Two visual artists and researchers – Jane Jin Kaisen and Tinne Zenner – come together for an in-depth conversation exploring how cinematic imagery transforms when it leaves the theatre and enters an installation context. The talk investigates the sensory dimensions of combining sound, image, and architectural space.
Kaisen, who holds a PhD in Artistic Research and previously served as professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, represents Korea at the 58th Venice Biennale and has received numerous international honours including the Beckett-Prize and grants from the New Carlsberg Foundation and Danish Arts Foundation. Zenner, based in Copenhagen, works across analogue film, 3D rendering, and spatial installation, examining how history, geopolitics, and collective narratives are embedded in structural frameworks – particularly engaging with traces of Danish colonialism in Greenland and contemporary data extraction. She recently received the Mads Øvlisen PhD Scholarship for her practice-based artistic research.
The conversation moves beyond the formal structures of academic research to centre on artistic practice itself: the works created, the methodologies employed, and the investigations that propel the work forward. Drawing on audiovisual installations, the artists examine how art can construct alternative stories and resist linear narratives. Key themes include the interplay between camera, technology, and embodiment; the tension between institutional presence and individual agency; and the relationship between intimate connections and state-level systems.
Translation – across languages, media, disciplines, and modes of understanding – serves as a linking thread throughout. Through shared areas of inquiry and distinct artistic approaches, Kaisen and Zenner explore how extended artistic processes generate fresh perspectives on history, politics, and the audiovisual medium.
