Campus for Design and Art

Talk "Invasive Materials and Unnatural Thoughts" talk with the Danish artist Kristoffer Ørum

Foto: Jacob Morell

01. December 2022, 18:00 Uhr - 20:00 Uhr

An event as part of the talk series "In the Nature of Materials - Sustainable Design in Art, Design and Architecture". The Campus of Art and Design cordially invites all interested audience members to the free lectures, with open discussion afterwards. Lecture in English.

Kristoffer Ørum is an interdisciplinary researcher and artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. His work deals with the impact digital technologies have on our contemporary everyday lives. He misuses and misunderstands ubiquitous technologies such as computer vision to wireless networks. Creating narratives that run counter to what the dominant narratives of fear and despondency. His foundations in art world provide him with a base from which he teaches, writes, exhibits, and organises in a wide variety of contexts. From the self-organised to the institutional, in and outside of an art context. He thinks of himself as an aggregator of material and ideas from a shared cultural sphere rather than an authoritative author. As such he maintains an “open practice” where he publishes and discusses his work on social media as it develops and changes.

Invasive Materials and Unnatural Thoughts
"If I was you, I would be asking myself, why there is a middle aged guy in here, talking about himself as if he was a crayfish. I would wonder if I was really supposed to listen and take seriously what he says. Wonder if perhaps I got the date wrong, and accidentally walked into the local talent show? Look at the title of the lecture series “the Nature of Materials” and ponder for a moment what it would be like to be an invasive crayfish – how one would view the world with feelers and claws, rather than ears and hands. I might wonder how to exist in the alien and hostile world, that I share with son many other forms of life, without doing too much harm. But I am not you, I am just a Human Pretending To Be An Artist Pretending To Be A Crayfish living in a world made for humans."
Kristoffer Ørum

Chair: Prof. Jörg Obergfell, Interdisciplinary Teaching
Lecture language: English