Ann Lislegaard - Passing By0

Passing By, a sound project by Ann Lislegaard, inaugurated The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum’s dedicated sound gallery when the Museum reopened to the public after a major renovation and expansion on June 13 and ran through September 1, 2004. One of seven inaugural artist projects and exhibitions, Passing By was installed in a space specially constructed to accommodate the demands of sound art today.

Conceived as a way to document the physical and emotional transition from old to new, Passing By was a sonic map of the Museum’s transformation. Visiting The Aldrich over the course of the almost fourteen-month-long construction period, Lislegaard made several field recordings to capture the perturbations caused by the construction on the Museum’s site.

I imagine breaking the chronology of the recordings, emphasizing the transitional states in the material contrary to a linear structuring with a beginning and an end. In this way the installation for The Aldrich Museum will be a soundscape of transformation, of stretched, looped and folded time, of abstract sounds and structures evoking mental and emotional images. —Ann Lislegaard

Born in Norway in 1962, Ann Lislegaard lives and works in Copenhagen and New York. She participated in the P.S. 1 International Studio Program in New York from 1995 to 1996 and studied at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen from 1998 to 1993. Her work has been shown widely in Europe and the United States. Her solo exhibitions include Corner Piece, Murray Guy, New York (2003); Lige med et bluev alt anderledes, The Children’s Reading Room, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (2000); and Transparent Walls, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam (1999). Her work has been included in a major traveling exhibition, Thin Skin—The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres and Inflatable Structures (2002 - 2004) as well as Conceptual Art as Neurobiological Praxis (1999), and Nordic Nomads (1998).

Exhibition support is provided by: Danish Arts Agency

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Ann Lislegaard - Passing By
Sound in collaboration with Jacob Kirkegaard