A podcast on my work by Anne Neimann Clement and Rosa Marie Frang (LYDKUNST). In Danish language only!
I am Louise Vind Nielsen.
I am a Danish conceptual sound and performance artist based in Hamburg. I am mostly working in the context of sound art, performance and experimental music. I also make video pieces and compose music for theatre.
My body of work deals with the mystery of how we listen and perceive our surroundings, as well as the interrelations between humans and machines as well as human-human relations. In a diverse artistic practise connecting elements of poetry, mythology, psychology, music and social engagement, I seek to examine complex themes with an obscure and humorous approach.
In my latest piece "Akkumulator" (2022) I compose an ever-rising tone based on the voices of children. In my film project "In my head it is dark red" (2019) I explore the world of voice-hearing and other psycho-acoustic phenomena. In the piece "Ventilation" (2020) I install ceiling fans so that their metal blades strike each other, creating a mesmerising cacophony and flow of air. Art and sound becomes is a place of collision between artistic free imagination and an active engagement in the world around us.
I was born in Denmark in 1984 and grew up on an island called Mors. My first instrument was a dusty grass-green pump organ, which was stowed away in the attic of my grandparents' house. I am a lover of experimental music and analog synthesizers, feminisms and dogs, poetry, gardening and drumming.
I love to teach and I love to learn (slowly). Everything I do is based on curiosity and the urge to create aesthetic and social situations in which humans create and develop together.
Since 2021 I curate YOUR GUTS Festival for experimental music together with Jana de Jonge and Zuza Spyczak von Brzezinska.
Since 2014 I have been curating Radikal Unsichtbar - Centre for collective learning and radikal listening. A series of public workshops, lectures, writings and collective exhibitions focussing on contemporary sound art and the act of listening in relation to community and society.
My work has been shown and heard in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Turkey, Lithuania, Belgium and Germany and released on MAGIA (Copenhagen), TTT (Hamburg) and Research and Waves (Berlin). I hold a degree in fine arts from the Det Jyske Kunstakademi in Aarhus - Diplom (equal to MFA, 2008-2013) and I studied time-based media at HfbK, Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg, Germany (2011-12).
Curriculum Vitae
Louise Vind Nielsen (b. 1984, Denmark) currently based in Hamburg, Germany.
hej@louisevindnielsen.net
Education:
Jutland Academy of Arts - Diploma (equal to MFA) 2008-2013
Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg w. Prof. Michaela Miléan - 2011-2012
Grants:
Musikfonds Stipendienprogramm 2022/23
Statens Kunstfonds Arbejdslegat 2022
Stiftung Kunstfonds Stipendienprogramm 2022
Musikfonds Stipendienprogramm 2020/21
Hamburgische Kulturstiftung Hilfsfond 'Kultur hält zusammen', 2021
Deutsche Bürgermedienpreis 2017 w. film project: “X-Border_How to step across borders”
, 2018
Jutland Academy of Arts - Ny Carlsberg price for the best graduation exhibition, 2013
Ny Carlsberg fonden - Grant for international study exchange, 2012
Residencies:
Q-O2 - Workspace for experimental music and sound art - Bruxelles, 2023
EMS Stockholm - Elektronmusikstudion, 2022
Treffen Total 2018 - Artist Residency, Elbkulturfond - K3, Hamburg, 2018
Danish Art Foundation & SALT Istanbul - Artist Residency in Istanbul, 2016
Treffen Total 2016 - Artist Residency - K3, Hamburg, 2016
Performances, projects and exhibitions
2022
"Akkumulator" & "Velkommen til jorden" - Sound installation - The sound of Tørskind: Narrating the Void @ Vejle Kunstmuseum, Denmark
"Taming the chance" - Performance and talk @ Deichtorhallen Hamburg.
"Autofiktion" - Sound and composition for performance by Verena Brakonier @ Lichthoftheater, Hamburg.
"Soundcheck Schule" - Sound, composition and performance. @ Fundus Theater / Theatre of research, Hamburg.
2021
"If only I could fuck myself" - Performance. Easterfield Festival / Kunstverein Hamburg.
"Die Osmotische Orgel" - Research and recordings on the church organ of the Immanuelchurch in Veddel, Hamburg. In collaboration with artist Florian Bräunlich (S)
"Das Medikament" - Live sound and composition for livestream performance/theatre. Simon Schultz in collaboration with Yousef Iskandar, Louise Vind Nielsen and Hannes Siebert. Queer Bcademy @ Kampnagel, Hamburg (P, G)
"Milky Sequencer" - Sound performance. Papiripar Festival / Resonance Radio, London / Planet Orsimanirana @ Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg (P)
2020
"Ventilation" - Sound installation. Seanaps Festival 2020, Spinnerei, Leipzig (S)
“Ler” - Exhibition, print, publication. “Omslag2020”, KH7 Art Space Aarhus & Antipyrine (G)
2019
“Inde i mit hoved, så er den mørkerød” - Exhibition, film, performance. Museum Ovartaci, Aarhus (S) (W) (P)
“Stimmen im Kopf” Altonale21, Hamburg (P) (Sc) (S) “In meinem Kopf” Kunstherbst, Hamburg (Sc)
“Menneskelig Metronom” - KH7 Art Space, SPOR Festival, Aarhus (P)
“Mælkevejen” - Video and sound piece, Frokostpausen, RUM46, Aarhus (G)
“Human Amplifier” - Performance, Lichthof Theater, Hamburg (P)
“Research and waves” - Exhibition, Feldfünf, Transmediale, Berlin (January 2019) & Feldfünf Berlin (April 2019)
“Tongue reads Philomela” - Video and sound piece and performance “Sexed Power” - Udstilling (P) (G), MOM Art Space, Hamborg
“Tongue reads Philomela” performance tape release, EPISODE, Ludwigshafen, Germany (P) (G)
“Human Tape Machine” - Sound release, MAGIA Records, Copenhagen
2018
“Human Amplifier” - Performance. Kammerpop @ Künstlerhaus Wendenstraße “Studio 45”, Hamburg (P)
“Human Amplifier” - Schwankhalle, Bremen (P)
“Human Amplifier” - Sounding Gender, Aarhus (P)
“Human Amplifier” - University of listening, Floating University, Berlin (P)
“Treffen Total 2018” - Artist Residency, Elbkulturfond - K3, Hamburg, 2018 (G) (P)
”Ej, pas lige på”- Performance - Rumfang/Spikersuppa Lydgalleri, Skøjtebanen i Sønderborg, Denmark (P)
“A står for ABE, B står for BANDIT” - Between the lines, Poster exhibition - The Reception Gallery, Oslo National Academy of the Arts (G)
“AAARGH” - Workshop and performance - Noisexistance, Kampnagel, Hamborg (W) (P) (G)
“Jeg er os er fisk” - Exhibition, workshop and film screening, Campus and 1B, Silkeborg, Denmark (W) (S)
“Tongue reads Philomela” - Video and sound piece, exhibition: “Speaking Volumens”, KH7, Århus, Denmark (G)
&Kauno Menininkų Namai, Kaunas, Lithuania (G)
2017
“X-BORDER - How to step across a border” - Essay film project shown on Flensburg TV, ALEX TV, Berlin and Kampnagel, Hamburg (Sc)
“Ekko og robotten” - Performance, PERFORMANCErum, Spanien19C, Aarhus, Denmark (P)
“Ottoman Style Tinfoil Hat” - Exhibition and posters in public space, Istanbul (S)
“I see a tree” - Performance and artist talk - 7 Days Of Sound, Klaipeda, Litauen (P) (W)
Radikal Unsichtbar ACT 7 m. Felia Gram-Hanssen + Jaleh Negari + Ursina Tossi - “Radikal Unsichtbar -
Centre for Collective Learning and Radical Listening”, Bewegungsraum in Gängeviertel, Hamborg (Cu) (P)
“Tunge læser Philomela” - Performance, PERFORMANCErum, Rum46, Århus Denmark (P)
Radikal Unsichtbar ACT 5: NOMENRATURE m. Hanan Benammar + Claudia Lomoschitz - Raum Linksrechts, Hamborg (Cu) (P)
2016
“I am positive you are negative” - Video art/Essayfilm commisioned by Danish Art Foundation (2015-16)
Shown on Danish TV (DR-K). Exhibition: Kunsten, Aalborg og Kunsthal Charlottenborg, København (Sc) (G)
“Umuligt Instrument” - Performance, BLOKK, Bergen, Norge (P) & Salon New Love, Teater Får, København (P)
“Loose Tongue” - Performance, Endings Performance Art Festival, Aalborg (P)
“Marching Sessions” - Performance lecture w. bl.a. Liz Rech and Annika Scharm, Kampnagel, Hamburg (P)
“Marching in circles” - Performance, Galerie 21, Hamburg (P)
“A little bird told me” w. Arjen Brûsk - Artist Residency-project (S)
“Hello, my name is X-W-Q [Ræ Wu Kæ]” Artist residency research project, 2016, Istanbul, Turkey (S)
ACT 4: SOUNDBORDERS - m. The Bridge Radio, Democracy Project, Tanja Schlander “Radikal Unsichtbar”, Hamburg (Cu) (G)
“Aerobique Sans-Papiers #2” - Video installation, International Conference by Refugees and Migrants, Kampnagel, Hamburg (G)
“Koncerter, oplæsninger og udstilling - AH FG-H” - Performance, Mayhem, Copenhagen (P)
“Den Dag Else-Marie Pade Døde” - (Sound art release), louisevindnielsen.bandcamp.com (Andet)
2015
“Aerobique Sans-Papiers #1” - Video installation, “Learning Socialities”, RUM 46, Aarhus, Denmark (G)
ACT 3: PHONOMADIC m. Francis Patrick Brady - “Radikal Unsichtbar”, Hamburg (Cu)
ACT 2: INSTRUMENATURE m. Ragnhild May og Kristoffer Raasted - “Radikal Unsichtbar”, Hamburg (Cu) (P)
ACT 1: VOICENSE m. Signe Kjølner Hansen og Hannibal Andersen - “Radikal Unsichtbar”, Hamburg (Cu) (G)
“Exercises in Sound and Listening” - Performance lecture, ReFORMAT Vilnius”, Performance Festival in Vilnius, Lithuania (P) (W)
“Umuligt Instrument” - Machinen:Salon, Galerie 21, Vorwerkstift, Hamburg, Germany (P)
2014
“Sound, systems and voices” (w. Ligna, Megaphonchor, Mobile Academie), “The Art of being Many - An assembly of assemblies”, Geheimagentur, Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany (G) (P)
“Maria Stuart” - Composition and live musical performance - Theater Bremen, Bremen, Germany (2014-16) (P)
“Radiorepetitioner” - Workshop, Ljudskolan i Siggalycke, Sweden (W) (P)
“Ein Bewusstsein für den Rahmen” - Sound installation - Bremer Kunstfrühling, Bremen, Germany (G)
“Radio while you work slowly (or) Radio to help you stop working” - Radio piece, FSK Radio, Hamburg, Germany (P)
“Jealousy Radio” Sound installation w. The Perfekt Radio - Galerie Speck, Gängeviertel, Hamburg, Germany (G)
2013
“The Temporary Radio for Fresh Air and a World with Less Walls” - Graduation exhibition, Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark (S) (G) (P)
2012
“Do the city” - Foto series, Gender Now!?, Galleri KIT, Trondheim, Norway (G)
“I see a tree” - Video installation, Shifted Realities, Frappant, Hamburg, Germany (G) + Machineraum, Spinderihallerne, Vejle (G)
“This is porn” - Film, Scala Kino Kurzfilme / Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany (Sc)
“Umuligt Instrument” Musik performance w. Jean Hervé Peron fra “Faust” - Festival for Endless Gratitude, København (P)
2011
“Us - An affected portrait of Danish Art Students” - w. Kim S. Rask, Video and sound installation - Udstillingsstedet Q, København (S) (P)
“Ventilation - Et værk i syv cirkler” - Udstillingsstedet Spanien 19C, Århus, Denmark (S)
2010
“Debate Treatment” - Performance, Alt_Cph 2010, København, Denmark (G) (P)
2009
“Dissektion” - Video-performance and installation - Direkte Demokrati, Rum 46, Århus, Denmark (G)
2008
“Åben By” - Performance/Intervention - Store Torv, Århus, Denmark (S) (P)
(G) Group exhibition / project
(S) Solo exhibition / project
(P) Performance
(W) Workshop / Lecture
(Sc) Screening
(Cu) Curation