Lyden af den manglende forbindelse
En manifestation af den lyd der ikke eksisterer
1.6.25
1.6.25
14:00-16:00
Black box, Thoravej 29, 2400 København NV
19:30 Surbending_Black box
Participation in the event is FREE, but please reserve a ticket as space is limited. You can book your ticket here:
the artistic research
The group seeks to create an aesthetic futuristic field for adoptees, with a particular focus on the auditory perspective. Through listening, the use of various shamanistic methods, and inspiration from Afro-, Indigenous-, and Asian futurism, they work to explore a common healing sound and what binds them together.
The artistic investigation is based on the assumption that they are moving into a work with the sound of the phantoms that manifest themselves to them. In their work, the artists focus on finding common ground despite their widely different starting points and countries of origin. They want to explore what knowledge they can gather to strengthen the adopted body, how they can create access when everything has been a coincidence, and how they can interact with the existing discourse on art adoption.
the artists
The group has been newly assembled based on a desire for diversity in artistic practice, age, adoption experiences, country of origin, as well as life and performing arts experience.
It consists of a trained actor and practicing photographer, a visual artist, a performance artist with a literary background, and a writer with a Rudolf Steiner pedagogical approach. The group embraces diversity in order to create a broad coherence in their artistic exploration.
Throughout their residency, they will draw on each other’s artistic foundations and varied experiences of adoption, as well as the cultures of their respective countries of origin — with an awareness that they cannot escape a form of appropriation due to their own lack of connection. That both they and their countries of origin have been colonized to such an extent that return is nearly impossible.
And within all of this, there is a sound.
Credits: Helena Soholm (shaman)
Adoption and Alien: Vision from the Periphery, anthology
Marco Grimnitz
Marco Grimnitz is an actor, teacher and facilitator, trained at Ophelia Acting Studio in Copenhagen specialising in Meisner technique. He made his feature film debut in the award-winning film Bagland, directed by Anders Gustafson and produced by Nimbus Film.In addition to his work as an actor, Marco is an experienced teacher and facilitator within performative and creative processes, and he also works as a photographer. His practice is at the intersection of narrative, body and presence, and he uses his background to empower the voices of others - both in front of the camera and in the classroom.
Kâlánguak Absalonsen
Kâlánguak Absalonsen is an author, speaker and advocate who, through her personal narrative as an adopted child from Greenland, explores topics such as identity formation, cultural heritage, adoption and the fight against discrimination and racism. Her work draws on her own experiences and sheds light on the structures and emotions that characterise transnational adoption and belonging. Through her books, podcasts and public engagement, she conveys a personal voice that creates space for reflection and conversation about identity formation and cultural memory. With the publications K and Lille, she has contributed to the literary and cultural debate on adoption and Greenlandic-Danish history.
Yong Sun Gullach
Yong Sun Gullach is a Danish-Korean adoption activist and performance artist (b. 1967). Her overall aesthetic-political endeavours can be said to be grounded in a deep and persistent insistence that race, identity, gender, body, politics, adoption and symbolic violence and trauma are intersectionally linked. This insistence is concretised through a double articulation of bodily practices (performance and installations) and textual entities that take the form of prose poems, directorial remarks or reflective essayistic texts. This art practice, or set of practices, is motivated by an investigation of identity that balances on the border between the personal and the political.
Annette Cho Nielsen
Annette Cho Nielsen works with migration, adoption and identity in a geopolitical context. She examines the systemic failures and structural consequences that characterise the adoption industry, and her practice is an active quest to reclaim a lost culture, language and identity. She asks the question: What does it mean to have a transnational identity? Her artistic work reflects the tension between transnational adoptees' heritage, upbringing and self-understanding - a trauma and grotesqueness with consequences for all parties in the adoption system. Through her practice, she explores and comments on the complexities of transracial adoption from a personal, collective, existential and aesthetic perspective where ethnic diasporas manifest.
the format
IN PROCESS is HAUT's 1–2 week residency program that creates space for physical brainstorming and supports the exploration and development of new ideas within the performing arts.
This group of artists has been invited to the residency through the open call **IN PROCESS – BRIDGING**, which focused on exploring and experimenting with transitions and bridge-building as part of artistic practice. The open call was curated in collaboration with performance-maker Anika Barkan.