Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen

Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen

Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen Works for Live Art Danmark “Musique de Tables” and “Black Box Music” at Life Art for Children 2023. We felt especially honored that the reknowned national Danish ensemble for new and avantgarde music, Athelas Sinfonietta, came to join our Live Art for Children festival in Copenhagen in 2023. The two pieces they performed, one small, one massive, both made a lasting impression on our audiences with the precision and seriousness, with which they approached slightly bonkers comcepts. Musique de Tables In Thierry de Mey’s piece Musique de tables from 1985, as the name suggests, the table is used as a musical instrument. The work is written for […]

Blizzard Concept

Blizzard Concept

Blizzard Concept Works for Live Art Danmark 2022 “Neptunia” at Live Art for Børn, Aarhus Neptunia Kids were amazed to meet Neptunia, a circus plant that can actually dance. The French new circus and neo-magic group Blizzard Concept brought this completely unusual potted plant to Aarhus for us. She loooks like just another Schefflera Arboricola, but when on stage, she gently, but clearly visible to the naked eyes, sways to her very own rhythms. Even for the adventurous artists of Blizzard concept, it was a completely new and challenging experience to train a house plant. About Blizzard Concept In 2012, after graduating from Lido circus arts school, clown and juggler […]

Adam James

Adam James

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

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 […]

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 […]

Kosmologym

Kosmologym Work with Live Art Danmark 2019 “Probaball” at Live Art for Børn Probaball Kosmologym developed a series of performative games that allow participants to encounter political and ethical issues in original, practical and even fun ways. Probaball explores and practices the ways insurances function to minimise risks. Alluding to the increasing amount of extreme freak weather incidents caused by climate change they say that insurance “was born in flames but may be extinguished by floods”. Probaball examines the institution of insurance through a collective risk protection game. Paricipants build cities from wooden building blocks, insure them and then anxiously wait (not for very long) for disasters to strike. About […]

Kirsten Justesen

Kirsten Justesen Work with Live Art Danmark 2019/20 “Ice Hands”, performance score for “Playing Up” Ice Hands Some artists create marble and stone sculptures that last for thousands of years. Kirsten Justesen began early on to work with her own body as a form, and later with ice as a material. Her sculptures do not last forever, because the ice and the body, which are both shaped by nature’s processes, change and disappear with time. In our performance game Playing Up, we included two instructions that were inspired by Kirsten’s various works of body art that used ice as their central ingredient. Participants were asked to hold an ice cube […]

Rachael Clerke

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

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

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 […]