Concept

Engagement is a way of capturing attention, a way of alluring and a way of enticing to possess ownership. We could implement this as a way of attracting an audience, being drawn into a system and in turn be captivated. Such methods can include smoke screens, masquerade and stings.

We can be engaged in political upheaval and in contrast engaged to be married. Either way if one shows the willingness to engage then they are seized, arrested and caught, through an innocent human desire to absorb and be engrossed.

What happens when this engagement is done in a malicious, unlawful and corrupted way? When does the real become hyper-real? Entrapment is the process of this transition to occupy whether through political, artistic or personal systems.

What is the ethical concern over this? Is the viewer guilty for being engrossed in a piece of work that is deemed vulgar or inappropriate; a guilty pleasure? Is the accused guilty until proven innocent? Is the artist wrongly committed for a self-indulgent expression? Does this polarity repel or assist the convicted?

International artists have been invited to submit work which explores a subversive engagement, use tactics and trickery to captivate and which contests rules and laws of a system. Aesthetically, artists works entices the audience, engages them in viewing and ultimately entrap them into the work. Will the viewer be engrossed, cheated or convicted?

Works featured include traditional art forms of photography, painting and sculpture but also the contemporary processes of interventions, installations and new media.

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Brian Ravnholt Jepsen



Copenhagen, Denmark

'Transformer', 2015

Fluorescent light, microphone, amplifier. 120 x 40 x 40 cm

€2000

Navigating Through the Interior of My Broken Beliefs | Møstings Hus, Copenhagen, Denmark | Photo: Honza Hoeck. 

In my artistic practice I mostly work idea-orientated, cross-medially and conceptual with focus on procedural object art and in general with a sculptural interpretation of ideas that often is rooted in research and with focus on the story, the link, on-site, viewer and society as an abstract or peripheral size.

I am trying to reconcile constructions and elements of varying degree concerning the use of light and light as a cross-medial link between elements such as installation, sculpture, drawing, objects, model building, video, photography and sound-performances with focus on an expanded audience's view seen in relation to experiences of aesthetic or sentient nature. An expanded interest for the meeting with the reception and the audience's own experiences have had a certain attraction and attachment to my artistic work.