Sewing Pride by Filip Pawlak (Artist-in-Residence)
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.
Breakfast Club
IPAF special edition of Breakfast Club!
Come and join us for coffee, morning nibbles and good company. Come by for the food, the conversation, and a chance to meet new people.
We will provide a simple vegan set-up: croissants, fruit, coffee and tea, but you are also welcome to bring your own food and drinks if you prefer.
Free to attend – RSVP by emailing: blomqvist.caroline@gmail.com
This edition takes place just before Krishna Istha’s last showing of First Trimester.
Breakfast Club was originally created because we know that working in the arts and freelancing can be lonely. Therefore, we want to create a monthly shared space to check in, meet new people and be together. This edition of Breakfast Club takes places during our international performance festival IPAF. It is therefore also a chance to for artists and audiences to meet, as well as to meet international colleagues. We hope you will join us!
We ask that you RSVP so that we can estimate the correct amount of food on offer.
Access: Dansekapellet is wheelchair accessible. Accessible toilets are located on site.
This edition of Breakfast Club 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.
Out of The Coffin: Alba&Linn (Artist-in-Residence)
Alba&Linn are IPAF artists-in-residence with their new project Out of The Coffin.
As part of IPAF Alba&Linn will be sharing their project with a work-in-progress performance.
This performance is a participatory worksharing with feedback from the audience.
Out of The Coffin by Alba&Linn
During their residency period they have taken a deep dive into the rich and bloody archive of vampire fiction and stories as a queer figure and fantasy. Being other, living at night in a queer temporality, that is hidden and dissolves by day, and an existence only possible through what is deemed immoral by those who fear the vampire, and much more.
For this worksharing you will partake in a performative dialogue meeting. And do not worry, nobody will get bitten.
Notes for audience
Free to attend, please RSVP to reserve your spot.
Language
English
Access
Dansekapellet is wheelchair accessible. Accessible toilets are located on site. Kuppelsalen is accessible via stairlift.
About the artists
Alba Greve (they/them) – Is a copenhagen based actor and performance maker, navigating between theatre, performance art, and erotics. Alba works with audience manipulation, crafting immersive experiences. With an interest in fictional non-fiction, they invite the audience to participate in world building and create a blend of fiction and ¨reality¨. They work freelance in many different collaborations and are a part of Roomies Production. They recently premiered the Art porn Under the Cherries by Frida Retz. Alba holds a BA from Norwegian Theatre Academy
Linn Haldrup Lorenzen (she/her) is a freelance performance maker based in Copenhagen. She is occupied with questions of use and uselessness, real and imaginary, visible and invisible in relation to queerness and living with chronic illness. She works as a performer, director, teacher and concept developer, both self-producing and for others, and she is associated with the performance collective CuntsCollective. Among others she has worked with Fix&Foxy, Live Art DK and Bianca Casady. She holds a Master in Performance from Norwegian Theatre Academy.
Out of The Coffin is co-produced by HIMHERANDIT Productions, Genderhouse Festival and Warehouse9. Prior to this sharing Alba&Linn have been supported with a 1 months residency in Aarhus at Q&A Studios and Åbne Scene – Godsbanen.
Out of The Coffin 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.
First Trimester: Krishna Istha
IPAF presents: First Trimester by Krishna Istha
This groundbreaking performance offers a rare opportunity to contribute to and witness queer family-making.
Embark on a journey with London-based performance artist Krishna Istha as they search for the ‘perfect’ sperm donor. First Trimester explores human connection and parenthood, challenging expectations and redefining what it means to create a family as a transgender person.
In the Danish premiere of this one-of-a-kind durational experience, fresh from its world premiere in London & Auckland, First Trimester invites you to witness intimate live interviews between Krishna and 100s of participants, in a quest to find them and their partner a sperm donor, or at least discover the qualities that bring them closer to their perfect match.
Krishna asks questions that range from funny to serious, from matter-of-fact information to philosophical perspectives in order to make the ultimate connection.
“Did you grow up with pets?”
“Where do you store your memories?”
“What do you value more, kindness or intelligence?”
And, most importantly for Krishna, “Have you watched The Princess Diaries?”
Audience members are invited to watch as the interviews unfold, but are also welcome to sign-up as a participant as a prospective donor. We welcome participants aged 18 to 60+ from all backgrounds. Each interview is pivotal in helping Krishna get closer to finding the right donor. If you would like to sign up to participate, please visit our website: https://firsttrimester.co.uk/
This is a durational performance. Saturday’s performance runs for 7 hours, and you can either buy a ticket for the full 7 hours (plus a 1 hour break) or for 3 hour slots. Sunday’s performance runs for 3 hours and you can buy a ticket for the duration. All shows are sensory adapted and are relaxed — i.e you are welcome to come and go from the space as you please with the slot you have selected.
Commissioned by Roundhouse, Battersea Arts Centre and Marlborough Productions.
Supported by Arts Council England.
Presented by Warehouse9 as part of IPAF 2024
Language: English
Tickets: Tickets are pay-what-you-can. On the 16th March you can either book a 3 hours time slot or a ticket for the whole day.
Access: Dansekapellet is wheelchair accessible. Accessible toilets are located on site. This is a relaxed performance.
Content warnings: The participants taking part in the live conversations have not rehearsed before coming on stage and do not know what the questions are before taking part. We therefore can not know exactly what will be said in advance.
Audiences are welcome to come and go from the space as you please with the slot they have selected.
Other content notes:
- There will be moments of loud music and sounds.
- All performances will be Relaxed. We invite you to make yourself comfortable and move around if you need to and if you need to leave the performance at any point you will be allowed to return to the space when you feel ready.
- Participant & audience care has been central to the development of the show and there will be a wellbeing practitioner on site at every performance.
- Please note, due to the format of the show, there may be a small wait of no more than 10 minutes to enter the space if you arrive after the start time.
Working group & credits
Lead Artist: Krishna Istha
Producer: Ruby Glaskin
Dramaturg: Paula Varjack
Coder & website designer: Suzanna Hurst
Set & Costume Designer: Christine Ting – Huan Urquhart
Lighting Designer: Martha Godfrey
Sound Designer: Olive Mondegreen
Production Manager: Helen Mugridge
About the artists:
Krishna Istha is a London-based performance artist, comedian, theatre maker and screenwriter. They create socially conscious, form-pushing works about taboo or underrepresented experiences of gender, race and sexual politics. Most recently, they wrote on Netflix’s Sex Education (Season 4, Episode 3) and is a Netflix Documentary Talent Fund recipient. They were a Barbican Centre Open Lab artist (2021-22) and an Arts Admin Bursary Artist (2020-21). They were one of two shortlisted writers for the SKY Arts & Royal Society of Literature Writers Awards under screenwriting (2022), and came Runner-Up on Screenshot (2021) — a competition for comedy writer-performers hosted by Sister Pictures and South of the River Pictures.
https://www.krishnaistha.com/
First Trimester 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.
Afterlife: Louis Schou-Hansen
IPAF presents: Afterlife by Louis Schou-Hansen
Afterlife is a messed-up playground. It is a site for speculative futurities and derailed interpretations of a renaissance that never really happened. While diving into hauntologies of Western dance history, questioning whether the Sun King actually ever died, the performance moves through a series of twisted dances from the late Italian Renaissance and early French Baroque. Only to disperse into weird referential landscapes containing subtle traces of Britney’s banger dance from Hit Me Baby One More Time, Andrzej Zulawski’s subway scene from Possession and distorted yoga-gone-wrong inspired materials.
Carried out by three performers, Afterlife tries to unfold muted histories of subaltern bodies. Bodies that, through Western colonial and anti-queer epistemic regimes, were deemed disposable and unfit to partake in any further historical development.
Notes for audience
The performance includes loud sounds. Earplugs are provided at the entrance door for those who wish to use them.
Language: Non-verbal
Access: Dansekapellet is wheelchair accessible. Accessible toilets are located on site. Kuppelsalen is accessible via stairlift.
Working group & credits
CHOREOGRAPHY & DIRECTION Louis Schou-Hansen / COSTUMES AND SCULPTURAL WORK Karoline Bakken Lund / CO-MAKING PERFORMERS Amie Mbye, Elise Nohr Nystad, Georgiana Dobre / MUSIC Peachlyfe, Petra Skibsted / ARTISTIC ADVISOR Sebastian De Line / RECONSTRUCTION OF RENAISSANCE DANCE Elizabeth Svarstad / HAIR Anna Lübeck / PHOTOS Chai Saeidi / CO. PRODUCTION Black Box Teater Oslo, Mimosa Studio & Palmera Bergen SUPPORTED BY: Arts Council Norway, FFUK, Oslo Municipality, Fond For Lyd og Bilde
About the artists:
Louis Schou-Hansen (it/they) is a dancer and choreographer whose work is situated at the intersection of dance and visual arts. Its practice encompasses various formats such as performances, making dances, performing, writing, and sometimes curating. Louis’ work dives into speculative fiction as a tool to investigate, dissect, and denaturalize how bodies have been molded through violent Western fairytales, utilizing queer and trans-feminist epistemologies. Louis has studied dance at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and the Royal Danish Ballet School, as well as fine arts at The Dutch Art Institute.
In 2023, Louis was shortlisted for the Sandefjord Kunstforenings Art Prize with Harald Beharie, and was in 2020 nominated for the Norwegian Critics Association Prize for the piece Shine Utopians.
In 2016, it started collaborating with Norwegian choreographer Ingri Fiksdal, working as a performer in several of her works. Louis has also performed in the works of Runa Borch Skolseg, Pedro Gomez Egana, Edhem Jesenkovic, Goro Tronsmo, Andrew Amorim, Janne Camilla Lyster, & Ingun Bjørnsgaard, to name some. Between 2020-2022 it co-founded and curated the discursive, platform Brakkesnakk together with Ines Belli.
Louis has presented works at Copenhagen Contemporary, the Munch Museum Oslo, Untitled Tbilisi, Black Box Teater Oslo, Suprainfinit Bucharest, Dansens Hus Oslo, My Wild Flag Stockholm, The Norwegian National Museum, and RAS Sandnes, among others. Since 2019 it has been active as a guest teacher at various academies and venues such as CONDTIONS STUDIO PROGRAMME London, Palais De Tokyo Paris, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, ICA – Institute of Contemporary Arts London, The Place London, and BRUT Vienna.
http://www.louisschouhansen.net/
Afterlife is presented in close collaboration with Dansehallerne.
Dansehallerne is a national center for dance and choreography in Copenhagen.
Co-producing and presenting a diverse spectrum of national and international performances, facilitating professional training and industry events. Dansehallerne has a strong focus on cultivating an efficient and sustainable ecosystem for dance and choreography in Denmark nurtured by, and in dynamic valued exchange with, the organization’s local and global associations.
Afterlife 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.
