An examination of pop within culture, big feelings and personal playlists.

Date
6.12.20
12.1.21
time
15:30 - 17:00
Place
S/H Teater, CC

Worksharing and feedback
6.12.2020, 15:30-17:00
at S/H Theater

Work-in-process sharing
at Selected Works 2021:
21.01.2021 TBA
at Copenhagen Contemporary

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During the COVID-19 lockdown the culture minister Joy Mogensen said: “I would consider it inappropriate if I was to stand here and talk about culture right now”. Afterwards she stated that her favorite album is Absolute Music 2, which was met with a lot of criticism. To Beck Heiberg and Sigrid Stigsdatter the statement led to a conversation about which Absolute Music album actually is the best.

In their artistic investigations, specific performance elements are tied to the tracks on Absolute Music 2. The audience are invited to shape the dramaturgy of the investigation, and they can interact with the piece by changing the track, skipping it or putting it on repeat.

The artists take the music seriously and want to challenge the question about what good art is, and who gets to dictate it. They want to talk about the importance of art and culture by using Joy Mogensen’s very own favorite album as a starting point of a bigger debate about art and culture.

The artistic team consists of Sigrid Stigsdatter and Beck Heiberg. Both Sigrid and Beck love pop music and is heavily influenced by popular currents. "Absolute Joy" is their debut collaboration.

Sigrid Stigsdatter

Sigrid Stigsdatter is a choreographer, performer, and member of Dance Cooperative and Jacuzzi, trained at SNDO.

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Beck Heiberg

Beck Heiberg (he/him) (b. 1987, Copenhagen, Denmark) is a choreographer and performer based between Copenhagen and Berlin. His work spans a wide field of theatre and performance, always returning to his first love — dance. Movement lies at the heart of his artistic language, forming the foundation of his conceptual performance and live art practice, where the movement serves as the primary tool for storytelling.

Beck is spending time connecting with his training within club and street styles, exploring how these vocabularies can be imagined as narrative and conceptual devices within performance art. His work often delves into the complexities of human emotion — touched by melancholy and gravity. In recent projects, he has investigated the intersections between sensuality and grief, as well as between cuteness and sorrow.

A core element of Beck’s practice is his ongoing exploration of queer and transpolitical aesthetics, both as an explicit and implicit part of his artistry. This perspective informs his aesthetic codes, the subjects he engages with, and the ways he constructs creative processes. It is expressed, among other ways, through a continuous attempt to find rest within discomfort, and to explore experiences that are not represented or do not exist within normative society.

Beck is an active member of Dance Cooperative - a platform and workspace for intersectional feminist and artistic choreographic practices in Copenhagen. Beck has had the pleasure of working for and together with several inspiring colleagues, and are currently working with Anna Näsström, Sigrid Stigsdatter, Antoinette Helbing, Falk Richter and Laura Løwe & Luka Holmegaard.

In addition to his own artistic work, Beck co-curates Feral Festival together with Elise Bjerkelund Reine — a festival where experimental circus, sound, and performance meet in euphoric chaos.

Beck has a BA in Theatre and Performance Studies from Copenhagen University and holds diplomas from Juste Debout School in Paris, France and Hotstepper Studio in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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IN PROCESS is HAUT's residency format for artistic development, where artists are given a payed opportunity to immerse themselves in the process of their work.

The artistic research "Absolute Joy" by Beck Heiberg and Sigrid Stigsdatter have been invited to be part of the residency format through the open call IN PROCESS - Pop culture of the Stage curated by Naja Lee Jensen and Petra Huisman.

The IN PROCESS falls into two parts. The first part is a one week residency at HAUT in Copenhagen (December 2020), ending with a worksharing. The other part is a work-in-process showing at the side programme "Works in Process" at Selected Works 2021 (January 2021).

This IN PROCESS is a part of the program HAUT AND … in season 20/21. The program is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation.