Hyphea

Tickets: Paid ticket for performance. Sound installation is open and free for everyone. NB: The food is entirely plant-based. It contains gluten and hazelnuts.

ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE

HYPHEA is a culinary and performative experience set in complete darkness, where taste, sound, and storytelling converge in an intimate exploration of the hidden world of fungi. Guests will taste a series of mushroom-based dishes, offering an alternative sensory perspective by revealing the interconnected stories to our fellow participants—human and non-human alike. The performance serves as a sensorial and poetic reflection on the ways we can connect through shared culinary rituals, our more-than-human entanglements, and our local and global food systems.

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Beyond Darkness is the artistic cosmos of Nadja Mattioli and Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen. Their work blends choreography, installation, and sensory experiences to uncover the intricate relationships between humans and the more-than-human worlds that surround us.

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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.