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Jeppe Hein in Vancouver BC

For our readers up in the ‘Couve, Jeppe Hein will be giving a free lecture up at Emily Carr tonight via Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery

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After the talk, Jeppe will jet across the border to orchestrate this little event we like to call SEE LISTEN TASTE FEEL! Do you have your tickets yet?!

SEE LISTEN TASTE FEEL Preview | Jeppe Hein’s Karriere

SEE LISTEN TASTE FEEL isn’t the only place where Danish-born Berlin-based artist Jeppe Hein has thrown a party. He is the mastermind behind Copenhagen’s KARRIERE BAR - part bar/restaurant, part gallery, part music lounge, part treehouse hideout – a contemporary space for “exclusive” and “informal” social interaction built and designed by world class artists Jeppe Hein, Olafur Eliasson, Ernesto Neto, Carsten Holler, among many others. With Karriere, Jeppe’s got some cred–the man knows what he’s doing. I won’t be in Copenhagen anytime soon, but SEE LISTEN TASTE FEEL will be here Saturday! More after the jump!

Olafur Eliasson: International Career Lamp (lamper), Jeppe Hein: Illusion for a Second (bar), Ernesto Neto: Aaaaaaaa!!! (Lounge)

SEE LISTEN TASTE FEEL | Dinner + Sport Through The Ages

You may have noticed the cryptic titles on the SEE LISTEN TASTE FEEL program, such as “Dinner + Sport” – mysteriously designed and awesomely orchestrated by event chair, artist Jeppe Hein.

When I first heard “Dinner + Sport“, I immediately thought of my own historical reference to this clever term, and this blog will consider some possibilities of what “Dinner + Sport” could be…

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SEE LISTEN TASTE FEEL Preview | Interviews with Jeppe Hein

White Hot Magazine | Sept 2008

kopenhagen.dk international | May 2003

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SEE LISTEN TASTE FEEL Preview | Jeppe Hein YouTubes

Check out these YouTube videos of Jeppe Hein’s previous work.

SEE LISTEN TASTE FEEL Preview | Who is Jeppe Hein?

Here’s a brief look at international art star Jeppe Hein - the mastermind behind SEE LISTEN TASTE FEEL, the 2009 Henry Benefit to take place on January 31. This event will be THE PARTY OF THE YEAR and Jeppe has planned an amazing evening that will blow your mind. Stay tuned for more posts about SEE LISTEN TASTE FEEL as we count down the days leading up to this spectacular one-of-a-kind art event! GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!

Jeppe Hein’s work has recently been featured at Western Bridge, and the artist is currently developing a new project for Seattle’s 4Culture, creating an artwork on top of the Tashiro Kaplan Building that has the potential to become a downtown landmark. His “Mirror Labyrinth”, Commissioned by the Contemporary Art Gallery will be unveiled this winter in Vancouver, B.C.

Hein studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Arts in Copenhagen and the Stadel Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste in Frankfurt. His recent exhibitions include ICA Boston (2008);Sculpture Center, New York (2007); Tate Modern, London (2007); The Curve, Barbican Art Centre, London (2007); Hayward Gallery, London (2006-2008); Liverpool Biennale (2006); Centre Georges Pompidou Paris (2005); MOCA, Los Angeles (2005); P.S.1. MOMA, New York (2004); 50th Biennale di Venezia (2003).

From: Jeppe Hein, Until Now. London 2006 | By Francesco Bonami

“Every experiment is a situation in which the end is unknown;it is tentative, indeterminate, something that may fail. An experiment may produce only a restatement of the obvious or yield unexpected insight. The indeterminacy of its outcome is part of its excitement.” – Stanley Milgram, The individual in a social world

Who is Jeppe Hein? A contemporary artist or a sociopsychologist, like Stanley Milgram, lent to the art world? The worst definition would be to describe him as an “interactive artist.” First because interactive art never works, and Jeppe Hein’s projects usually work quite well, second because interactive art, often, is not art. Still there is a lot of action, in Hein’s work, between the idea and the viewer. We could say that his work is about feelings, a sort of mental sculpture that has both a life of its own and a life shared with the viewer. It happens sometimes that the users of Hein’s work don’t even know what the work is about, actually they don’t even realize it’s a work of art. People use the work because the work is made to be used, but who uses it, usually, doesn’t see it.

Bear the Consequences - 2003 Gas flame, sensor, motor Stockholm, Brändstörm & Stene. Courtesy of the artist and Johann König, Berlin.

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Most. Art. Fun. Evaaaaaar.!!!1!

I’m not talking about Jacob Dahlgren’s new installation at the Henry – which is pretty dang fun, as art exhibitions go!

I mean See Listen Taste Feel, a benefit for the Henry on January 31.

This one-night-only experience has been created by artist Jeppe Hein. (Recently on view at Western Bridge, soon to be seen in Vancouver, B.C., this summer at the Henry, and his piece for 4Culture has the potential to become a downtown landmark!)  The PARTY tickets go on sale TODAY.

Jeppe Hein. Please. 2008. neon tubes, transformers 64.96 x 194.73 inches. Image courtesy of the artist and 303 Gallery

(A limited number of individual seats and tables for the dinner and preview are  still available – but capacity is limited.)

PS.

This event takes place is a big old South Lake Union warehouse, transformed by Jeppe (with the help of the Henry prep crew and The Adventure School. ) I can’t wait. Imagine – an arts fund-raising event that where artists aren’t asked to give work up for free, no endless “live auction”,  incredible food (ummm – Lark’s Johnathan Sundstrom), beers, cocktails, desserts, creative performances by Zeke Keeble, Orkestar Zirconum, PING-PONG, dancing to Emerald City Soul Club, all in an art installation made by Jeppe Hein. Whoah. My head is spinning!)

PLEASE ENJOY RELAX DANCE TOUCH FLIRT WONDER FEEL MUSE SING LISTEN…

Jeppe Hein. Please. 2008. neon tubes, transformers 64.96 x 194.73 inches. Image courtesy of the artist and 303 Gallery

January 31, 2009. Click the picture to find out more.