AN HOUR WITH alex blum

BURN THEIR BOOKS AND FAKE THEIR STORIES. WHAT GENDER AND GENOCIDE INSTRUCT US ABOUT CONSENT AND COMPLICITY.

 

Format: AN HOUR WITH
Genre: Conversation that immerses the audience in an artist’s practice

Date: 28th November
Time: 10:00-11:00
Place: HAUT, Lygten 39, 2400 Kbh NV

The event is free, but please reserve your spot so we know how much coffee to brew. You can book your spot right here:
 

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Photographer Deniz Buga

At this AN HOUR WITH we invite you to meet artist and activist alex blum, who will map her concerns with performance by reading out loud some concepts central to her work. Over coffee and croissants, alex will share experiences from her research LILY SCREAMS, which revisits Judith Butler´s notion of ´gender performativity´ while fabulating the story of Lili Elbe, who - as one of the world´s first recipients of gender-affirming surgery - risked her life to embody radical imagination.

By assuming that there is an embedded poetics of madness and risk within times of genocide, alex invites us to embrace our own nonsense to affirm and mourn ungrievable lives. 

The conversation will be in Danish or English depending on the participants.

 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Alex blum (she/they, DK) is a choreographer, political educator, and somatic activist based between Copenhagen and Amsterdam, where they graduated from the School for New Dance Development. In her artistic work, alex looks for sensuours detours from identity politics by means of touch, voice work, and shared listening in rehearsals with critical friends, lovers, and strangers.

By questioning who is given a voice, or not, whose bodies are enfranschised, witnessed, cared for, and commemorated, or not, alex blum explores the (im)possibility of trans* embodiment and the refusal of genocide.    

ABOUT THE FORMAT 'AN HOUR WITH'

An hour of informal conversation, which provides space for short or intense immersion in an artistry or an artistic practice. It is an opportunity to meet artists in an informal setting and gain insight into knowledge that is usually only available to the people who are part of the work process.