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“Alors il y a de l’esprit. Des esprits. Et il faut compter avec eux. On ne peut pas ne pas devoir, on ne doit pas ne pas pouvoir compter avec eux, qui sont plus d’un : le plus d’un.” Derrida, Jacques. Spectres de Marx: L’état de la dette, le travail du deuil et la nouvelle… Continue reading Spectre de Degas

I’ve been away from the world of visual arts for about 16 years, but I’m back with a renewed interest after buying a vintage camera for a minor macro-photography project. This branched out into taking shots of architecture and various objects, some of which have been clustered into the ‘Objects for an Ideal Home‘ series.… Continue reading Kasper Bergholt ~ Copenhagen Artist & Photographer

Object #1 – Fragment of Degas Text #1 – Tracing the Light The oldest light we can observe, the cosmic microwave background radiation, is nearly 14 billion years old. One of the defining traits of light is that it cannot truly be owned, at least not yet. A line can be said to span two… Continue reading Degas’ Obsession, and the Artificiality of Art

“Edgar Degas, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, 1878–1881, pigmented beeswax, clay, metal armature, rope, paintbrushes, human hair, silk and linen ribbon, cotton faille bodice, cotton and silk tutu, linen slippers, on wooden base, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1999.80.28″ — National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, description of the sculpture ‘La Petite Danseuse de… Continue reading Viktor Shklovsky: On Flax from ‘On Freedom of Art’, The Third Factory, 1926

The ‘Objects for an Ideal Home’ series is inspired by a 1999 music album, in the electronica genre, as it was labeled in the mid-90s, by that name. ‘Objects for an Ideal Home’ was produced and released by the Danish musician Opiate (Thomas Knak) on the record label April Records. In 2009, a 20th anniversary… Continue reading ‘Objects for an Ideal Home’

The oldest, the actual radical word, is ‘es’, Sanskrit ‘asus’, life, the living, that which from out of itself stands and which moves and rests in itself . . . It is noteworthy that ‘is‘ (‘ist’) has maintained itself in all Indo-European languages from the very start (Greek, ‘estin’, Latin, ‘est’, German, ‘ist’)”  — Jacques Derrida,… Continue reading ‘The Time Is Out of Joint’ ~ Shakespeare, Deridda, Eliot, Balle

The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, founded in 1856, was a veterinary and agricultural science university in Copenhagen, Denmark, until its merger with the University of Copenhagen in 2007. Surrounding the buildings, designed by Gottlieb Bindesbøll, are its unique gardens, which house a diverse collection of over 6,000 plants and flowers. Salomon Thomas Nicolai Drejer… Continue reading ‘Flora Excursoria Hafniensis’

Light snowfall over the Garden of the Royal Danish Library (also known as The Royal Library Gardens) – a public garden in Copenhagen, Denmark – which was designed in 1920 by architects Jens Peder Andersen and Thorvald Jørgensen. The Garden of the Royal Danish Library, one of the oldest university library gardens in Europe, known… Continue reading Garden of the Royal Danish Library in Light Snowfall