Sidse Carstens

Stills from the video Slime & Crystal/ Egg & Ash 

2022 

C4projects, Copenhagen

Stills from the video Slime & Crystal 2

2020

Collaborations by Tania and Thomas Asbæk, Copenhagen

Documentation of Slim & Krystal sound performances by Sidse Carstens, Rose Eken and Nils Gröndahl

Satisfying 2019 - Sjællandsgade Bad, Copenhagen

Ground Healing 2021 - Vild Park Festival, Nykøbing F, Denmark

Satisfying Soup 2022 - C4Projects, Copenhagen

Satisfying Merch

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BIOGRAPHY

Sidse Carstens holds an MFA as an Animation Director from The National Film School of Denmark and she works across a wide range of media. Her artistic practice is characterized by equal parts sensuousness and rock’n’roll, reinterpreting elements of pop culture through various forms such as painting, video, merchandise, performance and sound art. In each medium, Carstens embeds, directly or indirectly, feminist and sensitive expressions that reflect her interest in themes of embodiment and the constructed nature of identity and femininity.

Since 2018, Sidse Carstens has been exploring the phenomenon of ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) through her ongoing project Slim & Krystal. In this work, Carstens delves into the digital world of mediated intimacy, exploring the bodily sensations evoked by the sound and imagery cultivated online by ASMR followers. Her pastel-colored universe blends cyberculture, girlish fetishes, and ancient domestic rituals, creating a tension between the tactile and the digital.

Carstens invites viewers to explore the intersection of the aesthetically beautiful and the gross. By focusing on intimate rituals of everyday life and the overall discomfort of being, she offers new perspectives on time, embodiment, and materiality.

Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, with shows at ARoS Museum, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, and SMK (The National Gallery of Denmark). Her films have also been screened at institutions like Palais de Tokyo and Centre Pompidou in Paris. Sidse Carstens lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.