Another article about TAKE CARE

Here´s another very nice review about the TAKE CARE exhibit.

A little more about TAKE CARE at Trahern Gallery

Here`s an great article from TheLeafChronicle about the exhibit.

TAKE CARE exhibits at Austin Peay State Universitys Trahern Gallery

So here´s a little going on. I quote from http://www.theleafchronicle.com:

This month, Outlaw is making her concerns public with a new exhibit she is curating at Austin Peay State Universitys Trahern Gallery, TAKE CARE: Biomedical Ethics in the Twenty-first Century. The exhibition, which features works by nine female artists, opens with a lecture at 5 p.m. and reception to follow at 6 p.m. on Jan. 17 and runs through Feb. 5. The show is free and open to the public.
 The artists featured in this exhibit include Outlaw, Annette Gates, Kristina Arnold, Sher Fick, Lindsay Obermeyer, Monica Bock, Sadie Ruben, Jeanette May and Libby Rowe.

The whole article can be read here.

And this is a photo of a never finished work I digged out from it´s hiding place yesterday. I´m preparing for an exhibit at Vordingborg Library in february, and might work a little more on this and a few other things:

Sleep Party People remix by Trentemøller

I know, I really ought to write about my art, wasn´t that the purpose to start with?
I´m actually working on something right now, but not ready to show just yet.

Meanwhile you should watch this stunningly beautiful breath taking video, which is Trentemøller´s remix of Sleep Party People´s beautiful song The Dwarf And The Horse.

I love Sleep Party People and I love most of what Trentemøllers does. So putting those two together.... well, just take a look for yourself!

This love will never stop

Sometimes you love some musician and feel so sure you´ll love them for the rest of your life because everything they do seem to fit where you are in your life. And then they begin to do boring music and you stop loving them.... (sorry, but I really can´t mention all my lost loved ones here... there´s a lot and that would be a bit mean too ).

I have one love I feel confident will never stop. I simply can´t imagine it ever stopping. I´m totally addicted to this voice, this very magical voice.

There´s a whole life in that voice with fear, love, regret -  his life or my life or your life.... I´ve been addicted since 1999 and I´m still addicted. I even did know him before 1999 and liked him, but the details of that are sort of lost in my memory.... I wasn´t that sober in those days either.

Of course I´m talking about Joakim Thåström, who else could it be?
He even started out my artistic carriere because his 1999 album "Det e dom som e dom konstiga, det e jag som är normal" made such a strong impression on me, that I simply had to do something. Which turned out to be art.

On my webpage www.sadie.dk under Gallery you can see 3 long white silk dresses, called T(håström) Tripthycon. They are really my first sculpture, and my picture of what you looks like inside when you listen to Joakim Thåström. Here´s one of the photos, detailed photos can be seen on my website (crappy little photo, but I´m too lazy to find the flash usb with the big versions on it;-):

I even made him a hooded linen jacket with a angel with a sun in her hands painted on silk inside to throw light over his heart, and a little book with my scultures and my devotion to him.
I never heard anything back on that, but knowing about him meant that I had forgiven him for that already before I posted the stuff. So don´t worry; I still love you;-)

Here´s a video from the cd Skebokvarnsv. 209. It´s in swedish, but give it a try anyway even if you don´t understand the words:

Joakim Thåström Om black Jim

And here´s one of my favourite videos of him. I fear you might have to know a little history to fully appreciate this, but to me it´s one of the most beautiful videos ever:

Joakim Thåström & Mikael Wiehe - Keops pyramid Live

Here´s a picture. It´s taken by Jonas Linell (click to see bigger size):

David, I´ll wash your feet anytime

I can´t really think about anything I wouldn´t do for this voice:

From Sarah on Soundcloud
From Sarah "Demons" on Youtube

Their Facebookpage.

This must be the closests you can get to God without being dead.

Here´s a picture of the guy in control of this amazing voice, David Fjelstrup:

I stole the photo from Dann Nørgaard, I hope he doesn´t kill me.

New photomanipulations/I know you grow wings...

I´ve been doing this the last week, and thought I was ready to share them now.

I haven´t really decided the title yet. I´m inspired by a sentence by the swedish singer Joakim Thåström (my translation:) "I know you grow wings because your skin is too tight, and you want to fly away with them" (from ...Ingen neråt sång, cd´en Det är ni som e dom konstiga, det år jag som e normal 1999).
I mostly feel like naming the serie that (isn´t there some trend about very long titles right now? Or is that only in music?), but I´m a little insecure about how much I can quote without permission. And I´ve read somewhere that if you ask Thåström for permission on something like this, he simply never answer....

I might look into the laws about that sometime soon.

All the photos are old familyphotos of me and my family, and here they are (as usual click to see full size):

Most - but not all - wings used in these manipulations, are created by Obsidian Dawn and you can find them here: Obsidian Dawns homepage

Fallulah - or is human hair going to be the next thing?

I´ve been using human hair in my art for quite some years now. And it never stops to fascinate me how repulsive most people think the idea of somebody elses hair is. Mostly people won´t touch my art at all if it involves human hair.

So I found it very funny when I watched the danish music award show P3 Guld and the winner of the big prize, Fallulah, showed  up wearing a dress made partly out of human hair.

If I ever have the luck to meet this wonderful woman, I`ll make sure to ask her if anybody hughed her that evening.... anybody?

 

I don´t know who made this dress and where that idea came from (if you do know, please drop me a line). My friend Janis suggested "Maybe people have been watching you with hair in your art :))  Next they'll be dressing in teeth too :)". Dressing in teeth? I can hardly wait!

The photo is taken by  Per Lange, and I borrowed it from Gaffa´s homepage. I hope I´m not in trouble.

I love CODY:-)

I´ve always been kind of a reluctant blogperson (sorry Janis, I stole that word directly from your blog) not really sure what my blog is about. Or weather I even want to write it! Or weather it´s interesting (okay I have an answer to that: when I look at my statistic page and how meny people read this, it turns out my blog is not interesting. So now we got THAT cleared;-)).

And is it going to be personal? (Not that much going on there). Or is it going to be only about my art? (Not that much going on there either;-)).

This have been a really hard year, and I´ve discussed with myself about how much to write about it on the internet and what is too private.

Anyway, here it comes:

I have a little child in my life whom I´ve been concerned about. And this year have been fantastic in the way that now he lives in a fosterfamily, he´s happy and finally allowed to be just a little kid playing...

So things ended up in a good way and it´s a big relief. But my life have been turning a bit around because of this, and every time I think things are starting to settle down, whoops: it all turns around again and I can start all over getting adjusted.

Then I had this herniated disc and have been going throught a lot of pain, not to talk about the fear of a planned operation. Luckily my operation was cancelled, also thanks to my physiotherapist (which almost makes me forgive him for suggesting to film me doing excersice and putting it on Youtube...).

And then I had this fall which seemed to be all about rejection: refusal on 3 grant applications, and yes, the rejection from Statens Kunstråds Internationale Billedkunstudvalg was just a little hard. And it was hard to give up my plans for going to Pool Art Fair in Miami, where I participate with TAKE CARE, but I simply didn´t have the money. So my art will be there, but I won´t.

Then I got rejected at Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling, and when I finally put myself together and applied for exhibits at 2 cafes here in Copenhagen, I got rejected there too. One of them was so kind to tell me that it was because "your art is too feminine and would make the cafe look girlish", so then I could think a little about that:-0

There have been good things too. One of them is music. I love music, everythings is easier when you can put on some music that fits your mood, and it makes hard times a little less hard.

One of the bands I like a lot is CODY. To be honest I started out with being a little bit in love with their guitarplayer David Fjelstrup (but since I´m not Demi Moore, I didn´t persue that).... but then the music really grew on me, and both their ep and the cd Songs have been on repeat on my mp3 player most of this year. And I´ve showed up at all the concert that I could possibly make it to. And I yet have to experience them doing at bad concert, that has simply not happened yet.

They gave a concert last saturday not far from where I live. I bought the ticket in september or something like that, and when saturday turned up I was soooo tired and feeling very fragile. But missing out on a CODYconcert is simply not possible, so I dragged myself out there by the hair. Alone of course, since I´m a old woman and all my friends only likes music that was popular in the 80ties....

And then in the middle of the concert Kaspar dedicated a song to me for showing up at all their concerts! I haven´t been so pleasantly surprised since.... well, I don´t know when. What a fantastic and thoughtful thing to do, and I didn´t suspect it at all, but it made me so happy!

This was so nice. And what a nice thing to discover: something good might come to you in a time when you don´t expect it. And you´ll never know. You´ll be feeling down and lousy and everything sucks, and tomorrow is going to be hard and next week is too, but something unexpected amazing could happen just in the middle of all this misery.

THAT is the best lesson I´ve learned for a very long time:-) So thank you Kaspar, that made a big difference!

This is the little boy in my life, I´m going to see him tomorrow:

And the winner is: Lars Dela

So my friend Lars is a really good photographer, and I`ve been trying to talk him into submitting photos for Gaffa Photo Award. But Lars is a very humble person, so he didn´t really trust himself to be good enough, and therefore never got around to doing it.

Therefore I´ve decided to make him the winner of this weeks big photo-event in Denmark: Sadie´s Photo Award 2010!

So here are the winning photos. They are all taken at a concert in Pumpehuset, Copenhagen in the end of May this year with the bands Monkey Cup Dress and CODY.

As usual click to see full size.

 

I travel heavy

This is one of the sculptures I applied with at KE10.

I just found out that I can find out on their homepage already tomorrow night if I´m out, or if I made it to the 3. round.

I´m just not sure I dare look? After all I was turned down for a job on tuesday, turned down for a grant for going to Miami yesterday (I think they gave around every third person that applied, so yes, I really was turned down), and then turned down at KE10 on friday? Can I do that? I´m not sure....

I´ll go to a concert tomorrow night (with Spejderrobot, I should remember to mention, since my best read posting yet was the one about him), and try not to think about it, and maybe... maybe... I´ll look on saturday morning. Maybe.

Okay. I´m not sure I really feel like this, but this is very late friday/very early saturday, and here´s this weeks update:

Tuesday: refused job application.
Wednesday: refused grant application for Miami.
Friday: refused grant application for Miami.
Friday: refused at KE10, I didn´t make it to the third round and NONE in the jury gave my work a yellow dot, which means special intrest or appreciation.

Next week? Come on! It can´t get any worse!

Eductional Plates re-worked

I re-worked my Educational Plates last week. To begin with they were about flowers and bees, but I weren´t really satisfied and thought they could do with some more edge. I think they have that now - actually I think they are a bit scary...

I´m applying at KE10 with these, amongst others, and as usually it´s impossible to know what the jury are looking for... but normally they are looking for something totally different than my stuff:-0

As usually: click to see full size.