Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard
Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard (1979) works through a transdisciplinary 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 NLL 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.
Løkkegaard is interested in the notion of instrumentalization and what the notion of instruments can mean, control and do. Hence he often works with Western (music) instruments not only as sources of sound but also as cultural markers embedded within different systems and hierarchies - all revolving around the focus on how to soften sedimented positions, seeking to create safer environments dissolving shame or trauma, and excrete notions of Western universalism in a process of othering firstness.