AUCTION/ACTION
An unusual performance installation that moves in the borderline field between fiction and reality.
17.4.15
18.4.15
12pm-8pm
Huset i Magstræde
The ticket is free, but it's an auction, so remember cash - we also have MobilePay. See you at SEARCHES!
The Artistic Research
Every year the enforcement authority sends more than 3000 people to the streets because they cannot pay their rent. The effects of the home - however personal they may be - are handed over to the police, who sell it on as a so-called “exposed living garden”. Vontrapp I bought one of these.
With the performance installation AUCTION/ACTION will Vontrapp invite the public to auction at SEARCHES, in which the audience is confronted with the ruins of a life. A sea of personal belongings will be put on display, and audiences will now have the opportunity to snoop, snoop and bid on another person's home for pennies.
AUCTION/ACTION is an unusual performance installation that moves in the borderline field between fiction and reality.
On Friday 17/4 at 15:00 - 20:00 and Saturday 18/4 from 12:00-20:00 the doors will be open for inspection. Here potential buyers can come and look at the used everyday objects, as well as closely study the catalog. On Saturday at 20:00 the auction itself will be settled when the auctioneer takes the podium.
The artists
Vontrapp (DK) is an interdisciplinary group that works with site-specific theatre concepts. They have previously been behind the abstract horror A Dream House (2011), the audiovisual walking performance Bevar mig vel (2012), and most recently the theatre installation A Handful of Dust (2014) in Cisternerne på Frederiksberg.
The artist collective Vontrapp consists of:
Astrid Hansen Holm
Ina Hjorth Jacobsen
Kathrine Lund
Katrine Wurtz Hansen
Malou Louise Lindblom
Sandra Boss
The format
SCANDINAVIAN PAIN.
AUCTION/ACTION appears on SEARCHES in connection with the Scandinavian Pain program series.