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HIMHERANDIT Productions (Aarhus) and Warehouse9 (Copenhagen) have (finally!) come together to offer opportunities to support queer performance practice in Denmark. Both organisations have a key interest in ensuring queer artists’ practice is cared for and represented in the greater performing arts landscape in Denmark. This open call is a first-step in our collaboration and will offer an opportunity to support practice between Aarhus and Copenhagen over a period of 6 months. The residency’s primary focus is on supporting practice through a research & development framework created by the organisations festivals, which includes a residency period in Aarhus, peer-to-peer mentorship, ongoing dialogue and participation in the festivals in the spring of 2024.
The open call offers up to 4 weeks residency in Aarhus to 1 professional queer artist/company (consisting of 1-2 persons) within the performing arts, living and working in denmark.
Deadline for submission: 11th December 2023 at 23.59pm
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.