Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: Photobooth-Picture

Copenhagen Pavilion

Social Constructionist travel guide & talkshow

Performance artist Erik Pold is representing the Danish capital at the Amsterdam Biennale from Nov 21 2009 till Jan 3 2010. He shows the video CPH TLK, which he made especially for the Biennale and during the opening of the Copenhagen pavilion, on Nov 21 2009, he hosted a talkshow.

CPH TLK
What constitutes a city? How do we identify and understand it? Trying to formulate a portrait of a city, CPH TLK is a social constructionist travel guide and talk show about Copenhagen and how it can be perceived and understood.

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Erik Pold in front of Mediamatic - The Copenhagen Pavilion, curator: Erik Pold. Nov 21 - Jan 3 2009/10, in the Amsterdam Biennale at Mediamatic. Raphael Rehbach

With: Erik Pold

In a cold, wet and grey week of November 2009, performance artist Erik Pold hooked up with 4 personalities from the Copenhagen cultural scene, who through artistic and visionary practice, each have contributed to defining the city at the beginning of the new millennium.
Equipped with a video-camera and a microphone, Erik met up with Mads Nygaard, radio-producer and singer of indie-pop band Sterling, art restorer and curator Børge Igor Brandt, electronic DJ and composer Rosa Lux and queer artistic director of Live Art venue Warehouse: Miss Fish (a.k.a. Jørgen Callesen), to a talk about contemporary life in a city that several surveys and medias (including most recently Ophrah Winfrey) claims to be the home the happiest people in the world: the Danes.

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Preparing for the Copenhagen pavilion opening - The Copenhagen Pavilion, curator: Erik Pold. Nov 21 - Jan 3 2009/10, in the Amsterdam Biennale at Mediamatic. Raphael Rehbach

With: Erik Pold
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Erik watching himself interview - The Copenhagen Pavilion, curator: Erik Pold. Nov 21 - Jan 3 2009/10, in the Amsterdam Biennale at Mediamatic. Raphael Rehbach

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Erik Pold & interviewee - The Copenhagen Pavilion, curator: Erik Pold. Nov 21 - Jan 3 2009/10, in the Amsterdam Biennale at Mediamatic. Raphael Rehbach

With: Erik Pold
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Erik does his interviews inside the friendSlicer - The Copenhagen Pavilion, curator: Erik Pold. Nov 21 - Jan 3 2009/10, in the Amsterdam Biennale at Mediamatic. Raphael Rehbach

With: Erik Pold
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CPH TLK | Erik Pold interviewing restorer and curator Børge Igor Brandt - Video still CPH TLK, video by Erik Pold, the Copenhagen Pavilion, curated by Erik Pold, Nov 21 - Jan 3 2009/10, in Amsterdam Biennale at Mediamatic Erik Pold

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CPH TLK | Erik Pold interviewing radio-producer and singer of indie-pop band Sterling, Mads Nygaard - ideo still CPH TLK, video by Erik Pold, the Copenhagen Pavilion, curated by Erik Pold, Nov 21 - Jan 3 2009/10, in Amsterdam Biennale at Mediamatic Erik Pold

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CPH TLK | Erik Pold interviewing queer artistic director of Live Art venue Warehouse9 Miss Fish a.k.a. Jørgen Callesen - Video still CPH TLK, video by Erik Pold in the Copenhagen Pavilion, curated by Erik Pold, Nov 21-Dec 13 2009, in Amsterdam Biennale at Mediamatic Erik Pold

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CPH TLK Erik Pold interviewing electronic DJ and composer Rosa Lux - Video still CPH TLK, video by Erik Pold in the Copenhagen Pavilion, curated by Erik Pold, Nov 21- Decv 13 2009, in Amsterdam Biennale at Mediamatic Erik Pold