English title: Leaving
Spanish Title: Dejando
Videoinstallation
Duration: 5:20
Artist, Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Sound, Tekst and Speak: Ingrid Skovgaard
Actor: Johannes Møller.
Music: Anouar Brahem
Thank you to: Claudio Lavanchy, Laila Westergaard, Rikke Hallund.
The project has been realised with the support from “Beques de creació artística 2010-2011” of the Fundació Guasch Coranty
To watch the video, please go to the bottom of this page.
”Leaving” er et værk bestående af en 6 skærms video (samlet i én film) og en fotoserie bestående af 68 fotografier inddelt i 6 underserier.
Værket behandler spørgsmål om længsel, søgen, skæbne og mod. Videoen viser en rekonstruktion af et møde mellem to mennesker der fandt sted i en helt almindelig flække i Danmark for nogle år siden. Et indirekte møde der med de efterladte spor i gentagelsen stiller flere spørgsmål end det besvarer.
Fotografi, film, redigering, lyd og tekst: Ingrid Skovgaard
Skuespiller: Johannes Møller.
Musik: Anouar Brahem
Tid: 5:20 sec.
Projektet er realiseret med støtte af “Beques de creació artística 2010-2011” - Fundació Guasch Coranty
It was summer, and I was biking.
Every day, I took the same route. Repeating the same distance.
Choosing the same streets.
I always had the same starting point, and my goal of arrival was always the same.
As I headed down this street I saw a man in the distance. He was walking in the same direction as I. He was a middle-aged man. Impeccably dressed. Maybe a bit old-fashioned. He walked steady, but determined. As if his goal was defined and clear. I came nearer.
He was carrying a suitcase. From the side of it, a piece of clothing was hanging out. As if he had been in a rush, closing his suitcase too quickly. As I passed him, I did not turn my head to see who he was, and I only saw him from the corner of my eye until he had disappeared from my sight.
The following day, I saw him again. On the same street. Again he was nicely dressed. Only a slight change. His trousers were different, or was it his scarf? I do not remember, but something was different. Again he was carrying his suitcase.
As I was closing in on him, I noticed that also today a piece of clothing was hanging out from his suitcase, but now a different piece of clothing from yesterday. Again, I just passed him on my bike, not turning my head.
The next day, everything repeated itself again: I came down the same street and I saw him. Only minor changes in his clothing, but still impeccable. Still carrying his suitcase. Again, different pieces of clothing hanging out from it. Still, he was walking determined and steady. And again I was passing him, not turning my head.
The following days, I do not remember clearly how many, 10 days, maybe 20, the scene was repeated everyday.
Video og lyd installation
Video. Ingrid Skovgaard
Lyd: Ingrid Skovgaard and Rune Søchting
Længde: 12 minutes, 16 seconds. Loop.
To watch the video, please go to the bottom of this page.
Tekst af Kunsthistoriker mag.art. Johan Zimsen Kristiansen. 2014, til kataloget for udstillingen “Skillsmissen” på Det Kongelige Lapidarium, København. 2014
Ingrid Skovgaard
Med sit intense lydspor af bearbejdet norsk kvædesang og støjen fra fyrtårne iværksætter Ingrid Skovgaards (f. 1970) store firskærmsværk Cross Wide Out fra 2005 en form for meditativ dynamik i sin undersøgelse af mennesker og steder. Skovgaard rejste i en månedlang periode i Norge fra Lofoten i nord til Oslofjorden i syd for at filme brændinger og fyrtårne, registrere lyset fra den skarpe midnatssol og indfange vandets slag mod klipperne. Noget nær vibrerende påvirker og skubber filmen til den besøgende, der her får lejlighed til at give sig hen og forsvinde for et øjeblik – ind i sig selv og ind i værkets også drømmeagtige sekvenser.
Ved at lade noget gådefuldt udgøre selve nerven i værket rejser Cross Wide Out flere spørgsmål, end det besvarer. I mødet med publikum kommer filmen omtrent til at udgøre et erfarings- og stemningsbåret helle, hvor den enkelte iagttager får ro, plads og tid til at undre sig over og udforske sammenhængen mellem naturen, landet og en egen identitet. Fordi værket aldrig røber eller giver for meget, fordi de enkelte scener og den enkelte optagelse holder igen uden en øjeblikkelig forløsende dramatik, får Skovgaard skabt en spænding mellem det reelle landskab og billederne som sært hallucinatoriske og uvirkelige. Filmens mennesketomme rum, det være sig himlene over havet eller observationerne af fyrets roterende glas, placerer sig på denne måde inkongruent i overgangen mellem noget på en gang genkendeligt og forvredet. I klassisk forstand arbejder Cross Wide Out konstant med et element af suspense i sin tilgang til identitetsdannelse og liv.
Mødet mellem betragteren og det øde Norge handler for Skovgaard om at gentænke og genopfinde tilhørsforholdet til et kendt territorium med flere dimensioner. I balancen mellem det rationelle, virkelige landskab og påvirkningen af sanserne fletter den besøgende sig ind i og ud af Cross Wide Outs undersøgelse af menneskets nationale identitet.
Tekst og beskrivelse af Ingrid Skovgaard:
”En rejse i rum, en rejse i identitet.
Den stille bevægelses søgen. Det voldsomme der møder ens higen.
Udforskning i forløsning”
Med Cross Wide Out handler om længsel og søgen. Længsel som en kraft i sig selv der driver og bringer os videre. En kraft der sætter os i bevægelse og åbner vores sanser i vores søgen efter hvad der umiddelbart kan fremstå som det udefinerbare.
Udefinerbart da dybden af ens længsel indeholder langt flere lag end vi er i stand til at forstå og definere.
Cross Wide Out er på mange måder et abstrakt værk der ønsker at beskrive denne længsel i form af bevægelse, stemningsbilleder og lyd. At nå en grundlæggende stemning der vækker genkendelse af personlig søgen og længsel samtidig med at den fungere som en metafor og katalysator for ens indre kilde af skønhed, poesi og helle.
Billeder fra fyrtårns stille og poetisk indre som roterende prismer og refleksioner på væge kombineres med naturscener fra fyrtårnenes beliggenheder der beskriver den voldsomhed og brutalitet som står i så skarp kontrast til den meditative skønhed fyrtårnene besidder.
Filmmaterialet kommer fra en række fyrtårne Ingrid Skovgaard besøgte under en rejse langs Norges kyst fra nord til syd. Billederne er ikke manipuleret på noget måde med henblik på at vise det oprindeliges indhold af skønhed og abstraktion i sig selv.
Lydmaterialet derimod er stærkt bearbejdet lyde fra dels fyrtårne, dels norsk kvædesang sammen med syntetiske lyde. Dette med henblik på at mime naturens kræfter og dynamik kombineret med et motiv af sirenens sang som repræsentant for længselens dragning.
Cross Wide Out er en video og lydinstallation for 4 skærme og højtalere der looper.
Værket kan blive vist enten i et lukket rum med projektioner på hver af de 4 sider, eller på én stor væg med de 4 projektioner ved siden af hinanden.
Cross Wideo Out er vist flere gange i begge versioner i Danmark, Sverige og Finland, senest under udstillingen “Skilsmissen” på Det Kongelige Lapidarium i København i 2014.
I 2006 blev Cross Wide Out nomineret til Prix Möbius Nordica.
Performance / Video- and soundinstallation.
Performer, Concept, Direction, Editor: Ingrid Skovgaard
Soundscape: Rune Søchting
Photographer: Abraham Sanchez
To watch the video, please go to the bottom of this page.
Walking the Purgatory
The overall theme of the project is the walk; the process of walking a passage, doing the journey, moving through stages and leaving behind distances of a path; as the physical act, as well as the metaphorical significance.
In a search for finding answers and trying to understand the inner passages of my life: what interests me is the power of walking in landscapes, being it natural or cultural, physical or inner landscapes, to nurture the recovery of hope and relief.
I have great interest in the signification of rituals and how it can function as a metaphorical tool for reaching a more profound personal understanding, as well as a subjective justification for ones instinctively actions, thoughts and emotions; both in a subjective and personal way, as well as with the definition and influence of an authority and socially acted out.
I am investigating the creation of walks as rituals, and in this case as a symbol of the processes in life that consist of great challenge; sometimes of great pain and sorrow, but which one goes through with endurance, and are moved forward by the propulsion of the passage with hope and light at aim.
Description of the work. A video and sound installation
Two distinct walking rituals have been documented on video.
Each video will be projected on each end wall of a large room. One will not be able to see both videos at the same time. The head will have to move from one side to another to follow both videos. The videos of 16 min each will be running in loop. A lyrical soundscape fills the room and relates to both videos.
Video 1: Walking the Purgatory / Caminando por el purgatorio - Part 1 - A protestant journey:
Documentation of a performance I made in the mountains of Jotunheimen in Norway, walking through the canyon of Svartdalen (The Black Valley, also called The Dark Valley (Mørkedalen)).
A staged walk, as a metaphorical ritual: A personal “purgatorial” walk for 9 hours wearing a red ballroom dress, high heel shoes and two Viking brooches.
My staged ritual setting of both the place and the obstacles presented in the dress, the brooches and the high heel shoes, has been chosen to symbolize the issues I am dealing with in the journeys my life consist of, such as e.g. struggles of womanhood, national identity and religious heritage.
Video 2: Walking the Purgatory / Caminando por el purgatorio - Part 2 - A catholic journey.
Documentation of the processions during Semana Santa in Sevilla, with focus on the walk by the participants through the streets during the Easter days.
A collective and social ritual, staged by the brotherhoods and the church, where the participants as well as the spectators are part of a communal walk symbolizing the purpose of mankind’s suffering through life, and function as a emancipation for their own personal passages.
“Yes though there is goal and meaning of our journey, it is the path that makes the struggle worthwhile". Karin Boye. From the poem: “I rørelse” (“In motion”)
©Ingrid Skovgaard 2010
Video- and soundinstallation.
Concept, filming, video and sound editing: Ingrid Skovgaard
Music: Anne-Lise Berntsen, Nils Henrik Asheim, Sondre Bratland
Thank you to: Abraham Sanchez, Isabel Japon, Hermandad del Coria del Rio, Hermandad del San Bernardo, Hermandad de los Dolores de Torreblanca, The people of Sevilla.
To watch the video, please go to the bottom of this page.
Walking the Purgatory
The overall theme of the project is the walk; the process of walking a passage, doing the journey, moving through stages and leaving behind distances of a path; as the physical act, as well as the metaphorical significance.
In a search for finding answers and trying to understand the inner passages of my life: what interests me is the power of walking in landscapes, being it natural or cultural, physical or inner landscapes, to nurture the recovery of hope and relief.
I have great interest in the signification of rituals and how it can function as a metaphorical tool for reaching a more profound personal understanding, as well as a subjective justification for ones instinctively actions, thoughts and emotions; both in a subjective and personal way, as well as with the definition and influence of an authority and socially acted out.
I am investigating the creation of walks as rituals, and in this case as a symbol of the processes in life that consist of great challenge; sometimes of great pain and sorrow, but which one goes through with endurance, and are moved forward by the propulsion of the passage with hope and light at aim.
Description of the work. A video and sound installation
Two distinct walking rituals have been documented on video.
Each video will be projected on each end wall of a large room. One will not be able to see both videos at the same time. The head will have to move from one side to another to follow both videos. The videos of 16 min each will be running in loop. A lyrical soundscape fills the room and relates to both videos.
Video 1: Walking the Purgatory / Caminando por el purgatorio - Part 1 - A protestant journey:
Documentation of a performance I made in the mountains of Jotunheimen in Norway, walking through the canyon of Svartdalen (The Black Valley, also called The Dark Valley (Mørkedalen)).
A staged walk, as a metaphorical ritual: A personal “purgatorial” walk for 9 hours wearing a red ballroom dress, high heel shoes and two Viking brooches.
My staged ritual setting of both the place and the obstacles presented in the dress, the brooches and the high heel shoes, has been chosen to symbolize the issues I am dealing with in the journeys my life consist of, such as e.g. struggles of womanhood, national identity and religious heritage.
Video 2: Walking the Purgatory / Caminando por el purgatorio - Part 2 - A catholic journey.
Documentation of the processions during Semana Santa in Sevilla, with focus on the walk by the participants through the streets during the Easter days.
A collective and social ritual, staged by the brotherhoods and the church, where the participants as well as the spectators are part of a communal walk symbolizing the purpose of mankind’s suffering through life, and function as a emancipation for their own personal passages.
“Yes though there is goal and meaning of our journey, it is the path that makes the struggle worthwhile". Karin Boye. From the poem: “I rørelse” (“In motion”)
©Ingrid Skovgaard 2010
Performance / Video- and sound installation
Concept, video and sound editing: Ingrid Skovgaard
Photographer: Abraham Sanchez and Ingrid Skovgaard
Performer: Ingrid Skovgaard and Isabel Japon
Music: “In diesen heil'gen hallen” W.A. Mozart. Sung by: Gunnar Gunn
Thank you to: Abraham Sanchez, Isabel Japon, Hermandad del Coria del Rio, Hermandad del San Bernardo, Hermandad de los Dolores de Torreblanca, The people of Sevilla.
Performer, concept, filming, editing and sound: Ingrid Skovgaard
Thanks to: Lisbeth Hermansen and Tina Holch
To watch the video, please go to the bottom of this page.
A site specific sculpture- and video installation for Øreby Castle during the art festival Lys over Lolland.
Created in collaboration with the artist Jesper Gram.
Concisting of a 6 meter tall renaissance inspired tower of wood and a video of two renaissance people repeatedly jumping playfull up into the air to the soundtrack of the old folksong “Kragevisen”. ´The video was shown inside the tower which the audience could watch through a peek hole in the tower. The sound from the video could be heard from the outside.
For watching photos of the tower, you can find it under “Other Art works”.
To watch the video, please go to the bottom of this page.
Koncept
Alt hvad du kan forestille dig er en parafrase over forestillingen om renæssanceslottet Øreby Slot og dens historier. Tårnet er valgt som et smukt symbol på en kunstnerisk overdådighed, rigdom og drøm. Et tegn der ikke skal imponere ved at være størst og mest autoritært, men som betager os ved sin raffinerede form og inspirerende symbolik.
Værket er også ment at være en hyldest til den fabulerende ubegrænsede fantasi og kreativitet: De svævende renæssancemennesker vi ser på videoen, der ubesværet giver sig hen til legen og glæden; Kragevisen, der er baggrundslyden til videoen, der beskriver de uanede muligheder der ligger i brug af noget så simpelt som en død krage.
Beskrivelse
Et ca. 6 m. højt renæssance-tårn i træ pladseret ude på Oreby slots gårdsplads. Igennem et kighul i tårnet ser man en videoprojektion af mennesker i renæssancetøj der hopper op og ned i leende leg med baggrundsmusik af den danske folkesang Kragevisen. Værket er et samarbejde mellem billedkunstnerne Jesper Gram og Ingrid Skovgaard. Kragevisen synges af billedkunstneren og bedstefar til Ingrid Skovgaard, Hjalte Skovgaard fra en optagelse på 60’ tallet.
Kragevisens tekst:
Den bonde han ganger sig ud i den skov
- hej-a-ho, sig ud i den skov -
Der så han en krage, som sad og sov
- hej-a-ho, tra-la-la-la-la-la-la –
Og bonden sat buen alt for sit knæ,
så skød han den krage ned fra det træ.
Og der kom bud fra kongens gård:
”Hvad gjorde du med kragen, du skød i går?”
Af hovedet gjorde jeg kirkeknap,
af næbbet gjorde jeg tøndetap.
Af tarmene snoed´ jeg takkel og reb
Af benene gjorde jeg møgegreb
Af fjerene tækked´ jeg hele mit hus,
af hjertet gjorde jeg drikkekrus.
Af øjnene gjorde jeg vinduesglas
De skinner i stuen rent som det var stads
Af skroget gjorde jeg et godt skib,
det bedste som ud i fjorden gik.
Og kødet jeg salted´ i tønder og kar
Foruden en steg jeg forærte min far
Af tarmene gjorde jeg takkel og reb,
af benene gjorde jeg møgegreb.
Af gumpen gjorde jeg saltmadsfad.
Kom alle mine venner, og få en bid mad
Om nogen vil sige at dette er tant
Så sværger jeg på at det hele er sandt
Video- and soundinstallation
Concept, direction and editing: Ingrid Skovgaard
Sound: Erik Levander
Photographer: Agnete Brun
To watch the video, please go to the bottom of this page.
A woman wanders. She examines the landscape. Leaves imprints. She wants forward. In despite. She wants to investigate. She wants to play. She search without renouncing her insisted womanhood.
An interpretation of the musical piece: Kontur des Fülens by Einar Kanding. Performed by The Cikada Ensemble and Einar Kanding at DigI:Wave 2005
The visual approach, reflected in the video has been towards the physical sensation manifested in emotions and movements, which the complexity and energy the music offers.
Credits
Idea, video photographer and editor: Ingrid Skovgaard
Sound: Ejnar Kanding and The Cikada Ensemble
An interpretation of the musical piece: Opus 1 by txture a.k.a. Jakob Goetz.
The visual approach, reflected in the video has been towards the physical sensation manifested in emotions and movements, which the complexity and energy the music offers.
Concept, Performer, Photographer and Editor: Ingrid Skovgaard
Sound: txture a.k.a. Jakob Goetz.
