Scandinavian Pain
With grotesque humor, audience interaction, and sharp punchlines, the program's performances poke fun at our self-image and the narratives that characterize the Scandinavian countries.
27.2.15
3.5.15
Huset i Magstræde
The program
While the rest of the world revels in the ‘New Nordic’ in design, music, TV series, and literature, we in Scandinavia are left with the burden: actually being Scandinavians, with a guilty conscience about our prosperity and the painful realization that Ragnarok is lurking around the corner. How are we supposed to bear it?
Is there hope for anything other than sobbing, lamenting, and suicide? Hammershøi and Strindberg are of no help.
We are proud to present the most promising Scandinavian independent groups at HAUT.
With grotesque humor, audience interaction, and sharp punchlines, the program's performances skewer our self-image and the narratives that characterize the Scandinavian countries.
Here, the light, the forest, and the water seduce us, while the crisis of the welfare state, the gender equality debate, and the financial crisis drive us mad.
Come and join us when VON TRAPP steps into the wake of the financial crisis and holds an auction of a purchased bankruptcy estate at HAUT.
Be enchanted by Lisa Lie's surreal and dangerous forest universe. Come and listen to stories about Scandinavian women at HØRT's storytelling evening or participate with your own story.
Be confronted with the downside of freedom and the apparent equality in Scandinavian societies with Call me a fool but I don't wanna die.
In connection with SCANDINAVIAN PAIN, HAUT also invites you to theater art symposia with theorists, students, and the participating performing artists.
Program: Life is Hard vol. 3 - Juli Apponen
Call me a fool, but I don't wanna die - Karen Tømte and Naja Lee Jensen
HØRT, storytelling evening - Hørt
MARAN, Exile - SKOOP
Auktion/Aktion - Von Trapp
Entertainment in the Woods - PONR
The format
Scandinavians grow up in Nordic darkness and carry that darkness with them as painful melancholy. In spring, we move towards longer days and bright nights, but at HAUT we dive into the darkness with the SCANDINAVIAN PAIN program series, running throughout spring 2015.
Scandinavian Pain is supported by the Nordic Culture Fund