Talk

Open Forum: Katinka Fogh Vindelev & Marie Kølbæk Iversen

Time: Monday, October 22 at 19.00. Soup and student beer from 18.00. Khartoum is open 17:00-02:00.
Place: Khartoum Contemporary Art Center, Bernt Akers Gate 17.

Moonologue. For our Suns is a new opera produced in collaboration between composer Katinka Fogh Vindelev and visual artist Marie Kølbæk Iversen. It is an independent continuation of Kølbæk Iversen’s long-term art project Io/I, which is on view at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art until January 20, 2019, as part of the exhibition “The Moon.”

In the opera's libretto, written by Kølbæk Iversen, the diverging identities of Io is explored: Io is Jupiter's inner-most moon, which was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei, but she is also the Greek-Roman mythological priestess after whom the moon is named. Through Galileo's Italian ('io' is the Italian word for 'I') the different manifestations of Io are synthesised into a composite Self; a Self thus also encompassing Galileo as well as the artists – the audience even; a Self which speaks through the Moonologue.

Bios
Katinka Fogh Vindelev: Post-graduate in classical singing the Danish National Academy of Music since 2018 and MA in electro-coustic composition and Sound art in 2017. BA in Classical singing from The Royal Academy of Music in 2012. Since 2012, lead singer and composer in the sound collective/quartet We like We. Pianist and singer on Efterklang’s world tour (2012-14); soloist at the Odense Symphonic Orchestra’s premiere of Karsten Fundal’s Liquid Rooms (2014); playing the role of Young Isolde in Sort/Hvid’s thriller opera LEAVES (2015).

Marie Kølbæk Iversen: PhD fellow in artistic practice at the Academy of Fine Art at Oslo National Academy of the Arts and Aarhus University since 2017. Visual Artist MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2018. In 2018 part of “The Moon” at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art with the large-scale video installation Io/I. In 2017 recipient of ARKEN’s travel grant as well as the NARP- and Novo Nordisk Foundation Mads Øvlisen-grants with special mention. In 2016 participant in the 11th Gwangju Biennial “The Eight Climate (What Does Art Do?)” and artist-in-residency at Pivô in São Paulo, Brazil. Represented by Gether Contemporary.

Open Forum is a student run initiative from the Academy of Fine Art in Oslo that runs at Khartoum Contemporary Art Center (KCAC) every other Monday night. Open Forum seeks to create a meaningful exchange of ideas and a dynamic space for dialogue and debate between art students, artists and others. The talks are structured around different topics, from those closer to artistic and curatorial practices to other of social and political relevance.