Andreas Haglund & FASCIA: Residency

Andreas Haglund & FASCIA will undetake a 1-month residency at Warehouse9 to further develop their work ‘surbending’.

Activities whilst in residence:

• 18th september (time TBA): work-in-progress sharing

SURBENDING by Andreas Haglund & FASCIA

Hormones, pills, white coats, demeaning looks, clear liquids and sterile walls in stiff waiting rooms. Bodies keep turning into what is hard enough to swallow, what is outside their control. Just one more shot, one more pill, one more interview, one more show. Semblances of control dissolve into surrendering, into bending. Who’s in charge when the walls are already built? 

‘surbending’ is a collaborative performance project between choreographer Andreas Haglund and electronic music composer and programmer FASCIA. The piece explores how surrendering can contain strategies of subversion and survival. Inspired by their shared experience as queer people navigating healthcare, surbending teases out tensions of medical power. Hospitals make queer and trans lives possible while simultaneously robbing patients of self-determination and agency. Surrendering as the walls keep turning into ceilings, turning into floors, bending the waiting room into a mirror for self-realisation.

‘surbending’ will premiere at SCOOP FESTIVAL on September 27th. Tickets here: https://shorturl.at/nzXBh

Bios

FASCIA is an electronic composer, instrument designer and digital artist based in Malmö. Her work often entails using technology as prosthesis to enhance or transform human capabilities. For surbending, she has programmed webcams to track movement, using these to suspend the dancer in shifting power relations to the digital surveillance.

Andreas Haglund works as a dance artist and choreographer between Sweden and Denmark. They are a member of the artist-driven studio Dance Cooperative, a platform for 13 freelancing dance artists. In his own work he focuses on the somatic, material and aesthetic coherences between queer lived experience and the cultural conception of nature. On stage, in dance practice and in text.

Salon Evening With Alex Franz Zehetbauer (IPAFxQueerlands)

IPAF & Queerlands Presents:
Salon Evening With Alex Franz Zehetbauer

IPAF artist in residence, Alex Franz Zehetbauer, will host an evening salon to share the fruits of his week-long residency at wearhouse9. During his residency he continues his research on singing hosts by exploring the figure of the court jester. This research emerges as a playful tangent from his work “An Evening with”.

Alex Franz Zehetbauer (*1990 in Brooklyn) creates performances, sonic choreographies, and songs. In his newest work, An Evening with, he hosts the audience with a trickster humor while mesmerizing them with his thunderous and tender vocals. His ear-worm melodies live somewhere between avant-pop and medieval-plainsong and his lyrics oscillate between the earnest and the absurd. Critics have called him: an angel, a swamp monster, and a red-eyed demon. He studied vocal performance, choreography, acting and composition at the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and the International Theater Workshop in Amsterdam. Alex has collaborated with artists such as Phillip Gehmacher, Jen Rosenblit, Taylor Mac, Marta Navaridas and Alix Eynaudi.

www.alexfranzzehetbauer.com / @afranzz

Language:
Salon evening will be mostly in English.

How to attend:
Free with RSVP

Access Information:
Warehouse9 has level free entrance to the space and an accessible toilet that can be accessed via a certified stairlift.
All events at Warehouse9 are considered “relaxed”. We operate with a safer space policy and ask that you orientate yourself upon entry to the space.

Queerlands: is an alternative meeting place for the queer community during CPH Pride with a focus on art and community within Warehouse9’s workshop space in Vanløse, Copenhagen. It provides a different way of being together and respite from the official pride.

This event is an alternative offer to the main CPH Pride programme taking place in inner city.

The residency is supported by the European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists – EFFEA, an initiative of the European Festivals Association (EFA), co-funded by the European Union. 

As well as local support from Vanløse Lokaludvalg, The Danish Arts Foundation and The City of Copenhagen.

Work-in-Progress Showing: ‘Drama’ by A Ourø / A Kasakove

Welcome to a work-in-progress showing of the work ‘Drama’. We will perform a 20 minute glimpse of the piece after which we welcome you to a casual reflection discussion and some good snacks. 

Work-in-progress program text:

‘Drama’ is the last part of a trilogy of works on loss that began in 2018. These works attend to the unknown, the unknowable, the looming, and the never fully graspable. The performance ‘Drama’ takes place in a tragicomic sphere, where comedy and grief accompany each other. The piece uses humor as a way to address hopelessness. The research looks into different artistic forms of drama without imposing a clear narrative or a definitive plot. ‘Drama’ navigates between concrete references and fragile and abstract forms. As we now near the end of this trilogy, we reflect how this work can take part in addressing grief at this current time. The work does not look for a resolution, yet it creates a stage, invites an audience and proposes a dance with humor, uncertainty and a sense of communal solitude.

The costumes have been developed in close collaboration with costume designer Lærke Valum
Dance, choreography, music and production by Anna Lea Ourø and Amalia Kasakove
Music mentorship by ML Buch
Tailoring by Aina Erika Jonasson
With the support of Warehouse9, Milvus Artistic Research Center, Bora Bora, La Bellone, Théâtre Sévelin 36, Dansehallerne, Ställbergs Gruva, Aaben Dans, Dance Cooperative and Dansk Skuespillerforbund and Statens Kunstfond.                                                                                                                         

Bio:

Anna Lea Ourø (DK) and Amalia Kasakove (FIN/SWE) form the artist duo A Ourø / A Kasakove that resides in the field of dance and choreography. They have both received a Bachelor in Dance and Choreography from The Danish National School of Performing Arts (2017). Kasakove holds a MFA in Choreography from Stockholm University of the Arts (2022) and Ourø is currently amidst the Master in Choreography and Performance studies at Justus-Liebig-Universität in Gießen. Their work has been situated at places such as Warehouse9, Ställbergs Gruva, Aaben Dans, Milvus Artistic Research Center, La Bellone, Théâtre Sévelin 36, HAUT, Dansehallerne, DANSEatelier, CPH STAGE and Dance Cooperative. 

How to attend:
Free, no need to RSVP, just turn up.

Access Information:
Warehouse9 has level free entrance to the space and an accessible toilet that can be accessed via a certified stairlift.
All events at Warehouse9 are considered “relaxed”. We operate with a safer space policy and ask that you orientate yourself upon entry to the space.

A Ourø / A Kasakove: Residency

A Ourø / A Kasakove will undetake a 1-week residency at Warehouse9 to further develop their work ‘Drama’.

Activities whilst at Warehouse9:

5-10 August: Residency to further develop ‘Drama’

10th August at 17:00-18:00: work-in-progress showing of the work ‘Drama’

‘Drama’ by A Ourø / A Kasakove

‘Drama’ is the last part of a trilogy of works on loss that began in 2018. These works attend to the unknown, the unknowable, the looming, and the never fully graspable. The performance ‘Drama’ takes place in a tragicomic sphere, where comedy and grief accompany each other. The piece uses humor as a way to address hopelessness. The research looks into different artistic forms of drama without imposing a clear narrative or a definitive plot. ‘Drama’ navigates between concrete references and fragile and abstract forms. As we now near the end of this trilogy, we reflect how this work can take part in addressing grief at this current time. The work does not look for a resolution, yet it creates a stage, invites an audience and proposes a dance with humor, uncertainty and a sense of communal solitude.

The costumes have been developed in close collaboration with designer Lærke Valum
Dance, choreography, music and production by Anna Lea Ourø and Amalia Kasakove
Music mentorship by ML Buch
Tailoring by Aina Erika Jonasson
With the support of Warehouse9, Milvus Artistic Research Center, Bora Bora, La Bellone, Théâtre Sévelin 36, Dansehallerne, Ställbergs Gruva, Aaben Dans, Dance Cooperative and Dansk Skuespillerforbund and Statens Kunstfond.                                                                                                                         

Bio

Anna Lea Ourø (DK) and Amalia Kasakove (FIN/SWE) form the artist duo A Ourø / A Kasakove that resides in the field of dance and choreography. They have both received a Bachelor in Dance and Choreography from The Danish National School of Performing Arts (2017). Kasakove holds a MFA in Choreography from Stockholm University of the Arts (2022) and Ourø is currently amidst the Master in Choreography and Performance studies at Justus-Liebig-Universität in Gießen. Their work has been situated at places such as Warehouse9, Ställbergs Gruva, Aaben Dans, Milvus Artistic Research Center, La Bellone, Théâtre Sévelin 36, HAUT, Dansehallerne, DANSEatelier, CPH STAGE and Dance Cooperative.

Alex Franz Zehetbauer: Residency

Alex Franz Zehetbauer will undetake a 1-week residency at Warehouse9. IPAF, in collaboration with BUZZCUT Festival (Glasgow) have been awarded a grant from European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists – EFFEA, to support and offer Alex Franz Zehetbauer a platform to further develop his work An Evening With on a European level through a residency, presentation and network opportunities.

Activities whilst at Warehouse9:

12 – 18 August: Residency to further develop An Evening With 

16th August: Salon evening with Alex Franz Zehetbauer as part of Warehouse9’s Queerlands. 

An Evening With is a playful & absurdist celebration of the ritual of the song as a force for coming together, to mourn, to resonate, as a call to protest, to tell stories, and to manifest alternative futures. In the performance, Zehetbauer slips into various roles each with their own song(s) to offer to the audience; catchy tunes that dismantle hierarchies between humans and nature, reach for queer futures, and seek to manifest economies of care over profit.

Alex Franz Zehetbauer (*1990 in Brooklyn) creates performances, sonic choreographies, and songs. In his newest work, An Evening with, he hosts the audience with a trickster humor while mesmerizing them with his thunderous and tender vocals. His ear-worm melodies live somewhere between avant-pop and medieval-plainsong and his lyrics oscillate between the earnest and the absurd. Critics have called him: an angel, a swamp monster, and a red-eyed demon. He studied vocal performance, choreography, acting and composition at the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and the International Theater Workshop in Amsterdam. Alex has collaborated with artists such as Phillip Gehmacher, Jen Rosenblit, Taylor Mac, Marta Navaridas and Alix Eynaudi.

www.alexfranzzehetbauer.com / @afranzz

ANDIE FLORES (USA): CopenhAustin Residency

Andie Flores will undetake a 1-month residency at Warehouse9 as part of the CopenhAustin residency initiative. As part of the residency period Andie Flores will host a a number of events at Warehouse9, as well as a workshop at Roskilde Festival.

Activities:

• Flores workshop at Warehouse9 “BAD DANCING” on Tuesday 25th & Wednesday 26th June st 5pm-7pm

• Linh Le and Andie Flores will be in conversation at Warehouse9 on Friday at 4pm,  June 28, 2024.

• Flores will present an Art and Activism workshop, ‘Embarrassment as a Revolutionary Tool’ at Roskilde Festival on Monday, July 1 at 11am, 2024.

ANDIE FLORES (b. 1990) (she/her) is a performance artist in Austin, Texas, who uses embarrassment as a medium for investigating hyper, almost obsessive, visibility in a racialized body across barriers of border, history, and capital. Her practice works to unsettle categorical, site-specific expectations of genres of performance (femininity, Latinidad, drag, citizenry) and aims to recontextualize the mechanisms required to do the work of the absurd. Flores creates experimental live performances that pair identity and comedic culture moments with over-exaggerated, often grotesque shapes and sounds. She is fascinated by the urgent task of world-building at the edge of the limits of art-making.

Her work has been shown at Bushwig South, Presa House Gallery, The Museum of Human Achievement, Ivester Contemporary, MASS Gallery, Future Front Film Fest, Contrast Film Festival, Fusebox Festival, and The Dallas Latino Cultural Center; and her writing has appeared in fields, Precog, Jezebel, and Remezcla. She was named one of Remezcla’s ‘40 Emerging, Texas-based Artists to Know’ in 2020, and made Glasstire’s ‘Best of 2021’ list. She debuted her first solo stage show, To Get There… You Must Undergo… A Radical Transformation at OUTsider Festival in February 2023 and produced a sold-out 6-show run at Crashbox in November 2023. She was voted best performance artist and among the top three art writers in Concept Animals’ Community Favorites poll of December 2023.
https://www.andieflores.com/work

Whilst in residence, Andie Flores will explore where failure fits into the revolution. In her words:

I’m obsessed with failure as an artistic practice and see a continuous cycle of embarrassment and failure as a means to our only way out – to revolution, deeper into ourselves, and otherwise. I want to know where a clown might fit in the revolution, or what a clown could learn from failure for the long con.

During this residency, I’m looking forward to getting to know other experimental performers in Copenhagen, sharing imagination and solidarity practices, as well as learning more about the neighborhood of Freetown Christiania and its various performances of power, the realities of living outside of or against the state, especially throughout Christiania’s storied history and now, in a moment of potential change, in relation to ideas like ‘queer world building’ or imaginings of utopic living. I’d love to meet with residents of Christiania, as well as with local interventionists, performance activists, clowns, drag artists, costumers, etc.

My goal is to spend time writing artistic research models and performances informed by what I learn, as well as playing with costuming and interventions in support of local actions.

Want to connect with Andie? Write us on [email protected]

About CopenhAustin:

Warehouse9 (Copenhagen, Denmark), Unlisted Projects (Austin, TX) and The Museum of Human Achievement (Austin, Texas) have come together to offer a residency exchange of one artist from Texas and one artist from Denmark. This international residency opportunity is intended for queer artists working within live performance and designed to support network building, the creation and sharing of new work in an international context. Residents are given the time, space, freedom and financial support to concentrate upon the development of their own work. This residency programme is funded and has a fixed duration of one month. This residency opportunity will be awarded following an open call and application process. Residency artists will be selected in partnership with participating organizations and host a public sharing of work created during their residency at both their host and home organization.

The purpose of this residency programme is to support artistic development and facilitate cultural exchange, and long-term connections between artists, organizations and the greater communities of Texas and Denmark. A unique dimension of the call is a commitment to the intersection of LGBTQIA+ issues and environmental sustainability practices.

This residency is made possible with support  from:

Embassy of Denmark Washington D.C.,The Consulate General of Denmark in Houston, Scan Design Foundation, the Danish Arts Foundation, the Cultural Arts Department in Austin and The City of Copenhagen.

Where does a clown fit in the revolution?

Where does a clown fit in the revolution? Experience US artist Andie Flores, self coined “embarrassment artist”, as she shares her practice of embarrassment and failure as a means to revolution. Andie Flores is artist-in-residence as part of Warehouse9, Museum of Human Achievement and Unlisted Projects international residency exchange initiative called CopenhAustin.

Format: Workshop
Place: Roskilde Festival, Flokkr, Container #1
Accessibility: https://faq.roskilde-festival.dk/hc/en-gb/sections/11297582362781-Accessibility 

NOTE: this workshop takes place at Roskilde Festival and therefore requires a Roskilde Festival ticket to attend. 

Andie Flores

ANDIE FLORES (b. 1990) (she/her) is a performance artist in Austin, Texas, who uses embarrassment as a medium for investigating hyper, almost obsessive, visibility in a racialized body across barriers of border, history, and capital. Her practice works to unsettle categorical, site-specific expectations of genres of performance (femininity, Latinidad, drag, citizenry) and aims to recontextualize the mechanisms required to do the work of the absurd. Flores creates experimental live performances that pair identity and comedic culture moments with over-exaggerated, often grotesque shapes and sounds. She is fascinated by the urgent task of world-building at the edge of the limits of art-making. 

Her work has been shown at Bushwig, Presa House Gallery, The Museum of Human Achievement, Ivester Contemporary, MASS Gallery, Future Front Film Fest, Contrast Film Festival, Fusebox Festival, and The Dallas Latino Cultural Center; and her writing has appeared in fields, Precog, Jezebel, and Remezcla. She was named one of Remezcla’s ‘40 Emerging, Texas-based Artists to Know’ in 2020, and made Glasstire’s ‘Best of 2021’ list. She debuted her first solo stage show, To Get There… You Must Undergo… A Radical Transformation at OUTsider Festival in February 2023 and produced a sold-out 6-show run at Crashbox in November 2023. She was voted best performance artist and among the top three art writers in Concept Animals’ Community Favorites poll of December 2023.

Performative ritual for the bat species (ATX,USA)

Note: This event takes place in Austin, Texas (USA)

Connect with a bat species and feel the freedom of flying and screaming!

In our time of biodiversity crisis where 52 % of bat species in North America are at risk of populations declining severely in the next 15 years, we meet up to celebrate the magical creatures of the night and the diversity of life.

This is the final presentation of performance artist and climate activist Linh Le who has reached her end of the 1-month residency as part of Unlisted Projects, a collaboration between Warehouse9 and MoHA. During her stay, she has been volunteering at the Austin Bat Refuge, collaborating with visual artist Laura M Cañas P, opera singer Sir Beauregard Elliot, Esquire and artist Andie Flores.

Linh Le is inviting everyone to take part in her performance ritual 7-8 pm and join for dinner and talk 8-9 pm.

Artists-In-Residence: Alba&Linn

Alba&Linn (Alba Greve & Linn Haldrup Lorenzen) are currently undertaking a 4-month research and development residency working on their new project  Out of The Coffin supported by HIMHERANDIT Productions and Warehouse9. 

From 20th – 26th May, Alba&Linn will be working as Artist-in-Residence in our new workspace in Vanløse, preparing for the public sharing at Genderhouse Festival in Aarhus.

During their overall 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.

The residency is part of HIMHERANDIT Productions (Aarhus) and Warehouse9’s (Copenhagen) new research and development initative Queer Practice. 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 initiative is a first-step in our collaboration and will offer an opportunity to support practice between Aarhus and Copenhagen over a longer period of time.

To date Alba&Linn have shared their work-in-progress in Aarhus at Q&A Studios and Åben Scene, and at Warehouse9’s IPAF festival at Dansekapellet.

On May 30th they will share their work as part of Genderhouse Festival in Aarhus. 

Linh Le Open Studio (Fusebox Festival, ATX)