Seize the Sky

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EXHIBITION AND SYMPOSIUM on Art, gender and Military with special guest Skysister Latifa Nabizada Pilot Afghan Air Force.

Simone Aaberg Kærn: Seize the Sky is a fourteen-year survey of the artist’s video works organized and curated by Tina Yapelli, director of the University Art Gallery at San Diego State University. The exhibition and symposium are sponsored by the San Diego State University Art Council; the School of Art, Design and Art History; the SDSU Center for the Visual and Performing Arts; the College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts; and the fund for Instructionally Related Activities. The exhibition and symposium are organized in conjunction with the fortieth anniversary of the Department of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University. Simone Aaberg Kærn is represented by Galerie Asbæk, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Installation views from the exhibition:

poster

Royal Greenland Video 1995

Royal Greenland on the left, Sisters of the Red Star right side.

Sisters of the Red Star

Sisters of the Red Star

Sisters of the Red Star center next room to the right Smiling in a War Zone installation.

Show me how you fly – Korea, singel channel version.

Works that was on display in San Diego:

“Sisters of the Red Star”
“Sisters in the Sky Hero Remix”
“Show Me with Your Hands – Korea”
“Taraneh Heading for the Stars”
“Wanna Fly”
“Royal Greenland”
“Smiling in a War Zone”

 

 

 

EXHIBITION AND SYMPOSIUM CELEBRATION

Wednesday, 10 March, 8:30 to 10:00 PM, University Art Gallery

AVIATION AND ACHIEVEMENT An International Symposium on Women’s Rights

Wednesday, 10 March, 6:30 to 8:15 PM, Hardy Tower 140

Moderated by Jenni Prisk, president and founder of Voices of Women, La Jolla, California

Presentations by Simone Aaberg Kærn, artist and pilot, Copenhagen, Denmark; Jessica Cox, motivational speaker and pilot, Tucson, Arizona; Loeky Droesen, senior program officer, Aim for Human Rights, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Anh Hua, assistant professor, Department of Women’s Studies, San Diego State University; Lieutenant Chris Kieszek, pilot, United States Navy and assistant professor, Department of Naval Science, San Diego State University; Captain Latifa Nabizada, pilot, Afghan National Army Air Corps, Kabul, Afghanistan

 

 

SIMONE AABERG KÆRN: SEIZE THE SKY and

ART, AVIATION AND ACHIEVEMENT: An International Symposium on Women’s Rights

 

Simone Aaberg Kaern: Seize the Sky is being presented at SDSU’s University Art Gallery through May 5, 2010.

 

Seize the Sky is a fourteen-year survey of video works created by Danish artist Simone Aaberg Kærn. Through these eight works, produced between 1995 and 2008, Aaberg Kærn addresses flight as a metaphor for individual freedom and examines the sky as airspace unbounded by political borders. The exhibition is organized and curated by Tina Yapelli, director of the University Art Gallery at San Diego State University.

 

Born in Copenhagen in 1969, Simone Aaberg Kaern was educated at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Human flight and the sky have been Aaberg Kærn’s recurring themes throughout her artistic career, and she often has combined her own desires and experiences as a pilot with representations of other women aviators—civilian and military—from Afghanistan, Iran, the former Soviet Union, Turkey and the United States.

 

Seize the Sky is Aaberg Kaern’s premiere exhibition on the West Coast, and her first comprehensive solo exhibition in the United States. Simone Aaberg Kaern currently lives and works in Copenhagen and is represented by Galerie Asbæk, Copenhagen.

 

In conjunction with the exhibition, a symposium will be presented on Wednesday, March 10 at 6:30 p.m. in Hardy Tower 140 on the SDSU campus. Art, Aviation and Achievement: An International Symposium on Women’s Rights will feature an international roster of panelists representing the fields of art, human rights, and civil and military aviation. The exhibition and symposium are presented in conjunction with the fortieth anniversary of SDSU’s Department of Women’s Studies, the first such program in the United States.

 

Moderator

Jenni Prisk, president and founder of Voices of Women, La Jolla, California

 

Presenters

Simone Aaberg Kaern, artist and pilot, Copenhagen, Denmark

Jessica Cox, motivational speaker and pilot, Tucson, Arizona

Loeky Droesen, senior program officer, Aim for Human Rights, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Anh Hua, assistant professor, Department of Women’s Studies, San Diego State University

Lieutenant Chris Kieszek, pilot, United States Navy and assistant professor, Department of Naval Science, San Diego State University

Colonel Latifa Nabizada, pilot, Afghan National Army Air Corps, Kabul, Afghanistan

 

 

An Exhibition and Symposium Celebration will follow the symposium at the University Art Gallery from 8:30 to 10:00 p.m.

 

The exhibition, symposium and celebration are free and open to the public. For additional information, visit the University Art Gallery Website at http://artgallery.sdsu.edu/exhibitions/2010_kaern/

 

The exhibition and symposium are sponsored by the San Diego State University Art Council; the School of Art, Design and Art History; the SDSU Center for the Visual and Performing Arts; the College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts; and the fund for Instructionally Related Activities. Simone Aaberg Kaern is represented by Galerie Asbaek, Copenhagen, Denmark.

 

works on display:
“Sisters of the Red Star”
“Sisters in the Sky Hero Remix”
“Show Me with Your Hands – Korea”
“Taraneh Heading for the Stars”
“Wanna Fly”
“Royal Greenland”
“Smiling in a War Zone”