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Cultural Night of Copenhagen 2008 and 2009 In the settings of the Royal School of Architecture, Poetic Night Shades took place. An interactive event where the audience were invited to play around on a scene back to front. Screens were lit up from behind and music inspired people to play and improvise. The white screen in front of the one night actors/visitors and the fact that you couldn´t see the spectators, took away all shyness of the visitors and they were dancing and playing around as one would normally only do in a private sphere. Poetic Night Shades was performed in slightly different ways both 2008 and 2009. A project designed by Lisbeth van Deurs and Malene Sakskilde.
Ord-drysseri / A public song 2007 Lisbeth van Deurs and Malene Sakskilde in collaboration with Domkirken, The Cathedral of Copenhagen, The Night Church, put on an event where a giant score was put up in the middle of the Church, running from one end to another. Visitors of the Night Church were invited to write one word on a piece of paper and peg it up on one of the lines on the score. Twice throughout the night an opera singer and a cellist performed this audience-made piece, improvising over the words, singing and playing according to whether people had chosen to put them high up or low down on the score.
2006 Lisbeth van Deurs and Malene Sakskilde again made an exhibition focusing on consumerism in contemporary society. This time, in collaboration with the police and the department of "Lost and Found", 65 persons were asked to rewrite a lost objects story, e.g. a broken umbrella, a wedding ring, a parrots cage, a mannequins hand, etc. The 65 persons writing were politicians, scientist, musicians, actors, publishers and more. This exhibition later went on tour and was exhibited in Randers, Tobaksgården. A homepage was set up on the exhibition as a part of a university project:
Electronic Junk Yard 2005 Lisbeth van Deurs and Malene Sakskilde put on an event in what was at the time Denmarks largest shopping Center, City 2. Dealing with issues around consumerism in contemporary society it seemed logical to circulate some of the consumers’ waste, back into the Center and give it a second time in the spotlight. A lot of electronic waste was picked up at Jernpladsn and dumped in huge piles on the floor in the Center. People were invited to compete in remaking stuff out of the junk. Professionals from "The Lab" had been hired to help the audience with technical support. In no time, discharged coffee machines and wrecked computers had been turned into moving, flashing, beeping new inventions.
2005 Twelve writers and poets were asked to write short texts or poems on "the fleeing..." The setting was Domkirken, The Cathedral of Copenhagen, The Night Church. The poems and texts were grown in cress and could be seen and read only for one night, All Saints Night, in the church.
2003 An experiment in passing on images from text to art to image in a chain of thirteen practicing writers and artists. Looking at the work by the end of the experiment, will the essence of thought and feeling remain and survive the journey. The event took place as a marathon over two days. The setting was an old factory, a huge room. Only one person was there at the time. A writer started the chain off with a short text followed by an artist who painted/sculpted or whatever the text. The following writer now wrote from the painting and then a new writer wrote from that. The process was recorded on video. And yes, despite thirteen not so small egos, some essence survived though transformed through thirteen set of eyes and ears.
2002 The exhibition "Goodness" opened in Malmo, Sweden. This was first of three exhibitions, based upon the same subject and questions, all inspired by the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard and his way of regarding goodness. In 2003 followed the second and third exhibition in Stockholm and Ystad respectively.
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