Digging grounds is a conversation with living archives from the Danish BIPoC performance art scene, an attempt to collectively lean into and recall a cross-generational and ongoing body of work focusing on racialized bodies, Danish colonialism, and transnational adoption. Is there a reason to collect different memories and affects from racialized artists? And how can we deepen the discourse on body-based performance works presented in Danish contexts?

When CURRICULUM and HAUT invite contributors and colleagues across the arts to meet and relive the efforts of BIPoC performance artists, discuss their views on body-based art, and listen to their experiences with invitations and frameworks in a Danish institutional landscape, it is to dig deeper and reconsider the historicization of performance art in Denmark. At the same time, the gathering of living archives and a contemporary audience on this spring Saturday in 2022 is an attempt to acknowledge all the work that already exists through solidarity across generations and to expand our knowledge of performance art in Denmark.