Special tour and viewing of artwork by Arendse Krabbe at Folketinget [The Danish Parliment building] in Christiansborg.
Wednesday, Nov. 27 2019 [from 16:45 - 18:00] Tickets: 60 DKK. Max 25 Visitors.

In connection with and as part of the extended program for 'Learning by Doing' exhibition, SixtyEight Art Institute invites you to an artist-guided viewing of Arendse Krabbe's artwork commission for the meeting room of Alternativet [Alternative Party], located in Folketinget [Danish Parliament] Christiansborg building.

This special commission by the Folketingets Kunstudvalg [The Parliament's Art Committee] and Alternativet answers the latter's wish for an artwork to preside over their meeting room at Christiansborg, which is an established tradition for all parties in Folketinget at Christiansborg.

According to the artist, '[Alternativet] were interested in an art piece that was process based, one including them in the process, and that the artwork should have a physical presence in the meeting room after the process ended'. In addition to insisting that they wanted the art piece to be made by a female artist and one with a political art practice.

The end result came out of a period of three weeks, where the artist (through a series of exchanges with Alterantivet) organized a meeting to be recorded on the key issue of 'ny politisk kultur' / 'new political culture' as part of her idea to 'weave a political discussion' and which took place on 18 May, 2017. The sound file was translated into a spectrogram to produce an image and became the material that Arendse Krabbe used to weave a tapestry in collaboration with the tapestry weaver, Mona Lise Martinussen. The weaving started in June 2017 and the artwork was inaugurated in the Party meeting room in April 2019.

The title of the tapestry is:

'QUESTIONS SHAPE REALITIES - a tapestry of sound in space 2-015 on 18.05.2017' SPØRGSMÅL FORMER VIRKELIGHEDER - en vævning af lyden i rum 2-015 den 18.05.2017'

The work consists of:
the tapestry 2,6 m x 2 m
2 sketches 1 m x 1 m
1 ball with bells 6 cm in diameter

This tour requires that you arrive on time, since each visitor has to clear security, and therefore it is very important to arrive at 16:45.
Meeting point:
Folketinget
Christiansborg
1240 København K
at the "besøgsindgang" / visitor's entrance (to the right side of the main entrance)

https://www.ft.dk/da/besoeg/praktiske-oplysninger