LANGUAGE
Performance: Danish
Collective Manifestation: Danish with English translation if necessary
By
Thomas Hwan, Lea Burrows
Movie
Henrik Grimbäck, Thomas Hwan, Lea Burrows
Produceret by
SIR GRAND LEAR in collaboration with TOASTER
Producer assistance
PrForm / Christine Seierstad
Location
Husets Teater, Sort sal
Time
20/11 - 21/11 2024
Genre
Acting In & Out - Performance and Activism
How To Put Your Money In a Tax Shelter + Sensitive Embroidery
by
Sir Grand Lear & Thomas Hwan
Part of the performance program Acting In & Out. Performance: How To Put Your Money In a Tax Shelter by Sir Grand Lear & Thomas Hwan. Collective manifestation: Sensitive Embroidery.
HOW TO PUT YOUR MONEY IN A TAX SHELTER
The two performing artists Thomas Hwan and Lea Burrows decides to fight inequality in the Danish tax system by democratizing access to tax optimization. They develop a number of courses in tax shelters, and seek good advice from lawyers, economists, politicians and journalists.
The film follows the ups and downs of the project.
ABOUT SIR GRAND LEAR
Sir Grand Lear is a producing theater company with a social commitment. Their performances materialize as ceremonial social gatherings, in which current affairs is thrown dramatically into the air, landing in the form of spirited dialogues. They look at it as a contribution to public health.
COLLECTIVE MANIFESTATION: SENSITIVE EMBROIDERY
In addition to the performance, there will subsequently be a collective manifestation with invited guests, who focus on the audience’s thoughts and room for action in relation to the theme of the performance.
This evening, Kris Jensen, who embroiders freehand under the name Følsomt Broderi/Sensitive Embroidery, will invite the audience to embroider about care and finances. Følsomt Broderi is known from Instagram, where he creates a physical diary with texts about hope, insecurities and development. The embroidery is never according to a template, but always directly from the heart. Kris regularly holds workshops with a focus on community and immersion and has, among other things, held embroidery workshops at the Statens Museum for Kunst, Roskilde Festival, at Bogforum and a number of other cultural institutions and associations. While we embroider, there will be a reading aloud from Emma Holten’s book “Underskud – om værdien af omsorg”, which was published in 2024. Together we will talk about the meaning of finances and value.
The collective manifestations are organized in collaboration with Ph.D. Storm Møller Madsen from the Department of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen.
ABOUT ACTING IN & OUT – PERFORMANCE AND ACTIVISM
Acting In & Out is an interdisciplinary program with artists from both the performing arts world and the visual arts world, who over four weeks at Husets Teater examine the framework for staging contemporary narratives.
Toaster presents four Danish groups/artists who all challenge the status quo and are concerned with socio-political issues both on the external and internal level. Nature and bodies, stretched out and up against economy, climate, gender and other power structures.
Each evening, in addition to the performance, there will be a collective manifestation with invited guests, who focus on the audience’s thoughts and room for action in relation to the theme of the performance. There will be reading aloud, embroidery, acupuncture, dragon building and choral singing in a safe space, where the audience is guided and met in a common conversation about what concerns us and where there is room for difference, doubt, hope and action!
Toaster sends a big thank you to OPE-N for the collaboration around Shout and Efter Festen, which has initiated the creation of Acting In & Out.
By
Thomas Hwan, Lea Burrows
Movie
Henrik Grimbäck, Thomas Hwan, Lea Burrows
Produceret by
SIR GRAND LEAR in collaboration with TOASTER
Producer assistance
PrForm / Christine Seierstad
LANGUAGE
Performance: Danish
Collective Manifestation: Danish with English translation if necessary