\nThe grim reaper stood there, finally I saw him. His skeletal form sparkled in the moonlight and nothing else existed. This was the deal. He reached out and wrapped his cold, bone hand around my skull. I was lost in the darkness of his cape. He drew me near and kissed me. He tasted like death, and I loved it.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n
Mixing video, live performance action and parables, the work paints the picture of life lived over and over again, a life that doesn\u2019t need water or oxygen, a life without the promise of an end point. It is a meditation on endings and new beginnings. With his usual intensity and wit, this work continues Martin O\u2019Brien\u2019s explorations of the politics of death by asking what the idea of immortality can help us understood about being mortal.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018An Ambulance to the Future (The Second Chance)\u2019 premiered at Whitechapel Gallery in May 2023 and was presented as part of Martin O\u2019Brien\u2019s year as \u2018Writer-in-Residence\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n Double Bill: <\/b>This performance is a DOUBLE BILL showing with Sall Lam Toro. 1 ticket = access to 2 performances. <\/span><\/p>\n Language Access The text that Martin O’Brien will be performing in English will be available as limited quantity handouts at the venue.<\/p>\n Credits <\/p>\n About the artists: <\/p>\n An Ambulance to the Future (The Second Chance) is co-presented with TOASTER and Live Art DK and also a part of their Managing Discomfort Performance Festival. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n An Ambulance to the Future (The Second Chance) is part of IPAF: an international festival for contemporary performance presenting artists from different cultural contexts, whose work engages identity politics, sexual expressions, and body representations, facilitated by Warehouse9.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n The festival is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, the City of Copenhagen and Bispebjerg Lokaludvalg.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In \u2018An Ambulance to the Future (The Second Chance)\u2019, Death pays a man for sex. The price is immortality.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2516,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[25,38,26,27,39],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-10000284","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ipaf","tag-live-art","tag-managing-discomfort","tag-martin-obrien","tag-performance","tribe-recurring-event","tribe-recurring-event-parent"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nIn \u2018An Ambulance to the Future <\/span>(The Second Chance)<\/b>\u2019, Death pays a man for sex. The price is immortality.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nNotes for audience
\n<\/b>An Ambulance to the Future (The Second Chance) contains nudity, footage of scrotal piercing, discussion of sex and death and spanking.
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\n<\/b>English<\/span><\/p>\n
\nHusets Teater does not have level free access and is not equipped with stairlifts, and is therefore not accessible for wheelchair users. We recognise that this is not good enough.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Lead artist: Martin O\u2019Brien
\n<\/span>Producer: FUTURE RITUAL
\n<\/span>Videography: Baiba Sprance and Marco Beradi
\n<\/span>Performers (Live): Zack Mennell
\n<\/span>Performers (Film): Ali Campbell, Ash McNaughton, Carolyn Naish, Ewan Hindes, Pianka M, Regina Jay<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Martin O\u2019Brien<\/strong> 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, and the ICA (London) in 2021. He is winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Visual and Performing Arts 2022. He is Writer-in-Residence at Whitechapel Gallery throughout 2023. Martin has cystic fibrosis and all his work and writing draws upon this experience. In 2018, the book \u2018Survival of the Sickest: The Art of Martin O\u2019Brien\u2019 was published by Live Art Development Agency. His work has been featured on BBC radio and Sky Arts television. Martin O\u2019Brien is currently senior lecturer in Live Art at Queen Mary University of London<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/warehouse9.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/images-300x70.png\")
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