VINTERSTEMMER – video installation & dialogue between Bisse & Jacob Anderskov

To celebrate the premiere of the high-resolution multichannel video installation VINTERSTEMMER, presented in Brorsonkirken on February 12th & 13th, we invite audiences to both experience the installation and attend dialogues on around contemporary art, culture, Danish communal singing, and their relations in society today.

Info for non-Danish speaking visitors: The dialogue will be in Danish. The installation can be experienced without attending the dialogue, from around 18.00.

On Thursday February 12th, we host a dialogue between Bisse and Jacob Anderskov.

The multichannel video installation VINTERSTEMMER is projected across three of the church’s vaulted ceilings, showing three simultaneous films accompanied by immersive surround-sound audio.

About the installation:
Composition & concept: Jacob Anderskov.
Video & edi...

VINTERSTEMMER – video installation & dialogue between Bisse & Jacob Anderskov

To celebrate the premiere of the high-resolution multichannel video installation VINTERSTEMMER, presented in Brorsonkirken on February 12th & 13th, we invite audiences to both experience the installation and attend dialogues on around contemporary art, culture, Danish communal singing, and their relations in society today.

Info for non-Danish speaking visitors: The dialogue will be in Danish. The installation can be experienced without attending the dialogue, from around 18.00.

On Thursday February 12th, we host a dialogue between Bisse and Jacob Anderskov.

The multichannel video installation VINTERSTEMMER is projected across three of the church’s vaulted ceilings, showing three simultaneous films accompanied by immersive surround-sound audio.

About the installation:
Composition & concept: Jacob Anderskov.
Video & editing: Andreas Johnsen.
Recording: John Fomsgaard, in Dronningesalen, The Black Diamond.
Surround sound mix: August Wanngren.
Musicians: Kasper Tranberg (trumpet), Maria Laurette Friis (vocals & effects), Jakob Munck (vocals & tuba), Jakob Høyer (drums & effects), Jacob Anderskov (piano).

Doors: 16:30
Welcome & dialogue: 17:00
Screening of VINTERSTEMMER: from around 18:00
FREE ADMISSION

Background:
As part of his Artistic Research obligations at RMC, professor Jacob Anderskov has been exploring new hybrid performance formats where communal singing can coexist with what one might call an “art music sensitivity.” In these formats, familiar contrasts—art/community, folklore/elite, amateur/professional, audience/participant —are woven together in new ways. The projects have been disseminated in several forms: hybrid concerts, album releases, artistic research dissemination, and now the installation VINTERSTEMMER, premiering in February 2026.

The dialogues planned during Winterjazz 2026 in Brorson aim to touch on many of the same themes as Anderskov’s development projects: communal singing, cultural heritage, contemporary art, possible forms of hybridity in artistic formats and roles, the distance between the art world and the institution of communal singing, what the art world might contribute to the wider discussion about the societal “cultural resilience,” participation agenda in the arts, and new ways of approaching quality criteria in the space between “art” and “culture”— etc....

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