Posts Tagged ‘copenhagen’

The City is My Playground

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

By Kiša Lala

Still from Kaspar Astrup Schröder’s documentary My Playground

Still from Kaspar Astrup Schröder’s documentary My Playground

The city is fenced in by walls, carved up by streets, railings and barricades. Paths guide people through the city and prevent them spilling into places outside them. Free-runners transgress spaces off-limits, ascend the sides of dwellings, jump gaps between them. Walls, hurdles, ramparts do not stop them from going through them. Through their bodies the city is made transparent, its skeleton exposed.

Still from Kaspar Astrup Schröder’s documentary My Playground

Still from Kaspar Astrup Schröder’s documentary My Playground

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The Circular Series, Section 4 by Vibskov Emenius

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Vibskov Emenius "The Circular Series", Photo: Edel Kelly

Henrik Vibskov and Andreas Emenius recently brought their performance series to America for the first time. Vibskov Emenius performed Project 8 and Project 9 of The Circular Series, Section 4 at The Textile Museum in Washington, DC.

The Circular Series is an original site-specific performance based on human rituals, the constructions we build, and social isolation, using the contrasts of a large rigid geometric structure interacting with chaos, represented by explosions of color.

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