Gob Squad Works for Live Art Denmark 2009 “Gob Squad’s Kitchen” at Berliner Luft 4 Gob Squad’s Kitchen The performance takes one of Andy Warhol’s famous art films, Kitchen, as its starting point. Nothing much happens in the original film yet it somehow encapsulates the hedonistic experimental energy of the swinging sixties. Learning lines was considered ‘old fashioned’ so the actors just hang around. Sex, drugs and wild parties are referred to but nothing in particular takes place. Gob Squad set themselves the task of reconstructing Kitchen and other Warhol films, like Eat, Sleep and Screen Test. How can they get it just right? How do they know if they’re […]
Ellen Friis Works with Live Art Danmark Ellen is one of the founders and directors of Live Art Danmark and takes part in developing and producing all projects of our company. Her personal artistic contributions to our various programs include: 2007 “The Evidence” at Berliner Luft 3 2012 “Six Saints: Lene Vestergaard Hau” at Samtalekøkken at Kunsthal Nikolaj 2013 “Six Saints: Tycho Brahe and Six Saints: H.C.Ørsted” at Hitparaden 1 2014 “Still-life (after Wilhelm Bendz)” for Now and Again 2017 “Ida Bruns Attituder” at Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen The Evidence At Berliner Luft 3 Ellen presented the first version of her performance “The Evidence”. Inspired by a sentence she read in […]
Eva Meyer-Keller Works with Live Art Danmark 2007 “Death is Certain” at Berliner Luft 3 2018 “Sounds Like Catastrophes” at Live Art for Børn (with Sybille Müller) 2019 “Sounds Like Catastrophes”, recipe for Performanceopskrifter (with Sybille Müller) 2022 “Sounds Like Catastrophes” workshop in Trondheim/Norway. Death is Certain Have you ever wondered how you would murder a cherry? In this performance that we showed at Berliner Luft 3, German artist Eva Meyer-Keller comes up with just about every possible way. Cherries are smashed, popped, electrocuted, burned and hanged, as the performer, dressed in a white labcoat, matter-of-factly tries them all out in this amusing and slightly scary performance. Sounds Like Catastrophes […]
Henrik Vestergaard Works for Live Art DanmarkHenrik is one of the founders and directors of Live Art Denmark. He takes part in developing and producing all projects of our company. Using the label “Zarathustras Onkel”, he produced his own performances. The following were included in Live Art Danmark’s programs:2004 “Gerüstbauficken” at Berliner Luft 12005 “We Come in Peace” at Berliner Luft 22007 Remake of “Fingernumret”, part of the Kanon project, at Berliner Luft 32012 “Full Stop”, part of the Kanon project, at SamtalekøkkenSince 2016 More than 100 shows of 50 Farlige Ting (alle børn bør prøve)2018 “Virak Revy“, a performance about scores2020 “Kaboom“, a performance for kids about destruction in […]