Artist Gallery

Lives and works in Aarhus and Copenhagen (DK).
E-mail: liseskou@tele2adsl.dk

Education:

2002-2003 Whitney Museum of American Art - Independent Study Program. New York.
1998-2004 Academy of Fine Art, Funen, Odense, Denmark.
1992-1998 Nordic Litterature and History of Art. University
Aarhus,
1995 Universidad de Fine Arts, Cuenca, Spain.

Visual artists Lise Skou graduated from The Funen Academy of Fine Arts, Odense, Denmark (2004).
In 2003, when participating in The Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in New York, USA, she started a collaboration with Swedish artist Andrea Creutz, on a series of sound-, video-, and text-based installations.
As their starting point, they used their own as well as other people's experiences of being exposed to increasing control and surveillance. Since then, they have produced several projects which deal with authorities' and media's construction of: paranoia, Otherness, and myths of cultural superiority and inferiority. With installations and sound narrations, they have participated in group exhibitions such as: Spheres of Valency (Galéria Jána Koniarka, Trnava, Slovakia, 2003) and Ideologia II – Nordic Biennale (Gothenburg, Sweden, 2003). In 2004, their solo show, Selected, opened in rum46, Aarhus, Denmark. In their interdisciplinary practice, they address economical, political, social, and cultural questions, acknowledging that contemporary art and critical reflection make up a coherent area of meaning.

Their most recent projects The hidden Flow Project and Psychological Operations takes its point of departure in the impacts of imperialism and capitalism.
The Hidden Flow Project focus on models for economic systems that function as counterparts to the dominant monetary economy. Furthermore, the work investigates the potential for local economic systems to impact global economy and advocate for the egalitarian distribution of resources.
Psychological operations/PSYOP for Minority Report –Challenging Intolerance in Ccontemporary Denmark is a project, which investigates the unconscious influences and psychological processes that lead to the formation of intolerance and stereotypical images. The artists developed a series of workshops that took place in July 2004. The workshop participants were visitors in the shopping mall Bruun's Galleri. Through different exercises that focused on the formation of stereotypes and manipulative processes, the participants were confronted with the power structures, which implement these images in the individual. This material forms the starting point for an audio play and a series of events based on “invisible theater” to be installed in Kvickly's Café in Bruun's Galleri for the duration of Minority Report.

Selected solo exhibitions:

2004 ”SELECTED”, Gallery Rum 46, February 2004, Aarhus, DK.
2002 ”Cudi”, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, DK.

Selected group exhibitions:

2004 ”Minority Report – Challenging Intolerance in Contemporary Denmark”,
Sepember 2004, DK, www.minority-report.dk
The ‘Hidden Flow’ Project, HEAVEN, Stockholm, www.swingingwithneighbours.com
On the Road, United Net-Works project, part of the exhibition The Way We Work at Southern Exposure, San Francisco, US. www.unitednet-works.org,
Swop Network – the Soundarchive, part of radioprogramme at Frieze Artfair, by Dosensos. London.
”SWOP NETWORK”, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin. July 2004.
”Public.exe: Public Execution”, Slides show, Exit Art, June 2004, New York.
Island Film and Video Festival, Prenelle Gallery, London, April 2004.
”GO”, Liquidacion Total, San Vincente Ferrer, Madrid. www.liquidaciontotal.org

2003 United Net-Works mobile archiv, RACA, Copenhagen, December 2003.
“IDEO”, Lokstallarna, Kunsthallan Strömstad, Sweden. October 2003.
”Appendiks I”. Copenhagen, August 2003.
”FAST video compilation”, Posthusteatret, Cph. July 2003.
”Ideologia II, Nordic Biennial for Contemporary Art”
Gothenburg, Sweden, May 2003.(Catalogue) www.ideologia.net
Whitney Museum of American Art – Independent Study Program.
New York, May 2003.
”Spheres of Valency”, Galeria Jana Koniarka, Trnava, Slovakia April 2003. (Catalogue)
”Women 2003”, Billboard project in Copenhagen/Malmoe. March/April. (Catalogue) www.women2003.dk

2002 "Fundamentalism of the New Order” Charlottenborg Showroom, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 2002. (Catalogue)
"ArTchitecture"
Gallerie Jaroslave Frangnera, Praha. October 2002.
"2200 N – Nye spor i parken”
Nørrebroparken, Copenhagen (DK). October 2002.
(Catalogue)
"Big Social Game - biennale of young art",
Turin Italy. April 2002. (Catalogue)
"Buro fur Sozial-Politische Raumfahrt"
Galerie Sparwasser, Berlin. February 2002.
2001 "Danskheder", ("Danishness")
Gallery Rhizom, Aarhus, Denmark. May.
”Take Off 20:01". Museum of Modern Art,
Aarhus (DK). 24 February – 22 April 2001. (Catalogue) www.takeoff2001.dk
2000 "Konnektor". Pfefferberg, Berlin. September 2000. (Catalogue)
"Dream On". Gallery Kit, Trondheim, Norge.
"Behind all". A site-specific with Mette Lisby and Anne Mette Juel.
"Flocking 1:3". Gallery North, Copenhagen.
1998 "Scope 1" Summer Video Festival. Artists Space, New York City
"Scope 3" Summer Video Festival. Artists Space, New York City
"Mitsui Fundosan Video Wall". Rockefeller Center, New York City

Originator of Cudi/Center for Urban Culture Dialogue and Information:

- A multicultural social and political project established in an apartment in the suburb Vollsmose, Odense, August 2000-April 2002.

Cudi events:

2002 ”Unrealized democracy - town-meeting: how do we implement democracy” Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark.
Debate about close-democracy in public spaces. The Royal Danish Academy of Architects, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2001 ”What can art do - a seminar about structures of reality”. Seminar arranged by Cudi.
”Danishness - a town meeting”.
Gallery Rhizom, Aarhus Denmark.
Artists talk at Artmuseum of Aarhus.
Participants Cudi and Lars Bent Petersen(artist).

2000 Various projects and events in the housing estate Vollsmose, Aug 2000 – April 2002.

Publications, catalogues and rewievs:

2003 ”...men glad blir man” Ideoligia II, by Ulrika Stahre.
”Examples of politically and socially dedicated Contemporary Art in Denmark”, by Jesper Dalmose. Mare articum (The Baltic Art Magazine)
2002 ”Konsten blev en genvæg till trivsel” (”art became a short cut to development”)
Dagens Nyheter Sverige, Feb 12th 2002.
"Kunst i virkeligheden - analyse af Cudi som eksponent for en socialt engageret samtidskunst" , ("Art in reality - an analysis of Cudi"). Dissertation by Lone Bønløkke, Aesthetics and Culture, University of Aarhus, January 2002.
"En chat om Cudi" ("Chat about Cudi"), an interview by
Nanna Debois Buhl at www.kopenhagen .dk
2001 "Cudi" Catalogue, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik.
"De kreative mennesker i mosen"(" The creative people in the bog)", Fyens Stiftstidende, Thursday Dec. 20.
"Artists rule!", NU: the nordic art review, vol. III no. 5/01.
"Ode til afmagten", (" Ode to the powerlessness") in ”Dansk Kunst 2001”.
"Det sociale som æstetik",("The social as aesthetic") by Peter Brix Søndergaard, professor, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
"Take off 20:01" Catalogue.
"Down and out in Budapest and Vollsmose" by Dorte Abildgaard D.C.A.
"Cudi a counter publicity" by Simon Sheikh, artcritics.
2000 "Kunsten at starte en proces", ("How to start a process"), Kristelig Dagblad.
"Kunsten at bo i Vollsmose", ("How to live in Vollsmose") Fyens Stiftstidende.
"Art prickles in neglected suburb" by Thomas Richardt.
"New signals from Vollsmose" Fyens Stiftstidende.
"Vollsmose lullaby" Information.
"Konnektor" Catalogue.

Public commissions

2004 I International Conference in Visual Studies. ARCO, Madrid, Spain.
Panel II. Art Policies and Visual Culture.

2002 Interventions in space – exploring your territory and questioning your environment,
Talk and workshop, School at outer Noerrebro, Copenhagen (DK)
”Unrealized democracy - town-meeting: how do we implement democracy” Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark.
Debate about close-democracy in public spaces. The Royal Danish Academy of Architects, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2001 ”What can art do - a seminar about structures of reality”. Seminar arranged by Cudi.
”Coup d'Etat” a political event with Bjørn Nørgaard, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Lecture and debate about Cudi's project. The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
Psychogeographical mapping – lecture and workshop, High School Hadsten, (DK).
”Danishness - a town meeting”. Gallery Rhizom, Aarhus Denmark.
Vollsmose n the future – talks and workshop, Vollsmose, Denmark.
”Pittbulls are ganstershit”. A seminar about the social system as aesthetics, arranged by Thomas Fos Poulsen.
Take Off 20:01, Artists talk at Artmuseum of Aarhus.
Participants Cudi and Lars Bent Petersen(artist).

Grants:

2003 Danish Contemporary Art Center.
2000 Kulturministeriets Udviklingsfond/Ministry of Cultural Affairs – The development foundation(DK)
Boligministeriet/Ministry of Housing(DK)
LO (DK)

Residency:

At my residency in Sarajevo I will continue my research in relation to The Hidden Flow Project; a project focussing on the construction of a new Imperialism and Post Colonialism and its relation to different systems and structures: political, economic, religious, cultural.

In view of my project involving economic structures and imperialism a residency in specific post war conditions like Sarajevo - going through a process of economic and social reconstruction and transition - would give me the opportunity to analyse parallels between political and economic imperialism.

Ultimately the project will be presented as a performative sound- and text based installation.

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