Author: Lise Aagaard Knudsen

Jeg har fået Eksil (residens) på HAUT sammen med arkitekt Lieve Smout og radiodokumentarist Anne Neimann Clement fra lydkollektivet LYDPOL. Den første uge af april skal vi eksperimentere med vores projekt, der omhandler døden i byen – vores arbejdstitel er “Tomb with a View”.

Vi undersøger døden som industri og ser på dens udfordringer i urbane samfund på en overbefolket planet. Vi spørger, om det er nødvendigt at overveje, hvordan rammerne omkring døden skal se ud i fremtiden? Og hvis, hvordan kan de så ændres?

Det bliver super spændende. Kan ikke vente!

POP is back with a new comedy lecture about happiness (because in this political climate we really need something uplifting!). This time around we will be inviting people in for a spoof-seminar where you will all learn how to Hygge Yourself a bit more to raise the happiness bar. And where better to get start than in Denmark – one of the world happiest countries!?

On May 26th, we will be showing a 15 minute showcase at the CPH Stage edition of Teater Tapas at Teaterøen in Copenhagen. We can’t wait!

So Come Hygge Yourself with us in May!

Deltag i workshops eller interaktiv installation – læs mere her

Transistor Meetings er et møde mellem professionel scenekunst fra Malmö og København gennem en række visninger, workshops og talks. Festivalens fokus er eksperimenterende og kritisk scenekunst, og alle interesserede er inviteret til at opleve og tage del i de forskellige værker og events. Festivalen foregår på WAREHOUSE9 6.-13.oktober i København.

I kuratering af den Københavnske del af festivalen har nytænkende kunstnerisk vision, eksperimenteren, og kritisk refleksion været afgørende for udvælgelsen af kunstnere og værker, som både tæller performance kunst, eksperimenterende dans, queer rave, performance lecture, installation, drag show samt intim performances.

I remember… er blevet udvalgt til at være med på Transistor Meetings festival på Warehouse9 til oktober. Hurra!
Der bliver både en installation og intimworkshops hvor man kan være med til at huske. Mere info følger…

I was asked by a good friend, Paula Rodrigues, to perform this beautiful monologue from The Merchant of Venice in her project The OTHER Solos. I was very happy to participate and to lend my voice to Shakespeare, to the foreigners, to the mercy that we should use to season justice before judging.

The OTHER Solos are a series of Shakespeare monologues that deal with issues of identity, migration, power and exile, performed by actors whose mother tongue is not English. This project was developed in response to recent world events and the increasing sentiment against migration in the media and Western society.

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, ACT IV, SCENE I.
LISE AAGAARD (DENMARK)

PORTIA
The quality of mercy is not strained;
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown:
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;
It is enthronèd in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God’s
When mercy seasons justice.

@theothersolos

-residency workshop at Teater Nordkraft

This spring I was chosen to participate in this awesome workshop run by multidisciplinary artist Louis-Philippe Demers and experience designer Astrid Kensinger.

We were making devices and developing our personal practices with the help of these two great teachers from Nanyang Technological University Singapore. Very inspiring. I look forward to bringing these ideas in to my practice once I return from maternity leave in 2018.