PROGRAM

20:00                         Dørene Åbner
20:30 – 22:00         Artist Talk med J. Jackie Baier.
Spørgsmål og kommentarer ved Del LaGrae Volcano (UK) og Alexander Kristoff
22:00 – 24:00         Bar med vin & snacks

STED
Warehouse 9, Halmtorvet 11, Bygning 66, 1711 København V.
Bygning 66 ligger 150 m til højre for hovedindgangen til Øksnehallen.

PORTRÆTPROJEKTET
Jackie Baier har i perioden september 2009 og frem til nu brugt Warehouse 9 som sin base for
portrætfotografering af bla. transkønnede personer inden for queermiljøet. Resultatet er en udstilling, der åbner d. 11. december 2009 kl. 19. Den vises frem til 23. december 2009. Jackie Baiers arbejde er bla. blevet sammenlignet med New York avant garde filmkunstnere og fotografer som Kenneth Anger og Jack Smith. Til arrangementet d. 15. december vil Jackie bla. tale om rollen som transkønnet kunstfotograf, relationen mellem model, fotograf, kunstscenen og medierne. Der vil være spørgsmål og kommentarer ved kunstfotograf Del LaGrace Volcano (UK) og Alexander Kristoff (Danmarks Fotografiske Billedkunstskole) Samtalen vil være på engelsk og bliver modereret af Gritt Uldall-Jessen og Jørgen Callesen, der begge er repræsenteret i Warehouse 9′s kunstneriske råd. Warehouse 9 er et nyt samtidskunstprojekt støttet af Kunstrådets Idépulje frem til 2011.

SHORT ENGLISH SUMMARY
For several years Jackie Baier has portrayed transgendered people, sex workers and personalities from the queer sexual underground. In the artist talk Jackie will talk about the role between the photographer, the model, the art scene and the media. Questions and comments by art photographer Del LaGrace Volcano (UK) and Alexander Kristoff (The Danish School of Art Photography). The talk will be moderated by Gritt Uldall-Jessen & Jørgen Callesen from Warehouse 9′s artistic board. The talk will be in English, but questions can be asked in Danish.

20:00                         Doors Open
20:30 – 22:00         Artist Talk with J. Jackie Baier.
Questions and comments by Del LaGrace Volcano (UK) and Alexander Kristoff (DK)
22:00 – 24:00         Bar with vin & snacks

Zort Zol Live 2009

In 2006 Zarathustra’s Uncle, aka Henrik Vestergaard Friis, began an artistic examination of the Danish Cultural Canon. This official list, commissioned by the Danish Cultural Minister, contains the 96 greatest works of Danish culture ever. They have enriched and influenced artists and audiences all over the world. The canon for performing arts contains twelve performances, dramas and ballets. Zarathustra‘s Uncle will reconstruct all of them. Zort Zol Live is the ninth one.

The performance is based on one of the stranger elements of the canon for performing arts: A series of concerts the infamous first Danish punk band Sort Sol gave in Copenhagen at the venues “Carlton” and “Wurst” in 1987 and 1988. The concerts were included into the canon for their impressive staging of self destructive and violent behavior, which, as the explanation by the canon committee goes, was typical for the early eighties in Denmark.

Both “Carlton” and “Wurst” were located in the immediate vicinity of “Warehouse 9″, where Zarathustra’s Uncle presents his very special interpretations of Sort Sol’s work live on stage. But Zarathustra’s Uncle does not make re-enactments. He is not interested in detail and precision. His examinations pinpoint the core of a work as he sees it and reconstruct it with a suitable contemporary artistic strategy.

To reconstruct Sort Sol‘s staging of self destructive and violent behavior, Zarathustra’s Uncle has chosen the tracks “Boy girl” from the album “Dagger & Guitar” and “Shapes of summer” from “Everything that rises must converge”. The reconstruction combines the destructive methods of boxing and contemporary noise music. Zort Zol Live 2009 is all about the Uncle’s confrontation with the specific Danishness of what may amount to be the punkiest work in the canon.

For “Zort Zol Live 2009″ Henrik collaborates with Berlin based performance artist Jörn J. Burmester with whom he has founded and played in the band projects “Die kleinen Pisser” and “Das Prinzip”. Some examples can be found at www.youtube.com/user/JoernBurmester Henrik and Jörn have also collaborated in a number of performance art collectives like Elizalde Area Code, Berlin n@work and Performer Stammtisch, performed together, and toured throughout Scandinavia with Zarathustra’s Uncle’s piece “We come in Peace”.

For more info on the Canon project check www.zonkel.com

The book presentation will take place in Warehouse 9 at 16th of November 2009, 20.00. At the reception we will serve a cold glass of beer, sell the book and show the last Berliner Luft Performance ever.

Jörn J. Burmester will perform “My Last performance” live on stage.

Admission free and free bier.

In case you don’t fell like showing up, the book in its final version will also appear on the homepage www.liveart.dk in a free downloadable version.