Dani Ploeger

Dani Ploeger

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 […]

Sif Hedegaard

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 […]

Francis Patrick Brody

Francis Patrick Brody

Francis Patrick Brody Works for Live Art Danmark2021 Artist in residency, “The Ignorant Gamesmaster”, live game and performances at Friisland. The Ignorant Gamesmaster “But now the gamesmaster opens his mouth to explain the game. He makes a series of reasonings in order to explain the series of reasonings that constitute the game. But why should the game need such help?” During his residency with Live Art Danmark, which we facilitated in collaboration with Copenhagen Contemporary, performance artist Francis Patrick Brody developed and presented a series of gamea, and audiences were invited to play. Due to the ignorance of the gamesmaster, Francis himself, who refused to provide a set of rules […]

David Sebastian Lopez Restrepo (CO)

David Sebastian Lopez Restrepo (CO)

David Sebastian Lopez Restrepo Works for Live Art Danmark 2016 Four Performances for COLAB Copenhagen 2019/2023 “Food DJ” at Life Art for Children 2019 and 2023 2021 “Hot Tub” for One Night Stand, the openning event at Friisland 2022 Two performances form the “Wolt Migrant” project: “Halfway from Denmark to Colombia on a metaphorical bike journey” and “The Finish Line” at Friisland. David Sebastian has been a regular collaborator on Live Art Danmark’s VR Archive of Performance Art and many other projects since 2016. COLAB Copenhagen David Sebastian was one of the international artists contributing to our event COLAB Copenhagen. In his performances, everyday objects like coal or paper boats, […]

Christopher Kline (US)

Christopher Kline (US)

Christopher Kline Works with Live Art Danmark2015 “O.K. – The Musical (Run-Through)” at Live Art for Børn 2, Arken, Ishøj2023 “Early Labyrinth”, performance and exhibition at Friisland. O.K. – The Musical (Run Through)O.K. is an ongoing project based around the history and lore of Kline’s hometown Kinderhook, New York. O.K. synthesizes and expands on Kinderhook’s mythology and attempts to construct a fresh overview of local history through the exposition of historical documents, videos, replicas, interpretive research, and collaborations with local students, craftspeople, filmmakers, and other community members. Central to the overall project is the creation of a community theatre musical which develops and expands through various exhibitions, performances and workshops […]