LANGUAGE
Performance: Danish
Collective Manifestation: Danish with English translation if necessary
Stagers
Thomas Hwan, Lea Burrows
Moviedirector
Henrik Grimbäck
Creative producer
Karen Hal Gerup Hermansen
Producer assistance
PrForm / Christine Seierstad
Cast
Simon Kongsted, Cecilie Bogø Bach, Karin Bang Heinemeier, Helle Fragralid, Charlotte Czochara, Knud Foldschack, Martin Ullits Dahl, Dennis Halydan, John Hansen, Lars Kock, Samira Nawa, Teater GLAD’s ensemble, Teater Batida’s ensemble, students from Akademiet and more
Consultants
David Bentow, Lars Kock, John Hansen, Carl-Johan Dalgaard, Samira Nawa, Mads Christiansen, Linda Nielsen, Jesper Berg, Knud Foldschack, Lea Mortensen
Curators
Miriam Frandsen (Toaster), Magnus Thorø Clausen (Den Frie Udstillingsbygning)
Chef at courses
Alexander Melchior
Composer
Jens Villy Kock
Graphic design
Tilde Burrows
Assistents
Mikkel Galløe, Maria Theresa Leth Clante, Dennis Haladyn, Miriam Kræpping Mouritsen
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, S/H, and Greenpeace for the collaboration on Shout and Efter Festen, which have been instrumental and invaluable projects in the creation of Acting In & Out.
Stagers
Thomas Hwan, Lea Burrows
Moviedirector
Henrik Grimbäck
Creative producer
Karen Hal Gerup Hermansen
Producer assistance
PrForm / Christine Seierstad
Cast
Simon Kongsted, Cecilie Bogø Bach, Karin Bang Heinemeier, Helle Fragralid, Charlotte Czochara, Knud Foldschack, Martin Ullits Dahl, Dennis Halydan, John Hansen, Lars Kock, Samira Nawa, Teater GLAD’s ensemble, Teater Batida’s ensemble, students from Akademiet and more
Consultants
David Bentow, Lars Kock, John Hansen, Carl-Johan Dalgaard, Samira Nawa, Mads Christiansen, Linda Nielsen, Jesper Berg, Knud Foldschack, Lea Mortensen
Curators
Miriam Frandsen (Toaster), Magnus Thorø Clausen (Den Frie Udstillingsbygning)
Chef at courses
Alexander Melchior
Composer
Jens Villy Kock
Graphic design
Tilde Burrows
Assistents
Mikkel Galløe, Maria Theresa Leth Clante, Dennis Haladyn, Miriam Kræpping Mouritsen
LANGUAGE
Performance: Danish
Collective Manifestation: Danish with English translation if necessary