Artist talk: Alejandra Salinas & Aeron Bergman

As part of the workshop Archive Building at University of Copenhagen, artist duo Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman will talk about archival aspects of their work.

Salinas and Bergman are currently living and working in Oslo, Norway and Detroit, USA. They have had solo exhibitions at Centre d’Art Santa  Monica (Barcelona), Serralves Museum (Porto), Röda Sten Art Center (Gothenburg), 0047 Gallery (Oslo), Centre d’Art Contemporain (Geneva), IMO (Copenhagen), Dumbo Arts Center (New York) and participated in group shows at ICC (Tokyo), the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, CCCB (Barcelona), Kunstnernes Hus and Henie Onstad Art Center (Oslo). They have also done electro-acoustic music and performance art works in venues around the world such as Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), the Knitting Factory (New York), Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art (Copenhagen) and MUDAM (Luxembourg). In 2011 they created INCA: Institute for Neo Connotative Action, an artist, poet and scholar in residency program in Detroit, USA, run in collaboration with UKS, Oslo. The pair also do the nobelprize.no yearly online exhibition. They have taught and lectured in art schools such as Umeå Art Academy, Malmö Academy of Art, Trondheim Art Academy and the International Academy of Art, Palestine in Ramallah. Bergman is currently full professor at the Oslo National Academy of Fine Art.

For further information and directions, see http://archivebuilding.tumblr.com or contact Trine Friis Sørensen (tfsorensen@nullhum.ku.dk)

The workshop is supported by the Danish Arts Council, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies (IKK), LARM Audio Research Archive, Faculty of Humanities, and the Practice-based Research Group at IKK, University of Copenhagen.