RESEARCH
From the beginning, Tårnby Park Studio (and its predecessor “Public Space” with the Tårnby Torv Festival) has been a place for artistic research. Supported by the Ministry of Culture, Andreas Liebmann has taken the site-specific development work as an opportunity to explore in open-ended processes what a contemporary and locally situated institution for “experimental folk theater” might look like. The research focuses on questions of participation, artist-driven self-instituting, as well as cultural policy and strategic issues. As of 2024, Andreas Liebmann has been supported three times with significant contributions, making it possible for Tårnby Park Studio to develop and grow with a certain independence and appropriate slowness.
Current/Upcoming
SYMPOSIUM: PHANTOMS OF STABILITY
When: Monday 09.09 10-16.00
Where: Monday 09.09 24 10-16.00 at Tårnby Park Performance Festival 2024 Økocity 2.0
Free Ticket for the Symposium: Registration required
About
What are the conditions for artist-run performance institutions within our current political and societal context? How do the political and financial conditions shape the artistic agenda of artist-run performance institutions across Europe? At the symposium, we will discuss strategies, challenges, and experiences of different artist-run performance institutions in their specific contexts. We will ask critical questions about the consequences of the institutional framework for artistic work and artworkers, and together speculate about institutional processes that take their starting point in the artwork itself and not firstly in institutional needs.
Phantoms of stability is Andreas Liebmann’s current artistic research project at the Danish National School for Performing Arts. The symposium will consist of a debate, readings, and small workshops where all participants will be invited to share their thoughts and experiences along the initial questions of the symposium.
The symposium also marks the release of the book „Phantoms of stability“. It is the result of a yearlong exchange between Marijana Cvetkovic (Nomad Dance Academy and Station Service for contemporary dance, Belgrade), Annett Hardegen (Vierte Welt, Berlin), Storm Møller Madsen (PhD at University of Copenhagen) and Andreas Liebmann (artistic director Tårnby Park Studio).
Archive
Imaginations for a place
The artistic research also manifests in publications, so far: “Imaginations for a place” (2021) and “Phantoms of stability” (release 9.9.2024).
As part of the research, there is also the recurring invitation of other representatives of artist-driven spaces, independent artists, and researchers to symposia and discussion events to advance the exchange of topics relevant to the field and to develop inter-institutional solidarity.
The little booklet “Imaginations for a place” was released in 2021 and documents the first try outs of the research. In November, the next booklet will be published: “How to welcome people” (Working title).
You can buy the booklet for 35 DKK (excl. shipping):Please order here!
or download here Imaginations for a place
𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀 – public discussion
𝗧𝘂𝗲 𝟰. 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭𝟱.𝟯𝟬
What are the possibilities and roles of performance art institutions in a world in crisis? This is the topic of our public discussion, “Matters of Crisis” with representatives of theatre institutions. This event is also part of CPH Stage.
More info here: https://fb.me/e/ygTxXwd9z
Artist: Gylleboverket, Kinéo 37, Nexus Dance, På den anden side, Trampoline House
When: 15.6. – 10:00-15.00
Where: Tårnbyparkens Fælleshus
Tårnby Park Studio invites for a debate day about institution making, where Morten Goll, founder of the long existing Trampolinehuset, will guide us through the day. We will share experiences, practices, problems, failures. We will talk about the reality check that happens right in the moment people start to bring visions to life. Partners in conversation will be visionaries Gylleboverket (Malmö), På den anden side (Møn), Kinéo 37 (Odsherred) and Nexus Dance Company (CPH). These guests have different experiences in institution making and the process of transforming visions into life. They are all artists that want to effect a change of some sort. All of them have visions of how to make things better. All of them have an extended notion of what art can or should be in the society. Some being right in the beginning, and some looking back at years of practice.
Visions are for free, but making them a reality is not.
Visionmaking is work, needing time, space and resources to manifest in the physical world.
Making visions work takes time.