Martha's Dream
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16.6.24
16.6.24
14:00-16:00
Teatret Zeppelin, Valdemarsgade 15, 1665 København V
19:30 Surbending_Black box
Participation in the work division is FREE, but we have a limited number of places, so book a ticket in advance – you can book your ticket here:
The artistic research
For centuries, the passenger pigeon ruled the skies over North America and was the most numerous bird species on Earth.
In the 1800s, a massive slaughter of the species began. When Martha the passenger pigeon died in 1914 at the Cincinnati Zoo, she was the only living passenger pigeon left in the world. With their residency at HAUT, the group of artists behind Martha's Dream will explore how Martha, the last passenger pigeon, can be brought back to life today. How does she move? How does she sound? And how does she get a voice? They will explore how the existential story of being the last one left in the world might sound and look from a bird's eye view. Using film, scenography, and music, they will test and try this out and draw the first sketches for “Martha's Dream.”
the artists
Martha's Dream is the first chapter in LIFE & DEATH – a planned series of works about time and loss by Anastasia Nørlund (director) and Julian Juhlin (artist/set designer).
To bring Martha's Dream to life, Nørlund and Juhlin have teamed up with film director Frigge Fri, composer Jesper Moeslund, puppet maker/set designer Sigurd Dissing, and artist Roe Ørslev. The group has come together with an interest in the distinction between the staged and the authentic. The residency is an opportunity for them to try out new formats, in the hope of creating a dramatic-documentary hybrid together.
Credits
Director/text: Anastasia Nørlund
Director/scenography: Julian Juhlin. Website
Film artist: Frigge Fri. Website
Composer: Jesper Moeslund.
Bird builder: Sigurd Dissing.
Artist/all-rounder: Roe Ørslev
AI developer: Andreas Bigom
Producer: Christine Seierstad.
Support/collaborators
Support: The Collective Third of the Tape Copy Funds
Sparring partner: Louise Beck
Consultant: Dr Helen James, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
Julian Juhlin
Julian Juhlin (1987) made his debut at the age of 21 in a plastic box at Charlottenborg as a life-size Barbie doll. Since then, Juhlin has further developed this work with performance and tableaus in public space. He has sat in a birch tree in Istedgade as a magical maiden, floated in an artificial forest in Tokyo and rotated 100 hours in a blinking glass coffin in Prague.
Alongside his work as a visual artist, Juhlin has trained as a set designer and designed costumes and set designs for the Royal Danish Theatre, among others. Fascinated by the tension between the staged and the authentic, Juhlin has used her own reality to build a personal iconography of images and characters based on her own life to blur the boundaries between life, art and theatre.
the format
IN PROCESS is HAUT's residency format that creates physical brainstorming sessions that support the exploration and development of new ideas in the performing arts.
Anastasia Nørlund, Julian Juhlin, Frigge Fri, Jesper Moeslund, Sigurd Dissing, and Roe Ørslev have been invited to participate in the residency through the open call IN PROCESS – SORG, which focused on providing a stage for artists who are drawn to exploring the worlds of death, loss, and grief in a performative context. The open call was curated in collaboration with Andreas Constantinou.