YOUNG GIRL READING GROUP

Dorota Gawęda (PL) and Eglė Kulbokaitė (LT) are an artist duo founded in 2013, living in Basel and Athens. In  their work they address feminist inspired theory and fiction, technology-driven emancipation and discursiveness of space. With YOUNG GIRL READING GROUP, Gawęda and Kulbokaitė investigate the act of reading as an intimate experience, holding the potentiality to become public performance through the “outlouding” of words. Agatha Valkyrie Ice is a multi-platform, participatory, self-performance project and enquiry that functions as an artistic strategy to explore parallels in identity and artistic production.

For Alt_Cph:

YGRG 154: Body Heat III (2018) by Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė (30 min) is an iteration of the artists' long term project Young Girl Reading Group (2013-). YGRG is a self-conscious aesthetic chamber for intimacy and discovery, a live Instagram hangout that aims to convey the feeling of a space in between dimensions and tension between digital and bodily worlds blending.

Creamy Gallery

Creamy Gallery is a new inflatable, mobile exhibition platform in the form of a 4x5 pearl white clam. CG is bubbling with pre-crisis decadence – she is a millennium zombie opening her shell. Creamy Gallery is run by Anna Gunvor, Anna Walther & Mio Nordentoft.

For Alt_Cph 18: 

Creamy Gallery invites you to a cleansing performance experience in Creamy Gallery Megachurch and Spa where you can be liberated from your privileged atheism, nihilism or occultism.  
In Creamy Gallery Megachurch & Spa we offer different spa products and treatments that can help you move towards a cleaner, less individualised life.
Cleansing does not come for free and everything in Creamy Gallery Megachurch and Spa is for sale. If you want to be clean you have to chip in.

FUTURE SUBURBAN CONTEMPORARY

THE FUTURE SUBURBAN CONTEMPORARY (FSC) is a exhibition platform based in Copenhagen, Denmark making collaborations and exhibiting emerging artists from everywhere and nowhere. Each show are planned as various forms of cooperation between FSC and the participators. A way to create group dynamics that fits to the format, space, time, mind and concept. To execute together and apart. The FSC is both a physical place, a virtual blog of process, a social experiment, a platform online/IRL, a fanzine publication, a brewery, a music collaborator ++++ FSC wants to take use of multiple ways of dealing with the forms of pre/representation of an exhibition/show. To be there in real life, virtually or in any other form. A process of the intertwined realities to open up the location and the access points of FSC. A physical, virtual, textual, content and contextual process of artistic communication and cooperation, both live and online.

For Alt_Cph 18:

Future Suburban Contemporary presents:
Emotional Distressed Eruptions & Implosions (EDE&I):
Lost Wor(L)ds of the New Beginnings - far beyond driven by the urgh-uhrg-ughr

Participant performers:
Frans Ibon / Markus von Platen / Toke Flyvholm / Vilde Tuv / NDRAP Development / Sabine Kongsted / Tarik Hindic / Michiel Tange van Leeuwen / Josefine Stuckmann / Francesca Burattelli / Avalanche Boys: Simon Opitz  & Myclef Laun / Jens Ivar Kjetså + feat. Artist: Emil C. Lüth 
Art Objects by:
Marian Luft / Matthew Quentin Midtskau / NDRAP Development / Sufie Elmgreen  

Digital Self Harming / Liquid Play / Skin Hunger / Bodies in Flux / Distorted Snake Eyes / White Noised Darkness / Human vs Sound vs Space vs Time / Trancendent Rituals for New Beginnings and Lost Times / xxxxo

Maria Metsalu

Maria Metsalu, born in 1990, is an Estonian choreographer and performer. Her works express an ongoing interest in self-mythologization and autopoiesis via new, corporate technologies in an attempt to understand their unique terms of social exchange and transformation. Metsalu graduated from SNDO (School for New Dance Development) in 2016, and is one of the founding members of international performance group Young boy dancing group.

For Alt_Cph 18:

Mademoiselle X
This show doesn't want to show itself, it wants to hide inside an imitation. It'll fight if it has to, but it's vulnerable out in the open. If it takes us over, then it has no more enemies, nobody left to kill it. And then it's won.

OK Corral

OK Corral is af artist driven project-space and studio-community on Frederiksberg. OK Corrals goal is to give younger artists and curators a professional and spacious platform to experiment and present solo- and group exhibitions, which can help their projects further out in the world. After three years with rooms in Carlsberg Byen, OK Corral resurrected last year at Frederiksberg and presents around ten exhibtions yearly, with both danish and international contemporary artists and curators.

For Alt_Cph 18:

Sif Hedegård
Girl with an ugly soul / Mapping of a face
A routine examination in a mirror goes horribly wrong resulting in the collapse of subject and object. The question is now, if everything is pathological? The research continues.

Sensorisk Verden

Sensorisk Verden is a flexible umbrella-label which has functioned as music releaser, curator and showcase platform. Besides presenting music on traditional medias, Sensorisk Verden has put name to exhibitions, performances and concert nights, and released music as downloadcodes implemented in graphic works on posters and sometimes on a chunk of wood.

For Alt_Cph 18:

Claus Haxholm
soft items: notion of Movement
Claus Haxholm will perform a mostly audiotive performance. Of gathered sounds, collected thru the year; time as movement. And sounds as markers of time. What is felt but not seen.

Group 4k aka Stine Frandsen, Alexander Holm & IKFP
Rogueheim
Three heroes walks through the last level of a dungeon crawl, keeping eyes out for battles and loot. Based on the last few months of collective dreaming Group 4k shows a section of their fantasy/RPG inspired universe.

Vermillion Sands

Located in Copenhagen, Vermilion Sands is an exhibition space for local and international contemporary art with an emphasis on experimental strategies of curation, mediation and access. We aim to collaborate with artists and curators alongside practitioners from other fields with the intention to provide a supportive platform for cultural production. The intention is -by embracing a variety of voices, approaches and positions- to activate conversations in the liminal zones between conventional thinking and understanding. Vermilion Sands is run by Malene Dam, Kevin Malcolm & Nikolaj Stobbe

For Alt_Cph 18:

Tyler Matthew Oyer
Release Deluxe

RELEASE DELUXE is a multimedia music performance that seeks to conjure queens for a new tomorrow. RELEASE DELUXE is available on all major music platforms.

Maja Malou Lyse

Maja Malou Lyse (b.1993) is a artist and wannabe sexologist. She lives and works in Copenhagen, currently studying her masters program at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. She is obsessed with intersections of sex and technology, self-objectification and pleasure politics. Lyse has previously shown work at Tate Modern, Moderna Museet, The Victoria and Albert Museum, New Orleans Museum of Art, Charlottenborg Kunsthall, among others.

For Alt_Cph 18:

Mighty Mud Maidens
Alt_Cph goes Girls Gone Wild. XXX

SOUVENIR™

SOUVENIR™  is a Berlin label creating lasting reminders of our shared moments of contemporary art and culture.

SOUVENIR, noun
> from French: remembrance, reminder.
an object purchased or given as a memory

For Alt_Cph 18:

New Alternatives
In collaboration with ALT_CPH and in the spirit of a movement for new modes of (over-)existing, SOUVENIR presents the 'NEW ALT' t-shirt. Representing a generation that’s tired of crusty social institutions and the conventional ways of life, NEW ALT honors performance art as an exploration of those possible futures, our imagined realities, and bluntly, some better options. It’s 2018, and we’re looking for New Alternatives.

KH7 Artspace

KH7 artspace is a community of artists with an attached exhibition-space at the south harbour in Aarhus. The ambition with the artist run exhibition-space is a vibrating platform for artistic dialog and expression across generations and disciplines in Aarhus.

Alex Mørch
Element 13
The resonance of the thirteenth element of the periodic table is investigated through amplification. Aluminium rods of different dimensions oscillates in both rhythmical and audible frequencies and are fed back through individual loudspeakers. The surrounding soundscape is built up during the performance and will vary from harmonic and meditative to noisy and distorted.

Kamilla Jørgensen
I am a Grammarian - Nailing Poetry and Grammar
Gertrude Steins basic way of writing was to perform her poetics in her texts. This performance is nailing her points and acting on an excerpt from Poetry and Grammar.

Mette Boel, Janina Lange
Low Batt
The headphones create a live waveform, reacting to the acoustic landscape in the space. The intervention superimposes an invisible architecture, which resembles a negative cast: sounds are inverted, countered, cancelled. Continuously changing their output, the headphones stand in both as performers and instruments played by the alt_cph fair environment and its visitors.

Komplot

Founded in 2002 in Brussels, Komplot is a curatorial collective of variable composition and condition. Concerned with nomadic creative practices and trends of specialisation, it operates as a platform for experimental art. Komplot conducted extensive research into post '68 collaborative art practices in Belgium, organising seminars and making two documentary films. Between 2010 and 2015 Komplot has been based in a building with an exhibition space and 12 artists' studios close to the Wiels art center in Forest. Now Komplot re-initiated a nomadic practice in Brussels, fragmenting its large venue into several addresses and beyond the city responding to invitations abroad. Meanwhile Komplot moves the focus from a collective structure to a form of organisation as a curator office, to expend more and more its agenda to interdisciplinary art practice that continuously searches for new formats and discourses. The group of resident curators of Komplot, with guest curators, develops a critical program that studies the relation between art and its physical, social and political environment. Komplot starts from a core of openness and flexibility regarding the programation, therefore its projects can take different forms: exhibitions, publications, films, discussions, workshops, symposium, events.

For Alt_Cph 18:

Jade Fourès-Varnier & Vincent de Hoÿm consider art as an extension of life. They create atmospheres inspired by domesticity, where visitors are received as guests. Banquet Cph is an installation including 4 tableclothes, 1 curtain, 25 plates, 3 carafes, 1 vase and 2 overalls, which will be activated on Saturday from 12 am to 4 pm: a banquet is cooked on site by the artists and served to the visitors.

Jade Fourès-Varnier and Vincent de Hoÿm are the founders of TONUS, non for profit exhibition space since 2014, guest of the fair Paris Internationale 2017.

1.1.

1.1 is a non-commercial platform for a young practice in arts and music. It was founded in 2015, and is currently co-directed by Deborah Joyce Holman and Tuula Rasmussen.It defines itself through an output through various formats, rather than a overly formulated concept and is interested in creating a diverse and thus contemporary narrative.

For Alt_Cph 18:

CUSS Group
Why Die to go to Heaven
Why Die to go to Heaven, an open-ended and surreal work by CUSS Group, re-stages one of the most iconic camera tricks employed notably by Vukani Ndebele, a Durban based filmmaker who specialises in lo-fi horror movies.

Really Simple Syndication

Really Simple Syndication is the independent publisher of SixtyEight Art Institute. The goal for RSS is to recreate the relationship between art, theory and literature as a way of promoting critical discourse, and as an attempt to create an international voice through the physical presence of Sixty Eight in Copenhagen. Really Simple Syndication will launch publications with a focus on artistic research, either project oriented or as a part of an expanded practice that origins in curatorial exhibition considerations. The goal is to both cooperate with new and established artists and curators. Furthermore, would RSS as an initiative and platform invite artists, curators and writers to visualize their research through aesthetic experiments and different publishable formats (either as an extension of SixtyEight Art Institutes current research practice, or through new configurations of artistic research). 

For Alt_Cph 18: 

Liv Schulman
Formal Economy
Liv Schulman will in the lecture performance Formal Economy think among and through a group of sculptures that represent the global production surplus, telling stories about various forms of informal economy that exist within emotional lives.

As an addition to the discursive program Jytte Rex will present a selection of her films, followed by a talk moderated by Anja Franke. She will shed light on the motivations behind her work, which social conditions played a role in their conception, and why she has been interested in making films about major figures in Danish art and culture.

Udsigt

Udsigt is several plays, which are written based on the same set of guidelines.

Four guidelines for the one or those, who are going to write a play. (1) The play is to take place at a location, which can act as the scenography for the play. There cannot be taken anything from the place, only added. (2) The play may not have an audience, the only way to experience the play, is by participating. The participants come as they are, and cannot be asked to bring anything, or have practiced or read anything beforehand. The roles in the play are given at random and all roles must be playable by everyone. When the play has begun, it must be able to complete without anybody else, but those who came unprepared, is present. (3) The one or those who have written the play, cannot be present, when the play is acted out. Therefore the play needs a gamemaster. The gamemaster is there to welcome and to be sure that everybody has come and are given a role. The gamemaster may participate in the play, but if the gamemaster does, then the gamemaster may not have a predetermined role, but have to be given one at random, like the rest of the group. (4) The play may not be documented by the one or those who have written the play. The line-up of the play (scenography, costumes, props, manuscripts) may be documented when the participants are not present. The participants may not be asked to document, but may take pictures and record during the play.

For Alt_Cph 18:

Selina Rom Andersen
Ved Centret
Ved centeret is a play by Selina Rom Andersen, that will be played from morning to evening Saturday and Sunday, in a parking lot close to Fabrikken for Kunst og Design. Sign up by calling: + 45 91 71 40 13. The play is in Danish.

Andyxiety by Proxy

Andyxiety by proxy is a Copenhagen based artistic collaboration between the drag performer andyxiety and proxy_server. The duo works with the term 'drag' as a political ever changing and self defining character
aim: The duo aims to portray the ever reforming and ever reshaping identity of the non-binary drag character - protest // perversion // performance?

For Alt_Cph 18:

THIS IS NOT A DRILL
ATTENTION! ATTENTION! This is the Emergency Public Warning System. An attack has been made to our kind. Take shelter immediately. Take shelter immediately. Stay tuned for an important message

Union for Open Vocalism

"Union for open vocalism an investigation of the voice through the voice. voice as sound, as common. skeptical towards one-voicedness, hoping for more-voicedness. at the moment a study/choir constellation exchanging voices, hoping to untie solo knots and weave new common fabric. for alt_cph, working on a piece for all voices in a field between vocal exercise, opera and community singing."

For Alt_Cph 18:

Platform Play
questions about the group voice. songs about singing. sound sharing voices. hoping to untie solo knots and create new common fabric.
timeleaping in: platform play. union for open vocalism encourages everyone to sing along

Country Music

Tools Forming, Under-Time: 07:00, 200 bpm Country Music is born on the factory floors of rural rust belts, in the bare dirt and stripped surpluses of anti-growth environments charged with visions of inflated simulation and toxic stimulation, in the corrosive regress of life and tempo in downgraded deindustrialized wastelands, and in the psychogeographies of the urban steel knit of precarious compositions. An alloy of work, speed and materials formed out of the potential energy of underused spaces to understand (club) music outside of high-pressure metropolitan milieus through the tools of duration and velocity. 8 minute blocks of benchmarked efficiency and efficacy, 40 hour terms of no service.

Country Music is a collaborative project by Daniel Iinatti and Anna Sagström dedicated to a reimagined music of the land and the contemporary periphery through explorations in music and tempo with producers from all over all counties. Releasing music, hosting parties and distributing text, Country Music is an alloy of work, speed and materials for a duration of 8 minutes, 4 pages or an entire evening at a time.

For Alt_Cph 18:
Country Music will host the opening party together with performers and DJs HVAD, Iinatti, Ingrate, Jackie and Soda Plains.

RSVP for the party: FACEBOOK EVENT

+1 Artist Talks

PLUS ONE & ALT_CPH: TABITA REZAIRE + TOKE LYKKEBERG

+1 IS HAPPY TO PRESENT THE NEXT +1 ARTIST TALK IN COLLABORATION WITH ALT_CPH

TIME: MAY 26. 2018. 17.00 PM - 18:30 PM 

LOCATION: FABRIKKEN FOR KUNST OG DESIGN, SUNDHOLMSVEJ 46, 2300 COPENHAGEN S

RSVP: FACEBOOK EVENT

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+1 & ALT_CPH has invited video artist Tabita Rezaire, who will also be participating in ALT_CPH. Rezaire has chosen curator and artistic director of Tranen Toke Lykkeberg as her conversation partner.

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Tabita Rezaire (b.1989 Paris, France) is a video artist-researcher-healer based in Cayenne, French Guyana. She holds a Bachelor in Economics (Paris, France) and a Master in Art Moving Image from Central Saint Martins College (London, UK). Rezaire’s diverse practice explores the possibilities of de-colonial healing through politics of technology. Expanding fields of scientific knowledge, her work tackles the pervasive matrix of coloniality - online and offline - and its affects on identity, technology, sexuality, health and spirituality.
Through the use of screen interfaces, Rezaire’s digital healing activism offers alternative readings to the dominant narratives decentering occidental authority. While her energy streams remind us to resist, (re)connect, and nourish our soul. 

Toke Lykkeberg (b. 1977) is a Danish art critic, writer, freelance curator, and as of August 2017, the artistic director of Tranen - Exhibition Space for Contemporary Art. Lykkeberg is the former director of the exhibition space IMO in Copenhagen, as well as a longtime writer and critic for Danish newspapers Information and Børsen. Lykkeberg has curated various exhibitions in Denmark, Holland, USA, France and Vietnam. Most recently he has been notable as curator of the exhibitions ‘Welcome To Late’ at Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen), ‘Citizen X – Human, nature and robot rights’ at Øregaard Museum (Copenhagen), and co-curator of ‘Ex Situ. Samples of Lifeforms’ at Copenhagen Contemporary (Copenhagen). Lykkeberg was also co-curator at the 8th edition of Momentum - the Nordic Biennale for Contemporary Art (Moss, Norway). 

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+1 is artist talks at the Department of Arts and Culture Studies at Copenhagen University. An artist is invited together with a conversation partner of the artist’s own choice. Thereof the name: ‘+1’. The ambition of +1 is to create space for exploring artistic practices through the premise of the conversation.

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Everyone is welcome, and it’s free to participate when you have bought a ticket for ALT_CPH.

Please note that the talk will be held in English.

We’re looking forward to see you!