Node / Knudepunkt
04-10/2018, Architecture of Skagen - before and now, residency and exhibition by ONSDAGSKOLEN, Odde Nature Centre, Skagen, Denmark
Juhee and I participated in a 1 week residency to create an exhibition about the architecture of Skagen with fellow 6 artists. Both of us were literally ecstatic during this experience, with so much amount of input - a space given with freedom and limitation, an influx of rich informations coming from excursions and sharings of personal archives and memories, geological factors we have come to digest with our own bodies, etc.,- in relation to the fixed time to generate the output.
During the residency, we witnessed the transitions of Skagen that had taken in the past, and was happening in the present. The transformations were slow to be detected with our naked eyes compared to norm phenomenons we come across everyday, however, they were super fast regarding that it was a phenomenon of population, architecture, and landscapes.
As a result of all that and other inputs (e.g. constant consumption of pseudo-Danish breakfast and lunch, basic and heavy dinner, cycling against the wind of 22m/h, hunting for buoys and ropes, talking to fishing industry men), we produced few meaningless but productive, repetitive movements, a fishy scent inside the Odde Nature Centre, and with the help from the other 6 artists, managed to finish our installation, Node/Knudepunkt.
