Residency
Project: You can make me hole again
Artistic Team: Anna Näsström, Beck Heiberg, Anders Toft Pedersen
You can make me hole again is an investigation of the physicality of holes and of the
relationship between holes and the spatial body by using our
b o d i e s i n h o l e s , by embodying holes, and by being a
hole. We spend our time exploring the meeting of holes
and the whole, and look into our inherent obsession with filling
h o l e s both physically, emotionally and sexually. We are
asking why there is a need to feel complete. Does wholeness
only come from the hole being full? Can the hole and
whole co-exist without erasing one another and can we
be in that w/hole?
About The Artists
Beck Heiberg is a choreographer and performer based between Copenhagen and Berlin. He has a BA in Theatre and Performance Studies from Copenhagen University and is furthermore educated at Juste Debout School in Paris, France and Hotstepper Studio in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Beck is investigating queer- and transpolitical aesthetics as both an explicit and implicit part of his praxis. He works in a broad field of theatre and performance, but his own original work derives from building concepts up around movement and is often related to personal experiences.
Beck is a member of Dance Cooperative – a platform and workspace for intersectional feminist and artistic choreographic practices in Copenhagen.
Anna Näsström is a choreographer and danceartist based in Malmö. Her artistic practice unfolds at the intersection of dance, technology, and ethnography – navigating different contexts, movement languages and multimedia or sensory projects. She has a foundation in dance and performance from the University of the Arts in Stockholm and Peridance and BDC in New York.
Her choreographic work is informed by a range of influences including social dance, club culture, street dance, ballroom, and contemporary dance. This shapes her creative processes, which often take on a multidisciplinary character with a norm-critical lens. Anna also holds a BA in Social Anthropology from Stockholm University, with a keen interest in futures thinking and world-building.
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.