LEDDYRSOMSORG / ARTHROPOD CARE

LEDDYRSOMSORG / ARTHROPOD CARE is a kaleidoscopic video installation, 20 minutes, generated using WAN 2.1 on a locally run RTX 4090, with a soundtrack combining ACE 1.5 generated music and analogue samples. Installed at Ringsted Galleriet and Midt- og Vestsjællands Hospital as part of FORSTADIER / PRECURSORS. Curated by Morten K Jacobsen. Watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/yvs9G5nKos8 The video runs in two parts. The first ten minutes follow a journey from the ocean to the inauguration of a fictional Ringsted Hospital by a version of the Danish Prime Minister — staffed by dancing workers and giant blue woodlice that handle the laundry, provide diagnoses, repair electronics and occupy the roles that futurists and policy makers are currently imagining for AI and automation in the Danish health sector. The images shift and destabilise, conjuring a welfare system built on an uneasy combination of nature and technology that is neither utopian nor dystopian but simply strange and somehow plausible. The second ten minutes show a baby sleeping, curled peacefully against a blue woodlouse — a resting state, the handover point where Aske Thiberg’s video takes over in the duo installation, the two works alternating in a single loop. FORSTADIER / PRECURSORS is a duo exhibition with Aske Thiberg (@askweee), circling the iconography of the healthcare system — the clinical room, the language of care, the institutional forms — with detours into bias in language models, datasets, isolation and alienation. At the hospital, the video is accompanied by full-scale sculptures, signs and leaflets. On view until 11 April 2026. Ringsted Galleriet, Bøllingsvej 15 — open Saturdays 13:00–16:00 or by appointment. Midt- og Vestsjællands Hospital, Bøllingsvej 30 — open weekdays 08:00–15:00 or by appointment. 4100 Ringsted. ringstedgalleriet.dk @ringstedgalleriet #FORSTADIER #PRECURSORS #FrihedLighedOgSymptom #WelfarestateMyths #SurrealSocialRealism #WAN21 #ringstedsygehus #ringsted @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @nycarlsbergfondet #louishansensfond #detobelskefamiliefond #billedkunstrådetringsted #øerneskunstfond #kulturregionmidtogvestsjælland #grossererlffoghtsfond