Programme 2024

Margrét Bjarnadóttir is an Icelandic artist and choreographer who works at the intersection of dance, performance, visual arts and literature. Her diverse practice includes choreography, performance, photography and video, text pieces, writing, drawing and cutting glass objects.

For the Performance Programme at CHART 2024, Margrét Bjarnadóttir will perform ‘PEOPLE PLEASE.’ During the performance, a group of people will walk around Kongens Nytorv with protest signs that have text pieces by the artist written on them. Unlike protest signs which normally aim to be clear and direct and not open to misunderstanding, here, the messages are deliberately left open and ambiguous.

With her unique expression, which references both surrealism and the documentary aesthetics of the 1970s, Jenny Källman is a significant representative of the Swedish photo-based art of recent decades.

For the Performance Programme at CHART 2024, Jenny Källman presents the photographic mirror installation 'we have our own song'. In the installation, mirrors hang freely from the ceiling. On the reverse side of the mirrors, faces, body parts, hair, and hands are depicted and accompanied by an animation that creates light reflections, thereby also giving an illusion of movement in the room.Tthe music group Les Big Byrd will perform inside the installation.

The mirrors, light and shadow effects, and sudden glares complete a movement that has long been present in Jenny Källman's art—out of the frameworks that narrow or limit, toward a greater spatiality, where the viewer does not assume a fixed, predetermined observer position in relation to the work but can, in a way, be said to be in the middle of it, surrounded by it.

Margrét Bjarnadóttir is an Icelandic artist and choreographer who works at the intersection of dance, performance, visual arts and literature. Her diverse practice includes choreography, performance, photography and video, text pieces, writing, drawing and cutting glass objects.

For the Performance Programme at CHART 2024, Margrét Bjarnadóttir will perform ‘PEOPLE PLEASE.’ During the performance, a group of people will walk around Kongens Nytorv with protest signs that have text pieces by the artist written on them. Unlike protest signs which normally aim to be clear and direct and not open to misunderstanding, here, the messages are deliberately left open and ambiguous.

Teo Ala-Ruona is a performance artist based in Helsinki. In his work, he explores the possibilities of somatic fiction to influence our perceptions of the human body, its technological essence, and psycho-physical extremes. His works investigate the intertwining of linguistic, semiotic, technological, and biological existence, exploring techno-trans-masculinity, sexuality, and eco-normative narratives of "naturalness." He examines these by interweaving autobiographical and theoretical texts, scientific research, fiction, and bodily exercises.

Even Minn is a Helsinki-based writer and dramaturg working in the fields of performing arts and literature. Their latest works include Enter Exude (Kiasma Theatre 2023), Alien Mother (Vleeshal 2023) and Deep Time Trans (Baltic Circle 2021). On Tuesdays they host Queer Writing Group on zoom.

For the Performance Programme at CHART 2024, performance artist Teo Ala-Ruona and the dramaturg Even Minn will present ‘Anabolic Spectacle’ a collaborative creation between the two of them.

Anabolic Spectacle is a solo performance in the form of a feverish eruption of identity construction. It's a textual overload, drawing inspiration from the language of men's online magazines, dreamlike imagery, and the process of strategic mastering of one's own body. It seeks to articulate a labyrinthe of fantasies, restless nights and the impact of the categorical gaze on a non-normative body. The performance sees the transmasculine body as an incompatible territory for hegemonic masculine narratives - a realm where the capitalist ideals of the optimized self begin to crumble.

Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen’s praxis is based on performativity and performance art, transformed, and translated into different medias. The productions involve the body and scripted texts. She gathers, adapts and universalizes her narratives in both a critical and humorous approach regarding issues such as identity, culture and social relations and constellations.

For the Performance Programme at CHART 2024, Rasmussen will perform 'Afraid of ME'. In this performance, the audience will encounter a middle-aged woman, all dressed up and supposedly from the art industry, standing with handwritten signs in public space around Charlottenborg. The sentences are direct, some quite personal, though open for interpretation. Distancing herself from the art fair, she is trying to catch attention, while sending out mixed signals and creating an awkward situation….

Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen’s praxis is based on performativity and performance art, transformed, and translated into different medias. The productions involve the body and scripted texts. She gathers, adapts and universalizes her narratives in both a critical and humorous approach regarding issues such as identity, culture and social relations and constellations.

For the Performance Programme at CHART 2024, Rasmussen will perform 'Afraid of ME'. In this performance, the audience will encounter a middle-aged woman, all dressed up and supposedly from the art industry, standing with handwritten signs in public space around Charlottenborg. The sentences are direct, some quite personal, though open for interpretation. Distancing herself from the art fair, she is trying to catch attention, while sending out mixed signals and creating an awkward situation….

Teo Ala-Ruona is a performance artist based in Helsinki. In his work, he explores the possibilities of somatic fiction to influence our perceptions of the human body, its technological essence, and psycho-physical extremes. His works investigate the intertwining of linguistic, semiotic, technological, and biological existence, exploring techno-trans-masculinity, sexuality, and eco-normative narratives of "naturalness." He examines these by interweaving autobiographical and theoretical texts, scientific research, fiction, and bodily exercises.

Even Minn is a Helsinki-based writer and dramaturg working in the fields of performing arts and literature. Their latest works include Enter Exude (Kiasma Theatre 2023), Alien Mother (Vleeshal 2023) and Deep Time Trans (Baltic Circle 2021). On Tuesdays they host Queer Writing Group on zoom.

For the Performance Programme at CHART 2024, performance artist Teo Ala-Ruona and the dramaturg Even Minn will present ‘Anabolic Spectacle’ a collaborative creation between the two of them.

'Anabolic Spectacle' is a solo performance in the form of a feverish eruption of identity construction. It's a textual overload, drawing inspiration from the language of men's online magazines, dreamlike imagery, and the process of strategic mastering of one's own body. It seeks to articulate a labyrinthe of fantasies, restless nights and the impact of the categorical gaze on a non-normative body. The performance sees the transmasculine body as an incompatible territory for hegemonic masculine narratives - a realm where the capitalist ideals of the optimized self begin to crumble.

Kunstteater is a performance based cross-disciplinary project founded in 2018 by Danish artist Mathias Dyhr. Central to Dyhr's work in Kunstteater are experiments with spatial and durational formats within art institutions, theatres and public space, as well as his many collaborations with a broad variety of professionals from different artistic fields.

For the Performance Programme at CHART 2024, Kunstteater's three-meter-tall stilt character, the infant dandy 'Baby' played by circus performer Michiel Tange van Leewen will stroll around the grounds of Charlottenborg and Kongens Nytorv in the performance Sunday Afternoon especially made for the occasion.