AN HOUR WITH Alex Blum
BURN THEIR BOOKS AND FAKE THEIR STORIES. WHAT GENDER AND GENOCIDE INSTRUCT US ABOUT CONSENT AND COMPLICITY.
28.11.24
28.11.24
10am to 11am
HAUT, Lantern 39, 2400 Kbh NW
19:30 Surbending_Black box
Participation in the event is FREE, but please reserve a ticket as seats are limited. You can book your ticket here:
For this AN HOUR WITH
We invite you to meet the artist and activist alex blum, who will chart her interest in performance by reading aloud some of the key concepts of her work.
Over coffee and croissants, alex will share experiences from her research LILY SCREAMS, which revisits Judith Butler's concept of gender performativity as she fabulates the story of Lili Elbe, who - as one of the world's first recipients of gender affirming surgery - risked her life to embody radical fantasy.
By assuming that there is an embedded poetics of madness and risk in times of genocide, alex invites us to embrace our own nonsense to affirm and mourn incomprehensible lives.
The conversation will take place in Danish or English depending on the participants.
the artist
Alex blum (she/her, DK)
Alex Blum
Alex blum (she/they, DK) is a choreographer, political educator, and somatic activist based between Copenhagen and Amsterdam, where they graduated from the School for New Dance Development. In her artistic work, alex looks for sensuours detours from identity politics by means of touch, voice work, and shared listening in rehearsals with critical friends, lovers, and strangers.
By questioning who is given a voice, or not, whose bodies are enfranschised, witnessed, cared for, and commemorated, or not, alex blum explores the (im)possibility of trans* embodiment and the refusal of genocide.
about the format
An hour of informal conversation, which allows for brief or intense immersion in an artistry or artistic practice.
It is an opportunity to meet artists in informal settings and gain insight into knowledge that is usually only available to the people who are part of the work process.