Critical Run: What Are The Emergencies Today. Today Before It Is Too Late

Friday February 4, 4:20pm (in front of Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art)

Organized by: Thierry Geoffroy

About: Can we be really moved and affected anymore? By what? How do we rank emergencies calling our efforts? What are those emergencies Today. Today before it is too late.

Critical Run is a debate format. 20 minutes of easy run while debating. The debate will be filmed, and what you will say is important to us. More info: www.emergencyrooms.org/criticalrun.html

Artist Kitchen

Organized by: Rick Towle, Maher Khatib, and Amir Zainorin and their invited guests artist/chef: Victor Valqui Vidal, Patricio Soto, Charlotte Bagger Brandt & Margrethe Troensegaard, Arendse Krabbe & André Amtoft, Jacob Tækker, Christiane Limper, Nønne Svalholm, Adam Melbye & Casper Cordes.

About: The Artist Kitchen started originally as an intercultural forum on Facebook about which consisted of around 20 members of the Danish Arts Council’s Intercultural Advisory Board. At the Generous Gesture exhibition this virtual group will be transformed into an actual field kitchen within Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art with art, food and hospitality as the focal point.

Artist Kitchen events:

Friday, February 4th, 5pm-8pm. Jazz Kitchen Improvisations by Adam Melbye & Casper Cordes

Saturday February 5th, 12pm – 2pm Maher Khatib, Amir Zainorin and Rick Towle are making three intercultural soups with presentation/artist talk of Cave And Reality by Jacon Tækker.

Sunday February 6th, 12pm – 2pm Victor Valqui Vidal. An artistic performance preparing the Peruvian Chicken Soup and a lecture about: IDENTITY, CULTURE AND CREATIVE COOKING.

Wednesday February 9th, 12pm – 2pm. Presentation by Charlotte Bagger Brand and Margrethe Troensegaard

Sunday February 13th, 12pm – 2pm. Patricio Soto will show a soup documentation project will also show a series of fotos from Chile of his grandmother cooking a traditional Chilean soup.

Sunday February 13th, 2pm-3pm. Arendse Krabbe and André Amtoft about Opensourcefood- a community driven art-activist project whose aim is to call attention to the living conditions of asylum seekers in Denmark. By harnessing the full socioeconomic potential of New Nordic Cuisine, open-source food juxtaposes the living conditions of asylum seekers with a free, meaningful and nutritious way of sharing knowledge with others.

In addition to the events, The Artist Kitchen has organized a collective exhibition of their concept through photos, drawings and culinary art works as well as recipes that are contributed by guests and artists during the whole Generous Gesture Exhibition. Other contributors: Jacob Tækker, Christiane Limper, Johannes Caspersen, Kim Olesen, Nønne Svalholm, Casper Cordes, Maher Khatib, Amir Zainorin, Nønne Svalholm showing photos from “Soup from the Heart” cooking even at Salon Salon in Århus.

Reading Group: Black European Disapora And The Decolonial Option

Wednesday February 9th, 2pm – 5pm AND Friday February 11th, 2pm – 4pm

Organized by: Michelle Eistrup (Visual Artist and Intercultural Mentor) and Alanna Lockward (Dominican Curator and Researcher) Editor/Founder of VideoArtWorld based In Berlin. Guest on Wednesday 9th Heidi Bojsen (Associate Professor, The Department of Culture and Identity, RUC).
About: The purpose of this reading group is to open up a dialogue on art and interculturalism in the Art World present in Denmark. It is to link social theories, art critiques and writings on art and society. The perspective will be given from papers by Alanna Lockward, Walter Mignolo, Michel- Rolph Trouillot, H. Bojsen and many others. Combining theoretical practice, debate and the visual arts.
Consists of: A Reading group and Informal dialogue based on these texts. Short presentations of Sound Preludes ‘Dudley Memories’ And Rose Hall, by M. Eistrup and short viewings of MAYA DEREN

films “DIVINE HORSEMEN” and “AT LAND”.
Reading Texts available on: http://initialstateoflimbo.wikispaces.com

Contact Sandra Balcells: sandrabalcells@gmail.com / +45 24 80 26 44 to register. Open to all.

Theme evening: Artistic integrity + governmental agenda

Thursday February 10th, 6pm-9pm
Organized by: Nynne Haugaard, Nikolaj Kilsmark and Maj Hassager

About: Contradictions between the governmental and institutional wish to “work with/for” supporting and creating a focus on multiculturalism and post-colonialism and trans-nationalism. At the same time, it is a controlled space. What is the role of independent artist in this situation? Who is the artist working for? How has this been approached by different artists in different ways? I.e. work with NGOs, works with development funds and how does the artist deal with her or his own position when working in various situations, as well as the question of authorship?
The event consists of a film screening, and a presentation of the book “Wish you were here” by Nynne Haugaard and Nikolaj Klismark - about art and development, followed by an open discussion-workshop.

Video / Film screenings
Saturday February 12th, 2pm – 5pm
Organized by: Generous Gestures

About: Screenings of videos made by artists involved in the Generous Gestures. Each artist will make a short introduction.
Videos / films:

- Too Long are our Memories (9 min) by Michelle Eistrup and James Muruiki

- Mind my hat (10 min) by Amir Zainorin

- Growing Vegetables on a Coral Island (22 min) by Søren Dahlgaard

- The killing of a Danish swan (25 min) by Juan Hein,

- The Woman, The Orphan and The Tiger (72 min) by Jane Jin Kaisen og Guston Sondin-Kung

Nærvær og andre ønsker
Sunday February 13th, 3pm – 4pm
Organized by: Mahmoud Alibadi (Artist), Participant: Gritt Uldall-Jessen (Artist), Ditte Maria le-Fevre (Actress), Line Klyvø (Singer)

About: A text reading on 3 levels:

Part 1: v/ Mahmoud Alibadi and Gritt Uldall-Jessen: Reading by Gritt Uldall-Jessen who in the performance will make a short summary of Erika Fischer-Lichte’s three levels of intimacy / presence as described in ”Ästhetik des Performativen”, Suhrkamp Verlag (2004) or in the English edition "The Transformative Power of Performance, A new aesthetics", Routledge (2008). During the performance, Mahmoud Alibadi reveals his secret (app. 20 min.)

Part 2: v/ The audience, Line Klyvø, Ditte Maria le-Fevre and Mahmoud Alibadi: a workshop performance where the audience is involved in the process with guidance from Mahmoud Alibadi, Ditte Maria le-Fevre, and Line Klyvø. (app. 20 min.)

Part 3: Open discussion of the theme: ”How do we distinguish between cultural identity and the artist identity in the work?” And what meanings do these have in the works?