IPAF præsenterer: Charlie Laban Trier: Overfladisk Hypokrisi

Overflade Hypokrisia is a series of performative efforts and spells to invoke manifestations of a speculative, trans-mythic figure. Her name is HypoKrisia. She’s a figment of Charlie’s fantasy – imagined as the forgotten little sister of Tiresias, the blind prophet from Greek mythology. The performance embarks on a journey researching resilience through the guidance of her.

According to the myth, Tiresias sees two snakes in a mating spiral. He is disgusted by the sight of something he does not understand and strikes the female snake. Because of this action, Hera, Zeus’ wife, transforms him into a woman.

Both Tiresias and HypoKrisia could be read as trans figures, but HypoKrisia resists a full  becoming. She insists on the liminal space and chooses to live in a performative state of “half un-done.”

In this imaginary myth she is deemed unworthy and dangerous by society and therefore erased from the stories. She’s the embodiment of the snake: smooth, elusive, and constantly on the verge of shedding skin.

The wish is to summon her from the depths, because she has been held down beneath the surface for far too long. But in this act, friction is inevitable; it’s not smooth sailing to bring forth what has been forgotten or perhaps never existed. It is like reaching through a portal to a time we cannot reach—and what emerges may be unknown and difficult to face.

In this dance-piece the audience is taken into a mythological spin, where we no longer know who are speaking through whom. We’ll meet a lonesome character, but there’s another presence hiding deep under. The boy attempts to invoke her, he speaks in/with multiple tongues.

The pursuit is to dance with her; a dance-duet leading perhaps to a momentary take-over of his body. In this complicated partnership, he tries to follow the laws of the trickster and together they embrace total pretense. Their tool-box is filled with contradictory disagreement, faking and mimicry.

Om kunstneren:
Charlie Laban Trier (b. 1987, dk) is a performing artist who chooses to situate his practice deep within the realm of dance, though the dances often appear through other forms such as; 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 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 is currently investigating practices of collective myth-making, wanting to foster conversations that resist fixed meaning and invite a dis-positioning of the hero/center-stage.

Kreditter:

Choreography & performer: Charlie Laban Trier

Dramaturgical partner: Noha Ramadan

Light designer: Angela X

RC-vehicle builder: Anders Toft Pedersen

Outside eye and RC-performer: Kai Merke

Music remix: Isadora Tomasi

Special thanks: Angelica Stathopoulos

Developed with support from: 

HIMHERANDIT, Warehouse9 and Åbne Scene/Godsbanen – Queer Practice Residence 2025/26, HAUT – IN PROCESS residency, EHKÄ Contemporary Art Space Kutomo residency, Performance space & PACT Sydney – Queer Development Program 2024, Museion Bolzano – Opening the pill symposium 2022, Arts Centre BUDA residency, Jakoozi Amsterdam.

Music in piece: Aamourocean, Britney Spears, Cascada & Maurice West, Chicane & Moya Brennan – The Thrillseekers remix, Hole, ORM.

Godt at vide:

Mulighed for tæt nærhed til performer.
Røg i performance.
Loud music at times.
Dansk

IPAF:
IPAF er Warehouse9s internationale performancefestival. Festivalen er en væsentlig udvidelse af organisationens dedikerede arbejde med at støtte og præsentere LGBTQIA+ kunstnere og kulturaktører. IPAF er et dynamisk mødested, der skaber muligheder for kunstnerisk udvikling, liveoptrædener og tilgængeliggør rum til dialog og fællesskab.

I år er festivalen co-produceret med Dansehallerne og præsenterer genre-brydende værker i København, der aktivt engagerer sig i identitetspolitik, seksuelle udtryk og kropsrepræsentationer. IPAF er grundlagt på en stærk overbevisning om, at dans og performance kan tilbyde nye perspektiver og forståelser af virkeligheden, inspirere den kollektive fantasi og kæmpe for bedre og mere retfærdige fremtider.

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