Piscine “Destination Aalborg”, introduction at VisitAalborg, Aalborg. Photo: Rikke Ehlers Nilsson.

Press Release, November 2019

Destination Aalborg
by Piscine

f.eks. warmly invites you to Destination Aalborg – a project consisting of speculative interventions initiated by the Danish artist group Piscine. The project takes on the guise of a travel agency and a hybrid think tank that presents the arrival of solutions for future tourism in Aalborg.

Piscine invites the audience to join them through public spaces, on a city bus ride, and arriving at Aalborg Airport as a final destination. Via these performative experiences, Destination Aalborg aims to advance the city’s desires by asking several questions – how can we optimize a city for future tourism? How can we utilize the desires of a city to generate new architectural imaginaries? Alternatively, another question is whether a trickster has crept into the machinery…

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Piscine “Destination Aalborg”, introduction at VisitAalborg, Aalborg.
Photo: Rikke Ehlers Nilsson.

Piscine “Destination Aalborg”, introduction at VisitAalborg, Aalborg.
Photo: Rikke Ehlers Nilsson.

Piscine “Destination Aalborg”, introduction at VisitAalborg, Aalborg. Photo: Rikke Ehlers Nilsson.

Piscine is a multi-dependent exhibition phenomenon that handles solo, group, and collaborative situations: a hybrid apparatus that sometimes acts as an artist group and at other times a curatorial unit. The group has a shifting cast of members, but at the time of Destination Aalborg consists of the artists Anna Ørberg, Jens Settergren, and Mark Tholander.

f.eks. is a roaming, non-profit, artist-run platform that makes contemporary art events in a changing constellation of spaces and contexts in the city of Aalborg. At these sites, f.eks. invites artists to make temporary pop-up events including discussions, performances, readings, screenings, participatory installations, and other forms of temporary engagements.

f.eks. seeks to create social, critical, and experimental art projects by inviting artists that have collective, collaborative, research and cooperative practices to engage with wider audiences during their micro exhibition periods. This is part of a broader aim to experiment with sustainable models of artistic organization, via novel presentation formats, while generating new publics along the way.

Piscine “Destination Aalborg”, bus ride (NT bus 12), Aalborg.
Photo: Rikke Ehlers Nilsson.

Piscine “Destination Aalborg”, bus ride (NT bus 12), Aalborg.
Photo: Rikke Ehlers Nilsson.

Piscine “Destination Aalborg”, bus ride (NT bus 12), Aalborg. Photo: Rikke Ehlers Nilsson.

Piscine “Destination Aalborg”, bus ride (NT bus 12), Aalborg.
Photo: Rikke Ehlers Nilsson.

Piscine “Destination Aalborg”, bus ride (NT bus 12), Aalborg.
Photo: Rikke Ehlers Nilsson.

f.eks. is sponsored by the Danish Arts Foundation, Aalborg Municipality, and Aalborg Arts Foundation. This project is made in collaboration with Aalborg University (Art & Technology) and Kunstpionererne at Kunsthal Nord. It is sponsored by North Jutland’s Transport Company (NT) and Casa Anne Maries vej.

Saturday, 23rd November:

• Introduction at 2:00 pm
  Meeting point: VisitAalborg in Kedelhallen, Nordkraft
  Kjellerups Torv 5, 9000 Aalborg.

• Bus Ride from 2:45 - 3:15 pm (NT Bus 12)
  Ending point: Aalborg Airport
  *normal admission price

• Screening and Refreshments from 3:30 - 5:00 pm
  Aalborg Airport (balcony)
  Ny Lufthavnsvej 100, 9400 Nørresundby

Piscine “Destination Aalborg”, screening at Aalborg Lufthavn, Aalborg. Photo: Rikke Ehlers Nilsson.

Piscine “Destination Aalborg”, screening at Aalborg Lufthavn, Aalborg.
Photo: Rikke Ehlers Nilsson.

Piscine “Destination Aalborg”, screening at Aalborg Lufthavn, Aalborg.
Photo: Rikke Ehlers Nilsson.

Piscine “Destination Aalborg”, screening at Aalborg Lufthavn, Aalborg. Photo: Rikke Ehlers Nilsson.

Piscine “Destination Aalborg”, screening at Aalborg Lufthavn, Aalborg.
Photo: Rikke Ehlers Nilsson.

Piscine “Destination Aalborg”, screening at Aalborg Lufthavn, Aalborg.
Photo: Rikke Ehlers Nilsson.