Mads Lynnerup, Mads Lynnerup
Carlsberg Tap E / Urban Space
Mads Lynnerup
Born 1976 in Copenhagen, Denmark
Lives in New York
A good deal of contemporary art is concerned with the impact of the social codes
that pervade social spaces, a focus shared by Mads Lynnerup who, basing his work around everyday phenomena and our regular routines in the public realm, probes beneath the skin of our reactions and behaviour patterns.
In New York, where Lynnerup is based, one of his projects involved his hanging
posters in the subway with the caption: "If you see something interesting please let someone know immediately!" A simple intervention that punctuates the maelstrom of advertisements with an against-the-grain message that plays on our curiosity, our fear of the unforeseen and the social barriers that exist in social space. But what counts as interesting? And who should be told? And is it a good thing if nothing happens? Lynnerup poses more questions than he answers. His artistic practice involves a kind of hacking activity, whereby he feeds alternative messages and prods into the information stream that, over time, we have blindly come to accept. Slightly jolted and puzzled by his message, we find ourselves prodded into reflection. Lynnerup's perceptive gaze and pervasive humour forms the foundation of an artistic practice that likes turning things on their head.
The work that constitutes Lynnerup's contribution to U-TURN, Rutiner (S�nder
Boulevard), has, as the name implies, routines as its focus. Like many another private detective, the artist has observed the people whose daily trajectories take them in and around S�nder Boulevard in the Copenhagen district of Vesterbro, recording their routines. These include the man who walks his dog along the same route every day, and the woman who always stubs out her cigarette at the same spot. Daily routines outside the private sphere are a way of appropriating public space: making the space one's own, a comfort zone, by marking it out with habitual actions that are repeated over and over. Lynnerup has depicted local routines that involve the S�nder Boulevard vicinity, hanging his posters at the locations where the routines are performed. Complementary to this, Mads Lynnerup presents a string of alternative and fictional routines in a video installation exhibited at Carlsberg. -MHB
Lives in New York
A good deal of contemporary art is concerned with the impact of the social codes
that pervade social spaces, a focus shared by Mads Lynnerup who, basing his work around everyday phenomena and our regular routines in the public realm, probes beneath the skin of our reactions and behaviour patterns.
In New York, where Lynnerup is based, one of his projects involved his hanging
posters in the subway with the caption: "If you see something interesting please let someone know immediately!" A simple intervention that punctuates the maelstrom of advertisements with an against-the-grain message that plays on our curiosity, our fear of the unforeseen and the social barriers that exist in social space. But what counts as interesting? And who should be told? And is it a good thing if nothing happens? Lynnerup poses more questions than he answers. His artistic practice involves a kind of hacking activity, whereby he feeds alternative messages and prods into the information stream that, over time, we have blindly come to accept. Slightly jolted and puzzled by his message, we find ourselves prodded into reflection. Lynnerup's perceptive gaze and pervasive humour forms the foundation of an artistic practice that likes turning things on their head.
The work that constitutes Lynnerup's contribution to U-TURN, Rutiner (S�nder
Boulevard), has, as the name implies, routines as its focus. Like many another private detective, the artist has observed the people whose daily trajectories take them in and around S�nder Boulevard in the Copenhagen district of Vesterbro, recording their routines. These include the man who walks his dog along the same route every day, and the woman who always stubs out her cigarette at the same spot. Daily routines outside the private sphere are a way of appropriating public space: making the space one's own, a comfort zone, by marking it out with habitual actions that are repeated over and over. Lynnerup has depicted local routines that involve the S�nder Boulevard vicinity, hanging his posters at the locations where the routines are performed. Complementary to this, Mads Lynnerup presents a string of alternative and fictional routines in a video installation exhibited at Carlsberg. -MHB