Sidsel Meineche Hansen (Cancelled)

This event has unfortunately been cancelled. You are still welcome to visit the gallery, where there will be free admission from 17.00.

Join us for Reading Group at Kunsthal Charlottenborg – a conversation about a text or book that has been important to a practicing artist or curator.

For Reading Group #3 artists Sidsel Meiniche Hansen talks with art historian Philip Pihl about the text “The Book of Machines” part of English writer Samuel Butler’s novel “Erewhon” from 1872. In his text Butler speculates over the possibility of machines ability to reproduce themselves and the fear of a mechanical empire, where humans are reduced to assisting the reproduction of machines and their diversity. Another work where machines or robots reproduce is in the stop-motion film “The Sex Life of Robots” by Michael Sullivan from 2006, where robots are seen having automatized sex and breed robot babies. Both Sullivan’s film and Butler’s novel mix sexuality, horror, and the compelling and chilling danger of the machines’ power and takeover. Together the two works are both sci-fi, analytic, and pornographic.

Meineche Hansen has in a number of diverse works and exhibitions worked with questions related to pornography and technology. Meiniche Hansen is educated form the art academy in Copenhagen and Goldsmiths in London. She has exhibited at Chisenhale, London, the National Museum of Art of Denmark, Århus Kunsthal and KW Institute for Comtemporary Art in Berlin. In 2022 she participated in the Venice Biennale “The Milk of Dreams” curated by Cecilia Alemani.

INFO
Time: Wednesday 12 April at 17.00-18.30
Place: Kunsthal Charlottenborg Art Cinema
Language: The talk is in Danish
Entrance: It is free to participate in this event, and it is not necessary to book in advance.

Photo: Maintenancer, 2018. Sidsel Meineche Hansen & Therese Henningsen. Courtesy the artists and Rodeo, London and Piraeus