FESTIVAL BAR NIGHT
Join us for a midway festival celebration and drink at TOASTER’s bar.
Come down and an enjoy some tunes, dance and hang out with friends.
DJ:
Dj jibril is a Portuguese born Guinean dj who plays big tunes inspired by the diaspora for the diaspora (them/they)
The festival bar night takes place after the double-bill with Sall Lam Toro and Martin O’Brien.
You can join the evening regardless if you have a ticket to see the performances.
Access: Husets 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. TOASTER’s bar is in the basement of Husets Teaters building. There are stairs leading down to the bar.
This evening is co-hosted with TOASTER and Live Art DK.
The Festival Bar Night 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.
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.
OBSIDIANA, ESTRANHA, ERÓTICA E ULTRAVIOLETA: Sall Lam Toro
IPAF & Managing Discomfort presents: OBSIDIANA, ESTRANHA, ERÓTICA E ULTRAVIOLETA by Sall Lam Toro
Live performance rework from Obsidian Dream Love Letters series (2023)
The live performance piece “obsidiana, estranha, erótica e ultravioleta” (2024) is a rework of the multimedia installation performance Obsidian Dream Love Letters series (2023) universe of surrealist ecoerotic poetics of queer blackness, archiving and rituals situated in multi-cosmologies of space. The previous version was developed for Close Encounters: Embodied Journeys festival co-produced by Danshallerne and Den Frie Udstillingsted Bygning and curated by Julienne Doko last year. And the multimedia installation was also shown at Fear and Fauna group exhibition curated by Ariel Feminisms ending with another performance version as well at the finissage. Drawing upon a love letter to black ecoerotic consciousness built upon universes of phantasmagoria, the space is inhabited by sculptures, light and soil companions. The piece materializes manifestos of atemporal and multidimensional fugitivity with the support of sensuous rituals channeled by the presence of obsidian and rose quartz raw living bodies within the sculptures and soil trails.
In this rework without video nor mapped visuals, the scenographic space shifts into a green, ultraviolet light glitch, concentrated immersing space with an assemblage of two poles and sculptures-podium of obsidian and rose quartz leveled onto them. The performers not only move backwards in different positions grounded on the floor in possession-like modes as the previous version, but also lift their own bodies up supported by the pole moving upside down in twists and distorted body positions. This version contrasts with the previous ones offering a heightened physicality of the performative with an abundant hypererotic descent into the sensuous vibrational frequencies of obsidian and rose quartz.
Notes for audience
TBA
Double Bill: This performance is a DOUBLE BILL showing with Martin O’Brien. 1 ticket = access to 2 performances.
Language
Non-Verbal
Access
Husets 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.
Credits
Concept, development, artistic direction, performance, & choreography: Sall Lam Toro
Co-development, co-performance, & co-choreography: Suziethecockroach
Choreography consultant & assistance: Tabatha Araujo
Sound composition: Warren Jones
Sound remixing: Suziethecockroach
Sculpture work: Sall Lam Toro
Scenography and light design: Bella Jensen
Costume design: Serena Coelho
Additional re-styling: Sall Lam Toro and Suziethecockroach
About the artists:
Sall is a black trans queer unbinary antidisciplinary multimedia performance artist and organizer based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and, born and raised in Portugal to immigrant parents from Guiné-Bissau. They work with the mediums of performance, movement, sound, textual and visual art. Their work relates to claiming the ecoerotic as a way into decolonizing body(ies) while finding strategies to create more accessibility to multiple, non-linear, poetic universes of the sensual through equally disruptive, emotional and dissident forms.
Their pieces strive to break with/interrupt the consequences of coloniality-based inherited violence and oppression in the becoming of the body through rituals, economies of care and the senses while establishing intentional relationships with grief and death.
Their interactive and collaborative visual works indulge within meta-universes of meaning, body and spirit erupting shifting transcendental states within the body of the viewer/participant attempting to defy capitalist modes of operating and sensing.
They are part of (Co)Opulence, and Humus Collectives working mainly in Denmark and Scandinavia.
OBSIDIANA, ESTRANHA, ERÓTICA E ULTRAVIOLETA is co-presented with TOASTER and Live Art DK and also a part of their Managing Discomfort Performance Festival.
OBSIDIANA, ESTRANHA, ERÓTICA E ULTRAVIOLETA 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.
AN AMBULANCE TO THE FUTURE (THE SECOND CHANCE): Martin O’Brien
IPAF & Managing Discomfort presents: An Ambulance to the Future (The Second Chance) by Martin O’Brien
The 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.
In ‘An Ambulance to the Future (The Second Chance)’, Death pays a man for sex. The price is immortality.
Mixing video, live performance action and parables, the work paints the picture of life lived over and over again, a life that doesn’t 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’Brien’s explorations of the politics of death by asking what the idea of immortality can help us understood about being mortal.
‘An Ambulance to the Future (The Second Chance)’ premiered at Whitechapel Gallery in May 2023 and was presented as part of Martin O’Brien’s year as ‘Writer-in-Residence’.
Notes for audience
An Ambulance to the Future (The Second Chance) contains nudity, footage of scrotal piercing, discussion of sex and death and spanking.
Double Bill: This performance is a DOUBLE BILL showing with Sall Lam Toro. 1 ticket = access to 2 performances.
Language
English
Access
Husets 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.
The text that Martin O’Brien will be performing in English will be available as limited quantity handouts at the venue.
Credits
Lead artist: Martin O’Brien
Producer: FUTURE RITUAL
Videography: Baiba Sprance and Marco Beradi
Performers (Live): Zack Mennell
Performers (Film): Ali Campbell, Ash McNaughton, Carolyn Naish, Ewan Hindes, Pianka M, Regina Jay
About the artists:
Martin O’Brien 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 ‘Survival of the Sickest: The Art of Martin O’Brien’ was published by Live Art Development Agency. His work has been featured on BBC radio and Sky Arts television. Martin O’Brien is currently senior lecturer in Live Art at Queen Mary University of London
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.
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.
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.
Enter Exude: Teo Ala-Ruona
IPAF presents: Enter Exude by Teo Ala-Ruona
Enter Exude is a cinematic auto-fantasy for three performers and a Chevrolet Camaro.
Born from the anal canal of an automobile, the three techno-brothers derive pleasure from inhaling the spirit of the car – both a symbol of familial and trans narratives. Enter Exude takes the audience on an ominously erotic ride, unfolding on various time scales, blurring the boundaries between life and slow death.
Enter Exude delves into contemporary notions of gender, technology, and ecology while crafting simultaneously a hypnotic and haunting experience of unfulfilled desires. The performance is simultaneously exaggerative and intimate, breaking the boundaries of the stage and creating a continuous interplay between reality and the imagined.
Enter Exude continues Ala-Ruona’s series of performances exploring the intertwining of environmental toxicities and trans-corporeality, with bodily transformations and complex sexuality forming an intense, mutually accelerating cycle.
Notes for audience
Enter Exude includes talk about sex and death. The performance also includes close proximity audience contact, from which audience members can opt out if they wish. The performance includes loud sounds and blinking lights.Earplugs are provided at the entrance door for those who wish to use them.
Language: English
Access: Warehouse9 is Wheelchair accessible. Accessible toilets are accessed via stairlift. Accessible parking is available on site.
Post-show: on the 16th March there will be a post-show celebration. We hope you will join us.
Working group & credits
Summoning, concept and directing: Teo Ala-Ruona
Choreography:Raoni Muzho Saleh, Charlie Laban Trier and Teo Ala-Ruona
Performers: Raoni Muzho Saleh, Charlie Laban Trier and Teo Ala-Ruona
Dramaturg: Even Minn
Set and costume design: Teo Paaer
Sound dramaturg: Kaino Wennerstrand
Sound design: Miša Skalskis
Lighting design: Heikki Paasonen
Producer: Sanna Ritvanen
Pre-production: Jonni Korhonen
Artistic dialogue: Remi Vesala
Production: Kiasma-teatteri, Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux, Viernulvier, Warehouse9
Supported by: Niilo Helander Foundation, Arts Promotion Centre, Wihuri Foundation, Oskar Öflund Foundation, Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, Finnish Cultural Institute of Denmark
Residencies: FABRIKKEN, Zodiak-laboratory, BUDA
Read the text ‘Car and I’ that frames the themes of the Enter Exude:
“”This text, too, arises from the car. I see it in my mind as a knot of interchanges composed of highway ramps, an accelerating landscape with multiple directions and lanes. I stand in the midst of that landscape, amidst the noise of highways, and I write.””
Written by: Teo Ala Ruona and Remi Vesala
PDF Download: Teo Ala Ruona and Remi Vesala
About the artists:
Teo Ala-Ruona is a Helsinki-based performance artist, whose works delve into somatospeculative fiction, exploring themes such as techno-trans-masculinity, sexuality, ecology, and toxicity. He employs a blend of theoretical discourse, autobiographical text, and psychophysical performance scores to redefine language and narratives that address pleasure and intimacy in the context of a toxic Earth.
He approaches trans corporeality as an arena, where various normative processes of naturalization become infeasible, and address queer ecological topics from explicitly sexual perspective to revoke the heteronormative biases that influence the research done on biology and ecology, gender and sexuality.
Through the use of the performing body as a canvas for speculative storytelling, he experiments how fiction can transform the ways bodies are understood. Ala-Ruona is committed to the transgressive potential of performance art to push the boundaries of our perception of normality and conventionality.
Ala-Ruona’s work has recently been shown in Performa Biennial (New York), The Vilnius Biennial of Performance Art (Vilnius), The Finnish National Gallery Kiasma (Helsinki), The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London (London), Sequences festival (Reykjavik) and Centrale Fies (Dro) among others.
Enter Exude is co-presented with the The Finnish Cultural Institute in Denmark
Enter Exude 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.
IPAF Festival
IPAF is back with its 2024 edition taking place 14th – 17th March 2024.
IPAF is a biannual international performance festival. The festival is an extension of Warehouse9’s focus to support LGBTQIA+ artists and cultural practitioners practice. The festival supports development opportunities, live performance encounters, and creates spaces for dialogue and gatherings.
The Festival unfolds across the city of Copenhagen and presents genre-blurring work that engages with identity politics, sexual expressions and body representations. The Festival is based on the belief that performance can provide different perspectives and ways to understand reality, inspire collective imagining and advocate for better and more just futures.
IPAF creates spaces for gathering around live work made by queer artists. Spaces that celebrate learning, risk taking and embrace failure. Spaces for artists and audiences to meet. Spaces that hold artist-, audience-, and collective-care at the heart of the festival.
Artists & Performances
Krishna Istha: First Trimester
Louis Schou-Hansen: Afterlife
Martin O’Brien: An Ambulance to the Future (The Second Chance)
Sall Lam Toro: obsidiana, estranha, erótica e ultravioleta
Teo Ala-Ruona: Enter Exude
Artist-in-Residence: Alba&Linn: Out of The Coffin
Artist-in-Residence: Filip Pawlak: Sewing Pride
Tickets:
Book your tickets here: https://billetto.dk/users/warehouse9
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Here: https://teaterbilletter.dk/forestillinger/obsidiana-an-ambulance-to-the-future-117928
Programme overview
14 March
Managing Discomfort – DOUBLE BILL (@ Husets Teater)
Sall Lam Toro: obsidiana, estranha, erótica e ultravioleta
Martin O’Brien: An Ambulance to the Future (The Second Chance)
15 March
Alba&Linn: Out of The Coffin (@ Dansekapellet)
Teo Ala-Ruona: Enter Exude (@ Warehouse9)
Managing Discomfort – DOUBLE BILL (@ Husets Teater)
Sall Lam Toro: obsidiana, estranha, erótica e ultravioleta
Martin O’Brien: An Ambulance to the Future (The Second Chance)
+post show Festival Bar Night
16 March
Krishna Istha: First Trimester (@ Dansekapellet)
Louis Schou-Hansen: Afterlife (@ Dansekapellet)
Filip Pawlak: Sewing Pride (@ Dansekapellet)
Teo Ala-Ruona: Enter Exude (@ Warehouse9)
+post show celebration
17 March
Breakfast Club
Krishna Istha: First Trimester (@ Dansekapellet)
PROGRAMME
FESTIVAL TEAM
Co-Director: Emma Castro Møller
Co-Director: Jørgen Callesen
Production Manager: Zep Andersen
Lead Producer: Anne Mai Slot Vilmann
Producer: Caroline Blomqvist
Assistant Producer: Elias Ståhl
Assistant Producer: Jasmin Ingemansen
PR & Marketing Manager: Carla Rafaella Denalie Gianetti
SoMe Manager: Sarah Wegeberg
Graphic Designer: Alix Smed Dawids
Photographer: Søren Meisner
PARTNERS
Dansehallerne (co-presenting Afterlife)
TOASTER (co-presenting Martin O’Brien and Sall Lam Toro)
Live Art DK (co-presenting Martin O’Brien and Sall Lam Toro)
The Finnish Cultural Institute in Denmark (co-presenting Enter Exude)
HIMHERANDIT Productions (co-producing Out of The Coffin / Residency)
The Genderhouse Festival (co-producing Out of The Coffin / Residency)
Malmö Theatre Academy (Residency)
Dansekapellet (venue)
SUPPORTED BY
Danish Arts Foundation / Statens Kunstfond
City of Copenhagen / Københavns Kommune
Bispebjerg Lokaludvalg
Arts Council England
