Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen

Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen
a s e l e c t i o n o f w o r k s
P l e a s e w a t c h v i d e o s a t
w w w . d i t t e l y n g k a e r p e d e r s e n . c o m
l y n g k a e r @ h o t m a i l . c o m

Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen
LAUGHTER
work-in-progress. A series of large photos and a book.
Laughter is based on an old photography found in a photo album of a friend of mine; (second person from the right).
The photo is from 1956 and shot by Kenji Omori from Japan. I restage Laughter with different cultural communities. I
research the background story of the original photo and context. The well composed and staged photo by Omori has
an element of fiction and to me it touches open a phenomena in our spirit today. It relates to the fashion of pretending
to be happy. As a project, Laughter investigates the spectrum of representation and conventions a photograph of this
expression has in its historical context and in different contemporary contexts.
“Laughter” re-shot # 1, Berlin 2010
Original photography “Laughter” by Kenji Omori, JP (1956)

Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen
TVirus
Video 3:46 minutes (2010)
Five voices fight about the dilemmas of life. Loudly and with humor, they discuss love, justice, religion and
more. In the end, they say together: “ Endings are never happy”. The picture consists of a layer-by-layer recording
of the TV screen. It is recorded on VHS, replayed and recorded again over several hours. The camera
looks for familiar shapes and zooms in and out. The picture presents patterns that look likes the study
of a virus. The text is notes from TV programs and films through several years, starting in 2006. How
does television affect our spatial and mental realities and script our personal naratives and experiences?
video stills

Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen
Daily Reflection (2009)
Digital photography 41 x 56 cm.
A picture of windows reflecting the oposing building from where the picture is taken in Berlin.
As a phenomenon only appearing under specific light conditions.
Installation shot with frame at the exhibition Direct Democracy, rum46 2009
Original photo 30 x 44 cm.

Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen
The Lost Paradise Revisited
Photo series from Mukojima, Tokyo/Japan. Based on slide picture from 2001 and digital photo from 2009
These pictures are from the down town area Mukojima in Tokyo. One is taking in 2001 and the other in 2009. I was
living in the blue house in the left corner from the bottom in 2001. The house burned down in 2003. The picture from
2001 was used to design a post card which were donated to the people in the area as an art project I did back then.
In 2009 I revisited and photographed many of the places I was in 2001 in order to produce a series of larger photos
which reflects upon the gentrification process happening in the area.
2001 2009

Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen
Look A LIke (2010)
C-print 70 x 100 cm.

Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen
Dear Patient Listener
Performance at the Second World Congress For Free Artists at Århus Kunstbygning 2010
Dear Patient Listener is a speech written to be performed at the Second World Congress of Free Artists organized by
Camel Collective At Århus Center for Contemporary Art. This congress resuscitates the First Congress, in Alba (1956)
organized by Asger Jorn and Pinot Gallizio. I was invited to contribute with a performance reflecting on art and pedagogy.
Dear Patient Listener (performed by actor Mikkel Tries) takes on the fictive perspective of a young art student
who stutters. Through out the text the actor is nervously stuttering..
Excerpts from the speech:
(The speaker is nervously stuttering)
Actor Mikkel Trier performing the speech “Dear Patient Listener” by Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen.
At the Second World Congress for Free Artists organized by the artists collective
Camel Collective at Århus Kunstbygning November 20th 2010.
... In our current democratic society called Denmark, it is not true that everybody has a voice. We all have the right to
express our opinions, but in the end, we only listen to the ones who can formulate coherent ideas and present them in
an intellectual, loud, rhetorical, or sexy way. This problem applies both in the classroom and in public. Through education,
we can learn socially empowering ways of public expression. Otherwise, in the practice of democracy, we have
to learn to be patient with what we could call an insecure, nervous or stammering incoherent way of expression. I pray
to the gods of teaching that we can unlearn this standard of public appearance and allow for hidden voices and faces.
Make people who have been silenced by others or themselves speak up...
... Teachers, be sensitive and do not design an art program which is dominated by written or spoken forms of expression.
One’s lack of control over his or her speech acts or written statements should not determine a good or bad work.
The classroom should allow full expression of the students’ personalities and abilities. Education should lead to a
public voice...
...But - but - but - let me conclude here with a quote from an anonymous voice “To be sensitive is to be critical”.
Thank you for your patience!

Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen, Synesthesia Project, DVD-BOX Presentation 2010
Foredrag og video visninger. Instant Coffee Light Bar som en del af Bright Light festival, Vancouver.
Vancouvers kunstprogram Bright Light Festival under Vinter OL 2010, bød bl.a. på den canadiske
kunstnergruppe Instant Coffee´s midlertidige kunstinstallation Light Bar. Et projekt om lysterapi og
socialitet i en meget overskyet by. Væk fra formelle galleri rum skaber Light Bar en kombination af
interiør design, social skulptur og alternative sansninger. I denne kontekst presenterede jeg synæstesi
projektet med et foredrag, screenings, publikationer, projektioner i rummet og video på 9 monitorer.
Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen, Synesthesia Project, DVD-BOX Presentation (2010)
Lecture and video screenings. Instant Coffee Light Bar as part of the Bright Light festival, Vancouver.
Instant Coffee´s Light Bar, a temporary art installation during the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics
Bright Light Festival deals with sociability and light therapy with in a specific installation context.
Away from formal gallery spaces, it combines life sciences with interior decorating and social sculpture
with events. In this context of approaches to light I presented the synesthesia project with a lecture
including screenings, publications, video projections on the walls and on a 9 monitor wall.

Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen
Anonymous Nomad (2009)
33:55 min + An Excerpt 6:23 min + The Trailer 3:07 min
DVD/PAL 4:3, English subtitles.
Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen and Trygve Luktvasslimo
Anonymous Nomad starts off with the utopian idea of leading an anonymous life and registers how this idea is altered,
negotiated, and sacrificed on a human quest for belonging. Through a lens directed toward the nomadic aspects of
our transitory lifestyles, we observe, section by section, the weave of urban existence. Anonymous Nomad is based
on chats with six residents in Berlin during the fall of 2008.
The DVD is accompanied with a poster and the text - My home is where my mind is - by Andrei Cräsiun (RO)
Video stills

Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen
SOBJECT (2007)
Two-channel video installation, 16.51 min.
An actor is asked to mime a series of complex terms from recent Danish political debates and events, forexample
“freedom of speach”, “fundamentalism” or “The Muhammed-cartoon-crisis”. It is contructed under similar
circumstances as in the game “Charades”, and staged and recorded in a bar. One video shows the »mime« silently
and the other video shows an audience that guesses and describes the gestures. Together they can contribute to an
illustration of the dynamic between the simple and the complex. ”Give me a lie I can understand, rather than the truth I
dont understand”...
Installationview, den Frie udstillingsbygning,
Copenhagen 2007.
Projection on two freestanding
screens, 40x60cm, different hights.
video stills

Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen
Engravings on paper and wood. Various sizes 2009/2010

Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen
Everybody is friends with Paulo Freire (2007)
Group exhibition organized by HOMEWORK at PS122 the Classroom, New York City.
HOMEWORK: Carlos Motta, Jee-eun Kim, Lize Mogel and Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen, (DaNy Arts Project) www.homeworkproject.org
This Exhibition contains responses to the question “ How to re-enact Paulo Freie today?” from various international
artists and ourselves. The responses consists of works in text, video, images, books, poems, links, news papers ect.
Installation shots

Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen
SUMMER SCHOOL (2007)
En serie af events og workshops omkring ideer om pædagogik i kunst, et projekt af HOMEWORK på PS122 the Classroom, New York City.
HOMEWORK; Carlos Motta, Jee-eun Kim, Lize Mogel og Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen ( DaNy Arts Projekt) www.homeworkproject.org
SOMMERSKOLEN var en midlertidig skole som tilbød forelæsninger, workshops og performances af kunstnere.
Gratis og åben for offentligheden, adopterede SOMMERSKOLEN legefuldt uddannelses strategier, for at videregive
alternativ viden. 17 lektioner over 4 weekender rangerede fra Husgerning (et drinkskursus på Esperanto), til Historie
(en presentation af propaganda film) og Idræt (en workshop i at bruge digitale medier til at organisere bevægelser)
Seven great rock music albums and everything i can think of to say about them in the time it
takes to listen to them. A performance by Seth Kim Cohen (CT)
Uneven Develpment on Super-8. A workshop by Benj Gerdes (NYC)
SUMMER SCHOOL (2007)
A series of events and workshops around ideas of pedagogy in art, a project by HOMEWORK at PS122, New York City.
HOMEWORK: Carlos Motta, Jee-eun Kim, Lize Mogel and Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen, (DaNy Arts Project) www.homeworkproject.org
SUMMER SCHOOL was a temporary school that offered lectures, workshops and performances led by artists. Free
and open to the public, SUMMER SCHOOL playfully adapted educational strategies to transmit alternativ knowledge.
17 classes over 4 weekends, ranged from Home Economics (a cooking show in Esperanto), to History (a presentation
of propaganda films) and Physical Education (a workshop using digital media to organize physical movement).

Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen
TOWARD EVENING BRECHT FOUND ME IN THE GARDEN READING CAPITAL 2008
A reading group at the 5th Berlin Biennale, Kunst-Werke, Berlin.
Co-organizer of a performance evening and a reading group of Das Kapital, in collaboration with The Production Unit. www.productionunit.org
For several years, the geographer David Harvey has offered a seminar on Marx’s Capital at the graduate center in
New York. These lectures have now been documented by a group of anthropologists in order to be made available to
the public. With Harvey’s lectures as a starting point, the Production Unit uses the framework of the 5th Berlin Biennial
for contemporary art to launch a reading group of Capital in Berlin. Our hope is to generate a broad discussion on
issues of capital in relation to a critical practice today, as well as to generate the possibility for at new collective to be
formed. Philipp Kleinmichel, PhD candidate at the philosophy department at University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe/
ZKM, is the discussion leader for the reading group that held meetings every Monday for 14 weeks during the summer
at the Montgomery Gallery in Wedding, Berlin.
Fra performanceaftenen og introduktionen til læsegruppen på KW / from the performance evening and introduction to the reading group at KW
From the reading sessions at Montgomery gallery and at a nearby bar / fra læsemøderne i Montgomery Gallery og en på bar i nærheden.

Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen
What the Hell does Purgatory Look Like? (2005)
Video, 8 min.
The video is composed of a constant frame that shows the word PURGATORY on a white background with voiceovers
consisting of nine synethetes’ descriptions of each letter that spells purgatory. “colors of a day, old bruise” and
“walls with a consistency of a waterbed” or “it tastes like a sweet cheese on bitter greens wrapped in an apple with
lemon squeezed on” are some of the responses by various types of synesthetes.
Installationsbillede/ Installation shot/ Monitor/ headphones, Gallery Boreas, NYC.
Installationsbillede/ Installation shot/ Projection at Rooseum, Malmö, SE.

Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen
Videoarkiv 2004
Videoserie, fra 2-11 min.
På bordet står syv portrætter af synæsteter med forskellige baggrunde, og en neurolog som forsker i synæstesi.
Personerne fortæller på hver sin måde om deres sanse oplevelser og hvordan de fandt ud af at de har synæstesi.
Forskellige lydspor til portrætterne er komponeret af synæstet Harley Gittleman. Et billede med information om titel
og længde på videoen står stille, indtil det aktiveres af betragteren. Interviewene er optaget på den amerikanske
synæstesi forenings årlige konference på afdelingen for neurovidenskab på Rockefeller Universitet i New York, 2003.
Installationsbillede/ Installation shot/ Gallery Peep, Malmö (SE). A part of a solo exhibition “ Oh dear, there aren’t enough points on the chicken”
Video Archive 2004
Video series, from 2-11 min.
Seven video portraits of synesthetes with different backgrounds and a neurologist who do research into the phenomenon
of synesthesia, is on the table. Each person describes his or her individual sensory experiences and how they
found out they have synesthesia. Synesthete Harley Gittleman composed different soundtracks to each video. In order
to see the video from the beginning, the viewer must activate a still image with information about the title and duration.
The interviews are recorded at the American Synesthesia Association’s Annual Meeting at the Department of Neurosciences
at Rockefeller University in New York, 2003.

Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen
Stillbilleder fra synæstesi projekt videoarkiv (2003 - 2010)
Still images from synesthesia project video archive (2003 -2010)

Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen
Tempel/Veranda
Skulptur, 2004.
Højde 330 cm, bredde 315 cm, dybde 300 cm.
Svensk/japansk pavillon lavet i farvet pap på en stabil sokkel af træ. Den japanske lykke bringende kat “Maneki Neko”
er udskåret i flamingo og placeret foran templet. Gennemgang er tilladt.
Temple/Veranda
Sculpture, 2004.
Installationsbilleder/ Installation shots/ Forårsudstillingen Liljewalchs Konsthall Stockholm
Height: 130 inches, width: 125 inches, depth: 118 inches.
Swedish/Japanese pavilion, made with colored cardboard and stabilized with wood. The Japanese lucky cat “Maneki
Neko” carved out in styrofoam is situated in front of the temple. The sculpture is constructed so one may enter it.

Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen
Uden titel
Skulptur, 2001.
To kaktuser i hvid flamingo. Højde 240 cm, bredde 120 cm. dybde 60 cm.
Untitled
Skulptur, 2001.
Installationsbilleder/ Installation shots
Two cactuses in white styrofoam. Height 95 inches. Width 48 inches. Depth 24 inches.

Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen
An Accidental Meeting - The Performance -The Voyeur - The Scene - The Booklet 1999
En performance i tre dage på Potsdamer Platz, Alexander Platz og ved Brandenburger Tor i Berlin.
Jeg iscenesætter ulykker i gaderne. Jeg deler flyers ud, som informerer om hvem, hvad og hvor før og i løbet af de tre
dage. Jeg ansætter en makeupartist og syv medspillere. Jeg er interesseret i voyeurisme, og hvordan folk bliver tiltrukket
af dramatik i det offentligerum. Alt bliver fotograferet og filmet - med særligt fokus på tilskuerne. Projektet præsenteres
med to forstørrede fotografier og en hjemmelavet bog. Bogen indeholder billeder fra aktionerne, samt stillbilleder
og udtalelser fra en video jeg laver i samme forbindelse. I videoen interviewer jeg folk om lignende oplevelser, som de
har set eller hørt om, og hvordan de fortæller historierne videre. Bogen præsenterer også en projektrelateret tankemodel
og en prosa tekst.
An Accidental Meeting - The Voyeur. Photo 30 x 40 cm An Accidental Meeting - The Scene. Photo 60 x 90 cm
An Accidental Meeting - The Booklet. A selection of photos and texts.
....Der var tummelt ved flodbredden. En uformelig klump lå på jorden. Et
tæppe blev trukket hen over den. En mand trådte ind i gruppen med et
kamera.
“Hvad laver De her?”, spørger en mand i uniform.
“Jeg vil gerne tage et billede”, sagde manden uforstyrret.
“Er De fra politiet eller pressen?”, fortsætter manden i uniform.
“Nej”, svarede manden irriteret. - “Jeg vil bare have et billede!”
An Accidental Meeting - The Booklet. A selection of photos and texts from the performance.
An Accidental Meeting - The performance - The Scene - The Voyeur - The Booklet 1999
A performance during 3 days at Potsdamerplatz, Alexanderplatz and Brandenburger Tor in Berlin.
I stage accidents in the streets. I handout flyers about who, what and where before and during the 3 days. I hire a
Make up Artist and seven co-players. I am interested in voyeurism and how people are attracted to drama in public
spaces. Everything is being photographed and filmed - with special attention on the audience. The project is presented
by two enlarged photographs and a homemade booklet. The book contains pictures from the actions, and still images
with quotes from a video I shot at the same time. In the video, I interview people about similar events that they have
seen or heard about and how they pass on these stories. The book also presents a project related mind map and a
fictional text I have written.