Location
Football court, Den Frie backspace area
Time
5/6 at 17.00 + 6/6 at 17.00
Genre
Performance Bulletin
Aske Thiberg
A part of the festival Performance Bulletin at Den Frie
Thiberg uses the performing body in urban public space to explore emotional expression of loneliness and aging in our society.
Tickets: The performance is outdoor and free for everybody.
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
Aske Thiberg presents a new site-specific performance piece that explores affective and embodied manifestations within the public space. The work engages an intense emotional register, inviting an attunement to the minds and inner worlds of others.
In Thiberg’s performance, we encounter an individual seated in a state of daydreaming, prompting us to wonder about the mystery of their inner world. With an absent gaze, minimalist movements, and a sparse soundscape, the performer challenges our perception of time through absence and suspension. We are brought into close proximity with a stranger’s existence, heightening our awareness of loneliness amidst the crowded urban environment. Thiberg often works by removing obvious or substantial elements of a performative scene. This deliberate absence heightens our sensitivity to what remains, revealing how meaning becomes amplified through its disappearance. By creating voids in our experience and encounters, Thiberg’s work mirrors the acute feeling of loneliness within a hyper-connected world.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Aske Thiberg works consist of performance, video, text, and sound, all emerging from his background in 3D animation and dance. Driven by an interest for the social disconnect between people in our everyday life, Thiberg creates pieces and exhibitions that simultaneously carry an echo of the real and digital world. He explores themes of loneliness and alienation, anxiety and melancholy, rhythm and weight, in a sometimes playful, sometimes serious manner. Thiberg has exhibited as well as performed at art venues including Interpublic, Copenhagen (2024) Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2023), Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen (2022), and Malmö Konstmuseum (2022).
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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.
