Book Launch: Ida Marie Hede, Søren Aagaard, Vala T. Foltyn & Filip Vest
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On the first day of February, AHC welcomed the public to the launch of four new publications by author Ida Marie Hede and artists Søren Aagaard, Vala T. Foltyn and Filip Vest. The evening featured readings, screening and introductions of the artists in conversation with Lars Bang Larsen and Jacob Fabricius.
Throughout the evening, the publications were sold through Skitse, and artist and cook Søren Aagaard served oysters and bubbles.
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ABOUT THE BOOKS
is a play by Ida Marie Hede, commissioned for the exhibition iwillmedievalfutureyou2. In a neutral scenography, two characters, a man and a woman, are talking to each other. The two are employed at a cryonics clinic, and are surrounded by both the dormant bodies of the past and the abstract possibility of future life. As time- and space travelers, they take turns telling each other anecdotes and memories, and recounting intimate situations from their lives, trying to understand our current, past, and future societies.Filip Vest: RESORT
is an exhibition and performance by Filip Vest that took place at Møstings in 2023. This publication features the script of the performance piece, which is about a couple who have gone on holiday to a resort to fix their relationship. They begin a role play, pretending to be two strangers meeting in a hotel bar. But as they try out different scenarios, they slowly lose control of the game and their sense of self.Vala T. Foltyn: Szwedzka 8
In this book, Vala T. Foltyn―artist, choreographer, and witch―weaves together ghosts and other presences that have passed through Szwedzka 8, a century-old villa in Kraków whose history is a testimony to queer love and resistance. A powerful meditation on silencing, loss, and mourning, Foltyn’s text takes the reader beyond the local to times and spaces of magic and transformation in a communing with the living and dead.
Søren Aagaard: CAFE ZERO
is a performance by Søren Aagaard commissioned by Art Hub Copenhagen for Performa Biennial 2023. The performance is a long-form theatrical sci-fi cooking that gels into a dining experience. A pop-up restaurant with a hot and a cold tent inhabited by a group of five nomadic chefs – performed by Jackie Gordon, Scott Alves Barton, Erica Wides, Markus Oxelman, and Aagaard himself. While preparing the dinner the group of chefs entangle in a long staccato ping-pong discussing the menu, banter, break into song, share recipes as well as thoughts on inhaling microbes and the unpredictable seasons.
