Tabt Titel / Lost Title
Performance writing med bogen Tabt Titel – en cyklus af vidnesbyrd om affald.
2.5.25
2.5.25
15:00-17:00
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
Come into the workspace and experience the raw performing arts in process. This WORKSHARING marks the culmination of a 4-week residency where Sara Hamming, together with various sparring partners, has explored and further developed scenic ideas for performance writing based on the book Tabt Titel/ Lost Title.
Handling the book again, opening the book and sticking my head into the book again and again and seeing what I can perform with.
Writing notes for choreography in the margins of the book.
Pass the book over the top hat - magicians are always needed around rubbish. (Hair grows out of the book. Fingerprints drift across the title page)
Touch the paper and feel/hear a ringtone.
Røre ved papiret og mærke/høre en ringetone. (It's A I call from my hearing aid, from the shadow, the lack, the poverty, from the reflection of the fire in my eye. And A calls back)
Dis- and associate with the book in my hands:
Play the video of a Tabt Titel performance at Børsenruinen? (With my mum's and my grandmother's hair coming out of my mouth) Using money as a physical prop? (As a bump on my body) Walking round and round in a circle or lying still? (The shoes I've been wearing so far have opened up)
the artists
Moribund Performance is an alias/company working with performance writing, metabolisations, re-enactments, de-growth and queer biographies. Tabt Titel is a performance solo by performance artist Sara Hamming with conversations and visits inside the performance, as a working method and as a performance method.
From the previous work with Lost Title in 2020, it says on Moribund's website:
I carried out ‘research’ into waste; sorting, managing waste streams. I talked to a lot of waste professionals. At the same time, I talked to people who suspend the waste category and who are collectors. Together with a choir, I performed some of these texts. And we should have continued... I wanted to, but I couldn't. A year went by. I thought the research had turned to rubbish. Then I put all the texts - interviews, notes, quotes - into a book. That I could handle, read from, reuse.
See pictures of the book in different stages on Moribund's website: https://www.moribund.dk/tabt-titel-lost-title/
Note: Interviews have been anonymised on request.
During the IN PRODUCTION residency, Sara will receive a series of visits that will help shape the process and the work.
Choreographer, performance artist and researcher Ran Suh will visit as a dramaturgical dialogue partner and fun coach, asking the question: if performance is a form of magic that can contain many emotions and move out of the shadows, should it not also be fun?
Dancer and choreographer Alice Martucci, who has written a choreographic/somatic chapter in the book on handling, will visit and work with strength training and more.
Composer Anja Jacobsen will visit and help explore how the crying rhythm can sound from hearing aid feedback, shoes, etc. and the phone when A rings.
Credits:
Performance: Sara Hamming
Dramaturgical interlocutor: Ran Suh
Compositional/metrical research with Anja Jacobsen
Choreographic/somatic research with Alice Martucci
Video documentations: Nanna Elvin Hansen
Credits previous versions:
Co-performers in previous versions: Alice Martucci, Andrea Hermansen, Anja Jacobsen, Shivani Ahlowalia, Sue Hansen-Styles, Susana Nunes.
Sound engineering/voice amplification: Joëlle McGovern
Video documentation of choir performance and work process: Jan Vesala
Supporters:
Lost Title is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation.
Collaborators and co-producers in earlier stages; Tårnby Park Studio whose invitation initiated the work on the book and set Sara on a deeper exploration of association, and Astrid Noack's Atelier which provided a framework for the work with the choir before the book was printed and a later performance with the book.
the format
IN PRODUCTION is HAUTs 2-4 week residency for Danish-based performing artists of all ages who have received support for the development of a performing arts project from the Danish Arts Foundation or other foundations.
The residency offers the opportunity to work in a studio or a black box, as well as the opportunity to receive artistic and professional sparring from HAUT.