Alejandra and Aeron

Alejandra and Aeron are Alejandra Salinas (Spanish, born La Rioja 1977) and Aeron Bergman, (American, born Detroit 1971), artists based in Oslo, Norway. They make intermedia art including sound art and installations, web projects and video art. Bergman is professor of art at the Oslo National Academy of Art.

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Sound works

Their 2005 album Be Mine consists of interviews of people talking about love, and the 1999 Children's Record was made by asking people to sing songs they can remember from their childhood. Alejandra and Aeron's early works are among the first experiments with folk and laptop electronic music. This is especially noted in Ruinas Encantadas (winner of an honorary mention in Prix Ars Electronica 2001) and Porto: Folklore Fragments Volume 2. The track Water Jota in 1213442 from the former consists almost entirely of water drop sounds, arranged according to the structure of a folk dance; the artists themselves comment on such concepts that the record "considers the past, while not repeating it."[1]

In 2002 the duo won an Award of Distinction in Digital Music for their audio installation "Revisionland" from the Prix Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria. They have released 12 critically acclaimed full length audio CDs on labels such as Orthlorng Musork, Fat Cat, Tomlab and their own label, Lucky Kitchen.

Visual art

Alejandra and Aeron have shown in solo and group exhibitions in museums and art centers around the world such as the NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC) in Tokyo, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) and Centro de Arte Contemporaneo Santa Monica, both in Barcelona. "Wildflowers" was shown in the Shrinking Cities exhibition in Detroit MOCAD 2007 and in Gothenburg, Sweden, also 2007, and features interviews with individuals working in grassroots organizations in Detroit. They have recently done performances and installations at U.K.S. art center and Kunstnernes hus art center both in Oslo, Norway. They have also conceived and curated a controversial website at http://www.nobelprize.no, with international artists such as Marjetica Potrc, Michel Auder, Peter Campus, Kenneth Goldsmith, Momus, Sharmila Samant and others.

Solo Exhibitions and Performances:[2]

2010

2008

2005

2004

2001

1999

Group Exhibitions and Performances:

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

1. Museum of Modern Art. Strasbourg. Salon de Musique. From 13 June to 13 September 2. Centre Georges Pompidou. Paris. From 11 to 22 September 3. Museum of Modern Art, Grand-Duc Jean. Luxembourg. November–December 4. Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art. Copenhagen. October–December 2002 5. La Casa Encendida. Madrid. June–September

1999

1998

Lucky Kitchen

In addition to their own work, Alejandra and Aeron have run the independent audio publisher Lucky Kitchen since 1997. Some of the artists published on Lucky Kitchen are Stephen Vitiello, Tetsu Inoue, Matmos, Joshua Abrams and Liz Payne (from Town and Country) Stephan Mathieu, and Halvorson Pavone.

Discography

See also

References

  1. ^ Hannes Leopoldseder, Christine Schöpf, Christian Schrenk. Cyberarts 2001, p. 179. Birkhäuser, 2001. ISBN 3211836284
  2. ^ http://rhizome.org/profile.php?1068400

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