ENTER Art Program

BETWIXT – Analogue & Digital Realms

Curated by Diana Velasco

ENTER Art Program explores the evolving role of digital elements in everyday life and art. The program showcases ‘phygital’ works that seamlessly blend physical and digital aspects, creating a bridge between classical and contemporary art forms. The term ‘betwixt’ captures this unique intersection. The program features performances, an exhibition and talks of international caliber. These activities challenge traditional art perceptions, engaging a wider audience, including those new to the art fair. Visitors will experience everything from hybrid creations and digital installations to immersive AR displays and performances. 

These interdisciplinary works push artistic boundaries, offering visitors new possibilities and experiences. Join us to engage with and debate these innovative art forms in the non-commercial Art Program all free to join. The Art Program is generously supported by the Danish Arts Foundation and Beckett Foundation, Institut français du Danemark, Ambassade de France au Danemark, IGR Instituto Guimaras Rosa, Embassy of Brazil Copenhagen and Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany Copenhagen, Værksted for Fotoografi og SST.

Talks

Friday, August 30

09.30-11.30: BREAKFAST & ARTIST TALK AT THE FRENCH EMBASSY
“Fusion in Motion: Dance Meets Augmentedd Reality”
Join us for an artist talk with artist Maxime Touroute and Natacha Paquinon accompanied by a lovely breakfast. Moderator: Diana Velasco
(In English)

14.00: TALK: LOVID – A HYBRID AND COLLABORATIIVE DUO
Don’t miss an enthralling conversation with the innovative artist group LoVid as they delve into their mesmerizing project “Heartsleeves”, in an exclusive interview with curator and the Head of the Art Program Diana Velasco.
(In English)

15.30-16.00: GUIDED TOUR OF THE ART PROGRAM 
Free guided tour of the Art Program by curator Diana Velasco.
(In English)

Saturday, August 31

09.30 — 12.00: BREAKFAST & TALK AT THE GERMAN EMBASSY
“From Brushstrokes to Bytes — Bridging Contemporary Art and Digital Art Collections”
Art collector Johannes Dennhardt will be in conversation with Diana Velasco, Artistic Director for Museum of Nordic Digital Art (MoNDA)
Moderator: Kirsten Eggers
(In English)

13.00-13.30: GUIDED TOUR OF THE ART PROGRAM 
Free guided tour of the Art Program by curator Diana Velasco.
(In English)

14.00: MEET THE ARTIST CIBELLE CAVALLI BASTOS AND THEIR AUGMENTED REALITY ARTWORKS
Don’t miss this thrilling opportunity to connect with the visionary artist Cibelle Cavalli Bastos as they reveal their mesmerizing Augmented Reality artworks, showcased in our Art Program. The event includes a short introduction of Cibelle Cavalli Bastos by curator and advisor Daniela Arriado. This event, proudly backed by the Brazilian Embassy, will be conducted in Portuguese.

16.00: TALK: BLOCKCHAIN ART IN MUSEUM & PARTICIPATORY ART – ENGAGING NEW COMMUNITIES & COLLECTORS
Speakers are Madeleine Pierpont (US), Web3 Associate, Museum of Modern Art — MOMA in New York & artist Jonas Lund (SE).
Moderator: Diana Velasco
(In English)

17.00: PERFORMATIVE TALK BY OPERATOR “HUMAN UNREADABLE”
After the talk Operator will perform a live dance of the movements from the “Human Unreadable” movement library.
Moderator: Stina Gustafsson.
The talk and performances is sponsored by the Danish Arts Foundation and the Beckett Foundation.
(In English)

Sunday. September 1

11.00: MEET THE ARTIST CIBELLE CAVALLI BASTOS AND THEIR AUGMENTED REALITY ARTWORKS
Don’t miss this thrilling opportunity to connect with the visionary artist Cibelle Cavalli Bastos as they reveal their mesmerizing Augmented Reality artworks, showcased in our Art Program. The event includes a short introduction of Cibelle Cavalli Basstos by curator and advisor Daniela Arriado. This event, proudly backed by the Brazilian Embassy, will be conducted in English.

Artists & Speakers

LoVid

Artist: LoVid
Location: New York
Work: heartsleeves (2024)
Medium: Generative Web3 Digital Art & Interactive Installation.

Biography:
LoVid is a New York based interdisciplinary artist duo, consisting of Tali Hinkis (b. 1974, US) and Kyle Lapidus (B. 1975, US) working collaboratively since 2001. LoVid’s practice focuses on aspects of contemporary society where technology seeps into human culture and perception. Throughout their interdisciplinary projects over two decades, LoVid has maintained their signature visual and sonic aesthetic of color, pattern, and texture density, with disruption and noise. LoVid’s work captures an intermixed world layered with virtual and physical, materials and simulations, connection and isolation. LoVid’s process includes home-made analog synthesizers, hand-cranked code, and tangible materials; their videos, textile works, performances, net-art, installations, and NFTs have been exhibited worldwide for over two decades. LoVid’s work has been presented amongst others at MoMA, PS, Museum of Moving Image, Whitney Museum and shown in several galleries.

©Auriea Harvey

Jonas Lund

Artist: Jonas Lund
Location: From Sweden, based in Amsterdam and Berlin
Work: The Future of Something (2023)
Medium: Video

Biography:
Jonas Lund (b. 1984, SE) creates paintings, sculpture, photography, websites and performances that critically reflect on contemporary networked systems and power structures. His artistic practice involves creating systems and setting up parameters that often require engagement from the viewer. This results in performative artworks where tasks are executed according to algorithms or a set of rules. Through his works, Lund investigates the latest issues generated by the increasing digitalisation of contemporary society like authorship, participation and distribution of agency. At the same time, he questions the mechanisms of the art world; he challenges the production process, authoritative power and art market practices. His work has been acquired by Centre Pompidou, shown at Schinkel Pavillon, ZKM, Vienna Biennale Francisco Carolinum amongst many other places.

Portrait of Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti. Courtesy of Operator

The Invisble Party

Artist:
Artistic direction, choreographer & digital artist: Natacha Paquignon
Artistic direction, developer & digital artist: Maxime Touroute
Dancers: Natacha Paquignon & Kynsie Serre & AR dancers 

Location: France
Work: The Invisble Party (Performance)
Medium: Dance, Augmented Reality (AR), Music

Biography:

Natacha Paquignon (b. 1974, FR) trained as a dancer and is the choreographer of Compagnie Corps Au Bord. Her first training, in music, nourishes her approach to dance, which gives particular importance to the musicality of movement and the rhythm of the artistic experience. She practices the internal martial arts, qi gong and taiji, which are at the heart of her approach to choreography. She is interested in the relationship between the human body and its environment. In an environment filled with tools and technologies, she develops a choreographic and digital research that questions the way in which these technologies modify our relationship with the world and our interpersonal relations. She combines the relationship between body, landscape and technology in choreographic creations using augmented reality. In 2024, she co-founded the Qi Dance Company with Maître Ke Wen, becoming its co-artistic director and choreographer.

Maxime Touroute (b. 1994, FR) creates digital art experiences and develops software for artists and cultural institutions. He produces and distributes projects that combine images, technology and interactivity, such as Live Drawing, a massively participative video projection where hundreds of participants draw live on the facades, or Painting Mirror – a mapping where the public is caricatured in real time by Artificial Intelligences. Over the years, he has worked with artistic teams and cultural institutions as an IT engineer, unlocking new creative potential for projects requiring a high degree of technical innovation. Maxime makes the software tools he develops available to the entire creative community to encourage sharing, reduce the technical costs of projects and increase the time devoted to creative innovation. His artistic and entrepreneurial approach has been rewarded by numerous international exhibitions and workshops, as well as by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, which awarded him two ‘Pépite’ prizes in 2020 and 2022.

Kynsie Serre (b. 1987, FR) is a multidisciplinary artist connecting the dots between the transformative power of the arts of movements, photography and video. Starting practicing at the age of 6 in a Maloya Collective (Traditional dance and music group from Reunion Island) meanwhile she attended Modern Dance School for 11 years, she then performed as an independent in different dance projects and street arts companies. During these fundamental years, meetings and travels came to nourish her practice of contemporary dance enriched with, among other things byThe Gaga (Batsheva / Ohad Naharin) or The Humanhood methods. In 2015, her inner research and interest in meditation led her to join the Dharma Techno collective. The experiences within this project combined with her own experimentation have consolidated her intuitive approach to dance as a vibrant impulse inherent in life and drove her to create a collective space Wave Arising which she co-founded in 2021 with the avant-garde musician Sebastian Vaughan.

Odalie (b. 1990, FR) creates complex arrangements with a wide range of instrumentation. Odalie crafts mosaics of sound that range from uplifting to melancholy, touching on a world of emotion in between. delicate drum patterns spiral beneath experimental strings, vast pads, and virtuosic vocals, as she explores the contradictions of modern living, both personal and societal. Between electronica, modern classical and ambient music, her tracks are a poetic invitation to meditate or to a merry solitude. Her debut album, Puissante Vulnérabilité released on Max Cooper’s Mesh imprint, is full of contrasts and raw emotions, interspersed with moments of quietude and a heavy dose of experimentation. She encourages us to show our flaws, for it is through them that we weave our relationships with others and with Nature. She is accompanied on stage and in the studio by the cellist Paolo Rezze. 

©Cibelle

Honey Biba Beckerlee

Artist: Honey Biba Beckerlee
Location: Denmark
Work: Cu in Circuit (2020)
Medium: Art installation of five data centers’ server racks and interweave patterns of copper.

Biography:
Honey Biba Beckerlee (b. 1978, DK) graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, and Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK in 2008. Beckerlee holds a PhD from Aarhus University and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts through the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s PhD Scholarships in practice-based research. Beckerlee’s practice renegotiates the established notions of the interfaces between our body, physical surroundings, nature, and technology, thus placing technology in a new decentralized perspective that is part of a complex more-than-human entanglement.

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Madeleine Pierpont

Biography:
Madeleine Pierpont (US) is a creative-innovator working at the intersection of art and emerging technologies. Driven by her desire to facilitate meaningful engagement with cultural and material aesthetics, she curates, strategizes, and produces initiatives across the digital and the physical. She manages Web3 and Emerging Technology at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

©Davy Denke I Rytter & Denke.

Stina Gustafsson

Biography:
Stina Gustafsson (b. 1987, SE) is a curator and art strategist specializing in digital narratives and the development of the art world and the cultural workforce through nascent technologies. In 2019, she co-founded the art research department for blockchain foundation Department of Decentralization. She’s written and talked extensively on the subject, and has published reports on the intersection of blockchain and art – There is No Such Thing as Blockchain Art (2019) and Wanderer Above a Sea of FUD: Cultural Workforce, crypto-anarchism, Intellectual Rights, and Blockchain-based Funding models for Culture and Arts (2021). During her career, she’s worked with a wide variety of cultural and arts organizations and museums, such as the Bundeskunsthalle, Kristianstads Konsthall, The Ethereum Foundation, MoCDA – Museum of Contemporary Digital Art, and artists such as Hito Steyerl, Joan Heemskerk, Harm van den Dorpel and Stine Deja. 

©Davy Denke I Rytter & Denke.