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IPAF artists-in-residence with his project Sewing Pride.
As part of IPAF Filip Pawlak will be inviting audiences to sew a disability flag together.
Sewing Pride by Filip Pawlak
Can disabled people feel their own queer pride?
What is the pride of excluded groups built on?
Does trauma have to be the building block?
In the simple practice of sewing together a disability flag – whose background, however, is the black that symbolises death – I want to ask the question about the communal experience of this group. I am jealously thinking of queer pride, the shining hammer that has allowed oppressive norms to crumble for years. I reflect on the experience of the AIDS epidemic, an identity event that marked out a common enemy but also the pride of a common cause.
Do disabled people access their own melancholy, the social permission to experience grief? Can the experience of an epidemic 30 years later, COVID, become (as similar to AIDS for queer) a building block for this group to create a positive political, social community?
Notes for audience
Sewing Pride is a performance intervention that will take place in Dansekapellets foyer. Anyone interested in joining the action is welcome to participate. No booking needed.
Language
English
Access
Dansekapellet is wheelchair accessible. Accessible toilets are located on site. Kuppelsalen is accessible via stairlift.
About the artists
Filip Pawlak (born 1994) – performer, independent producer of performing arts, self-advocate for artists with disabilities. In recent years involved in the Europe Beyond Access project. Experienced in the institutional and independent art sector (in the past, among others, head of the production department of the Nowy Teatr in Warsaw, curatorial advisor and producer of the 10Treffen series at the Theatertreffen Berlin, collaborator and performer of Rafał Urbacki’s crip art works). After a break of several years, he is once again taking steps on stage as an artist.
Supported in partnership with Malmö Theatre Academy.
Sewing Pride 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.
The festival is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, the City of Copenhagen and Bispebjerg Lokaludvalg.
IPAF artists-in-residence with his project Sewing Pride.
As part of IPAF Filip Pawlak will be inviting audiences to sew a disability flag together.
Sewing Pride by Filip Pawlak
Can disabled people feel their own queer pride?
What is the pride of excluded groups built on?
Does trauma have to be the building block?
In the simple practice of sewing together a disability flag – whose background, however, is the black that symbolises death – I want to ask the question about the communal experience of this group. I am jealously thinking of queer pride, the shining hammer that has allowed oppressive norms to crumble for years. I reflect on the experience of the AIDS epidemic, an identity event that marked out a common enemy but also the pride of a common cause.
Do disabled people access their own melancholy, the social permission to experience grief? Can the experience of an epidemic 30 years later, COVID, become (as similar to AIDS for queer) a building block for this group to create a positive political, social community?
Notes for audience
Sewing Pride is a performance intervention that will take place in Dansekapellets foyer. Anyone interested in joining the action is welcome to participate. No booking needed.
Language
English
Access
Dansekapellet is wheelchair accessible. Accessible toilets are located on site. Kuppelsalen is accessible via stairlift.
About the artists
Filip Pawlak (born 1994) – performer, independent producer of performing arts, self-advocate for artists with disabilities. In recent years involved in the Europe Beyond Access project. Experienced in the institutional and independent art sector (in the past, among others, head of the production department of the Nowy Teatr in Warsaw, curatorial advisor and producer of the 10Treffen series at the Theatertreffen Berlin, collaborator and performer of Rafał Urbacki’s crip art works). After a break of several years, he is once again taking steps on stage as an artist.
Supported in partnership with Malmö Theatre Academy.
Sewing Pride 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.
The festival is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, the City of Copenhagen and Bispebjerg Lokaludvalg.
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 (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 (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.
