Shapers, sing the songs of speculation
Together and apart, across a variety of mediums
3pm-5pm
Black Box, Thoravej 29, 2400 Copenhagen NV
Participation in the event is FREE, but please reserve a ticket as seats are limited. You can book your ticket here:
The artistic research
During their shared time in this residency, the group will explore what it means to engage sustainably and collectively in an artistic process.
They will revisit and rework pieces (and their remnants) created in past collaborations, while also expanding their practice by learning more intentionally from one another’s diverse backgrounds in music production, drawing and painting, performance, and creative writing.
Together, they will experiment with moving beyond fixed goals and rigid formats, challenging the internalized idea also within themselves of creativity as a linear process.
Thematically, they are united by a shared desire to question linearity. As a collective, they will delve into critical notions of time and circularity, glitches, Octavia Butler, Afrofuturist mermaid mythologies, and ancestral technologies.
The artists
Amy Assakaf, Celine Szabó, Cylo Berg, and Hugo Chang Coffey, initially came together under the name Shapers, singing songs of speculation through their shared explorations of speculative fiction and its potential to break down binaries, critique current power structures, and imagine alternative temporalities.
This group of artists has been invited into residency through the open call IN PROCESS - BETWIXT AND BETWEEN, whose focus was to celebrate and make space for the in-betweeners, the hyphenated identities, the Third Culture Kids, the witches and the QTBIPOCs to explore new potentials in work, ideas or collaborations in a black box. The open call was curated in collaboration with the artistic director of Diasporic Dimensions, Phyllis Akinyi.