Triple Screening – Walking Performance – Nostalgia Dinner & Discussion
Rune Peitersen – Scott William Raby – Kristoffer Ørum – Jette Gejl Kristensen

Saturday, November 7, 14.00-20.30
ALRUM, Aarhus Billedkunstcenter, Kalkværksvej 32

Register via email: international@aabkc.dk

Join us for a full day of film, performance, discussion, and food, where we invite you to explore big questions together with artists Rune Peitersen, Scott William Raby, Kristoffer Ørum, and Jette Gejl Kristensen. 

The program is grounded in Rune Peitersen’s newly finished film trilogy: RAABJERG (2022), The Old Town (2024), and The Promises (2026). The films spring from Rune’s relationship to his homeland, Denmark, as someone who has lived in The Netherlands and Belgium for over 30 years. 

Living abroad allows you to gain a new perspective on the country you left. How do we relate to the landscape, especially when it transforms over time? How do we remember neighborhoods that have grown and evolved, and eras that have passed? How do we deal with change both as a general concept and a fact of life? 

Between screenings, Scott William Raby will invite the audience to collectively explore Sydhavnen via a performative walk in the neighborhood surrounding Aarhus Billedkunstcenter. Through imagination and criticality inspired by local histories and psychogeography, he will invite the audience to see, discuss, and share memories in this context. Sydhavnen is currently experiencing a major re-development, but who benefits from this process? Who is left out? Drawing on his previous public art projects in Danish waterfront areas (e.g. Skagen, Frederikshavn, and Ebeltoft, et al.) Scott will plant the seeds to collectively envision a democratic "PRODAG" (or PRO-Development, Anti-Gentrification) ethos on site.

The day will conclude with a beige dinner prepared by artist Jette Gejl, inspired by her childhood in 1970s rural Jutland. Taking Jette’s meal as a starting point for shared reflection, Rune and artist Kristoffer Ørum will lead an informal discussion of what artists might know and how that knowledge can be shared. Remembering, ingesting and sharing what used to be, to better understand the now.

Attendance is free, but please register via email to international@aabkc.dk no later than November 5.
 

Rune Peitersen is an artist, teacher, researcher and occasional activist organizer based in Brussels and Amsterdam. His practice focuses on processes of transformation, spanning from physical transformations of landscapes, bodies, or pixels, to the transformation of ideas and narratives, and how you can make these visible through storytelling. As part of his artistic practice, Peitersen teaches at St. Joost School for Art & Design and is a cofounder of several artists’ initiatives among which the think-tank Platform Beeldende Kunst (Platform for Visual Arts) and most recently The Overton Foundation. He is a member of the supervisory board of the Mondriaan Fund, chair of the Arts Committee Dordrecht, expert and chair of The Flanders Department of Culture committees, chair of the board of the studio cooperative Level Five, and a researcher at Economy in Common, part of Avans University (NL).

Scott William Raby is an artist, art organizer, and researcher currently based in Aalborg. His practice explores critical approaches to economic, ecological, legal, and infrastructural questions within the art field and broader society. Through performances, installations, public interventions, social practice, and (self-)organization he seeks to rethink operations of power, institutional frameworks, and notions of value.  He co-organizes various platforms and projects such as f.eks., S for Sound, S for Solidarity, & Bureau of Analogies (BoA), et al. and is the former chair of the Danish artist association UKK. He has recently performed, exhibited, and/or presented at Malmö Konsthall, UKS (Oslo), LoCA (Livingstone), Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius), M HKA (Antwerp), Galerie Elisabeth and Klaus Thoman (Vienna), Art Hub Copenhagen, iProject Space (Beijing) and will partake in the Wiels Residency Program (Brussels) in 2027.  Previously, he was studying as an artistic researcher within the PhD art department at Goldsmiths (London), and graduated with an MFA in Fine Arts from Otis College of Art and Design (Los Angeles).

Kristoffer Ørum is a Copenhagen-based visual artist with roots in the Danish hacker and Amiga demoscene, hip-hop and graffiti culture. His practice focuses on imaginaries of technology and how they shape everything from our daily lives to our political ideals, and he works with technology in ways that aim to limit its social and environmental costs. He has exhibited in Denmark and internationally, including at Center for Book Arts NYC, Or Gallery, Berlinische Galerie and ARoS, and in 2025 presented Aarhus'er #1 with Emilio Hestepis at Kunsthal Aarhus. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Goldsmiths, is a PhD fellow at the University of Copenhagen within the research project HAIC-III, and was previously professor at Det Fynske Kunstakademi. Since 2014 he has run the artist-run space Captive Portal in Copenhagen, and in 2024 he published the book Jeg er en mislykket kunstner.

Jette Gejl Kristensen is fascinated by the body and the individual’s position within—and interaction with—a world defined by cultural norms, systems, and networks. Through her artistic practice, she seeks to break with generally accepted norms and systems, subsequently reconstructing new, more flexible, and elastic frameworks that accommodate the individual’s capacity to negotiate and interact. In this way, Jette Gejl’s works create a space where we, as viewers, can—through a bodily engagement with the art—renegotiate our identities in relation to the established norms of society.

Remembering Denmark is supported by Aarhus Kommune, Statens Kunstfond, and PAM Fonden.

Rune Peitersen, RAABJERG, film still, 2022.

Rune Peitersen, The Old Town, film still, 2024.

Rune Peitersen, The Promises, film still, 2026.