The Undergang Armchair – Details, episodes & analysis

After a longer pause we are back with a fantastic conversation the artist Nathan Gulick, visiting town from LA for his solo show, Waiting Room, at C4 Projects. We met and had a live recording at C4, and it was both a lot of fun and very interesting. Nathan is eloquent and engaged, and we got a great podcast out of it. Please enjoy and be sure to check out the installation images from the exhibition.

And we are back! Thanks for hanging in there. Today we have a conversation we’ve been really excited to share with you, with the artist FOS, also known by his government name of Thomas Poulsen. This talk was recorded during the summer when he had a quite ambitious show up at Gallery Nils Stærk here in Copenhagen, and it turned out to be a really fun one. He is one of the guest who was both really easy and really interesting to speak with, and this is a great combination when you are talking about very engaging and expansive exhibition to begin with. We had a good long talk about many subjects, please enjoy.

One of the great things about making this show is the wide variation in experiences and interests we get to hear from the guests. After talking with Nanna last time, we have a completely different type of artist on the show today, with a very different kind of story. It’s nice, because as artists, you slowly start to realize that there isn’t a single way forward, or a rule, or a technique to“make it”. So in that spirit, we have Todd James on the show today. Todd is a really interesting artist, because he has been able to straddle so many different worlds throughout his career, and that is something a lot of people are afraid of doing, perhaps feeling that it would somehow dilute what they do, or confuse an audience. Todd doesn’t seem to have that fear. His credits are many, his skill plentiful, so let’s just get straight to our talk with him. Enjoy!

After a nice week of restructuring and thinking about the program, we are back and stronger than ever! We are joined today by the inquisitive and able artist Joachim Fleinert who is currently showing at the Hasselblad Center in Gothenberg, Sweden with an ambitious project. He is also currently showing during Riga Photo Month. He has recently returned to Copenhagen after a stint in both Sweden and England. Join us as we talk about moving away, coming home, building networks and the beauty of 100 year old images. And of course, we talk about his work.

We are introducing a topic for each episode from now on which will serve as a talking point and a conversation starter with the guests and hopefully guide us to a clearer understanding of the person in the armchair. The topic for today is Inclusion, which we used as an opportunity to bitch! Good times.

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The talented and understated Valérie Collart came by and sat in the armchair this week in order to tell us about her work. We also got to talking about the benefits and drawbacks to having a practice in Copenhagen, about how to know if an object is a sculpture or a photograph and about crying in front of a Rothko painting. It’s a great talk!

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This week we have master of talent and hard work on the show, John Copeland. He dropped by in order to share some of his wisdom about working methods, how to not go crazy from all the painting, and about developing style, exhibition by exhibition. His solo show is up now at V1 Gallery.

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We are very proud to bring you guys our first exploration into new waters with these conversations recorded live at the 1000 Books Art Book Festival here in Copenhagen. This a a new format for the show and like most newborns it's a little wobbly on it's feet, but quite endearing. We spoke with many different publishers of books about many subjects, learned about the current renaissance in art books, about the autonomy of creating your own content and made some new friends. Many thanks to those who took time to talk with us, and of course to the organizers of the festival. This is a special episode, so please enjoy and once again, please help us spread the word.

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Episode number 25! We are a quarter century old in podcast years, and we are real happy about it. Today we have Mette Kit Jensen, a talented and uncompromising artist from Denmark, but educated in Germany. This gives her somewhat of an outsider's view of the Copenhagen art work, and we had a very interesting talk about that among many other things such as the accessibility of art, using an RV as an art piece and making your professors lie on the floor in order to see your work.

Gang, this week we are proud and honored to have Adam Jeppesen sit in the armchair. The talented thinker, traveler and photographer put up a heroic effort to come on the show, and we recorded this one over two parts, on in the basement of a cinema and the other at the Copenhagen airport. He's a champion, and you can hear it in his tales of epic modern day travels. It's a great talk, you can hear about growing up in two countries, working in exchange for free equipment and how being an undercover video journalist led to making quiet images on his own. Stellar talk.

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Time marches forward and so does the show. This week we have an inspiring talk with the multi-talented Daisy Løvendahl. If you haven't heard about her, it's probably because she quit the art world some years back. But she still makes beautiful images. This is a really good one, and we tackle many tough subjects, so strap yourselves in and enjoy!