Anechoic Chamber Episode 12: Jacob Kirkegaard - a podcast by Thomas Bey William Bailey

Good evening and welcome to the 12th episode of Anechoic Chamber; free-form audio and insights from the margins of arts and culture. Our guest for this edition is Danish multi media artist, nomad and researcher Jacob Kirkegaard. Given his extensive amount of travel and the wide scope of his chosen subject matter, Kirkegaard’s work can be difficult to summarize in a brief statement, hence the necessity for the lengthier introduction that this show will provide. Nevertheless, Kirkegaard is notable for his use of location recordings, later combined with a variety of visual imagery, to present intimate experiences of globally diverse locations and to perhaps interrogate just how familiar, or just how exotic, these locations may be to us. In addition, with ambitious works such as Labytinthitis, Kirkegaard has extended this sense of reality’s ambiguous nature to the human body, using the rarely explored realm of otoacoustic emissions from the inner ear to show how even fundamental assumptions regarding sensory perception can occasionally be challenged. In the process of doing so, Kirkegaard somehow manages to be an artist who (in the words of Julie Martin from his 2014 Earside Out exhibition catalog), “transcends politics….there is no lecture from the artist, no finger pointing at us humans who are complicit in many […] world-wide phenomena.”Featured audio (all provided by the artist): Excerpts from"Rewind"installation as found in Sweden, Cuba, New York City, Istanbul / artist's contribution to"freq_out"group sound exhibition / location recordings from Chernobyl /"A Town in Russia"/"Opus Mors"excerpts (ambient recordings of hospital morgue and corpse decomposition at body farm) /"Membrane"recordings of U.S.-Mexico border wall /"singing sands"recordings from Oman /"Labyrinthitis"piece based on otoacoustic emissions

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