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[28. maj 2003]
Interview
Synova Lynd
Remixing - Interview med Synova Lynd
kopenhagen har et godt og vågent øje
til "the public space" og hvad der dukker op dér.
Vi var heldige at komme i kontakt med Synova Lynd, en af
dem der uopfordret præsenterer sine værker i bybilledet.
Hun inviterede kopenhagens reportere til et hemmeligt arrangement
i en kælder på Nørrebro, hvor nye arbejder blev
ferniseret med bar og jazz, inden de skulle på gaden. Synova
Lynd er fra U.S.A. og er i Danmark som udvekslingsstudent. Interview:
Maria Kjær Themsen og Torben Zenth. Foto: Anna
Jensen og Torben Zenth.
Synova Lynd: Paradis
Helvedesild, Intallationview
This event, who set it up?
These events were started last October with a guy from San Francisco
called DJ Slant. He was living in the building and saw potential
in this dark empty space. He started organizing music and then I
started putting up art. He left for the States in January. That
is when a few others and I took over the organization. It’s
a pretty easy process, making fliers, setting up the exhibition;
the live musicians are great because they organize themselves. This
is our seventh show.
Did you make all these works for the show?
Yeah, I actually have got this together just for the past month.
 
Synova Lynd: Paradis
Helvedesild, Intallationview
Could you describe the work you are doing in the public space?
I started doing it mostly because I was very frustrated that
I could not communicate with anyone around me. I tried using visual
means and found a relief through the method. I began trying this
due to inspiration I was obtaining from the streets. I'd go on afternoon
bike rides through Nørrebro just to look at the street art,
at this time it seemed like the art posters were the only things
that made sense. In reaction, I started doing a few pieces to try
to communicate and also understand myself better. I thought of the
endeavor as an experiment. I’m very happy with the results
because it has opened my mind in many ways. I didn’t expect
anyone would really notice. One day, I saw few windows in a dumpster
around the corner from where I was living. It turns out that the
entire building was being remolded and the few windows turned to
a hundred. I began taking them and working with them. My room was
so full of glass, I only had a 5ft by 5ft area to live in. Two of
my roommates were sleeping with windows under their beds as well.
I was working with whatever materials I could find, to recycle them
and remix them and give them back to... well society I suppose.
I think I did about 50 windows and 40 wooden boards hanging them
up around town between here (Nørrebro) and Vesterbro.
Mostly I it was the idea that I wanted them to keep changing. When
you put something up in the streets, it gets subjected to the weather,
people, and some of them go missing, so... it almost felt like a
representation of life... always changing unexpectedly...
For how long have you been showing your work in the streets?
Since December.
 
Synova Lynd: Paradis
Helvedesild, Intallationview
Where were you before you came to Copenhagen?
I was living and going to school in Santa Cruz, studying film.
Actually I'm an exchange student. I hadn’t been working very
seriously with this at home. I had ventured a little into using
stencils and stickers, but not really with the same ideas. When
I came here I became very inspired by all he stuff that's going
on; I kind of found a reconnection with it.
You are an exchange student going to school?
Yeah, I'm going to school at KUA
Is the Public Space art scene very different here compared to
Santa Cruz?
Yeah.... First of all, the way the school system is set up here,
I found I had much more time dedicate to projects I've been wanting
to try out. I don't think at home I noticed Street art aside from
the graffiti scene. Graffiti can have a tendency to be contained
to one certain specific group that understands it and are really
involved with the culture. What was exciting here is that people
are trying to expand the whole medium, use it in different ways,
and attract a different kind of audience. I think that is happening
in San Francisco, but before, I just wasn’t tuned into the
culture.
 
Synova Lynd: Paradis
Helvedesild, Intallationview
Can you mention someone who has been an inspiration to you?
I think Jan Danebod, his work I think is very interesting, and
also HuskMitNavn.
How did you get in contact with these people?
I was volunteering at a clothing shop on Elmegale and mentioned
my interest to the shop owner. I wanted to know who was making these
brilliant street productions because they effected me in a very
intense and personal way. That day, the owner called up Jan and
had him come by. I think they knew each other through Jan distributing
his magazine, but I'm not really sure
Another time, I was wondering around in Vesterbro one day because
I had seen old Byen Brander posters still up and went to check if
any of the galleries listed were still open. That’s when I
found Zens and it happened that Jan was having his Hjemmelavet Lorte
Dansk show the next week.
A while later, I attended >>Arbejderstitel: Offentlig Uro<<
in Århus. I had a chance to talk more with him there. That
was really a great networking event where I was able to meet and
see how others were working with the public space.
 
Synova Lynd: Paradis
Helvedesild, Intallationview
Where do you work?
I work here in the vacant attic. It's a nice place even though
it's freezing in the winter and hot in the summer.
Have you any ambitions with your work? Do you want to develop
it?
I'm actually not quite sure, because I focus mostly on doing
video. However, this entire process makes a lot of sense and it
feels like it's a good way to for me to communicate. There’s
a possibility DJ Slant and I may begin working together in SF. I
think he has found a warehouse type space.
 
Synova Lynd: Paradis
Helvedesild, Intallationview
Can you say something about you motivation?
Yeah... I think it's important to remix all the stuff that's
going on around me. I always hope the process will help me understand
something in a different way. Frequently, I'll take photographs,
photocopy them, and blow them up. It gives them a nice degenerated
newspaper feel and changes what you saw originally in reality. Hopefully,
this one moment that motivated me to take a picture can connect
to a random individual for another reason. This picture also becomes
a kind of symbol, making it easier for other people to digest, take
into their conscious. Maybe this will lead them to start thinking
about other things... hopefully that.
Furthermore, I am overwhelmingly frustrated with the current political
situation right now. I have this impending frustration I need to
deal with in some way. It’s difficult to make real policy change
through traditional means like lobbying. Voting seems more important
than ever while simultaneously being a gigantic false joke since
our president wasn’t even elected. All these forces wear on
your nerves, so it’s important to do something with this energy.
These productions are a way to remix intimidating powers into progressive
creations. For example, many of the first windows were full of pictures
from the EU protests and other protests against the war in Iraq.
I wanted to take that energy, rework it, and give it back to where
it came from… the streets and society.
 
Synova Lynd: Paradis
Helvedesild, Intallationview
Do you have anything in common with the other street-artists?
In common with them?
Political or something?
Political?
Yeah?
Hhhmmm.... I think that were all anti-Bush... I think the work
that Husk Mit Navn and Jan are partaking in is more effective since
it's more direct and frequent. It truly amazes me that they are
able to do so much with such intensity. I also look up to the fact
that they take time to do something outside of themselves. They
have created and are creating works that are a kind of offering
to the public, throwing it out there to a huge population that could
really not care most of the time, but then in another way it attracts
people that do care. I don’t think I have figured out how to
work on this kind of level but perhaps we share similar intentions.
 
Synova Lynd: Paradis
Helvedesild, Intallationview
Have you had any reactions to your work?
Yeah... I was actually surprised when people started saying
they've been noticing it, or... just the fact that you're exited
about it... It's kind of strange to me. It's also... I feel really
complimented. I think it's one of the best ways really to get feedback
and to understand about the work itself, because it's a relatively
unbiased way to get feedback if someone comes up to you out of the
blue just because of something they saw.
 
Synova Lynd: Paradis
Helvedesild, Intallationview
Do you have your name on your work?
It goes back and forth. I've been using the name Synova Lynd
because my sister gave it to me when were traveling through Germany
via regional trains, but I haven't developed a strong connection
to it — maybe the reason is because it's not really an important
part of the project. I feel that when I have put up the works, it's
not really for me anymore. The most important part of the project
is the creation of the work itself. So once it’s made, it becomes
someone else's responsibility.
 
Synova Lynd: Paradis
Helvedesild, Intallationview
Does your work disappear from the streets?
Yeah... I wish I could track it somehow...
Some of Synovas works in the streets:
 
 
Synova Lynd
 
Synova Lynd
 
 
Synova Lynd
Mere street art:
24. april 2003: Interview med Jan Danebod
Jan Danebod på Klub Revolver
13. marts 2003: Interview med Jan Danebod
om >>arbejdstitel: offentlig uro<<
3. februar 2003: Huskmitnavn:
Bjarne Lillers KlæbeŒnd
Billeder fra Chilli Pop
5. december 2002: Faile
vs. AKAY i V1
Billeder fra V1
16. oktober 2002: Huskmitnavn - nye værker
Interview og billeder
20. feb. 2002: Byen Brænder
Reportage
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