Ellipsis is written by art writer and PhD student Sidsel Nelund who lives and works in Copenhagen.
Education/
Sidsel Nelund is a PhD fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, with a Ph.D. project entitled Når samtidskunsten producerer – ikke-videnskabelige videnskabsprocesser i produktionen af kulturel erindring (When Contemporary Art is producing – non-scientific processes of science in the production of cultural memory). The Ph.D. is funded by the Ph.D. scholarship Mads Øvlisen Stipendium, Novo Nordisk Fonden.
Sidsel Nelund holds a BA in Comparative Literature from University of Copenhagen and Université Paris Diderot, Paris 7 (BA thesis with distinction. Co-written with Anne Riber Videoinstallationens Ontologi, supervisor: Anne Ring Petersen). Sidsel Nelund holds two MA’s: one finished in 2009 in Moderne kultur og kulturformidling from University of Copenhagen (MA thesis with distinction, Lives Re-lived: Biography and Re-enactment in Contemporary Media Art, supervisor: Anne Ring Petersen), and another finished in 2007 in Aural and Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths University of London, Department of Visual Cultures (First Degree Honours, MA thesis with distinction, Inheritance Hauntology – or how to inhabit a free spirit, Supervisor: Kodwo Eshun).
Currently/
Sidsel Nelund is a co-curator of CURATING CONTEXTS founded in March 2010 with Pamela Prado. The aim is to articulate the contemporary art scene in Santiago de Chile by means of meetings and conversations. Since 2004, Sidsel Nelund has been a founding board member of AirPlay – street gallery, a non-profit outdoor exhibition space in Copenhagen, where she co-curated a series of events and exhibitions in 2006. She is a board member and director of UKK, Young Art Workers.
Past/
Sidsel Nelund worked as producer and art critic at Kunstmagasinet P2, a weekly art magazine at the Danish Broadcast Cooperation, DR. From June 2009-January 2010, she co-founded Doble Espacio, a non-profit exhibition space for contemporary art in Casa Colorada in Santiago.
Publications
Forthcoming/
-Interview with Trinh T. Minh-ha for the book Disturbios Culturales published by Edicion Universidad Diego Portales.
2010/
-Vademécum. Performative text production for the exhibition Ensayo Bífido by Florencia Grisant and Aymara Zegers.
“FOOTSTEP/S”, Plum Velvet edited by Maria Finn. On biography and method in works of Tacita Dean and Joachim Koester.
“All the Stars’ Horses. A Web Dérive by Gitte Borre”, Pathetic Sympathy Seekers In Touch with Reality, Berlin, p.22-23.
2009/
““The ‘How’ always comes with the ‘What’” – Multiplicity and the Film Event in the Work of Trinh T. Minh-ha”, SUM #5, Copenhagen, p. 75-82.
“A Fairy Tail” in La Caja #2; on the exhibition Honesta Anatomia by Florencia Grisanti at Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago.
2008/
“Seven Songs” in SUM #3; on Seven Songs for Malcolm X by The Black Audio Film Collective.
“Fin de Copenhague 2008 – udkast til en filmroman” in Internationalistisk Ideale #1 in collaboration with artist Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld; performative reflections on Home Works IV in Beirut.
2005/
“Mallorca Open” in kopenhagen.dk; interview with Friederike Nymphius about the exhibition “Mallorca Open. Principles of Construction” at Centro Cultural Andratx
Research papers/talks/panel participation
2011/
Roundtable about contemporary art and translation with Platform Translation and Daniela Allocca, 98weeks project space, Beirut, July 16.. Supported by the Danish Arts Council Committee for International Visual Arts
“Making a Copenhagen Free Unviersity Manual” with Pablo Plot and Trine Friis Sørensen at the joint doctoral symposium How to do Things with Academia, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 16-18th of June
“Political Aspects of Knowledge Production in Contemporary Art – Miljohn Ruperto’s The Cooper Project” at Aesthetics and Politics, Annual Conference of the Nordic Society of Aesthetics, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, May 26-28
“Knowledge Production in Contemporary Art” at the joint doctoral seminar Forms of Knowledge and Art’s Interventions in Contemporary Culture, University of Copenhagen, University of Århus and University of South of Denmark, Sandbjerg, March 21-25
“KUMUA – Recycling Material for a Video-Performance” with Katrine Dirckinck-Homfeld and “A contextual account: CURATING CONTEXTS between market, education and thinking” at the symposium Collective Futures, Goldsmiths University of London, London, March 3-5
2010/
”Walking along the limits of the index: Joachim Koester’s the Kant Walks” at the joint doctoral seminar Index – Art/Archive/Politics, University of Copenhagen and Créart, Université de Paris X – Nanterre, Paris, November 24-25
”Re-exportation: Cazuela Cultural to and fro” at 98weeks Project Space, Beirut, April 28th. The talk was supported by Statens Kunstråd/The Danish Arts Council
2008/
“The Writer as Producer” at Art and Research: New Interfaces, Copenhagen, June 5-7, 2008. Held by the Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies in collaboration with Goldsmiths College of London and Freie Universität, Berlin.
“The Unrehearsed Pas de Deux – a Gesture of Challenging art Criticism” at Practice-Based Research in the Performing Arts in Gothenburg, January 31 to February 3, 2008. Held by Nordiskt Sommaruniversitet.
2008/
Moderator of the panel debate “Om videokunst og nye medier i Mellemøsten” during the short film festival Libanon tur/retur in Copenhagen, January 27.
Curatorial projects
2010-/
CURATING CONTEXTS:
( conversaciones ) parte 1 September 2010
( conversaciones ) parte 2 November 2010
En conversación con Gabriela Salgado December 2010
Short Voyage invited by 98weeks project space, Beirut, July 2011
2009-2010/
Conceptual development for the contemporary art exhibition space Doble Espacio at the city museum Museo de Santiago.
2006/
Inauguration party of Airplay – street gallery with artists Camilla Bachiry, Sophia Burchardi, Vladimir Tomic and others, Copenhagen, April 8.
“Stafet i Frit Rum” with artists Simone Aaberg Kærn, N55, Kenneth A. Balfelt and FOS at Airplay – street gallery in Copenhagen, April 14 – May 1. In collaboration with Lotte Röhe.
“Alt er blevet grønt” with artist Sebastian Schiørring at Airplay – street gallery in Copenhagen, September 1.
Selected radio programmes and projects
2006/
“Byens Stolthed” in Kunstmagasinet P2; produced and hosted by Sidsel Nelund with Hanne-Louise Johannesen, Hans Peter Munk et al.
“Nye tendenser” in Kunstmagasinet P2; produced and hosted by Sidsel Nelund with Sanne Kofod Olsen, Kristoffer Akselbo, Nynne Haugaard et al.
“Drive-in Kunstguide” in Kunstmagasinet P2; in situ interviews with Eva Koch, Ingvar Cronhammar, and Alfio Bonnano.
2005-06/
Interviews with Ernesto Neto, Tal R, Janet Cardiff, Tony Oursler, Jeppe Hein, Eva Koch, Jakob Jakobsen, Katya Sander, Honey Biba Beckerlee, Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld, and many others.
Residencies
2007/
Self organised research stay with access to working space and the archive at Ashkal Alwan – The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts in Beirut, October-December.
Contact: nelund@gmail.com
