dull blade 1000 cuts
cut out/cut in, cut into two, cut into one
15:00 - 17:00
Thoravej 29, 2400 Copenhagen NW
Participation in the event is FREE, but please reserve a ticket as seats are limited. You can book your ticket here:
the artistic research
The research is rooted in the 13 fundamental principles of Wudang sword. Asking howmartial arts techniques internal practice can bring embodied knowledge to a contemporary urgency of becoming a warrior.
It is a practice that cultivates the unification of mind, body and blade, and for the sword to be an extension of the practitioner’s consciousness, a conduit for Qi.
Being in times of fragmentation and confusion, how can the body and attention take the shape of the blade? and what kinds of in-between spaces exist from the fragmented, blurred states to the sharp states – how is this translated into form, movement, sound, light and words? what figures of the warrior can be visited and inhabited in this territory?
The artists
What particularly excites the artists is that each of them brings an interdisciplinary way of working and thinking. They have committed themselves to staying with ‘not knowing’/’not defined’ and with incongruent elements to vibrate with one another. As they are curious to discover how their respective practices and engagement in resistance and warriorness will resonate, juxtapose and make up creative modalities.
This group of artists has been invited into residency through an internal curatorial process based on previous application for an open call.