IDA MARIE HEDE : THE AS YET UNREALISED PERFORMANCE

Testing Ground explores the intersection between knowledge production and art practice, studio and exhibition. It is an opportunity for artists to open up their processes and reflect on their way of thinking together with an audience or peers in a space of opportunity, which they themselves determine. For this Testing Ground, the curator Jacob Fabricius invited the author/playwright Ida Marie Hede to write a theatre work. The hope is one day to stage the performance in the heart of a total installation as part of Fabricius’s exhibition series iwillmedievalfutureyou.

So, in the course of four evenings, Ida Marie Hede will interpret Fabricius’s exhibition concept on the basis of conversations with a number of invited guests – artists, researchers and architects – to pinpoint the form and material for the as yet unwritten performance. As the cryptic title iwillmedievalfutureyou implies, it  involves disbanding the concept of time, casting a spotlight on the primitive, absurd, dreamlike and dystopian aspects both of our present and of our potential future. Together with the guests, Hede will speculate on this dissolution of time in a world entangled with bodies, matter, labour, capital, desire, indignation, anxiety and self-optimisation. It is a world that, while expediting everything, also strives to find healing crevices and awkward communities. Questions that might propel the conversations forward (or back) include: Can we use metabolism as a prism, through which to understand our society? How many eras are there in a chicken nugget? Why is power so hard to spot? Does technology save us from death, or does death merely become more insistent? Who is at work here? Will it ever be too late to hold a mourning ritual for the long-forgotten? Can we build new cemeteries for the bodies of the future? Each event will begin with Hede trying out a short dramatic sketch by inviting her guests to read it out loud with her. After this nerve-wracking abdominal exercise, the conversation will move more freely.

EVENTS:

AHC : Art & Research : Testing Ground : The As Yet Unrealised Performance I : 28.03.23

AHC : Art & Research : Testing Ground : The As Yet Unrealised Performance II : 18.04.23

AHC : Art & Research : Testing Ground : The As Yet Unrealised Performance III : 16.05.23

AHC : Art & Research : Testing Ground : The As Yet Unrealised Performance IV : 13.06.23