Ar Utke Acs

Inga Gerner Nielsen

Nat Marcus

In the Mirror of Care Work

In the mirror of care work graphic

Photo: Nat Marcus.

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Ti 5.9.2023, 13:00-21:00, MDT

On 6.9.2023, 11:00-17:30, MDT

"In the Mirror of Care Work" utforskar färdigheter inom nordiska interaktiva performancetraditioner. Projektet använder spegeln som metafor och kunskapsförmedlande instrument, där det på ena sidan finns verk av interaktiva performancekonstnärer och på den andra sidan det arbete som utförs av sjuksköterskor. Genom att inkludera omsorgsarbetares perspektiv och syna deras arbetes historiska bakgrund, initierar vi dialog kring de politiska, mytologiska och poetiska aspekterna av vårt eget. Är vi som performancekonstnärer – såsom sjuksköterskor en gång sägs ha varit – drivna av känslan av ett kall? Inbegriper detta en form av andlig omsorg om vår publik? Vad skulle det betyda för det interaktiva performancefältet om vi i vårt arbete, likt sjuksköterskor, skulle börja betraktas som utövare av ett yrke i egen rätt?

Detta två-dagars symposium välkomnar yrkesverksamma utövare inom performance- och omsorgsarbetesfälten att ta del av projektets berättarmetoder, performativa intervjuer, uppläsningar av texter ur projektets publikation, och poetiska scores för kollektiv reflektion.

"In the Mirror of Care Work" är initierat av performancekonstnären Inga Gerner Nielsen tillsammans med ett kunskapsproducerande team som består av koreografen Ar Utke Acs och förläggaren Nat Marcus. 

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Ar Utke Acs

Ar Utke Ács is working as an artist within contemporary dance and an expanded understanding of choreography. They work with the poetics and politics of the body in the seams of performance, dramaturgy, text, installation, the social and the imaginary. Ar Utke Ács working with discourse in proximity with their artistic production, in particular, they are busy with counter- hegemonic strategies from queer and crip writing and lived experience. Collaborative and collective processes builds the core of their body of work and Ar Utke Ács often works across different fields and mediums of art and research. Throughout the past years, they have created a series of works focusing on affect landscapes and subversive poetics of positioning oneself non-verbally, including their first major performance production echoes. They are currently working on Thrash Mob, a commission for ESC Youth Company, which deals with social choreographies and alternative Dance History. Furthermore they are currently working on the first piece of their unapparent trilogy which will premiere in 2025 co-produced by MDT (SE) and Dansehallerne (DK). Ar Utke Ács is a part of the queer art club collective fake daughter, which has organized queer art gatherings since 2019, as well as the studio cooperatives Dance Cooperative in Copenhagen and höjden studios in Stockholm.

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Inga Gerner Nielsen

Inga Gerner Nielsen is an artist, artistic researcher and performer working between Brussels and The West Coast of Denmark. She initiated the project In The Mirror of Care Work with a local nursing school when realising how much her one-to-one performances draw on the physical and social skills she once developed as an ”ufaglig”, or “non-professional” helper in the elderly home where she worked throughout her years of studying sociology. She hatched artistically as a performer within the fictional parallel worlds of the performance-group SIGNA during the early 2000s, and then as co-founder of the Copenhagen-based activist performance-collective Club de la Faye (2007) and a little later the smaller bureau, Fiction Pimps (2010, DK). In her solo-works she continued to explore the subtle nuances of interaction in performance installations within art spaces and venues such as Sixty Eight Art Institute (2014, DK), KUNSTEN Museum of Art in Aalborg (2018, DK) and in The Pool SB34 (2022, BE) in Brussels where she opened THiS INSTiTUTE, a structure by which she summons the sensual mode of her thinking. - An immaterial studio, she conjured as part of her artistic research in the post-graduate program A.pass (2022, BE).

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Nat Marcus

Nat Marcus is a Berlin-based writer and designer. Along with Zoe Darsee, she is co-editor of TABLOID Press, an imprint for poetry and art-books founded in 2014. The publishing house maintains a focus on the public space of a poem and the poetics of a social body. In conjunction with the activities of the press, Marcus holds a broadcasting residency at Refuge Worldwide Radio, called TABLOID Soundsystem. Her poetry, art criticism and lyric journalism have recently been published in Arts of the Working Class, The Ransom Note, and Edit.

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