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Marie Thams Work for Live Art Danmark 2022 “aaarena” at Friisland Live #6 aaarena Marie performed her work “aaarena” at our sixth live art event out in Nordhavn, layering a Danish text over a soundscape created with voice as an instrument. The piece deals with questions around the body as an arena and tool in the accelerated and norm-setting working life – which shapes the experience of life, our ability to hear other than human-made mechanisms, our connectedness, and more. In her voice and speech-based performances, Marie Thams works with the potentials of the body and the individual in sociopolitical as well as individual terms, combining voice with personal and […]
Margaret Dragu Works for Live Art Danmark 2022 “The New Akademy of Life and Performance Aktions” at Friisland Live #4 The New Akademy of Life and Performance Aktions We encountered wisdom expressed as small gems of performance art, expressed in a seemingly random sequence of actions, or, as the artists would have it “Aktions”. Margaret Dragu spend a week in Copenhagen in June of 2022 as a resdient guest artist with our friends from B&W Art and Support. Besides participating in two of their “Teach Each Other Mondays” and holding a series of daily open studio events at Forsøgsstationen, she found time to present this work in collaboration with her […]
Miao Jiaxin Work for Live Art Denmark 2022 Artist in Residency at Friisland, “A German Aufguss Sauna Ritual performed by a Chinese from the US”, live performance, “725 performance”, VR performance, “Chorus of Pulse” performance recipe for Performance Opskrifter. A German Aufguss Sauna Ritual performed by a Chinese from the US We loved this old school performance art piece with the artist engaging in a series of material explorations, including potentially dangerous and unhealthy ones, inviting audience participation, enduriong physically strenuous activities, and creating a giant mess. In March 2022 US-American performance artist Miao Jiaxin was the artist in residence at our project space Friisland. He contributed this live performance […]
Svend Sømod Work for Live Art Danmark 2022: “8 Hz: Brainwave Manipulation”, Live Art for Børn and VR installation at Friisland. 8 Hz: Brainwave Manipulation We invited by Danish visual artist Svend Sømod to participate in two of our projects in 2022. He presented two different version of his VR-work “8Hz: Brainwave Manipulation”, which uses the VR-technology to simulate the state of the brain during deep meditation. To achieve this, the viewers brain is manipulated into taking on a state similar to that of REM sleep by exposing the eyes to a series of flashes with the frequency of 8 Hz. First, we integrated Svend’s installation into the 2022 line […]
Taiwo Aiyedogbon Works for Live Art Danmark 2022 Artist in Residence, “Asiweju” live performance, “Gèlèdè”, site-specific VR performance at Friisland, recipe for Performance Opskrifter. Asiweju In May of 2022, Taiwo was our artist in residence. For the fourth event of our series of regular performance events at our project space Friisland, Taiwo developed and presented ”Asiweju”, an participatory performance walk. Drawing from her research into Nigerian women leaders, Taiwo explored how national histories are written and popularized. In Asuwaju, she used methods of political procession and celebration dance to reconsider and rewrite these narratives to include the powerful contributions of Nigerian women leaders. All women in the audience were invited to […]
Tom Cassani Works for Live Art Danmark 2022 VR-Installations for Live Art for Børn VR Installations Tom participated in our festival of Live Art for children in 2022. Especially for the festival venue DOKK!, he created three site-specific, non-verbal VR recordings. The kids in the audience first had to find them all, the put on the VR equipment to get a taste of Tom’s personal performing style, which can best be described as a mix of magic, new circus, and performance art, used with the aim of creating astonishing images and situations. Many of his works are short-lived and some are particularly physically demanding, but in VR format we were […]
Dani Ploeger Work for Live Art Denmark 2022, performance lecture on his VR work “Frontline”, Friisland Live #6, Friisland. Frontline The Dutch artist and activist Dani Ploeger travelled to the Eastern frontline of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia long before the official beginning of the war. While there was quite a lot of media attention in the West, when Russian backed militias first occupied territories in the Donbass, it was soon pointed elsewhere, when no spectacular developments and changes of the sutuaiton took place. Dani used video and VR material he shot of a small group of soldiers he embedded himself with to create the VR installation “Frontline”. It […]
Adam James Works with Live Art Danmark 2021 Artist in Residence, interactive performance “As a Group or Alone” at Friisland. 2023 Live Action Role Play for Performance Recepies. As a group or alone During the second live performance event at our project space Friisland, which doubled as our Christmas party, we presented our then artist in residence, Adam James (UK/SE) who worked with augmented reality and live action role play. He came to Copenhagen for a week with his family, mainly to work on a new short script for one of his Live Action Role Plays with students from a local school. The aim was to create a game which […]
Sibylle Peters Work with Live Art Danmark 2020 “Kaputt, the Academy of Destruction” Workshop at Copenhagen Contemporary Sibylle has long been a friend a collaborator of Live Art Danmark. Works she has been instrumental in realising like Forschungstheater’s “Barnebanken” and “50 Farlige Ting” have inspired our understanding of art as research with children. Find a more detailed account of our collaborations on our page on Forschungstheater. Kaputt Based on a production by Fundus Theater in Hamburg, we invited children and their grown ups to explore destruction in different ways. What if we look at breaking stuff not as usual, not as destruction and violence, but as a cultural strategy that […]
Sif Hedegård Work for Live Art Danmark2021 “Out of Body Garment”, two performances and exhibition “Performance/Textiles” Out of Body GarmentSif was among the first artists to perform and exhibit her work at our project space Friisland. For “Out of Body Garment” she manipulated, altered and processed pieces of clothing and other materials into new shapes that resembled organic beings, prothesis and machine parts. For her first performance she covered her entire body, including the head and face, with black fabric, so the attention of the viewer was directed exclusively at the materials she was working with. In her second performance for the finnisage of the exhibition she attached some of […]