artist
Arendse Krabbe
Denmark
Arendse Krabbe (b. 1979, Denmark) is a visual artist based in Copenhagen whose practice engages with critical listening, initially reflecting on what grounds her listening. Krabbe’s work materializes as audio, video, performance, text, installation and collective sensory and listening situations. Krabbe engages with the local environment in an attempt to create exchanges and enable spaces of differences, complexities, movements and entanglements. Krabbe believes that paying attention through listening holds the potential to create new and other collectivities across species, systems and borders.
Since 2006, Krabbe has collaborated with people living in refugee camps as well as with people who live outside of refugee camps in order to create connections and discussions to articulate and rethink the prevailing racist structures. Krabbe is part of the self-organized radio collective The Bridge Radio. A radio where people with and without Danish citizenship produce radio together based on their experiences with the asylum system.
Within a variety of sensory situations, Krabbe has collaborated with the symbiotic and migrating organism lichen since 2018. They are complex systems unable to delineate, a network structure of extremophiles that drifts. Arendse Krabbe’s work materializes as audio, video, performance, text, installation and collective sensory and listening situations.
Sound designer for Krabbe’s work at MOMENTUM 13 is Felisha Ledesma.
Arendse Krabbe
We are all fish, 2025
Sound design: Felisha Ledesma
11:44 stereo (tank), tank lid ø 116 cm Valchromat
06:44 stereo (toilet), 5 speaker boxes 22 x 33 cm MDF
Krabbe’s two distinct yet interconnected sound pieces are installed in a stormwater drainage tank outdoors and in the public toilets of the café. Water circulates continuously, passing through rivers, the human body, fish and other living creatures, before flowing into the sea, where evaporation creates rainfall. All organisms are interconnected by their reliance on water for survival. Human-made infrastructure reflects the importance of water for human existence: the aqueduct, the reservoir, water towers, and the well, which gives us access to the so-called source of life, basically through a hole in the ground. The toilet is connected to the sewage system and treatment plant, with an outlet that discharges treated water into the sea. Conversely, the outlet from the stormwater drainage tank releases untreated water into the sea. The sound piece is situated within the realm of these holes and discharges, the continuous circulation of water, and local fish kills.