An examination of pop within culture, big feelings and personal playlists.
Worksharing og feedback
6.12.2020, kl. 15:30-17:00
på S/H Theater
Work-in-process sharing
på Selected Works 2021:
21.01.2021 TBA
på Copenhagen Contemporary
Under COVID-19-nedlukningen sagde kulturminister Joy Mogensen: »Jeg ville finde det upassende at stå her og tale om kultur lige nu«. Bagefter udtalte hun, at hendes yndlingsalbum er Absolute Music 2, hvilket blev mødt med en del kritik. For Beck Heiberg og Sigrid Stigsdatter førte udtalelsen til en samtale om, hvilket Absolute Music-album der egentlig er det bedste.
I deres kunstneriske undersøgelser knyttes specifikke performanceelementer til numrene på Absolute Music 2. Publikum inviteres til at forme undersøgelsens dramaturgi, og de kan interagere med værket ved at skifte nummer, springe det over eller sætte det på repeat. Kunstnerne tager musikken alvorligt og ønsker at udfordre spørgsmålet om, hvad god kunst er, og hvem der bestemmer det. De ønsker at tale om kunstens og kulturens betydning ved at bruge Joy Mogensens eget yndlingsalbum som udgangspunkt for en større debat om kunst og kultur.

Det kunstneriske team består af Sigrid Stigsdatter og Beck Heiberg. Både Sigrid og Beck elsker popmusik og er stærkt påvirket af populære tendenser. »Absolute Joy« er deres første samarbejde.
Sigrid Stigsdatter er koreograf, performer og medlem af Dance Cooperative og Jacuzzi, uddannet fra SNDO.

Beck Heiberg (he/him) (b. 1987, Copenhagen, Denmark) is a choreographer and performer based between Copenhagen and Berlin. His work spans a wide field of theatre and performance, always returning to his first love — dance. Movement lies at the heart of his artistic language, forming the foundation of his conceptual performance and live art practice, where the movement serves as the primary tool for storytelling.
Beck is spending time connecting with his training within club and street styles, exploring how these vocabularies can be imagined as narrative and conceptual devices within performance art. His work often delves into the complexities of human emotion — touched by melancholy and gravity. In recent projects, he has investigated the intersections between sensuality and grief, as well as between cuteness and sorrow.
A core element of Beck’s practice is his ongoing exploration of queer and transpolitical aesthetics, both as an explicit and implicit part of his artistry. This perspective informs his aesthetic codes, the subjects he engages with, and the ways he constructs creative processes. It is expressed, among other ways, through a continuous attempt to find rest within discomfort, and to explore experiences that are not represented or do not exist within normative society.
Beck is an active member of Dance Cooperative - a platform and workspace for intersectional feminist and artistic choreographic practices in Copenhagen. Beck has had the pleasure of working for and together with several inspiring colleagues, and are currently working with Anna Näsström, Sigrid Stigsdatter, Antoinette Helbing, Falk Richter and Laura Løwe & Luka Holmegaard.
In addition to his own artistic work, Beck co-curates Feral Festival together with Elise Bjerkelund Reine — a festival where experimental circus, sound, and performance meet in euphoric chaos.
Beck has a BA in Theatre and Performance Studies from Copenhagen University and holds diplomas from Juste Debout School in Paris, France and Hotstepper Studio in Copenhagen, Denmark.

IN PROCESS er HAUTs residency-format for kunstnerisk udvikling, hvor kunstnere får en betalt mulighed for at fordybe sig i deres arbejdsproces.
IN PROCESS er HAUTs residency-format for kunstnerisk udvikling, hvor kunstnere får en betalt mulighed for at fordybe sig i deres arbejdsproces.
Den kunstneriske forskning »Absolute Joy« af Beck Heiberg og Sigrid Stigsdatter er blevet inviteret til at deltage i residency-formatet gennem den åbne call »IN PROCESS - Pop culture of the Stage«, kurateret af Naja Lee Jensen og Petra Huisman.
IN PROCESS består af to dele. Den første del er et ugelangt residency hos HAUT i København (december 2020), der afsluttes med en worksharing. Den anden del er en work-in-process-visning i sideprogrammet »Works in Process« ved Selected Works 2021 (januar 2021).
IN PROCESS er en del af programmet HAUT AND … i sæsonen 20/21. Programmet støttes af Kunstfond.



