Location
Den Frie's Exhibtion Halls
Time
6/6 at 18.00
Genre
Performance Bulletin
As if you could just eat time
By
Elisabeth Molin
A part of the festival Performance Bulletin at Den Frie
Tickets: This performance is a seated dinner and requires a paid ticket. Ticket will be available 1 February.
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
As if you could just eat time is a performative dinner that looks at food as a medium of memory and suggests new associations and overlaps between the images we consume and the food we eat. It examines how ocularcentrism and technologies are designed to reinforce vision, dominating our relationship to knowledge and reason. Meanwhile, senses like touch, smell, and taste evoke memories and remind us how porous we are.
Throughout the evening, we consume our way through different textures and notions of time. These include minerals like magnesium, which was also used for the development of flashlights in cameras, to fermentation and its relationship to preservation and storage. We eat food that appears to have faded in color and question how taste and vision is intertwined. What is the difference between seeing and eating an image? The performance dinner is made in collaboration with Café Pegasus.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Elisabeth Molin’s practice engages various media of objects, videos, and photographs, brought together through performance, installation and writing. Molin is interested in when gaps appear, when stumbling across the uncanny or in uneasy moments that often belie the nearness of death. She has an acute sense of how to stage the almost non-existent, always with a gentle yet probing sense of humor. Elisabeth Molin holds a MA in Fine Arts from the Royal College of Art and has shown work, among other places, at KW Institute, Berlin; Wiels, Brussels; Belmacz, London; No Show Space, London; PUBLICS, Finland; SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen; MAW, New York; and ISCP, New York.
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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.
