Location
Café Pegasus, Den Frie
Time
5/6 at 18.00 + 6/6 at 18.00
Genre
Performance Bulletin
Cooking Your Spirit Animal
by
Kasper Hesselbjerg
A part of the festival Performance Bulletin at Den Frie
Working with ideas found between food and cosmology, artist Kasper Hesselbjerg’s new dinner performance invites us into a seven plus course serving that stimulates both sensuous and reflective registers.
Tickets: This performance requires a paid ticket.
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
The performance Cooking Your Spirit Animal explores the connection between food and cosmology and takes you through a variety of the different cultural functions of food. Throughout the seated dinner you will taste health optimizers, anti-performance substances, and active ingredients from Chinese Medicine.
As an experimental format, the piece is a seven plus course dinner, which is served in Café Pegasus. Kasper Hesselbjerg explores our relationship with food and how we, consciously or not, express ourselves through food, socially as well as politically. The performance dinner will demonstrate what Hesselbjerg refers to as an ‘eating discourse’ and discuss themes such as cultural appropriation, self-consummation, experience economy, and our connectedness with other humans and non-humans.
Be prepared for an equally intellectual and sensory embodied experience, where you will get to taste, touch, and think through the complexity of foods.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kasper Hesselbjerg works with sensory experiences, explored through sculptures, performance, images, and texts. Hesselbjerg has produced gallery and museum exhibitions in Denmark and abroad, such as Aarhus Kunsthal (DK), Kunsten Museum of Modern Art (DK) Nikolaj Kunsthal (DK), Vejle Art Museum (DK), Den Frie (DK), Charlottenborg Kunsthal (DK), Coyote (SE), Wadden Tide Sculpture biennale (DK), Art Sonje Center (KR), and NADA (USA). Hesselbjerg is also the author of various books and the founder and editor of the publishing house emancipa(t/ss)ionsfrugten with fellow artist Absalon Kirkeby.
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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.
