ORLAN

Sunday October 1 at 2pm, The Schools of Visual Arts and Kunsthal Charlottenborg will host an art talk with the world famous French artist ORLAN.

ORLAN creates sculptures, photographs, performances, videos, videogames, and augmented reality, using scientific and medical technics like surgery and biogenetic.

Her work and ideas are concerned with the body’s status in our society where new medical technologies are gaining ground. ORLAN makes her own body the medium, the raw material, and the visual support of her work.

She is a major figure of the body art and “carnal art” as she has defined her practise in a manifesto from 1989, and her work is often conceived from a feminist perspective.

ORLAN will talk about her oeuvre and there will be presentations of some of her earlier works as well as screenings of selected films and videogames.

The talk is introduced and moderated by author and postdoc at the University of Copenhagen, Jens Hauser.

The talk is in French, but will be translated into English. Admission to the talk is free, when admission for Kunsthal Charlottenborg has been payed. The talk will take place in Kunstakademiets Festsal.