RECENT PROJECTS
/// August/September 2010: Working as a journalist for KUNSTEN.NU in Denmark. /// August 2010:
/// May/June 2010: Artist in residence at Agentur, Amsterdam (NL). In the future i'll be involved in the curating of this residency.
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June: Some of my work featured in the publication about Artists in Netherlands, by BVKB, NL.
/// March 2010: Some of my work is featured in O.K. Periodicals /// April 2010: Group exhibition FLOPPELGANGERS in the old TK Maxx shop, Leeds Shopping Plaza, Leeds, UK ///
January 2010:
One of my older works featured in the online art agenda of Radio Paris Cadecs
(Mine is on Jan 16th, while you can see other artists' work the other days).
See link here:http://www.pariscadecs.fr/Janvier2010.html ///
Dec 2009 - Jan 2010: Exhibition "IT HAS HAPPENED", an exhibition on photography:
 IT HAS HAPPENED Dec 12th 2009- Jan 3th 2010 An exhibition on photography, curated by Philip Tonda www.tptpspace.tk ///
November 2009: "Residue" -An exhibition as workshop curated by Amber Lauletta and Philip Tonda:   ///
Aug-Nov 2009: A Body Presented To Me And You: Souterrainamsterdam, Amsterdam, NL:
Exhibition curated by me, featuring works by Augusta Atla (DK/UK), Saskia de Brauw (NL), Johanna Domke (DE/DK), Silvan Laan (NL), Luciano Pinna (NL).
My curiosity in the body and its relationship to the tactile world, as well as a body of work that brings the artist out of his head, made me organize this exhibition with 5 contemporary artists. The artists deal in various ways with the ephemeral aspects of experiencing the body, and they created works especially for this exhibition.
I made a catalogue containing a selection of the email conversations that we (I and the artists) have had during the preparation of the exhibition, as well as some of their sketches and inspirational material. This catalogue can be read and required in the exhibition space and gives an insight into the structures behind the making of the work, and behind the making of the exhibition. It is like the back room of the exhibition.
www.souterrainamsterdam.nl
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October 2009: Interview
A Body Presented To Me And You, conversation
A conversation between the artists of "A Body Presented To Me And You" and me, the curator, lead by mediator Amber Lauletta.
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September 2009: Nightsculpture Reinterpreted #2: SLCC London:
I made a reinterpretation of my video installation Nightsculpture. The work exists as a sound-documentation of a dance.
The dance had taken place on the parking lot across the gallery, and only its sound was recorded. This sound is the piece.
The viewer puts on head phones and walk out into the parking lot.
He stand there or walks around while hearing the foot steps and breathing of the dancer (me).
    About this work:
I'm interested in the idea of translation and documentation: To translate one work into another format, to show only part of it and let the viewer complete the image in his mind.
It strikes me that a great part of the things I experience in life exists as references rather than as a present reality, and this interest is a base for part of my research; to investigate in how far something has to present in order to still give a bodily experience.
I have earlier done that with photography, and am now interested in the qualities of sound.
Sound gives certain information, but is also highly abstract, and it embodies the material in the viewer: In the above mentioned sound piece the viewer stands there with his own body on the spot where the dance took place, and hears the sound of the dance; he almost becomes the dancer, though his opwn body is probably not moving much.
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Sept 2009: Neighborhood Watch; a projection walk, Rue Muller, Paris:
Together with a group of other artists i co-organized this event which was brought to Paris by the American artist Haydee Alonso. It was a month of intensive preparation, meetings and discussions. The energy was high and everyone participating was very active. The idea was to make an exhibition space out of the urban space of Rue Muller. Instead of exhibiting the work inside a gallery, we exhibited in courtyards, windows, walls of houses etc. An experiment that let the artworks interact with the architecture, and makes the art directly accessible to the public, open to be interpreted in new ways. It was great to see how an idea quickly grew and became reality, and it was very confirming to see the enthusiasm and hard work that all the artists put into this, as well as the positive response and support we got from local people in the street. www.eniloop.com/nhw         |