Hesselholdt og Mejlvang

Hesselholdt og Mejlvang

Hesselholdt og Mejlvang Work for Live Art Danmark 2022 Two Fools in a Sinking Boat, VR-installation at Friisland. Two Fools in a Sinking Boat We invited the Danish artist duo Hesselholdt og Mejlvang, consisting of Sofie Hesselholdt and Vibeke Mejlvang to make a VR-installation specifically for our project space Friisland. They delivered a performance in virtual reality. Their original work, “Two Fools in a Sinking Boat” was created for a single audience member at a time. The virutal reality presences of two fools (Hesselhold and Mejlvang in scary clowns costumes) circled the viewer inside Friisland art space, spewing rhymes and stanzas about the state of the earth on the brink […]

Taiwo Aiyedogbon

Taiwo Aiyedogbon

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 […]

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, […]

Otmar Wagner (DE/A)

Otmar Wagner (DE/A)

Otmar Wagner Works for Live Art Danmark 2004 “Encyclopedia of Performance Art” at Berliner Luft 1 2005 “Stuff the Holes, Yeah!” at Berliner Luft 2 2012 “Song for Samtalekøkken” and “The Border” at Samtalekøkken 2021 “The Blind Gorilla” for Live Art for Børn at Ålborg Festuge 2021 “TOYS OF JOYLESSNESS or DISTURBANCE & DEBILITY” for Friisland opening and VR-exhibition Encyclopedia of Performance Art Otmar founded founded “Wagner/Feigl Forschung und Festspiele” together with Florian Feigl as a platform for their common projects in 1996. IN 2004 they performed their “Encyclopedia of Performance Art” for the first time in Denmark at our first Berliner Luft festival. The Encyclopedia is a potentially limitless […]