Anders Aarvik
Artist, printmaker, sysadmin working between London and Copenhagen
+45 2538 0331
aarvik92@gmail.com or anders.aarvik@network.rca.ac.uk
studio at Halmtorvet 11A-F, Copenhagen
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News
10.06.2022-24.06.2022 amphi(-)bian, solo exhibition. OTTE
22.06.2022 Journal contribution: Amfibiet, teknikeren og fraværet. Kulturo #53: HIATUS
xx.09.2022-xx.09.2022 x, duo exhibition. Grafikgalleriet
exposition
2022 zinc-typha membrane at Bedrock, group exhibition. Ladder Space
2021 ISOPT II: room of vertebrates print at Danske Grafikere, group exhibition. HUSET i Asnæs, Asnæs
2021 ISOPT II: Room of vertebrates, open studio. Statens Værksteder for Kunst (Danish Art Workshops)
2021 Various etchings at Newcomers, group exhibition. Grafik Galleriet, Holmegård Værk
2021 untitled (array) at Double Vision, group exhibition. Cromwell Place, London
2021 \:-) \:-o (in these worlds everything exists) at RCA2021, online platform. Royal College of Art, London
2021 ISOPT at The Book is a Container, group exhibition. Southwark Park Galleries, London
2021 Various at Dry Floor, pop-up exhibition. HOXTON 253 art project space, London
2021 Børn af røde bær, 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 (Weserburg Museum of Modern Art), Bremen
2020 landscape (ceremony of misunderstandings), performance at KE2020, group exhibition. Den Frie Centre for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
2020 geist (brothr), sculpture at Skygger dannes, group exhibition. Atelier b8, Copenhagen
2020 in’kōd, tunnel installation at Situationist, group exhibition. Situationist, pan-continental
2020 untitled (trauma), etchings at Misplaced, group exhibition. 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…., 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 and text
2021 Journal contribution (prose): Dog Days. The Pluralist #1
2021 ‘Praxis – Print – Technics’, Central Academy of Fine Arts, China. Talk
2020 Book (dissertation): In search of primordial technics I. mpaacc
2020 transcription residues, landscape. Performance output
2020 Journal contribution (poetry): LER, FUND. Slagtryk – tidsskrift for digte & kortprosa (#5)
2020 LER, ETIKET, FUND (Danish), alternate version, Slagtryk – tidsskrift for digte & kortprosa. Poetry
2019 Rids af en kritik af samtidskunstens svar på tegning i Danmark (Danish), IDOART.DK. Criticism
2019 Zine contribution (prose): hukommelses-id: 14. UNIVERSET ER EN FÆLLED, Center for Militant Futorologi
2019 Into the revitalisation of printmaking beyond the expanded field. Essay
2019 Journal contribution (sculpture): хардкор. Sculptorvox Vol. 3: A God Complex (ISSN 2515-7329 03). A contemporary sculpture journal
2018 Presentation manuscript. Talk
2018 AI creativity and demystification. Essay
2017 Journal cover (etching): untitled. Slagtryk – tidsskrift for digte & kortprosa (#6)
2017 4 Writings (synthetic reading). Prose
2015 Book (prose): Blå bøjende aura (ISBN 8799839504). Forlaget Foliom
curatorial
2022 Facilitator and curator, Ladder exhibition space
2021 Co-Organiser, Alternative Spaces: Collaboration, Community, and Public Work at Royal College of Art
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 at mpaacc and Royal College of Art
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)
associations
2022 – Facilitator and curator, Ladder exhibition space
2020 – Member, printmaking at Grafisk Værksted Næstved
2018 – Member, printmaking at SLAUGHTERHAUS, London
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
2018 – Founder, exhibition space, mpaacc (multipresent anti-aggressive communal computer)
2019 Founder, research project, mnet (Mundane Nature)
2016 – Senior DevOps Engineer (technologist), Better Collective A/S and nix.agency
2015 Member, printmaking at VÆRKSTEDERNE
2014 (ended) Founder, kollektiv, Ved Klosteret
awards
2020 Distinction award (dissertation), Royal College of Art
2019 Distinction award (degree), Chelsea College of Arts
placements and teaching
2021 Teaching placement, De Montfort University (BFA), Leicester
2021 Teaching placement, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
2019 Artist talk at Banqueting Hall, Chelsea College of Arts, London
residencies
2022 Writing residency at Thiemers Magasin’s rectory
2021 GRAAL at Holmegaard Værk and Næstved Grafisk Værksted
2021 Research residency at Statens Værksteder for Kunst (Danish Art Workshops)
collections
Royal College of Art
The Danish National Art Library
Drawing Room
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Dead, static, discharged bodies only sparks. Othered and distorted bodies, lie on the ground, on their backs, and can not rise. Their joints are missing or disassembled. A metaphor for bodies as systems, giving rise to alternative worlds. Explored through formulas, materials, and cooperation with machines, such as; immaterial computers, synthetic and cloned 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 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 of equivalence built itself.
With a critical eye to the industry as well as other societal structures, technics becomes an expanded and poetic field, rethought through sensorial registers and representation.