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December 18, 2014
Harefoot Hairfoot
Da jeg var barn, lavede min far et smykke til mig. En harefod fæstnet til en snor med et kobbersøm.
Foto©ibenmondrup
December 4, 2014
Pics_qivittoq
While working on Qivittoq, I was fortunate enough to get in touch with the photographer Allard Willemse, who has been taking Jessie’s pictures on the floor for more than a decade. The photographs below are among the very best he has taken. The Black-and-whites date from 1999. The last photograph, on which Jessie poses in front of the draped curtain, is from 2010.
Undoubtedly, Jessie Kleemann works with the meaning and significance of the culture from which she herself stems. She does this in a playful and curiosity-driven manner. In her performances, she does not shy away from utilizing traditional Greenlandic elements in new ways. Many, especially in Greenland, perceive this as provocative. The ancient Greenlandic culture is sacred. Many Greenlanders think. But not Jessie Kleemann.
Orsoq means ‘blubber’. The seal’s blubber was the foremost source of energy in Greenland’s past. It was used as fuel for the train-oil lamps, and it was consumed.
Over the course of time, Jessie Kleemann has used orsoq in different ways in her work. Orsoq smells. It turns into a liquid when it is heated. In short, it is a mess. A lot of people think. However, that’s how it is with authenticity and culture. It’s a mess.
Photography©Allard Willemse
December 1, 2014
Acclaim for En to tre – Justine
ACCLAIM FOR EN TO TRE – JUSTINE
“ .. In addition to being an author, Iben Mondrup is an artist and a curator, and the method she uses to paint an abstract painting depicting the Copenhagen art scene via language is sensual, disturbing, nauseating and seductive.
The novel’s erotic aspect is especially powerful. An erotic aspect, which with Justine attains the character of sexual abuse of men, after her girlfriend Vita leaves her. Her animalistic and inhuman traits become apparent and impart a devil-may-care tinge of savagery on the novel. The reader is kept in a state of suspense about what is really going on to the very last page. It’s beautiful, it’s brutal and it’s very good. “
– Christine Fur Fischer, Fyens Stifttidende
“ .. A genuinely brilliant new novel and a new voice full of character. Thanks a lot and thank goodness for that.”
– Lars Bukdahl, Weekendavisen
“ .. The novel positively emanates energetic prose, as suspense-laden tracks which retain our interest in the female Don Juan who insists on not being a female Don Juan are generously laid bare.
– Dag Heede, STANDART
” .. When Mondrup’s prose is ablaze, cruising around with her inside a bruised and beaten artist’s soul is a veritable party. […] By God she’s a great prose stylist full of character.
– Lise Garsdal, Politiken
Translation: Peter Breum
Acclaim for En to tre � Justine
ACCLAIM FOR EN TO TRE – JUSTINE
“ .. In addition to being an author, Iben Mondrup is an artist and a curator, and the method she uses to paint an abstract painting depicting the Copenhagen art scene via language is sensual, disturbing, nauseating and seductive.
The novel’s erotic aspect is especially powerful. An erotic aspect, which with Justine attains the character of sexual abuse of men, after her girlfriend Vita leaves her. Her animalistic and inhuman traits become apparent and impart a devil-may-care tinge of savagery on the novel. The reader is kept in a state of suspense about what is really going on to the very last page. It’s beautiful, it’s brutal and it’s very good. “
– Christine Fur Fischer, Fyens Stifttidende
“ .. A genuinely brilliant new novel and a new voice full of character. Thanks a lot and thank goodness for that.”
– Lars Bukdahl, Weekendavisen
“ .. The novel positively emanates energetic prose, as suspense-laden tracks which retain our interest in the female Don Juan who insists on not being a female Don Juan are generously laid bare.
– Dag Heede, STANDART
” .. When Mondrup’s prose is ablaze, cruising around with her inside a bruised and beaten artist’s soul is a veritable party. […] By God she’s a great prose stylist full of character.
– Lise Garsdal, Politiken
Translation: Peter Breum
About En to tre � Justine
En to tre – Justine
En to tre – Justine deals with the artist Justine in the time after the allotment hut in which she lives has burned to the ground, along with all her works of art for an upcoming exhibition. In the ensuing chaos the lines between art and reality become blurred to Justine, and in conjunction with the narrative voice of the story she slowly comes apart, until, perhaps, she finds a new place to stand in life.
The novel is the story of Justine on the male-dominated art scene surrounding The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, but it is also a story about creative processes, artistic identity and the generational gap between artists.
Acclaim for En to tre – Justine here
About Store Malene, the stand-alone sequel to En to tre – Justine, here
November 27, 2014
About Jessie Kleemann � Qivittoq
JESSIE KLEEMANN – Qivittoq
The artist monograph, Jessie Kleemann – Qivittoq, constitutes the first specific introduction to the artist’s works in performance art and especially her preoccupation with the ‘Qivittoq’ as a phenomenon.
A Qivittoq is a person who has been humiliated in an unbearable manner – most often as a result of his or her own mistakes – and then chooses to leave civilized society to live alone in the wild.
Jessie Kleemann is an acclaimed pioneer on the Greenlandic as well as the international art scene. She is a trained actress, but early in her youth, she started working with video art and performance art. Dressed in decadent robes or tangled in plastic with blubber on her chest, she has subjected the elusive Qivittoq to a series of intense, virtually mythological performances and artistic studies, for more than two decades.
The contributions to the book consists of a collection of essays by select artists and writers who recount their personal experiences during Kleemanns performances. These essays are augmented by a series of near-iconic photographs, the photographs in themselves highly illustrative of her work.
Iben Mondrup, Editor.
Essays:
Ivalo Frank, film director and maker of art films
Mette Moestrup, poet
Niels Lyngsø, poet
Brian Catling, performance artist and professor of fine arts
Aasne Linnestå, author and critic
Randi Broberg, film director and singer
Photography:
Allard Willemse
Iben Mondrup
Claus Kleemann
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