Thursday 21th January from 17-18

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The performance journal bastard and Astrid Noacks Atelier has invited performance artist Sara Hamming for a conversation on the occasion of the premier of ENGLISH SPEAKERS – a sound- and music performance about English performed by nine loudspeakers – the 24th November at KUBE.

ENGLISH SPEAKERS is a performance about the English language, performed by nine loudspeakers. In etymological masturbation scenes and trance creating spelling séances you will hear English – a main character and a language in one and same voice. English tells her story, but gradually her story is interrupted by other voices. A rebellious girl choir, search engines language of algorithms and the holes, which appears in the narrator’s memory. What will become of the language of the world, which lives in the mouth of you and me? Is the imperialistic linguistic falling?

The artist talk at Astrid Noacks Atelier, which because of covid-19 is streamed online, will begin with a performative scene by Sara Hamming, but will apart from that take its’ starting point in the artist’s latest work. The conversation will continue around Sara Hamming’s art practice and earlier works.

Sara Hamming is a writing performance artist and stage director and creates works from the production platform Moribund, Sara Hamming works performatively and often audibly with the relation between language and history. Earlier works includes among others OUM – en iscenesættelse af stemmer in collaboration with composer Anja Jacobsen, Choreography on the Face in the series Whole Body Treatment and Bloody Mary d. 4., staged in her  childhood home – detached houses in Valby and Snekkersten.

The artist talk with Sara Hamming is organised by the editor of bastard, art critic and writer Mette Garfield.

The event is supported by the Danish Art Foundation.

ABOUT BASTARD
bastard.blog is a performance- and contemporary stage art, choreography and cross disciplinary art practises journal. The journal focuses on the performance genre, which rarely reaches the columns of daily magazines and art medias. Besides articles, reviews, interviews and artists’ contribution at the web platform, bastard arranges events such as talks and performance series in order to expand and create attention around the performance media and to reach a wider audience.

“After reading your letters, I imagine the studio. At first I see the broad warm bodies, of the horses that inhabited the room before Astrid Noack moved in. I think of her and of the damp sculptures wrapped in clammy cloth, I hear her breath, slowly growing weaker, as a result of the coarse foul air. I think of reproductive work and the premise set forth by materialist feminism that reproduction precedes production. “I work in the kitchen” – yes, I recall your first sketch for ​​a flickering fluorescent lamp with these words, Deirdre. I hear bits of conversations – then and now. Tension lies in the material, in the boundaries and I envisage your works in the room, in the ‘zone’, which at once seem homely, recognisable, yet somehow out of shape – lumpy, useless. You describe your works as alive, Tine. They communicate, and like your many conversations, they are kin to this room. And so I think of your collective practice as an alternative community of (un)learning, where you are actively influenced by the improvised body that is formed between you.”*

We very much hope that you will come visit the exhibition.

Opening on Thursday 29 October at 17.00 – 21.00.

Temporary entrance Rådmandsgade 32 via underground car park. Ring the bell and follow the signs!

Opening hours: Friday – Sunday at 13.00 – 17.00.

*Excerpt from a letter Kathrine Bolt Rasmussen has written to us as a group.

Johan Tirén is invited to do a site-specific exhibition project at Astrid Noack’s Atelier. The project consists of two parts, a shorter residency in May (postponed to October 2020), followed by an exhibition in February 2021. The idea is that the experiences, and findings from the research stay, is developed into a public project to be shown in ANA or in the surrounding public space of Ydre Nørrebro.

In the project with the preliminary title “While the city grows” Tirén will from an artistic point of view look into some of the key issues and questions we face in todays urban development. For whom are we building the “new” city, what happens to the people and the businesses that are already in place? And if everything is planned, where do we find the openings that the unplanned is offering us today?

Johan Tirén (b. 1973) holds an MFA from Malmö Art Academy (2004) and has studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (1998–2003). He works in different media, such as drawing, graphics, video, and text, and uses his research-based artistic practice both inside the art institution and outside, for instance in city planning processes with a special focus on social problematics concerning sustainability and planning. He strives to be open and precise in his artistic work, looking for a political acuity that does not loose sight of art’s poetic qualities. Tirén has exhibited widely, for instance at Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, and Overgaden, and has together with colleague Anna Högberg done public commissions for Statens Konstråd and Örebro Kommun.

The project is supported by: 

The exhibition programme at Astrid Noack’s Studio is supported by The Danish Arts Foundation and Nørrebro Lokaludvalg.