Location
Den Frie's entrance, Østerport trainstation and S trains from Østerport.
Time
5/6 - 8/6
Genre
Performance Bulletin
Mellemtiden
By
Eau Pernice
A part of the festival Performance Bulletin at Den Frie
Billetter: This performance is an instruction performance, explored through audio guidance. The performance is free and open to everyone.
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
Mellemtiden is an instruction-based performance that takes the audience on a guided tour through public spaces. The piece is based on a monologue, which is played through your headphones, directing your attention to different social scenarios within a public S-train carriage. Pernice’s works playfully explore how to deconstruct technological, linguistic, and societal systems and structures we commonly take for granted to create new connections and meanings. In this new performance, Pernice investigates how asynchrony between sound and space opens a different temporality, Mellemtiden (the in-between time), where other narratives can unfold. Join the journey and explore how this experimental performance leads you into unexpected connections and coincidences with everyday social scenes in public spaces.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Eau Pernice (DK) is a Copenhagen-based artist who seeks to find meaning and individuality in a world dominated by routines, roles, and societal molds. Her practice centers around questions of staging and the construction of time, expressed through time-based media, images, objects, and performances. Eau Pernice has recently shown works at Die Raum (DE), Danske Grafiker Hus (DK), Gammel Strand Kunsthal (DK), Nils Stærk Gallery (DK), CHART (DK), Inter Arts Center (SE), and Contemporary Art Center SMC (LT).
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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.
