JETTE HYE JIN MORTENSEN b. 1980

Visual Artist and Filmmaker.

"The startingpoint for my art practice is a profound interest in
cultural encounters and cultural identity such as hybridity,
transidentity, kinship, ethnicity, religion, gender and post-
colonialism, as well as the frameworks of personal and public
narratives these identities are (re)negotiated within.

I somehow find human transmission to be a crossingpoint
between (A.Korzybski),:
1.What you know / have experienced
2. What you can express / perceive
and therefore see empirical experience crucial in how and
from which point of departure you can navigate in a collective,
globalized sea of vision and communication; something I can-
not escape from, but on the contrary, work within.

With attempts to challenge concepts of narration, language,
representation, cultural production and memory, I seek within
films, installations and performances to create layered ”stagings”
for cultural (and visual) translations and discursive conversations."

BACKGROUND
Born 1980 in Seoul, South Korea.
She was adopted to Denmark in 1982,
where she arrived New Year´s eve to her Danish family.
In 2006, she went to Korea and was reunited with her biological family.
Have lived in Denmark, Korea and the USA, and traveled
and exhibited in a number of countries all over the world.

WORK & EDUCATION BIO
Master of Fine Arts Candidate, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Co-founder and member of the Swedish/Danish artgroup ”UFOlab” .
Member of YNKB, activistic and educational art forum, tv, festivals, events.
Initiator of ”New Songbooks” in collaboration with danish writers and composers.
Trained in classical and modern piano and singing.
Have worked professionally as a singer and backing singer in many contexts.
Have studied and assisted in animation, performance, scenography and
anthropological theatre at the Odin Theatre, and acting, stanislavskij technique
and film at The Drama and Film School in Broendbyoester.
Master Class in Storytelling and Production w/ Elliot Grove/Raindance Film Festival.
Works as a freelance director, editor and producer.
Owns the filmproduction company ”BamBoo Film”, with clients such as: CSC,
Nordisk Film, DR 1, Sennheiser Nordic, Porsche, Tivoli, The Danish Government,
BBC, MTV etc.
Currently directing the feature documentary "Adopnation", supported by
The Danish Filminstitute, DOX Connected.