Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen
[proximity] sensing in, sensing out
7–29 September 2024
Oksasenkatu 11 00100 Helsinki
Wed–Fri 12–18
Sat–Sun 12–17
Opening 6 September 17–22
What would happen if the focus were solely on the senses and the ephemerality of gestures and listening as the work of art itself? What if the act of facilitating relation(s) becomes a way to transversally connect to a place, a neighborhood, a city?
Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen’s installation at Oksasenkatu 11 is a laboratory where listening and sensing, moving and relating are core focal points. It is an ephemeral entity which is inhabited by lines of gestures, notes and reflections created collaboratively in the space by the artist and the participating audience. The laboratory installation additionally moves in and outside the gallery space, out in the park, to the street. It accommodates every-body, and it focuses on the micro for us to be aware of the macro. By relating to both what is here and what is absent, we learn about the privilege of the space but also about its potentiality for change. The installation is thought to be a transformational and experimental format which holds exchange as a crucial element, and consists of only minor elements to assist this process.
During the laboratory installation, Madsen will facilitate Deep Listening® sessions, geological listening propositions, and other interventions (both scheduled and spontaneously). Additionally, Madsen has invited guest artists to facilitate moments which relate to sensing, affective listening, queer corporeality and other modalities of knowing. These meetings connect to an embodied and embedded posthuman subjectivity which extends into other agencies and modalities of the world.
[proximity] sensing in, sensing out is part of Madsen’s research in environmental affect and how to hold spaces for others, to be facilitating careful gestures as an artistic practice across agencies and abilities. It additionally experiments with how art installations as performative laboratories can move towards a focus on ephemeral relations and exchange. The installation will additionally offer some of Madsen’s listening sessions as mobile units for groups and individuals who are unable to visit the space, and in this way be inclusive to more audiences.
The guest artists who will facilitate moments in Madsen’s installation will be Sall Lam Toro (13th of September), as well as a poetic proposition by Matias Loikala will be present in the space (ongoing).
September 6th, 17.00–22.00: Opening
September 13th, 21.00–21.30: Rage-choir session with guest artist Sall Lam Toro
September 20th, 17.00–19.00: Deep Listening session with Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen
(please sign up on info[at]tmkm[dot]dk)
September 28th, 18.00–20.00: Sound event with Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen, and TMS (Madsen & Malte Steiner).
All events are free to attend!
Spontaneous listening interventions will additionally take place on days where Madsen is present in the space, and sessions can be organized for those not able to come to the gallery.
[proximity] sensing in, sensing out is kindly support by The Danish Arts Foundation, Council for Visual arts
Biography
Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen is an artist and researcher who works between performance art, sound, open technology, and matter, in a mode of practicing and collaborating with philosophy and nonhuman agency. Madsen is currently a doctoral candidate at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture at the Department of Art and Media (FI), researching in environmental, ethico-aesthetic performance art and affective relations in the context of climate change. Madsen has studied art and education at the College of Art, Crafts, and Design (DK), and holds a Master of Arts in Art History from Aarhus University (DK). Madsen has performed and presented their work internationally in many formats and contexts, and is the founder and artistic director of performance protocols, a nomadic platform for instruction-based art and collaborative processes. Madsen is further a certified Deep Listening facilitator from the Center for Deep Listening, Rensselaer Polytech Institute (US), and a member of Danish Visual Artists (BKF), The Finnish Bioart Society, and The Eco and Bioart Lab (Linköping University).
Website: https://tmkm.dk/
Information about guest artists and sessions
Sall Lam Toro: Body Tongues: a Collective Rage_Choir (13.09.2024, at 9 pm)
a witnessing of, and holding of each other’s rage through the somatic (awareness), touch, witnessing, observation, active listening, vocalization, movement, and an unfolding of the various layers that rage contains. I invite the participant(s) as my co-orchestrator negotiating these acts and gestures with one another.
body_hacker aka Sall Lam Toro (1990) is an antidisciplinary multimedia artist and organizer based in Copenhagen working with ecoerotic cosmologies of black queer imagination, refusal, glitches, rituals and transcorporeal embodiment. They are currently finishing an MA in performing arts as critical practice at the malmö theater academy at the university of Lund. They are part of different formed and unformed housing, organizing and artistic queer collectives.
Website: www.bodyhacker.love
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A poetic proposition by Matias Loikala will also be present in the space, as a gesture and invitation to relate (ongoing). The piece was originally written to be activated by Madsen at their residency at Titanik in Turku (2022).
Matias Loikala is a writer, translator and interdisciplinary artist. Loikala is interested in the intersections of ecology, corporeality, and the miraculous; and in their practice they investigate the various human and non-human othernesses that reach towards each other, and the diffractive impacts these encounters have. They are also fascinated by interdisciplinary gestures, such as combining poetic texts with visual or performative elements, as well as the notion of translating as a form of textual empathy and interdependency.
Website: https://matiasloikala.tumblr.com/
