H A U T

Shapers, sing the songs of speculation

Together and apart, across a variety of mediums

Format: WORKSHARING
Genre: Transdisciplinary art, speculative fiction, alternative temporalities 

Date: 13th June 2025
Time: 15:00-17:00
Place: Black Box,
Thoravej 29,
2400 Copenhagen NW

Participation in the event is FREE, but please reserve a ticket as seats are limited. You can book your ticket here:

The artistic research

During their shared time in this residency, the group will explore what it means to engage sustainably and collectively in an artistic process. They will revisit and rework pieces (and their remnants) created in past collaborations, while also expanding their practice by learning more intentionally from one another’s diverse backgrounds in music production, drawing and painting, performance, and creative writing.

Together, they will experiment with moving beyond fixed goals and rigid formats, challenging the internalized idea also within themselves of creativity as a linear process.

Thematically, they are united by a shared desire to question linearity. As a collective, they will delve into critical notions of time and circularity, glitches, Octavia Butler, Afrofuturist mermaid mythologies, and ancestral technologies.

About the artists

Amy Assakaf, Celine Szabó, Cylo Berg and Hugo Chang Coffey initially came together under the name Shapers, sing the songs of speculation, in our overlapping explorations of speculative fiction and its potential to break out of binaries, comment on current power structures and imagine alternative temporalities.

Amy Assakaf works with hypervigilance to the idea and especially, the mytholic universe behind the artwork itself. The formats used are often connected to writing and come from a textual-thinking perspective. Outside of writing they mainly work with video pieces and performance, therefore the residency is an exhibitional way of deepening the ties between medias and professions, drawing on the experiences of the others' backgrounds. 

Celine Szabó’s praxis evolves around poetry across mediums and modes of expression, with a particular interest in the relation between dissolving(s) and connection, desire and violence, be/longing, the porosity of bodies and borders, and mythic deep sea beings. Their debut "Fremkaldelser" was published in May 2024. Working in the tensions between (hi)story, memory and speculation, she considers the text, written and spoken, as a place to negotiate what some would refer to as "reality".

Hugo Chang Coffey’s praxis revolves around otherness, transformations, ties and disconnections. Through visual arts and mixed media he aims to convey the entanglements between people, land and systems. In his works he explores folklore and speculative fiction as a technology to imagine other realities. Working with borderlands he merges digital, physical and emotional landscapes into a joint imagery. 

Cylo Berg’s work evolve around transforming, collaborating and (collective) change. They continuously practice out-of-sync, missed tonality and wrecked rhythms. Their songs are weirdly entangled, mumbled and force you to make way for unlimited translations. They work primarily with sound, performance and text with interest for the mythical, asymmetrical, and emotion based deviation. 

About IN PROCESS

IN PROCESS is HAUT’s 1-2 week long residency format that makes space for physical brainstorms supporting the investigation and the development of new ideas for the stage.

This group of artists has been invited into residency through the open call IN PROCESS - BETWIXT AND BETWEEN, whose focus was to celebrate and make space for the in-betweeners, the hyphenated identities, the Third Culture Kids, the witches and the QTBIPOCs to explore new potentials in work, ideas or collaborations in a black box. The open call was curated in collaboration with the artistic director of Diasporic Dimensions, Phyllis Akinyi.

The residency is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, The Bikuben Foundation and The Municipality of Copenhagen.