Kristján Ingimarsson (IS/DK)

Kristján Ingimarsson (IS/DK)

Kristján Ingimarsson Work for Live Art Danmark 2011 “Fools of the World, Unite” at Samtalekøkken Fools of the World, Unite A clown program with Kristján dressed up as a super hero, animating the audience to take back their creative freedom by waving red flags with yellow flowers on them. About the Artist Kristján Ingimarsson (b. 1968). Originally from Iceland. Moved to Denmark in 1992. Trained, among other places, at the School of Stage Arts, the actors’ school at the performance art theatre Cantabile 2 in Denmark (1997). He is the founder and artistic director of Kristján Ingimarsson Company (1998), as well as a freelance director, actor and performer. Kristján is […]

Jette Hye Jin Mortensen (DK/KR)

Jette Hye Jin Mortensen (DK/KR)

Jette Hye Jin Mortensen Works for Live Art Danmark 2011 “Tell It the Way They Tell It”, Samtalekøkken 2016 “Songbook”, Samtalekøkken Tell It the Way They Tell It At Samtalekøkkenet in January 2011, she showed her video “Tell it the way they tell it” and spoke about how she produced it on equal terms with her mixed team of Danish art and video professionals to subvert the expectations of art institutions in her “foreign” gaze as a Korean born adoptee to Denmark. Live Review At Samtalekøkken, we invited art experts to live-review the performances. Jette’s presentation was live-reviewed by Mette Garfield of Teater 1. Hear Mette speak Danish in the […]

Jörn Burmester Wium (DE/DK)

Jörn Burmester Wium (DE/DK)

Jörn Burmester Wium Works with Live Art Danmark 2009 “My Last Performance” for the launch of our book about the Berliner Luft festivals 2011 DIVA Artist in residence, “Performance Art is live, Theatre ist Death” 2011 “Random Rants”, Acts festival Roskilde 2011 “Rambo Revisionist” at Samtalekøkken 2014 “Teotwawki” and presentation of Performer Stammtisch at Hitparaden 2 Jörn is a permanent collaborator of Live Art Denmark as a consultant and writer. My Last Performance When we presented the book about our four Berliner Luft festivals at Warehouse 9 in November 2009, Jörn performed  “My Last Performance”. Reading from 200 index cards what “this, his last performance” should or should not contain, explore, […]

Joshua Sofaer (UK)

Joshua Sofaer (UK)

Joshua Sofaer Works with Live Art Danmark 2010 “Talk”, performance lecture at Samtalekøkken 2018 Residency in collaboration with Statens Teaterskole Talk “Talk” was a hugely entertaining lecture on Joshua’s own development as an artist and some projects he realised, presented at Samtalekøkken in October 2010. Due to the small amount of data YouTube allowed to be uploaded at the time, the video is divided into three parts. The first part of the lecture can be seen below, parts two and three here and here respectively. Residency In a collaboration between Live Art Denmark and Statens Teaterskole we invited Joshua back for a residence in January and February of 2018. During […]

Joakim Stampe (S)

Joakim Stampe (S)

Joakim Stampe Work for Live Art Danmark 2012 “Daddy’s Flag in Red, White and Fire” at Samtalekøkken Daddy’s Flag in Red, White and Fire After moving the audience to positions he desires, Joakim unfolds a large red cloth. Loud opera music plays while he places a bucket of white paint on the cloth, dips his foot in it and proceeds to mark the two white lines of the Danish flag by walking the length of the cloth. With the Danish flag completed, he moves to a piece of brown paper attached to one wall of the space, and paints on it with an invisible fluid. The lights go out, he […]

Jane Jin Kaisen (DK)

Jane Jin Kaisen (DK)

Jane Jin Kaisen Work with Live Art Danmark 2012 “A Bedtime Story” at Samtalekøkken A Bedtime Story Jane Jin Kaisen performed “A Bedtime Story” at Samtalekøkkenet in December 2012. Calmly speaking to her own infant child who she carried around wrapped in a blanket, she told the story of her own motherhood, including the practical challenges it came with. She talked at length about the difficulty of finding a place in daycare for her child, worrying about finding the best possible one, and many other issues that come with becoming and being a parent. The entire story is narrated in the third person, giving it a distanced, almost fairy tale […]

Jakob Jakobsen (DK)

Jakob Jakobsen (DK)

Jakob Jakobsen Work for Live Art Danmark 2011 “Byggeren overgiver sig aldrig” at Samtakekøkken. Byggeren overgiver sig aldrig For Samtalekøkkenet in November 2011, Jakob performed the live radio play “Byggeren overgiver sig aldrig” (translates roughly to “the builder never gives up”) in collaboration with Anders Remmer. The performance of this radical piece (both in content and in sound-aethetics) on riots and questions around who owns the city can be seen and heard in the video below. About the Artist Jakob Jakobsen (f. 1965) studied at the Royal Art Academy of Copenhagen from 1989 to 1995. He is active as a visual artist, activist, writer, curator and teacher. He was involved […]

Helena Hei-Sook Park (DK)

Helena Hei-Sook Park (DK)

Helena Hei-Sook Park Work for Live Art Denmark 2010: “Slagter Grøntsager” at Samtalekøkken Slagter Grøntsager It is a cold November night in Copenhagen’s notorious Kødbyen, the former slaughterhouse district. Crouching on the ground close to a brick wall, a figure clad in black fur commits a series of brutal murders. The victims are several heads of cabbage and a large pumpkin, massacred and shredded to bits with an impressive arsenal of knives and cleavers. The pumpkin even gets infused with tomato pulp blood before its demise to make the spectacle more gorey. All the evidence, bits and pieces of veggies, gets thrown into a large cooking pot, where they are […]

Florian Feigl (DE)

Florian Feigl (DE)

Florian Feigl Works with Live Art Danmark 2004 “Encyclopedia of Performance Art” at Hitparaden 1, with Wagner Feigl Festspiele 2011 “Prologue to 300” at Samtalekøkkenet 2011 “Rambo Revisionist” at Samtalekøkkenet, with Jörn Burmester Wium 2014 “Teotwawki” at Hitparaden 2, with Jörn Burmester Wium and Mark Boombastik 2017 “Jeg skal baare lige…” for Live Art for Børn S/H 2022 “Prologue to 300”, two times three performances for Friisland Live #5 and Åben Festival. Encyclopedia of Performance Art With their performance-lecture “The Encyclopaedia of Performance Art” Wagner-Feigl-Forschung (Florian Feigl and Otmar Wagner) sketch out a complete and all encompassing catalogue of the world. In this live-action-research they guide us through the fields […]

Eric Andersen (DK)

Eric Andersen (DK)

Eric Andersen Works for Live Art Danmark2013 Organ Concert for Samtalekøkken at Nikolaj Kunsthall Fluxus Organ ConcertFluxus legend Eric Andersen produces an impressive drony wall of sound  on the large church organ at Nikolaj Kunsthall for our Samtalekøkken in April 2013. The performance was part of his own retrospective solo-exhibition in the former church in the medieval center of Copenhagen, where Eric performed in one of the first Fluxus concerts in Denmark ever during Festum Fluxorum in 1962.   About the ArtistEric Andersen has been a pioneer in the field of performance art, installation and InterMedia and was one of the founders of the Fluxus network in 1962. Since 1960 […]