Rachael Clerke Works with Live Art Danmark 2020 “A Spell to Make a Building Disappear”, performance at Copenhagen Contemporary and recipe for Performance Opskrifter. 2023 “The Punk Band Project” at Life Art for Children 2023. A Spell to Make a Building Disappear A Spell to Make a Building Disappear is a workshop and performance for children and families, aiming to temporarily erase institutional space. It is a rough reworking of a cabaret piece, Sex Noise Choir, that Rachael likes to perform late at night in queer spaces, when everyone is drunk. This version is more mundane – using sounds from outside the gallery space – but it is likewise about […]

Johannes Zits Works With Live Art Danmark 2019 “Dialoguing With Trees”, Live Art for Børn 2019 Performance Recipe for “Performance Opskrivter” Dialoguing With Trees For this performance Johannes put himself into an empathic state with some trees and attempted to convey to them the divergent impressions of nature within an art context. He achieved this with nonverbal actions and various found elements. The grouping of trees that he worked with, situated in the very civilised context of a park in central Aalborg, attest to how for centuries people have been trying to “tame” nature; making it conform to varying cultural ideals. As successive art movements have been built on top […]

Hanna Sybille Müller Works with Live Art Denmark2018 “Sounds Like Catastrophes” at Live Art for Børn, with Eva-Maria Keller2019 “Sounds Like Catastrophes” recipe for Performanceopskrifter, with Eva-Maria Keller Sounds Like CatastrophesFor our festival Live Art for Children 2018, Sibylle collaborated with Eva Meyer Keller to create an original work that was performed by six children. Sounds like Catastrophes is part of a series of works that intuitively research catastrophes. It examines the quietness and loudness of the gently increasing or sudden sounds we associate with catastrophes. As part of an initial workshop, the young performers invented instruments made from everyday materials and objects, to form an catastrophical orchestra. Playing their […]

Fatric Bewong Works with Live Art Danmark2019 Residency in Copenhagen and a recipe for Performance Opskrifter. Recipe for PerformancesIn her interdisciplinary art practice, Fatric focusses on the complex relationships between colonialism and pollution. During her residency at Copenhagen Contemporary she created a walking performance which led her along the further reaches of Copenhagen harbour. With her face painted green and carrying a massive pile of makeshift luggage on her back, she succeeded in inspiring audiences and passers by to reflect issues of migration and colonialism. In a performance recipe that she contributed to our collection that allows audiences to recreate performances that took place at an earlier date, she asks […]