K!ART X Jenny Gräf Sheppard: Visitations
Ungdomsøen
15th June 19.00
Programme
Jenny Gräf Sheppard: Visitations (world premiere)
Note: Presale is closed, but a limited number of tickets will be available at the quay 15 minutes before departure to Ungdomsøen.
Visitations is a composition for sound, text, and movement, structured as a journey to Ungdomsøen, a former military fortress close to Copenhagen. A small booklet, The Sympathetic Metabolism of an Island, guides visitors through stages of distance, longing, reaching, absorbing, and letting go as they find themselves positioned in different locations on the island. Visitations explores the notion of the island as both metaphorical figuration and geological phenomenon, while reflecting upon how we parse the world into barriers and borders, both actual and metaphorical.
Visitations is a new sono-dramatic work created by Copenhagen-based artist Jenny Gräf Sheppard for K!ART. Several exchanges and collaborations with performers and artists have been a crucial aspect of the creative process leading to the realization of the work. This includes choreographer Dorte Bjerre Jensen, costume designer Elisabeth Kiss, and writer Stephanie Barber, who contributed with the textual art-book, or visitor’s guide, which plays a significant role in the piece. For Visitations, K!ART has significantly expanded its standard cast of performers to include musicians Stephen McEvoy and MV Carbon and movers Yi Ten Lai, Freja Kreutzfeldt and Sebastian Kahr Rasmussen.
The boat departs from Nyhavn 71 at 19.00 and returns before 23.00. It is important to arrive at the boat in good time, as it is the only way to get back home that evening. You are responsible for getting to the boat yourself.
Wear comfortable shoes as the performance takes place outside and on uneven terrain. Drinks available for purchase on board.
Please note that the ticket grants access to both the boat and the concert. Only one ticket is required for the entire event.
It is expected 30 minutes boat ride to and from venue.
Support
Visitations was commissioned by K!ART and Klang Festival – Copenhagen Experimental Music with support from KODA Kultur and Statens Kunstfond. The project has been produced by K!ART with generous support from Statens Kunstfond, Augustinus, Obelske Familiefond, William Demant, KODA Kultur & Art Music Denmark.
Full credits:
Jenny Gräf Sheppard [composition, concept, direction, instrument- & costume design, musician]
Dorte Bjerre Jensen [choreography, movement]
Stephanie Barber [text]
Elisabeth Kiss [costumes]
Mikkel Schou [curation, production, musician]
Stephen McEvoy [technical & instrument building assistance, musician]
Rob Durnin [musician]
Hsiao-Tung Yuan [musician]
Joss Smith [musician]
MV Carbon [musician]
Yi Ten Lai [movement]
Freja Kreutzfeldt [movement]
Sebastian Kahr Rasmussen [movement]
Lars Kynde [Assistent]
Venue
Ungdomsøen
Nyhavn 71 1051 Indre By
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K!ART
K!ART is an experimental music ensemble and creative platform based in Copenhagen directed by curator Mikkel Schou. The ensemble is characterized by an exploratory and holistic approach to curation and presents intermedial music events ranging from experimental instrumental music to music-theatre, multimedia-, and performance art works.
Jenny Graf Sheppard
Jenny Graf Sheppard activates peripheral places and states through sound composition, improvisation, and participatory works. Her recent works deal with the multi-sensory aspects of listening and how relations and ecologies can be sensed and enacted through sound.
Dorte Bjerre Jensen
Dorte Bjerre Jensen is a choreographer whose work is anchored by an evolving artistic inquiry into multisensory relations of ecological attention through movement, participatory performative scores, live art installations, workshops, and writing.
Stephanie Barber
Stephanie Barber is a writer and artist. Her literary/visual hybrids consider the basic philosophical questions of human and non-human existence (its morbidity, profundity and banality) with playfulness and humor.
Elisabeth Kiss
Elisabeth Kiss is a textile designer and visual artist who experiments with color, materials, and composition in textile-collages that combine found objects and materials with a strong tactile narrative. Her colorful works range from decorations of entire spaces to smaller works.
