1^st Week

Chuyia Chia (Malaysia) and Mads Floor Andersen (Denmark)

From 3^th to 6^th of October

During the first week of festival, from Tuesday to Thursday in Koncertsalen of VKC, the two artists will meet and organize a collective experience. There are two different experiences of migration. On one side, Chuyia, a Malaysian artist based in Sweden, explores her own identity and uses several images and practices from her homeland to create a poetic performance environment. On the other side, we have Mads, a Danish artist, who uses his own de-territorialisation as material for his performances, and challenges the concept of home. Chuya´s and Mad´s three-day workshop leads to a public performance Friday night on the 6^th of October.

You can follow their process by check out the hashtags of the social networks: #bodylandscapes2017 #madsfloorandersen #chuyiachia.

In collaboration with the Danish Art Foundation, Verdens Kultur Centret, Performance Køkkenet and the cultural advice of Liveart.dk, The International Performance Art Festival Body Landscapes Copenhagen, appears as a necessity to articulate the individual and collective memory of migrants based in Europe. The project will take place in Verdens Kultur Centret (Nørre Allé 7, Nørrebro) in Copenhagen, which is a cultural center that strengthens the cultural nexus of foreigners in Denmark. Through performance art, the invited artists will create a space of interconnectedness between foreigners and locals.

The project constitutes of workshops and live performances where the participants will question and play with the idea of the migrant memory.
The project is divided into four parts that each last one week. In the beginning of each week, two artists will meet in order to organize one collective experience (workshop or creative laboratory) and one performance session that will be presented during the last day of the week. The artists will have the autonomy to propose the methodology most convenient for developing their own perspective about body and territory.

This first week, the workshops will be guided by:

Chuyia Chia (Malaysia) and Mads Floor Andersen (Denmark)

There is a limited admittance, 15 tickets for those who are interested in 3 days of workshops, and depending on the interests of the performance artists, possibly also in the final performance sessions.

More information about the festival and the project:

http://vkc.kk.dk/

https://www.facebook.com/bodylandscapes2017/