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2021 plastikforbindelser 4 (detail), clay, palm leaves at Dry Floor. Pop-up exhibition, HOXTON 253, London (UK) 2021 :-) :-o (in these worlds everything exists) (detail), video, crt, soil, cloned voice speech synthesis, etching at Dry Floor. Pop-up exhibition, HOXTON 253, London (UK) 2021 :-) :-o (in these worlds everything exists) (video still), video, crt, soil, cloned voice speech synthesis, etching at Dry Floor. Pop-up exhibition, HOXTON 253, London (UK) 2021 Various intaglio at Newcomers 20-21. Group exhibition, Grafikgalleriet (DK) 2021 array, etching, ear, sewed fur coat skin at Cromwell Place, London (UK) - on July 2021, group exhibition. Photo: Art Sokoloff 2020 landscape, performance at The Artists’ Autumn Exhibition, group exhibiton. Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art (DK). Photo: I DO ART 2020 fuck digitus, video at thumb - a net exhibition concerning virtual scale and drawing fig. x1 mpaacc sigil 2021 take it with you, publication (detail). 24 bugging inkjet pages of washi, saddle-stitched 13 x 17,5 x 0.6 cm. Centre for Artists’ Publications, Bremen (DE) 2021 take it with you, publication (detail). 24 bugging inkjet pages of washi, saddle-stitched 13 x 17,5 x 0.6 cm. Centre for Artists’ Publications, Bremen (DE) 2020 In search of primordial technics I (detail of appendix I - sorry, language is a virus), book. National Art Library (DK), Drawing Room (UK) 2020 untitled (trauma) (detail), series of etchings with graphite at Misplaced, group exhibiton. Oped Space, Tokyo (JPN). Photo: Art Sokoloff 2019 - 2021 plastikforbindelser 2 (detail). Synthetic white clay, organic found objects. Various expositions 2018 found objects 4: gold tooth (detail), gold tooth, clay, moss, metal at In Progress, group exhibition. Chelsea College of Arts, London (UK)

exposition

12 June:     Various intaglio at Newcomers, group exhibition. Grafikgalleriet, Holmegaard Værk
26 June:     ISOPT at outdoor bothy, Southwark Park Galleries, London 
28 June:     :-) :-o (in these worlds everything exists) at RCA2021, online platform
12 July:      array at Cromwell Place exhibition space, London 

2021    Various at Dry Floor, pop-up exhibition. HOXTON 253 art project space, London
2021     Børn af røde bær / Children of red berries, collaborative piece, at Heimat, group exhibition. PAKHUSgalleriet, Nykøbing Sj.
2021     take it      with you, video at 24.50, group exhibition. Udstillingstedet Sydhavn Station and ST:ART, Copenhagen
2021     take it      with you, publication at Artists as Independent Publishers, group exhibition. Centre for Artists’ Publications, Bremen
2020     landscape (ceremony of misunderstandings), performance at Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling 2020, group exhibition. Den Frie Centre for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
2020     geist (brothr), sculpture at Skygger dannes, group exhibiton. Atelier b8, Copenhagen
2020     in'kōd, tunnel installation at Situationist, group exhibtion. Situationist, pan-continental 2020     untitled (trauma), etchings at Misplaced, group exhibiton. Oped Space, Tokyo 2020     earth, engraving at KITE 4, group exhibition. Airbound Space, London
2020     leak, sound entry at CD MIX, radio show. Export Radio, London
2020     fuck digitus, video at thumb, group exhibition. Virtual
2020     sorry (language is a virus), performance at We Need To Talk About It, group exhibition. Hanover Space, London
2020     untitled (trauma), etchings at WiP Show, group exhibition. Royal College of Art, London
2019     en vild ro (a wild tranquility), performance at Native Instincts, party. The CLF Art Cafe, London
2019     sejerø, etching at 9th (an exhibition of prints), group exhibition. SLAUGHTERHAUS, London
2019     teeth/trash, drawings at Degree Show, group exhibition. Chelsea College of Arts, London
2019     journal contribution, launch of Sculptorvox Vol. 3: A God Complex (ISSN 2515-7329 03). Standpoint Gallery, London
2019     activation of mpaacc v0.0.1, performance at Safehouse, group exhibition. Safehouse 1 & 2, London
2019     everybody’s down, sculpture at Safehouse, group exhibition. Safehouse 1 & 2, London
2019     bios, installation at spareroom space, solo exhibition. Lucas Court (council estate) Battersea, London
2019     sejerø, installation at We, aaaaabakapblicbchcs....nzratrwsjksocspswthhyc, group exhibition. Triangle Space, London
2019     Guest Hacker, Operation Earnest Voice. The Photographers Gallery, London
2019     synthetic reading, performance at Annual Radio Show, radio show. Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam
2018     synthetic reading, performance. Chelsea College of Arts, London
2018     bios, cyanotypes at Anonymous, group exhibition. Chelsea College of Arts, London
2018     found objects 4: gold tooth, sculpture at In Progress, group exhibition. Chelsea College of Arts, London
2015     treponema-pallidum, drawings at Vi Tager Intet Ansvar 3, group exhibition. KW3, Copenhagen
2015     various paintings at Kulturkajen Docken, group exhibition. Copenhagen
2015     various paintings at Åbne Værksteder, group exhibition. Kunstforeningen 2100, Copenhagen


publication

2021     Journal contribution (prose): Dog Days. The Pluralist #1
2020     Book (dissertation): In search of primordial technics I. mpaacc
2020     Journal contribution (poetry): LER, FUND. Slagtryk - tidsskrift for digte & kortprosa (#5)
2019     Zine contribution (prose): hukommelses-id: 14. UNIVERSET ER EN FÆLLED, Center for Militant Futorologi
2019     Journal contribution (sculpture): хардкор. Sculptorvox Vol. 3: A God Complex (ISSN 2515-7329 03). A contemporary sculpture journal
2017     Journal cover (etching): untitled. Slagtryk - tidsskrift for digte & kortprosa (#6)
2015     Book (prose): Blå bøjende aura (ISBN 8799839504). Forlaget Foliom

text

2021     amphibians, technicians, and absence. Essay
2021     ‘Praxis - Print - Technics’ notes, Central Academy of Fine Arts, China. Talk
2020     landscape2020-11-21.json. Performance output
2020     LER, ETIKET, FUND (Danish), Slagtryk - tidsskrift for digte & kortprosa. Poetry
2019     Rids af en kritik af samtidskunstens svar på tegning i Danmark (Danish), IDOART.DK. Criticism
2019     Into the revitalisation of printmaking beyond the expanded field. Essay
2018     Presentation manuscript. Talk
2018     AI creativity and demystification. Essay
2017     4 Writings (synthetic reading). Prose

curatorial 

2021     Dry Floor, pop-up exhibition. HOXTON 253 art project space, London. Curated with Abhaya Rajani and Art Sokoloff
2020     thumb: a net exhibition concerning virtual scale and drawing
2019     mpaacc v0.0.2 (Multipresent Anti-Aggressive Communal Computer) infiltration 35.191299, 24.465309, 25 June, 15:44 GMT+1. Meditation
2019     mpaacc v0.0.1 (Multipresent Anti-Aggressive Communal Computer), infiltration 51.4698555,-0.06522284422128638, 8 May, 19:45 GMT. Sound and vision of inhibitors Panser Kone, Suzic, Ill Ill, id-9781, Meta, A Body Which Does Not Move Is A Dead Body, Fatemah Kazemi, Tom Chisholm, Theodor Præst Nymark Jens

education
2019 - 2021     Master of Arts, Royal College of Art, School of Fine Arts
2018 - 2019     Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Arts, Chelsea College of Arts
2016 - 2018     Mentorship, Asger Carlsen
2015 - 2016     Preparatory course, Copenhagen Art School
2012 - 2013     Computer Science, CBA (discontinued)

associate

2020     Member, printmaking at Grafisk Værksted Næstved
2018     Member, printmaking at SLAUGHTERHAUS, London
2015     Member, printmaking at VÆRKSTEDERNE
2019     Member, Billedkunstnernes Forbund (BKF): Danish Visual Artists
2019     Member, Danske Grafikere (DG): The Danish Printmakers Association
2018     Member, DRAW reading group (interdisciplinary approaches to drawing) at University of Arts, London
2014     (ended) Founder, kollektiv, Ved Klosteret
2018     Founder, exhibition space, mpaacc (multipresent anti-aggressive communal computer)
2019     Founder, research project, mnet (Mundane Nature)
2016     Technologist, Better Collective

awards

2020     Distinction award (dissertation), Royal College of Art
2019     Distinction award (degree), Chelsea College of Arts

placements

2021     Teaching placement, De Montfort University (BFA), Leicester
2021     Teaching placement, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
2019     Artist presentation at Banqueting Hall, Chelsea College of Arts, London

contact

+45 2538 0331
aarvik92@gmail.com / anders.aarvik@network.rca.ac.uk 
Studio based at Royal College of Art, London, or Raadvad 40, Outer Copenhagen

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Dead, static, discharged bodies only sparks. Literal and othered bodies, lie on the ground, on their backs, and can not rise. Their joints are missing or disassembled. A metaphor for technical bodies and systems giving rise to alternative worlds, explored through formulas, materials, and cooperation with machines, such as; immaterial computers, synthetic voices, computer vision, drawing, clay, printing presses, and other signs of engagement.

The technical explorations transgress into the mythical and manifest in experimental, relational, and diagrammatic activities. Through monotonous witnessing the activities are constantly reduced and abstracted through (im)material manifestations, paralinguistic activities, and autonomous worlds where definitions are not dependent on authority, e.g., the searching definition of primordial technics. A notion that sprout through the observation that other discourses, rather than the direct openings (e.g., using electronic equipment, criticising or opening technology to become more transparent), are more precise in terms of the primordial functions of technics. Through this notion, a world was building in itself.

Technics becomes an expanded and poetic field, rethought through sensorial registers and representation, not structures of engineering.