LESIONS

You enter a dimly lit red room. An eerie but soothing sound guides you forward. Bright white lights move through the room like cars driving by on a winter’s evening. A new sound emerges and a performer enters the room dramatically. They speak, but somehow seem strange. It’s a lip sync. They talk directly to you about hormones, surgeries, vampires, forests, fields, and a person named Majorie. At the other end of the room, you notice two performers lying on the floor eating a strange-looking ice cream, almost like a faint teenage memory. In fact, everything seems to belong to another time.

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ABOUT JULES FISCHER

Jules Fischer is educated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2017 and has also studied Dance and Choreography at The National School of Performing Arts as well as in Art and Social Practice in Portland State University. Fischer has in collaborations with professional dancers and performers shown works at various art galleries and institutions, such as Glyptoteket, SMK and Arken. In 2024 they will have their first solo-show outside Denmark at UKS in Oslo. They have been chosen as part of the program “The young artistic elite 2022-23” and in 2023 received a 3 years work grant from The Danish Arts Foundation.

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COLLECTIVE MANIFESTATION: COSMOS ACUPUNCTURE & LUKA HOLMEGAARD

In addition to the performance, there will subsequently be a collective manifestation with invited guests, who focus on the audience’s thoughts and room for action in relation to the theme of the performance.

This evening will be about collective care. Luka Holmegaard will read from his writing and talk about how his work relates to themes of body, community and activism. Cosmo Soltani from Cosmos Acupuncture will offer the audience acupuncture as a way of anchoring the conversation in the body. Together we will talk about art and body care as an activist and community-building practice. Parts of the conversation will be in English.

The collective manifestations are organized in collaboration with Ph.D. Storm Møller Madsen from the Department of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

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ABOUT ACTING IN & OUT – PERFORMANCE AND ACTIVISM

Acting In & Out is an interdisciplinary program with artists from both the performing arts world and the visual arts world, who over four weeks at Husets Teater examine the framework for staging contemporary narratives.

Toaster presents four Danish groups/artists who all challenge the status quo and are concerned with socio-political issues both on the external and internal level. Nature and bodies, stretched out and up against economy, climate, gender and other power structures.

Each evening, in addition to the performance, there will be a collective manifestation with invited guests, who focus on the audience’s thoughts and room for action in relation to the theme of the performance. There will be reading aloud, embroidery, acupuncture, dragon building and choral singing in a safe space, where the audience is guided and met in a common conversation about what concerns us and where there is room for difference, doubt, hope and action!

Toaster sends a big thank you to OPE-N for the collaboration around Shout and Efter Festen, which has initiated the creation of Acting In & Out.