out. This sound is running only when the middle projection is silent, as the Goodiepal sound starts the video blackens out together with the Right projection.
Middle part (see pic 1):The idea was to give the Goodiepal tune back to the desolate place by playing the tune made for the first film about the Pyramid City aloud in the complete shost town 4 hours boatride north of all civilization. At The empty symmetrical main SQ in front of The Lenin Sculpture, she arranged loudspeakers, alle connected to a car battery. The projection in the middle is going like this: A person is arranging the loudspeakers in silence, silent weather in the middle of the complete empty ghost-town. After arranging 6 loudspeakers very neatly with cables running from a car-battery the arrangement is complete, the person leaves the main sq, walks out of the picture, and the soundscape, the ouverture begin to fill the Arctic town – BIG TIME!
A concert for polar bears and seaguls, and the dry empty architectural contstructions, telling the story og lost ideas of a fallen utopia. As this sounds starts the 2 side projections black out and go silent. In that way they build on to the idea of the symmetrical line that the whole main SQ film in the middle is making. The Lenin Statue being in the center of the 3 films. But you only see him from the back.
The Right Projection(see the image from Blueprint Mag ”opening shot”) is running as the left part, and blackens out at the same time, in that way it underlines the Symmetry of the Main Sq, and the city planning of the whole pyramid city. It is the exteriour shots of the huge wooden structure that took the workers into the Pyramid mountains.
Today inhabited of thousands of Seaguls, that screams and talks like a bunch of angry teenage girls. The beautiful picture now inhabited by this hysterical sound gets comical. The only sound you hear being in the city is this constant loud community, with all it´s new rules. This film blackens out at the same time as the left one. The 3 videos are projected side by side from 1 projector, the sound is stereo.
8 PHOTOS.
Re-inhabiting the city
The Photos are still images from the city with small inhabitations. A glass on the table, dices on the floor, a single flower, a book by the bed etc. |
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