Prøvedage / The Tryouts
Performance, film, installation
“What if the fire isn’t the end, but the beginning?”
Prøvedage (”The Tryouts”) is a play by Filip Vest about crises, hope, identity, and work. It’s about all the stories we tell about ourselves, each other, and the world we live in – and about other stories that might be possible.
We follow three interns who have been tasked with cleaning up a theatre after a fire. While working, they are accidentally locked inside, and to pass the time, they begin sharing stories from their lives and imagine new tales from the charred remains of the set pieces they find. Meanwhile, they navigate their own tangled identities, both minor and major crises, and the role of art in society.
Playing 20th - 30th of November
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Language: Danish (an English translation of the script is available on site)
The Round Tower, 2024. Photos: Johan May Nitschke
Self Tape
Performance, film, installation
Self Tape is an exploration of precarious work, identity, queerness, exhaustion, and humiliation in late capitalism. We follow an androgenous creature with light blue skin, long ears and red boots, that is being held captive in an eternal casting limbo by an unknown entity that only takes the shape of a menacing buzzer sound and a red light.
The creature that is part monster, part pop princess is struggling to find a role that it can play, as it code switches between famous monsters and divas throughout the time: Gollum, Frankenstein's monster, Marilyn Monroe and Dolly Parton among others. When the creature is not performing monologues, dancing or playing music with its long nails, it tries to answer questions about its prior work experience, but ends up talking about its ex and childhood instead. "What are you looking for?" the creature asks in a mix between frustration, flirtation, and fear…
Review - Kunstkritikk
Ringsted Galleriet, MMCA Seoul, The 15th Gwanju Biennale, Moderna Museet Malmö, 2024
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The creature that is part monster, part pop princess is struggling to find a role that it can play, as it code switches between famous monsters and divas throughout the time: Gollum, Frankenstein's monster, Marilyn Monroe and Dolly Parton among others. When the creature is not performing monologues, dancing or playing music with its long nails, it tries to answer questions about its prior work experience, but ends up talking about its ex and childhood instead. "What are you looking for?" the creature asks in a mix between frustration, flirtation, and fear…
Review - Kunstkritikk
Ringsted Galleriet, MMCA Seoul, The 15th Gwanju Biennale, Moderna Museet Malmö, 2024
The Wide-Mouthed Frog
Performance
In the performance “The Wide-Mouthed Frog” we meet a frog trying to perform a striptease routine for the director of an art hall, but midways it has a breakdown and starts ranting about the struggles of being a frog and and artist in a post-capitalist society. It’s a story about performance art and experience economy, loneliness and capitalism, fetischisation, frogs and sex.
The performance was developed for the opening of CPH Art Week, 2022.
“…And as you know in the art world often they can’t offer you money, but they can offer you a lot of exposure! Too bad the only thing I got exposed to was gonorrhea…
Sorry am I using that word correctly? Exposure? I think the word I was looking for was… Exploitation? Sorry I always mix up the two of them...”
The performance was developed for the opening of CPH Art Week, 2022.
“…And as you know in the art world often they can’t offer you money, but they can offer you a lot of exposure! Too bad the only thing I got exposed to was gonorrhea…
Sorry am I using that word correctly? Exposure? I think the word I was looking for was… Exploitation? Sorry I always mix up the two of them...”
Nikolaj Kunsthal, CPH Art Week, June 2022.
Arken Museum for Contemporary Art, November, 2023.
Resort
Installation, performance, 60 min
“Resort” is an exhibiton and performance about a fictional surreal holiday paradise, where climate crisis, human isolation, escapism and doom lurk right under the luxurious surface.
The performance revolves around a couple that has gone on a holiday to a resort to fix their relationship. They begin a role play, where they pretend to be two strangers that meet in a hotel bar, but as they try out different scenarios they slowly lose their sense of self.
Resort is a fictional universe where everything appears porous; nature and culture, identities and relations, and past, present, and future coalesce, while small and bigger movements affect each other, both plate-tectonically and relationship-dynamically.
The exhibition is inspired by Møstings’ origin as a summer residence for the wealthy citizens in the late 19th century.
Resort is an exhibition about wishing yourself far away, dreaming of being anywhere but here. About anxiety, escapism, and new identities, and about missing something before you have even lost it.
Performers: Marie-Lydie Nokouda, Kristoffer Eriknauer, Louis Bodnia Andersen and Emma Silja Sångren
Reviews: Bastard + ISCENE + Den 4 Væg
The performance revolves around a couple that has gone on a holiday to a resort to fix their relationship. They begin a role play, where they pretend to be two strangers that meet in a hotel bar, but as they try out different scenarios they slowly lose their sense of self.
Resort is a fictional universe where everything appears porous; nature and culture, identities and relations, and past, present, and future coalesce, while small and bigger movements affect each other, both plate-tectonically and relationship-dynamically.
The exhibition is inspired by Møstings’ origin as a summer residence for the wealthy citizens in the late 19th century.
Resort is an exhibition about wishing yourself far away, dreaming of being anywhere but here. About anxiety, escapism, and new identities, and about missing something before you have even lost it.
Performers: Marie-Lydie Nokouda, Kristoffer Eriknauer, Louis Bodnia Andersen and Emma Silja Sångren
Reviews: Bastard + ISCENE + Den 4 Væg
Møstings, Copenhagen, March-June, 2023
Supported by Statens Kunstfond, Arbejdernes Landsbank, Beckett Fonden, Colour Ceramica and Rosendahl Design
Photos: Torben Eskerod + Palle Bo Nielsen
Bunk
Performance
Bunk is a work about longing, intimacy and the passage of time: being young and wanting to be older, getting older and wishing to be younger.
We follow three characters during a series of sleepless nights. They can't see or hear each other and spend three night talking to themselves and building new realities and escapes: a rope made from a blanket or a blue duvet cover turned into a swimming pool.
Fantasies, desires, dreams, anxieties and memories mix somewhere between sleep and consciousness. It’s a story about imagined childhoods, queer temporalities, sleepless nights and multiple puberties.
Hollufgård Gæsteatelier, Odense, May, 2022
We follow three characters during a series of sleepless nights. They can't see or hear each other and spend three night talking to themselves and building new realities and escapes: a rope made from a blanket or a blue duvet cover turned into a swimming pool.
Fantasies, desires, dreams, anxieties and memories mix somewhere between sleep and consciousness. It’s a story about imagined childhoods, queer temporalities, sleepless nights and multiple puberties.