Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard

saturation, sedimentation, softenings, plasma, potentiality, parasites, paranormalities
Denmark °1979
research interests: plasma, sedimentation, saturation, softening, decolonial, more-than-human, instrumentalization, folded time, occultism, potentiality, hypering, surrection
affiliation: RMC
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Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard (1979) works within an artistic praxis, spanning from composition and sound art to performance, conceptual- and visual art.

 He considers his work to be a basic research in realities and is interested in how bubble-like systems unfold themselves as saturated human conditions.

 Collisions between individual bodies and bodies of saturated matter are key drivers in Løkkegaards praxis and he's interested in how to engage this saturated state – interested in how to soften what has become sedimented seeking to create ruptures within the saturated.

 As a paradoxical strategy Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard often works with how reaching saturation points itself might can work as a counter measure for escaping the saturated- in other words how bodies can be saturated in such a way that they collapse under their own (over)saturated weight and thereby becomes something else through multiplication of single bodies into larger bodies, hyper visiblity etc.

 

research

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  • Music for the inner ear (2020) author(s): Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard published in: Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen
    Our fantasy has crumbled - yet we must go into utopia to articulate alternative realities that will allow us to escape the current systems we are living in and by. What can we do if we only dream pragmatic and rational dreams that speak into already existing paradigms and systems? When a catastrophic or sudden event occurs we often say that reality exceeds fantasy, this being the exception of the norm, but what if reality exceeding fantasy is in fact the norm - and not vice versa? - what if our fantasy has crumbled in such a degree that we only are capable of imagining realities and solutions which already fit into a dysfunctional system? Are we doomed? - or do we dare to go full on into utopia? In the artistic research project; Music for the inner Ear - Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard looks into the realms of imaginary sound and sonic potentiality unfolded within different artistic domains - raising the questions; Is it possible to create imaginary music only audible for the inner ear of the listener & when does something actually exist? In the project the notion of potentiality is a main driver both in activating the listener but also simply by addressing the potential of potentiality.
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  • Multiplayer - Softenings and Inquiries into Matters of Toxoplasmatic Ectoplasm (2024) author(s): Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard published in: Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen
    This project investigates Western musical instruments as being critical and even dangerous sites, which should be approached with the greatest of caution. Approached as liminal interfaces between the living and the dead, suspended between past(s) and present(s), turning these instruments into both paranormal and parasitic sites, which should be treated as such. Instruments as pathological contaminated bodies of parasitic discourse ready to jump at you and embed themselves in you, sedimenting within you and, subsequently, playing you. Instruments as haunted sites saturated with ghostlike matters of toxoplasmatic ectoplasm, fostering ghosts with the capacity to possess and inflict pain on to other bodies, active in the past as well in the present. With an interest in the notion of instrumentalization and what instruments can mean, control, and do to bodies, instruments are approached from a safe(r) distance through different (group) interventions, raising questions on how best to emolliate and soften the instrumental body? How to soften the big silent? How to soften the sedimented?
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