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Nellie Lindquist, Tower
Re-routes installation view, Italienska Palatset, Växjö (Sweden), 2024.
About the video:
‘Tower' follows a teenager stranded inside of Copenhagen Airport as she moves around within the airport infrastructure, testing the flexibility of the experienced limits of her surroundings. This eventually leads the her to venture beyond the usual confines of the airport and into the control tower of the historical and now closed Vilhelm Lauritzen Terminal from 1937. Filmed in both the contemporary Copenhagen Airport as well as its now defunct predecessor, the modernist Vilhelm Lauritzen Terminal, the tower in the film serves as a symbolic viewpoint, tying together the teenager’s modern experience with the aged infrastructures and ideals of 20th-century modernity, presenting an intimate entry into how modernity’s physical structures, like electricity, roads, and aviation influence and frame our experiences. Made with support from the Danish Arts Foundation, Italienska Palatset and Vilhelm Lauritzen Terminalen. Cast Nina Rita Pape Johanssen as Teenager Anna Rettl as Air Traffic Controller 1 Kristian Kirk as Air Traffic Controller 2 Stephen McEvoy as Cashier Camera: Freja Sofie Kirk Colour: xuân TT Sound design: Oliver Nehammer Score: Klyyre
12'02", color, sound, 2024.
About the artist :
Nellie Lindquist works with video and sculpture, using fiction as a critical tool to explore how ideology is staged in form, narrative and infrastructure. She approaches the moving image through the use of cinematic tropes, plastics and pop-cultural artifacts, drawing from her training as a sculptor. Nellie Lindquist holds an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, with an exchange at Parsons School of Design, New York City (2023).
Social:
@nellibabetti
Contact:
nellielindquist@gmail.com