[Unoder]
dal 27/5/2000 al 27/8/2000
Segnalato da
27/5/2000
[Unoder]
Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde
[Unoder] - experiments in words, images and sounds is the first exhibition of the museum's
permanent collection since it was founded in 1991. [Unoder] really means bad habits or unconventional behaviour, but also signifies notes or signs (in music as in art and the world at large) not following the beaten path.
The collection consists of sound-, video- and
intermedia-works. Video-documentation is an
important part of the inter-artistic and
inter-aesthetic research that the museum
performs into the development of experimental
artforms since the 1950s.
The collection follows the path of art that begins
with the Futurist noise-manifesto and
Dada-poetry, via concrete poetry and electronic
music, Fluxus and conceptual art, to
contemporary art today reflecting on the public's
social and cognitive values. Thus, the collection
is more an area of research than art of a certain
kind or with specific period-characteristics. The
area consists as much of artworks as of ideas.
The exhibition presents the Undertones and
Overtones of the artworks and ideas of the
collection: The Undertones (at the groundfloor) is
first and foremost Fluxed art, that is art
descending from Fluxus -ideas and -inheritance,
but not necessarily belonging to it in a strict
arthistorical sense. And the Overtones (at the
first floor) presents soundart in a purer
experimental state - historically as in our
audioteque and very contemporary as in our
sound-studio [Krydsfelt]. Also, an important and
very poetic Overtone at [Unoder] is the drawings
of Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, entitled On the
Other Hand.
The exhibition has developed both on a textual
and a spatial level, intertwined. In the
exhibition-catalogue we proudly present a report
from the textual work, which has been performed
by the members of the museum's own
research-network. The Catalogue thus serves as
a presentation of the ideas and fields of
expertise that our museum can offer.
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