• Level Five is a cooperative studio for and by artists. We collectively organise and take care of our spaces and the people making use of them. In this way we create a durable foundation for each of our artistic practices and initiatives.

Level Five is a cooperative studio for and by artists. We collectively organise and take care of our spaces and the people making use of them. In this way we create a durable foundation for each of our artistic practices and initiatives.

Rune Peitersen

RAABJERG | Book ISBN: 978-94-92852-57-1 Price: € 30.- Final editing: Rune Peitersen, Eleonoor Jap Sam Texts: Rune Peitersen Graphic design: Mainstudio (Edwin van Gelder) Printer: Zwaan Lenoir Lithography: Zwaan Lenoir Number of pages: 288 Book size: 22×28.5cm Binding: Softcover, Japanese binding Language: English, Danish Release date: May 2022 Publisher: Jap Sam Books, and made possible with the support of the Mondriaan Fund and the Creative Industries Fund.
RAABJERG, single channel video, stereo, dur. 29:31 min. The video features an original score by Marijn Ottenhof. RAABJERG explores the changing landscape of northern Jutland (DK) from the last Ice Age until today, and the following attempts at ‘restoring’ and ‘reestablishing’ a ‘natural’ landscape. Climate change and human extraction of natural resources in the late Middle Ages, led to violent sand drift in the northern part of Denmark, and transformed the once fertile landscape into a barren wasteland. From the 16th to the 19th century, different governments – from kings to elected parliaments – enacted laws to try to reverse it. After 200 years, they succeeded and started reintroducing plants to the dunes, thus slowly transforming the landscape back to its previous state. Today, however, the dune landscapes are considered natural, especially by the many tourists who visit them each summer, and efforts are now focused on preserving them. But the landscape is not bound by our notions of it – it is in constant transition. How do you preserve transition?
FUTURE TENSE Single channel video, stereo, duration 6:07 Rune Peitersen 2025 Future Tense 01 portrays fields of apparently ruined or dysfunctional solar panels surrounded by offerings, lights and prayer flags. The short sequences are all generated by AI using simple prompts like the previous sentence. How do we imagine anything? Which (visual) languages do we employ to express our past, present and future? And how does this influence our ability to imagine a future?

Rune Peitersen (DK, 1971) lives and works in Amsterdam (NL) and Brussels (BE). In 1999 he received his BA from the Royal Academy in The Hague and in 2001 his MA from the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen. Peitersen’s work has been exhibited internationally and he has received awards from the Mondriaan Fund.

Next to his artistic practice, Peitersen teaches at St. Joost School for Art & Design, regularly lectures on his work and is a cofounder of several artists’ initiatives among which the think-tank Platform Beeldende Kunst (Platform for Visual Arts). He is a member of the supervisory board of the Mondriaan Fund and a researcher at Economy in Common, part of BWNO Avans University (NL).

“I am curious about processes of transformation. This can be physical transformations of landscapes, bodies, or pixels, but also the transformation of ideas and narratives, and how you can make these visible through storytelling.”

Website

Raabjerg Book

« Rob Ritzen
Sandra Lakicevic »