Insignificants
Insignificants is an exhibition series curated by The Hub for Speculative Fabulation upon Incidental Observations at the University of Copenhagen. The exhibition series explores the aesthetic and epistemic potential of insignificant and incidental objects.
The aim of the exhibitions is to set the scene for wondering how we relate to incidenal and insignifican objects in a world, where sense of purpose, relevance, results, progress, impact and value have become the undisputed, exclusive raison d’être of things.
The exhibited objects are selected on these criteria:
--Tim Flohr Sørensen
The aim of the exhibitions is to set the scene for wondering how we relate to incidenal and insignifican objects in a world, where sense of purpose, relevance, results, progress, impact and value have become the undisputed, exclusive raison d’être of things.
The exhibited objects are selected on these criteria:
- The object must not in itself have any culture-historical, artistic, economic, informative, explanatory or sentimental value
- The object must have been procured by chance
- The object must not belong to the past; it has to exist here and now
- The object must not explicitly resist being exhibited
- At the time of the exhibition, the object must not be larger than its exhibition case
--Tim Flohr Sørensen
Moose Illustration by Kristian Woerner
Fruit and Animal Display by Jeff Benjamin
Fountain Painting by Jane Poss
Watch by Emily Blake
Shell Chair by Renata Del Riego
Fruit and Animal Display by Jeff Benjamin
Fountain Painting by Jane Poss
Watch by Emily Blake
Shell Chair by Renata Del Riego
Aftermath
Aftermath was exhibited as the August event in Insignificants. The material from this exhibition is displayed here as a visiting exhibition. The material was found by chance on a small Swedish island, Boon, in July 2019, during two visits to the island.
The plastic bag contains objects collected during my first visit to the island where I strolled along the coast, picking up whatever caught my attention: glass sherds, a porcelain sherd, a plastic/cardboard fragment, and granite chippings from a small quarry on the island.
The remaining objects were found two days later, when I returned to the island. In the meantime, other objects had sprouted: a piece of driftwood, a deflated balloon, glass sherds, porcelain sherds, assorted plastic pieces, a sole of a shoe, a snuff pouch, reddish fabric and a piece of strap with moss on it.
These objects are aftermath:
aftermath (n.): 1520s, originally a second crop of grass grown on the same land after after the first had been harvested from after + -math, from Old English mæð “a mowing, cutting of grass”.
The plastic bag contains objects collected during my first visit to the island where I strolled along the coast, picking up whatever caught my attention: glass sherds, a porcelain sherd, a plastic/cardboard fragment, and granite chippings from a small quarry on the island.
The remaining objects were found two days later, when I returned to the island. In the meantime, other objects had sprouted: a piece of driftwood, a deflated balloon, glass sherds, porcelain sherds, assorted plastic pieces, a sole of a shoe, a snuff pouch, reddish fabric and a piece of strap with moss on it.
These objects are aftermath:
aftermath (n.): 1520s, originally a second crop of grass grown on the same land after after the first had been harvested from after + -math, from Old English mæð “a mowing, cutting of grass”.
