Location
Den Frie's exhibition halls
Time
7/6 at 20.00 + 8/6 at 18.00
Genre
Performance Bulletin
The Dinner
by
PERSONA NON GRATA
A part of the festival Performance Bulletin at Den Frie
Join the action – Persona Non Grata takes over Den Frie and a dinner of happenings and performativity.
Tickets: This performance is a partly seated dinner and requires a paid ticket. You can already book your tickets here.
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
In the performance piece, The Dinner, PERSONA NON GRATA, sound designer Moltamole, and the magnificent Café Pegasus investigate and dissect the performative behavior in one of the most familiar forms of socializing and ask what happens when the form is challenged and changed through performative encounters.
There will be time for both pampering and roasting at this remarkable dinner party, where you will be guided through seven unique servings by various personas and a voice clone.
We look forward to dining with you!
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
PERSONA NON GRATA works with performance and activism in the meeting between reality and fiction as they confront reality with theatrical devices such as puppetry, masks, and installation. Various unique personas always appear in their works. These are magical fictional characters created for the specific occasion and the concrete setting in which they perform. They see themselves as a performance community, because there is an invitation in all their works to participate. PERSONA NON GRATA consists of scenographer Mai Katsume, lighting designer Mathilde Hyttel, and director Astrid Lindhardt. The group was founded at The Danish National School of Performing Arts in 2021.
In order to make the dinner, PERSONA NON GRATA is inviting the electronic sound designer Moltamole (Eliza Bözek) and café Pegasus into the community alongside more guests (TBA).
Recently, PERSONA NON GRATA has made a name for itself with the performance action FORSVAR KUNSTNERISK FRIHED (DEFEND ARTISTIC FREEDOM), their visit as dinosaurs to the 2023 Reumert award show, as well as the performance DINOSAUR WORLD, which played to at a sold-out Malmö Dock Theater in the autumn. The group was also part of Klub Kreatur at Teater Sort/Hvid, where they contributed with the performance WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO PARTY? They work with both performance activism and more classic black box theatre, always exploring new formats and ways of creating inclusion
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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.
