Surfacing HypoKrisia
How does one manifest uncertain representations of a figure that was erased before it came into being?
8.2.26
13.2.26
Black box, Thoravej 29, 2400 København NV
The artistic research
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.
HypoKrisia is a figment of Charlie's imagination, conceived as the forgotten little sister of Tiresias, the blind prophet from Greek mythology.
Both Tiresias and HypoKrisia can be considered trans figures, but while Tiresias' gender change is described as complete, HypoKrisia resists a finished creation. She insists on the liminal space and chooses to live in a performative state of “half-finished.” She was therefore considered dangerous to society and was erased from history.
Charlie invokes HypoKrisia and wants to conjure her up from the depths, because she has been kept below the surface for far too long.
The work will focus on the practice of “surfacing” and the friction/struggle inherent in that action.
Kunstnerne
In this work, Noha will act as a dramaturgical sparring partner who will help discuss and nuance the dramaturgical arguments that shape the work—and, for example, talk about how to facilitate a situation that may appear as an interruption or an in-between intervention. Together with lighting designer Angela, Charlie will experiment with building a lighting setup that is architectural.
CREDITS:
Choreograper & performer: Charlie Laban Trier
Dramaturgical parter: Noha Ramadan
RC-vehicle builder: Anders Toft Pedersen
Light designer: Angela X
The project is supported by: 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.
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.
The residency
IN PROCESS is HAUT's 1-2 week residency format, which provides space for physical brainstorming sessions that support the exploration and development of new ideas in the performing arts.
This residency is personally curated by HAUT's artistic leader Alex Blum.