Hvordan manifesterer man usikre repræsentationer af en figur, der blev slettet, før den blev til?

Date
3.8.25
3.8.25
time
2pm - 4pm
Place
Black box, Thoravej 29, 2400 København NV

19:30     Surbending_Black box

The event is FREE to attend, but please reserve a ticket as places are limited. You can book your ticket here:

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This investigation is initiated by Charlie Laban Trier, who has embarked on a research journey attempting, through performative efforts, to invoke manifestations of a speculative mythological figure: HypoKrisia.

Charlie sets out to explore resilience through the guidance of HypoKrisia - an embodiment of resistance at the margins of mythology and memory. HypoKrisia is a spin of Charlie’s own fantasy, imagined as the forgotten little sister of Tiresias, the blind prophet from Greek mythology. In this fan-fiction, both figures can be understood as trans. But unlike Tiresias, whose transitions are seen as “complete,” HypoKrisia continuously resists full becoming, choosing instead to inhabit a performative state of “half un-done.” She was deemed more dangerous by society and erased from “his”story.The work focuses on the practice of surfacing and the friction and struggle embedded in that action.

Noha will act as a dramaturgical sparring partner who will help discuss and nuance the dramaturgical arguments that shape the work - for example, how to facilitate a situation that is decidedly unannounced and can appear as an interruption or an in-between intervention. Anders, as a specialist in quirky constructions, will help build and imagine remote-controlled vehicles that animate ‘parts of HypoKrisia’.

Credits

Choreographer: Charlie Laban Trier

Dramaturgical partner: Noha Ramadan

RC-vehicle builder: Anders Toft Pedersen

Developed with support from: HIMHERANDIT, Warehouse9 and Åbne Scene - Queer Practice Residence 2025, Performance space & PACT Sydney - Queer Development Program 2024, Museion Bolzano - Opening the pill symposium 2022, Arts Centre BUDA residency.

Charlie Laban Trier (he/him)

Charlie Laban Trier (b. 1987 dk), is a performing artist/choreographer interested in carving out a space for dance/s - as movement, but also as a distinct mode of thinking.

Dance is the mode/mood and how he thinks and navigates materiality. The materiality appears and morphs into bottom-barrel yells turned into songs, text-sampling, endlessly becoming costume, carrying/caring for screens, extreme sculptural headbanging and more. He sees dance as inherently messy, slippery and emergent - a form of knowledge that resists legibility.

Living as a transperson, is further a big teacher in his thinking/approach to work. Charlie thinks of transness, like dance, as a technology that helps him complicate material. It allows for embodying multiple images, seducing viewers, and shifting fluidly between forms. 

He’s a member of Jacuzzi since 2019 – an artist-run studio in Amsterdam where dance/performance and other time-based medias swim together – collectively organizing public events and workshops.

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Noha Ramadan (she/they)

is an Egyptian Australian artist and choreographer living in Amsterdam. Drawing from a long and continuing practice of improvisation, they create performances which attempt to articulate the body’s capacity for multiplicity and change.

Through the use of a distinctly cinematic and poetic language, they are interested in opening a space for questioning the authority of the image, the self and the premise of our shared reality.

In 2017 they co-founded Jacuzzi, an artist-run studio in Amsterdam at the cross-roads of dance, visual arts and time-based media, where they organize and support various projects and collective events.

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This WORKSHARING is the culmination of a 1-week IN PROCESS residency, during which the artists have worked in a black box with a simple technical setup.

IN PROCESS is HAUT’s 1-2 week residency format designed to provide space for physical brainstorms that support the investigation and development of new performing arts ideas.