Linh Le Open Studio (Fusebox Festival, ATX)
Presented in partnership with The Museum of Human Achievement and Fusebox Festival. This event takes place in Austin, Texas.
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Denmark based artist in residence thanks to the residency exchange of Warehouse9 (Copenhagen, Denmark), Unlisted Projects (Austin, TX) and The Museum of Human Achievement (Austin, Texas).
More info on the open studio coming soon!
Linh Le (she / her) works with performative activism and fights for a just world for life on earth. At the moment, she explores the sensuousness and philosophy of species, making rituals for the diversity of life.
Linh Le is of a new generation of artists who with their own bodies are exploring the possibility of finding a balance between a growing desperation in a world of polycrisis and maintaining the belief in a different way of being human / species.
As a child of freedom fighters who came to Denmark as boat refugees from Vietnam, and as a witness to their struggles in Danish society, Linh Le is strongly called to free herself through dance, to challenge the norms, to transcend boundaries and explore how the body can act, transform and demand space for the less heard voices.
Linh Le is educated in Aesthetics and Culture from Aarhus University and Performance Design & Planning from Roskilde University. She is co-founder and member of the performance climate activist group Becoming Species which in close alliance with Extinction Rebellion and Embassy of the Species Copenhagen has made several performative actions in public space to amplify nature’s diverse voices.
Linh Le is also a member of Dance Cooperative, an artist-run platform and association with a physical work- and event space in Valby Copenhagen, organized by 14 local performance artists.
This Residency is funded with the support of: 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.
Linh Le: CopenhAustin Residency (ATX)
Linh Le will undetake a 1-month residency in Austin, Texas as part of the CopenhAustin residency initiative. As part of the residency period Linh Le will host an open studio of their practice as part of Fusebox Festival: April 13 & 14. More info soo.
About the artist:
Linh Le (she / her) works with performative activism and fights for a just world for life on earth. At the moment, she explores the sensuousness and philosophy of species, making rituals for the diversity of life.
Linh Le is of a new generation of artists who with their own bodies are exploring the possibility of finding a balance between a growing desperation in a world of polycrisis and maintaining the belief in a different way of being human / species.
As a child of freedom fighters who came to Denmark as boat refugees from Vietnam, and as a witness to their struggles in Danish society, Linh Le is strongly called to free herself through dance, to challenge the norms, to transcend boundaries and explore how the body can act, transform and demand space for the less heard voices.
Linh Le is educated in Aesthetics and Culture from Aarhus University and Performance Design & Planning from Roskilde University. She is co-founder and member of the performance climate activist group Becoming Species which in close alliance with Extinction Rebellion and Embassy of the Species Copenhagen has made several performative actions in public space to amplify nature’s diverse voices.
Linh Le is also a member of Dance Cooperative, an artist-run platform and association with a physical work- and event space in Valby Copenhagen, organized by 14 local performance artists.
About the program:
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.
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.
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.
