Film & video programme 

10-14/09/2013, 11:00 - 18:00 

Foyer in front of studio 7, NAA

The video is based on a text which is read aloud. The text describes a very unusual and strange dream, that contains no traces of memories or ordinary content like things, people, monsters, landscapes, fear, excitement or time – nothing – all there is, is this exhaustingly intense texture that somehow exceeds everything I’ve ever experienced with my senses before. The dream had been coming back to me for years and years since I was a child, and it always gave me the most strange and unearthly feeling - it wasn’t unpleasant, just very unapproachable. It seemed impossible to gain any knowledge about this phenomenon inside the dream - as if my human senses were simply futile in this context of sleep, as if they had reached their limit.

In the dream I felt this persistent ambivalence: I was and wasn’t at the same time, the texture, the presence around me constantly changing, yet staying the same. In the video I try to convey this ambivalence by describing it in as much detail as I possibly could in the voice over and then let the visuals alternately match and conflict with what the voice is describing.

Louise Haugaard Jørgensen, born in 1988, is a Danish artist based in Aarhus. In her artwork she explores how belief systems, sensory impressions and habits of thought effect our notion, organisation and reproduction of knowledge. She seeks to investigate the transformative potential and critical value of memory and history in order to approach an alternative form of knowledge production.

In her work she has developed an inter-medial installation aesthetic that combines drawing, large bodies of text, printed matter and sculptural objects, with extensive archival systems including ready mades, sculptural furniture objects as well as video- and sound works.