Act Natural

Chicago
Act Natural/32 nd and Urban gallery, 2008
“Breathing Grapes”
Collaboration with JAC Studios




-Chicago
Act Natural/32 nd and Urban gallery, 2008
“Breathing Grapes”
Collaboration with Jack Studios

“Artists and designers living and working in locations around the world including Pittsburgh, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Istanbul, Atlanta and Chicago showing work centered on the theme of how our objects relate to the natural world.

By meditating on form, system, or material and using parody, representation or analysis, these artists will create work that together makes a 'landscape' in the gallery, meant to invoke a sense of wonder, and remind us of our connectedness.”
Curator: Bridget Buckley

Santa Barbara

Celebration

Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum.
Supported by the Danish Art Council
Collaboration with JAC studios 2008

Celebration was staged on the terrace in front of the CAF entrance, discussing the romantic, the look a like and the seductive life of S.B.
The event was one night only and consisted of an inflatable centrepiece inspired by the decorative architecture of S.B,a movie on the building regulations of S.B,
100 white balloons and the Macarena mass dance involving visitors.

Blow Up Mexico

Collaboration with JAC studios 2006.
Part of a collection of, sight specific, inflatable objects made on a road trip through North America and Mexico.

Blow USA



Provincetown 2006 "inflatable swimwear"

Queerfestival 2007

3 reports on architecture for desire and escape from normality.By Johan Carlsson and Morten Sørensen

- L.A. based motel Coral Sands a gay historic place and cruising area
- Provincetown a small fisherman town and gay holiday destination with an 80 % homosexual population.
- Las Vegas, city of sin.

All this and more discovered and documented during a road trip through the US.

Queer festival 2006

”How queer everything is today”

Råhuset 2006 Exhibition

Collaboration with art historian Thomas Bostrøm and artist Ole Vesterlund.
An exhibition on sexuality, politics, gender, and identity.
The contributors featured relatively inexperienced and autodidactic participants as well as more prominent international artist like Henrik Olesen, Wolfgang Tilmans and Michael Elmgreen and ingar Dragseth.
Alice In Wonderland became our detective – the icon of the exhibition – exploring an underworld of absent logic and naughty fantasizing in the endeavour to make sense of her own reality and raving surroundings ; An imaginary universe of yore turning out to have very much in common with queered self-perceptions and heteronormative generality alike.
The exhibition demonstrated a supreme world of absolute freedom in which anything goes.
-Thomas Bostrøm

Queer map



Collaboration with artist Scot Surdez
Visitors participated in the mapping of queer places In Copenhagen over the period of a week.
Everything from cruising areas and bars to personal experiences, peoples home address and places that where ”conquered” during the festival

Double animal paintings




Each painting consists of a silhouette of a double animals flamingo/ deer, eagle / crocodile etc.
Fine lines of holes made with a 5 mm drill covers the surfaces leaving only the silhouette of the animal untouched.

Pins

Installation at RACA.
This installation was made for gallery RACA a former shoe-shop, that at the time was very damp from years of neglect.
"Pins"consists of 30000 coloured needles pinned into the walls, ceiling, window and floor over a period of a week, displaying a map of the condition of the damp walls.

CMYK 1

Collaboration with illustrator Maya Langeland. A concept for communicating visual art. 2005-2008

Print-factory
The first period of the shops existence was a project named "The Print Factory". With this Project we questioned what it is to shop and interchange goods and what it is to produce something that on one hand is unique and on the other mass-produced. In the modest surroundings that is CMYK we established a factory, where the costumer is offered art and illustration in the standard A4 size, printed on paper. The customer chooses an art piece and is responsible for moving from station to station, from the computer to the printer to the finished project and in that way becomes a "co-producer" to the art and the production. The room is held in factory grey but you also meet a room that is decorated full of ideas and with an unusual accumulation of objects and recycled materials.

CMYK 2

The Library
Zines, cartoons, art books, art catalogue with a focus on visual art from independent publishers or artists.The library is made from old chairs cut up and put back together as shelfs.

CMYK 3

The Mall

”The Mall” consists of 30 micro shops (115x272x345 mm).
Each shop is owned by an artist or designer and they follow the two ground rules for the mall.

1.You have to sell something.
2.The shape and exterior of the shop cannot be changed.

Each shop-owner is responsible for creating an environment and shopping experience that reflect what they sell.