Hyphea

Tickets: This performance involves tasting and navigation in darkness and requires a paid ticket. The installation is open to everyone when the tasting is not in process. Link at the bottom of the page.

ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE

HYPHEA is a gastronomic and artistic experience that delves into the hidden world of fungi. Combining performance, sound, and food, it invites you to awaken your senses and explore your relationships with the more-than-human world – in complete darkness.

Accompanied by tactile soundscapes of underground field recordings by sound artist Eliza Bozek, you are guided into the dark to connect with fellow participants, human and non-human alike, around edible soil landscapes, where you will discover mushroom-based dishes developed by chef Alexander Melchior. The experience is woven together with poetic text by Nadja Mattioli, introducing the dishes from alternative perspectives, revealing the interconnected stories behind the food you are sensing.

HYPHEA invites you to slow down, rethink your relationship with food, and reflect on the unseen networks that connect and sustain our lives.

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Beyond Darkness is the artistic collaboration of choreographers Nadja Mattioli and Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen. Their work merges choreography, installation, and sensory experiences to explore the intricate connections between humans and the natural worlds around us. Through their creations, they seek to challenge perceptions, spark curiosity, and offer new perspectives on the present and future, crafting immersive universes that engage both the body and the imagination.

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PERFORMANCE BULLETIN

Den Frie and Toaster presents the upcoming performance festival The Performance Bulletin, which will take place June 5-8 2025. Together with Danish and international performance artists, we investigate how situational performance pieces can introduce alternative ways of engaging and experiencing contemporary art.  Formed by artistic actions that disrupts our attention and opens the senses, the program asks what kinds of imaginations can be activated through embodied, situated, and processual performances.

The program is based on close collaborations with artists, who experiment with everything from feminist openings of symbols and monuments in the city, to collective dance ecstasies, vocal performances, joints dinners, performative explorations of the city’s infrastructure,s and traffic hubs, to as well as performance pieces that slow down the paste pace and enhance our sensitivity. Improvisation and movement are central forces in the program, which experiment with access and negotiate of the use of the public space. Celebrating the unexpected, indeterminate, and estranged impulse of performances, the program tests public attention and social processes by the happening of art.

The program is curated by Iben Bach Elmstrøm in close collaborations and dialogue with the artists and the, Toaster and Den Frie curatorial teams. The program is generously supported by New Carlsberg Foundation, Bikuben Foundation, Danish Arts Council, and Roskilde University.