Alejandra and Aeron are Alejandra Salinas (Spanish, born La Rioja

La Rioja (Spain)

La Rioja is an autonomous community and a province of northern Spain. Its capital is Logroño. Other cities and towns in the province include Calahorra, Arnedo, Alfaro, Haro, Santo Domingo de la Calzada, and Nájera.-History:...

 1977) and Aeron Bergman, (American, born Detroit 1971), artists based in Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. They make intermedia art including sound art

Sound art

Sound art is a diverse group of art practices that considers wide notions of sound, listening and hearing as its predominant focus. There are often distinct relationships forged between the visual and aural domains of art and perception by sound artists....

 and installations

Installation art

Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...

, web projects and video art

Video art

Video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and comprises video and/or audio data. . Video art came into existence during the 1960s and 1970s, is still widely practiced and has given rise to the widespread use of video installations...

. Bergman is professor of art at the Oslo National Academy of Art.

Sound works

Their 2005 album Be Mine consists of interviews of people talking about love, and the 1999 Children's Record was made by asking people to sing songs they can remember from their childhood. Alejandra and Aeron's early works are among the first experiments with folk and laptop electronic music. This is especially noted in Ruinas Encantadas (winner of an honorary mention in Prix Ars Electronica 2001) and Porto: Folklore Fragments Volume 2. The track Water Jota in 1213442 from the former consists almost entirely of water drop sounds, arranged according to the structure of a folk dance; the artists themselves comment on such concepts that the record "considers the past, while not repeating it."

In 2002 the duo won an Award of Distinction in Digital Music for their audio installation "Revisionland" from the Prix Ars Electronica

Prix Ars Electronica

The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the most important yearly prizes in the field of electronic and interactive art, computer animation, digital culture and music...

 in Linz, Austria. They have released 12 critically acclaimed full length audio CDs on labels such as Orthlorng Musork, Fat Cat

Fat Cat Records

Fat Cat Records is an independent label based in Brighton on England’s South Coast. Their output includes electronica, post rock, indie, downtempo, minimal techno, noise and punk-pop...

, Tomlab

Tomlab

Tomlab is a German record label based in Köln. It has released works by bands such as The Books, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Deerhoof, Thee Oh Sees, Les Georges Leningrad, and acts associated with Blocks Recording Club, such as Final Fantasy, Ninja High School, and The Hank...

 and their own label, Lucky Kitchen.

Visual art

Alejandra and Aeron have shown in solo and group exhibitions in museums and art centers around the world such as the NTT InterCommunication Center

NTT InterCommunication Center

NTT InterCommunication Center is a media art gallery in Tokyo Opera City Tower in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. It was established by NTT to commemorate the 100th anniversary of telephone service in Japan and opened in 1997...

 (ICC) in Tokyo, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona

Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona

The Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona is one of the most visited exhibition and arts centres in the city of Barcelona.Situated in the Raval district, the Centre’s core theme is the city and urban culture...

 (CCCB) and Centro de Arte Contemporaneo Santa Monica, both in Barcelona. "Wildflowers" was shown in the Shrinking Cities

Shrinking cities

Shrinking cities are cities that are experiencing acute population loss. Deindustrialisation and out-migration are some of the common reasons that cities shrink. In the United States, this problem is most commonly associated with the Rust Belt, while parts of Eastern Europe also experience similar...

 exhibition in Detroit MOCAD 2007 and in Gothenburg, Sweden, also 2007, and features interviews with individuals working in grassroots organizations in Detroit. They have recently done performances and installations at U.K.S. art center and Kunstnernes hus art center both in Oslo, Norway. They have also conceived and curated a controversial website at http://www.nobelprize.no, with international artists such as Marjetica Potrc, Michel Auder, Peter Campus, Kenneth Goldsmith, Momus, Sharmila Samant and others.

Solo Exhibitions and Performances:

2010

• IMO Gallery. “The Time Machine”. Curated by Rune Søchting and Kristoffer Akselbo. Copenhagen, Denmark. April–May
• Onomatopee Gallery. “The Smell of Deposition”. Curated by Freek Lomme. Eindhoven, NL. February
• Van Abbe Museum. Performance: “Short Performances” Curated by Freek Lomme and Claire Butcher Eindhoven, NL. February

2008

• Museu das Rendas. Installation and performance. “Ikea das Rendas”. Curated by Circular, Vila do Conde, Portugal. September
• Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art. Performance. “1967–2007” Curated by Pedro Rocha. Porto, Portugal. April 2007
• Röda Sten Art Center. Installation "Wildflowers". Curated by Henrik Anderson Göteborg, Sweden. January 2006
• Santa Monica Center of Contemporary Art. Installation "Vertigo". Curated by Jacob Fabricius. Barcelona, Spain. June–September

2005

• Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art. Installation "Porto" Curated by Pedro Rocha. Porto, Portugal. June 2004 – January

2004

• Ausland. Performance “Porto and Yarning Detroit”. Curated by Hannah Hurtzig. Berlin, Germany. Sept.
• BAK. Contemporary Art Center. Installation "River Rouge" Curated by Impakt. Utrecht, The Netherlands. June
• CAC, Centre D´Art Contemporaine. Installation "Yarning Detroit part two" Curated by Bastien Gallet. Geneva, Switzerland. March 2002
• Lampo New Music Foundation. Performance. Curated by Andrew Fenchel. Chicago. 24–25 May
• MONA, Museum of New Art. Performance. Detroit, USA. May

2001

• Changing Room Project Space. Installation, "Revisionland". Curated by Diskono. Stirling, Scotland. December

1999

• Art in General. Installation. “America Speaks”. New York. January to April

Group Exhibitions and Performances:

2010

• Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, “Wildflowers”. Novi Sad, Serbia. July–August
• Pictura Gallery / Skånska Art Museum. “A Minor History of Creativity”. Lund, Sweden. May–June
• Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces (GCAS). “Always Moving”. Melbourne, Australia. June–July
• Center for Contemporary Art Glasgow (CCA). “Wildflowers”. Glasgow. 10 March

2009

• Hordaland Art Center. Performance. “Harry Smith”. B-open. Bergen, Norway, 30 October
• Museum of Contemporary Art. Performance. "Silent Attack". Oslo, Norway. 18 September
• Hennie Onstad Art Center. “To be Heard Is To Be Seen”. Installations. “Wildflowers” and “Finally Got The News (Crossed Hatched). Oslo, Norway. August 30 – November 4
• Museum of Contemporary Art. Performance. "The School of Athens". Oslo, Norway. 11 June
• Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art. Performance. "Harry Smith". Copenhagen, Denmark. 25 April
• Kunstnernes hus. “Live Arts”. Performance/Installation. “No One Knows How To Reach That Immortal Place”. Oslo, Norway. January–February

2008

• UKS Art Center “Nobel Prize Ceremony” Performance. Oslo. December 10
• Onomatopee Gallery. Installation. Eindhoven, The Netherlands. October–November
• e-flux video rental and screenings. e-flux Berlin. September–December
• European Sound Delta. Paris (traveling exhibition). September
• Berlin Film Festival. Soundtrack to Florian Zeyfang's film "Introduction to a Small History of Photography". Berlin, Germany. February

2007

• Metro of the City of Porto and Fundaçáo Serralves. Sound piece over metro PA system. Porto, Portugal. July
• Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow (CCA) and Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA). Videos. "Introduction to Wildflowers". Scotland. May
• Turku Biennale. Aboa Ventus and Ars Nova. Installation. "Oversea". Turku, Finland. May–August
• Changing Room Project Space. Design It Yourself. Stirling, Scotland. May–June
• Shrinking Cities. MOCAD, Detroit. Video "Wildflowers". February–April

2006

• Fylkingen. Sound performance. Curated by the Swedish Electronic Music Studio. Stockholm, Sweden. December 9
• The Rooseum Art Center. Installation. "Vertigo" Curated by Full Pull. Malmo, Sweden. 2 September
• La Casa Encendida. Sound performance. "Campanas" Curated by the French Embassy. Madrid, Spain. 20 April
• Centro Cultural Gran Capitan. Installation. "El Prat" Curated by Chema de Francisco. Granada, Spain. 10 March – 10 June

2005

• Taipei Fine Arts Museum. Installation, "Billowy Mass" Curated by Etat. Taipei, Taiwan. September–November
• AARA Gallery. Installation and concert. "Hanging Sound" Curated by Marti Manen. Bangkok, Thailand. June–September
• CCCB. Center of Contemporary Art, Barcelona. Installation. "El Prat" Curated by Sonar.Barcelona, Spain. June
• Alice Day Gallery. Video. Brussels, Belgium. January–February
• Ministry for Culture and Communication, Paris. Inclusion in a permanent sound installation. February

2004

• Mobile Academy. Artist in Residence. Hebbel am Ufer Theatre. Berlin. September
• Archipel. Installation. "Yarning Detroit" Curated by Bastian Gallet. Geneva. March

2003

• ICC InterCommunications Center. Installation. "Belen 2" Curated by Minoru Hatanaka. Tokyo, Japan. July–September
• Alza Cultural Center. Performance. Curated by Xavi Erkizia. San Sebastian, Spain. March

2002

• De Appel Institute of Contemporary Art. Performance. Amsterdam, NL. November
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Sevilla. Performance, Spain. 26 September
• Leslie Tonkonow artworks + projects. Video installation. (Collaboration with Peter Campus.) New York. September 5 – October 26
• OK Center for Contemporary Art. Video installation and performance. Linz, Austria. September
• Palais de Tokyo. Center of Contemporary Art. Performance. Paris, France. 6 April
• Museum of New Art. Performance. Detroit, USA. May

2001

• Museum of Modern Art, Grand-Duc Jean. Performance. Luxembourg. 31 November
• Audio-Lab project traveling to these five museums:

1. Museum of Modern Art. Strasbourg. Salon de Musique. From 13 June to 13 September
2. Centre Georges Pompidou. Paris. From 11 to 22 September
3. Museum of Modern Art, Grand-Duc Jean. Luxembourg. November–December
4. Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art. Copenhagen. October–December 2002
5. La Casa Encendida. Madrid. June–September

• Ex Teresa Center for Contemporary Art. Installation and performance. Mexico City. June–July

1999

• Knitting Factory. Performance. New York. 23 February 1999

1998

• The Kitchen. Performance. New York. January 1998

Lucky Kitchen

In addition to their own work, Alejandra and Aeron have run the independent audio publisher Lucky Kitchen since 1997. Some of the artists published on Lucky Kitchen are Stephen Vitiello

Stephen Vitiello

Stephen Vitiello is a visual and sound artist. Originally a punk guitarist he is influenced by video artist Nam June Paik who he worked with after meeting in 1991...

, Tetsu Inoue, Matmos, Joshua Abrams and Liz Payne (from Town and Country) Stephan Mathieu

Stephan Mathieu

Stephan Mathieu is a German musician and sound artist whose work is based on digital and analog processing techniques. He lives and works in Saarbrücken, Germany.-About:...

, and Halvorson Pavone.

Discography

• Bostonpopsonreverbformydeadgrandpa (1997)
• Children's Record (1999)
• The Tale of the Unhappy American (2000)
• Home Tapes (2000)
• Ruinas Encantadas (2001)
• La Rioja (2001)
• Underwater Villages (2001)
• The Tale of Pip (2001)
• Bousha Blue Blazes (2003)
• Scotch Monsters (2002/3)
• Lost Cat (2004)
• Be Mine (2005)
• Porto (2005)
• Billowy Mass (2007)
• Rendeiras, Hasselblad and Bell & Howell 10" picture disc (2008)

External links

• Alejandra and Aeron: Official Site
• Lucky Kitchen: Official Site
• Alejandra & Aeron at UbuWeb Sound
• Alejandra & Aeron at UbuWeb Film & Video
• Text in German Die Zeit
• Interview in CASM magazine, Barcelona