BOAZ BARKAN /

NO LANDS

Boaz K. Barkan is a choreographer and performer and has been trained in various methods such as Feldenkreis and Min Tanaka’s body weather technique as well as holding a BA in dance Psychology. Boaz was born and grew up in Israel until he left for the US at the age of nineteen. Since then, he has worked and performed with diverse communities in Denmark, Japan, South Africa, and USA. Boaz considers performance a powerful and inclusive field that can manifest and transform our social and planetary relationships. Action, perception, and politics of the body are the foundations on which he explores the performance situation and practice.

BRETT BAILEY /

THIRD WORLD BUNFIGHT

Brett Bailey is a South African director, visual artist, and the artistic director of the Third World Bunfight company. He has worked throughout South Africa, in Zimbabwe, Uganda, Haiti, and Europe. His iconoclastic and celebrated work has taken on various artistic forms: installations, performances, plays, operas, and musical shows. Our encounter with Brett was through his festival Infecting the City which took place in Cape Town as a public event transforming the city through arts event all over. One of Brett’s most disturbing pieces Exhibit B offer a relentless exploration of the dynamics of the postcolonial world and has been tattooed into our memory.

ANT HAMPTON /

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ROTOZAZZA until 2009

Ant Hampton made his first works under the name Roto Zaza - a performance-based project starting in 1998, which ended up spanning theatre, installation, intervention, and writing-based works. His work, though varied in tone and content, has consistently played with a tension between liveness and automation. Most often, this has involved guiding people through unrehearsed disturbing performance situations, and since 2007 it has included the audience themselves within structures loosely defined as Autoteatro. Ant’s practice has been marked by a step away from the idea of art as a safe or autonomous space towards works such as The Thing where a participating ‘audience’ take meaningful risks and experience real consequence. Our first and disturbing encounter with Ant was in Reykjavik when being left in a room with a box, a pile of paper and six other strangers also known as The Thing.

BETINA BIRKKJÆR /

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LUNA PARK SCENEKUNST

Betina Birkjær invites the audience inside her walking poetic universes through thought-provoking experiences that works by enlarging and distorting the immediately recognizable. Bettina creates cracks in a world where the distinction between child / adult and fact / fiction is blurred. Bettina for many years worked with Enrique Vargas since asked to perform in his performance The Shadow when we first met her. She since then worked with Vargas for a decade until she started created her own concepts inspired by Teatro los Sentidos. Our first encounter with her own work was in Aalborg when attending ByVandring (City Walk).

ONG KENG SEN /

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THEATREWORKS among others

Ong Keng Sen brings cultures, ideas, and genres together in initiatives that spears theatre as a transcultural, transdisciplinary, and collaborative artform. Keng Sen is known for his rejection of authenticity and his embracing of multiple realities and hybridity within Asia. His work is characterized by bold reinvention of classical methods and interweaving of theatrical traditions. Our first encounter with Keng Sen was in Albertslund Musikhus when experiencing his version of King Lear.

SUSANNA LEINONEN /

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SUSANNA LEINONEN COMPANY

Susanna Leinonen Company’s artists are united by a desire to give the audience the experience of total art works that have Leinonen’s visionary choreography at their core. Uncompromisingly made works are comprised of specially composed music, movement language that is characteristic of the group, costume design that supports the narrative, and lighting that unites the various aspects. We experienced Susanna’s work together in Denmark in 2022.

TIM ETCHELLS /

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FORCED ENTERTAINMENT and others

SIGNA SØRENSEN /

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SIGNA

Tim Etchells is an artist and a writer based in the UK. He has worked in a wide variety of contexts, notably as leader of the world-renowned performance group Forced Entertainment. His work spans performance, video, photography, text projects, installation and fiction. Across the range of his work he uses strong, simple, sometimes comical means to get to serious ideas. His practice shifts from performance to visual art and fiction and concerns itself with questions of contemporary identity and urban experience, our relation to fiction and the media, as well as with the limits of representation, especially in respect of language. We have individually experienced Tim’s work, our first collective experience was in Amsterdam 2022.

Signa Sørensen founded her artistic collective in 2001. Her devised site-specific performances take place in un-traditional art spaces which are redesigned with a meticulous attention to detail. In collaboration with an ensemble of international participants, SIGNA conceptualize and perform in wholly immersive endurance installations which investigate structures of power and degradation, fate, identify and desire. The audience is invited to visit and explore the extensive and disturbing installations and to interact and in some cases, impact them. The length can range from 6 hours to 250 hours non-stop. Our first encounter with Signa was in the woods outside of Göteborg where she placed a trailer and took some of her first steps as an immersive performance queen. We were disturbed and inspired.