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Monday Salon with Martin O’Brien

august 18 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 am

Free (no RSVP needed)

Join Martin O’Brien as he shares his practice at the Monday Salon at Det Lilla Rum on Monday 18th August.
Martin will share some thoughts emerging out of his art work. He will, particularly, focus on the politics of death in relation to queerness.

Since 2022, the literary collective Det Lilla Rum and the coworking community Kontor Nr. 25 have collaborated to create morning salons for people working in the arts and culture sector. The idea is to provide a space for independents, freelancers, and small cultural institutions where we can support each other, share experiences, and be inspired by one another. Often, one or more individuals are invited to present their work. The intention is for these presentations to serve as a starting point for inspiration and conversation among attendees in an informal and community-oriented setting.

Martin O’Brien is an artist and zombie. He works across performance, writing and video art. His work uses long durational actions, short speculative texts and critical rants, and performance processes in order to explore death and dying, what it means to be born with a life shortening disease, and the philosophical implications of living longer than expected. He has shown work throughout the UK; Europe; USA; and Canada, and is well known for his solo performances and collaborations with the legendary LA artist and dominatrix Sheree Rose. His most recent works were at Tate Britain in 2020, the ICA (London) in 2021, and as Writer in Residence at Whitechapel Gallery in 2023. He is winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Visual and Performing Arts 2022. Martin has cystic fibrosis and all of his work and writing draws upon this experience. In 2018, the book ‘Survival of the Sickest: The Art of Martin O’Brien’ was published by Live Art Development Agency. His work has been featured on BBC radio and Sky Arts television, and as a double page spread in The Guardian. He is currently senior lecturer in Live Art, and head of department of Performance, at Queen Mary University of London.
During his residency at Warehouse9, Martin will be working on a new performance. The performance will premiere at Tate Britain in November 2025. The working title of the project is ‘Into the Fog…’. Martin will continue his exploration of death, dying, the undead, and ghostly returns through foggy death-scapes, where images are half seen or miss seen. Fog filled grave yards or woods are classic horror film settings. The fog has the potential to hide danger, but also to make the innocent feel dangerous. In the fog, nothing looks or feels the same. The air feels thick, almost suffocating, if you fall asleep in the fog, would you drown? 
Practical Info:
Language: English
Entrance: Free, just turn up!
Breakfast: vegetarian & vegan breakfast available for those who like with a symbolic charge.
Access Information:
Det Lilla Rum is located on the ground floor of a housing association in a old block of flats. There are 3 steps to enter the building.
This Salon is co-hosted by Det Lilla Rum, Kontor 25 and Warehouse9.

Detaljer

Dato:
august 18
Tidspunkt:
9:00 am - 11:00 am
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Arrangør

Warehouse9
E-mail
info@warehouse9.dk

Sted

Det Lilla Rum
Skotterupgade 16
Copenhagen, 2200 Denmark + Google Maps

Jasmin Ingemansen

Communications manager

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Jasmin has a master’s degree in English and cultural communications from the University of Copenhagen and has worked with several fields within the cultural sphere. She has worked with executing and communicating films, festivals, art fairs, and literature, and has now embarked upon queer performance art at Warehouse9. 

Emma Castro Møller

Co-Director

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Emma (they/she) has been a core member since 2012 and a leading effort in driving organisational development. They have helped shape WH9’s artistic profile, initiated national and international collaborations and consolidated WH9 through fundraising strategies, and insisting on production methods centering care and accessiblility.

In addition, Emma works as an independent curator, e.g. through the curatorial duo osborn&møller, where they have acted as guest curator at the Wellcome Collection (UK) and curated part of City of Women’s 25 year anniversary festival in 2019 (SL). Emma has experience as a freelance producer in the UK, where they worked with artists such as Poppy Jackson, Manuel Vason and SPILL Festival. Emma holds a MA in Theater and Performance from Queen Mary, University of London and a BA (Hons) in Drama, Applied Theatre & Education from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Jørgen Callesen

Co-Director

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Jørgen Callesen (They/He) is co-founder and co-director of  Warehouse9.

For the past 17 years, they have been an integral part of developing Warehouse9 to become a leading organisation for cross-aesthetic queer art, including international festivals and socially engaged projects. He holds a Ph.D. in information & media science from Aarhus University (2005) and has an artistic practice with the performance figure “miss fish”. They have presented solo work in Denmark and internationally since 2002 and work in collaboration with numerous queer artists as well as in lager scale productions.

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