VIDEOGRAM 150: Jacob Kirkegaard, 3 Dec 2025 19:00 (online via Zoom)

FIGHT, FLIGHT, OR FREEZE?
How do we cope with the state of the world today? Do you feel hopeful, angry, sad, or something else entirely? Do you feel an urge to create, or do you wonder if it even matters anymore? Is anyone still listening? In this talk, sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard shares his field recordings, projects and methods, and reflects on what it means to him to record and create in troubled times. For Kirkegaard, microphones and sensors are tools to reach toward, touch, and listen to the things that frighten him, transforming these sounds into works of art and into spaces that invite a more sensuous, non-judgmental listening to the world.

JACOB KIRKEGAARD
The work of Jacob Kirkegaard explores ways to reflect on complex, unnoticed or unapproachable conditions and environments. His works have treated themes such as radioactivity in Chernobyl, melting ice in the Arctic, border walls in global and metaphorical contexts, immersive acoustic explorations into global waste management, and processes related to when a human being dies. Using his recordings of firearms, grenades and tanks, his recent work explores the sound of warfare orchestrated for the Royal Lifeguard's Music Corps. Another recent work unfolds the mechanical elements of agriculture and food production. Since 2006, Kirkegaard has also been extensively researching, recording and creating works using otoacoustic emissions; tones generated from the actual human ear. The core element and method of Jacob Kirkegaard's work derive from the use of sound recordings of the tangible aspects from its intangible themes. https://fonik.dk/

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The event is organized by the Department of A/V Technology (FFA BUT).

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Author	doc. MgA. Filip Cenek
Published	2025-11-27 12:00
Short URL	https://www.favu.vut.cz/en/students/news-and-calls/f26745/d311002

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