END(LESS) THEATRE
Merging Grounds - A performance festival at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen.
17th - 24th of August 2011.
Following the conception of RISKs fundamental ideas the festival Merging Grounds (Hosted by Den Frie Udstillingsbygning) aimed to create a platform for performativity. Different approaches to performance were presented by using four general categories: LIVE, PRODUCTION, REMAKE and DOCUMENTATION. The categories, which within the genre of performance constantly merge, were presented here separately in an attempt to lay bare the field’s complexities.
RISK was invited to represent the performativity related to stage arts for the category LIVE. We created an End(less) Theatre, which dismembered the traditional theater production process as we know it by aiming to exhibit a process which decisively refuses to be product oriented. Instead the performance focused on the artistic practice itself, creating an exhibited and self-evaluative organism that continuously altered and questioned its own concepts, methods and failing attempts: A situational self portrait of the theatre enterprise.
RISK:RECLAIM:ENTERTAIN invited Stine Marie Jacobsen, Charlotte Bergmann Johansen, Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt and Sara Hamming to join in.
End(less) Theatre was sponsered by:
Dansk Skuespillerforbund, Københavns Scenekunstudvalg, Nationalbankens Jubilæumsfond af 1968, Sadolin, Statens Tonekunstudvalg, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning.
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Information about the MERGING GROUNDS PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL 2011
at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning:
MERGING GROUNDS, PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL 2011
DEN FRIE CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY ART
17 - 24 AUGUST
On the 17th of August opens MERGING GROUNDS, PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL 2011 at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen. The festival will run until the 24th of August and will showcase 12 prominent performance artists and artist groups from home and abroad. Each of which will show works or exhibitions created with consideration for the buildings unique exhibition space. The festivals vision is to create a platform for a meeting between visual arts and performativity in which different genres will be presented and processed by using four general categories: LIVE, PRODUCTION, REMAKE and DOCUMENTATION. These four categories, which within the genre of performance constantly merge, are presented here separately in order to lay bare the field’s complexities
MERGING GROUNDS, PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL 2011 will offer its audience a vibrant program of activities taking place throughout the building, consisting of daily live performances, large installations, some of which are moved into and inhabited by artists, exhibitions that address documentation of performance as media, live reinterpretations of key figures from within the history of performance art, a concert and a debate. The audience will also have ample opportunity to delve into the performative and the spectacular, engage in debate, as well as experience performance from a historical perspective and not least participate in the production of the festival’s performance works.
LIVE focuses on the living and moving, and is the stage for the presentation of six performance projects that range from a whole week to just minutes in duration. The artists/artist groups invited are:
Tori Wrånes (NO)
Leif Holmstrand (SE)
TFDExperience (DK/SE)
Trancendens Dilettante (DK)
The Mob (SE/DK)
RISK:RECLAIM:ENTERTAIN with friends (DK) consisting of: Marie-Louise Stentebjerg, Ida-Elisabeth Larsen, Gry Raaby, Marie Topp and Jara Maria Høgsberg who invite: Cecilie Ullerup-Schmidt, Stine Marie Jacobsen, Charlotte Bergmann Johansen and Sara Hamming
In PRODUCTION the focus is on physical presence and the category features two artists whose performance project spans and evolves throughout the festival period:
Fredrik Auster (SE)
Jette Hye Jin Mortensen (DK)
In REMAKE we present two performances that address past performances and takes subjects such as repetition, memory and interpretation up. The invited artists are:
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen (DK)
Children of Guts (SE)
With DOCUMENTATION we desire to tackle the complex task of documenting a live performance as well as direct our attention to the beginning of European performance art of the 1960’s. This is achieved through two exhibition projects by:
Klara Hobza (CE) who invites: Abbie Hoffman and the Yippies (USA), Mierle Laderman Ukeles (USA), Virg (DK), Kirsten Justesen (DK), Till Krause (DE), Leopold Kessler (BE), Gregory Volk (USA) and Stine Marie Jakobsen (DK)
Yvette Brackman (USA/DK) who presents: Gina Pane (FR/IT)