Location:  Behind Tårnby Station (follow the signs) 55,262943° N, 12,60010° Ø
Other places: Tårnby Hovedbibliotek (8. September)

Critique: “Performances that break boundaries”
Interview: “Fuck Øko”

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WEEK 1: BUILDING WEEK   WEEK 2: PERFORMANCE WEEK

BUILDING WEEK ↑

MONDAY 02.09.2024

• 17.00 OPENING ØKOCITY 2.0. CONSTRUCTION SITE with a speech by the mayor of Tårnby Allan Andersen and  PYLAIELLA LITTORALIS – A PLAYABLE SEWAWEED SCULPTURE – by Greta Eacott, Anne Hollænder Schmidt

TUESDAY 03.09.2024 – FRIDAY 06.09.2024

• 10.00-17.00 ØKOCITY 2.0. BUILDING PHASE
• 10.00-17.00 5 MINUTES AGO – interactive sound installation with material from Crying by the Sea | البكاء على حافة البحر – by The Post-Cultural Body
• 10.00-17.00 A GARDEN FOR NOW – public residency with Punctures

SATURDAY 07.09.2024

• RESTING DAY

SUNDAY 08.09.2024

• At Tårnby Main Library, Kamillevej 10:
• 11.00 CURRENTS / STRØMME – Jon Bonnici and Sophia Mage
• At Tårnby Station:
• 11.00-15.00 FLEET MARKET
• 12.15 5 MINUTES AGO – activation of the sound installation with material from Crying by the Sea | البكاء على حافة البحر – by The Post-Cultural Body
• 13.00 IMPLICATION STUDIES – performance by Marina Dubia
• 11.00-17.00 A GARDEN FOR NOW – public residency with Punctures

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PERFORMANCE WEEK ↑

MONDAY 09.09.2024

RAIN! AT TÅRNBYPARKENS FESTHUS – TÅRNBYPARK ALLE 26!

• 10.00-16.00 PHANTOMS OF STABILITY– Symposium with Marijana Cvetković, Annett Hardegen, Storm Møller Madsen, Andreas Liebmann

TUESDAY 10.09.2024

• RESTING DAY
• 10.00-17.00 A GARDEN FOR NOW – public residency with Punctures
  

Detailed Program

OPENING OF ØKOCITIY 2.0 CONSTRUCTION SITE ↑

With: Allan Andersen, Greta Eacott, Anne Hollænder Schmidt, Andreas Liebmann, Tanya Rydell Montan, Delia Keller, Max Morris-Doherty,  Stine Linnemann, Tom Silbiger, Lukas Hartvig, et al.
Where: Behind Tårnby Station, follow the signs
When: 17.00
Free registration

About
Join us for the opening of Økocity! This city is a place full of possibilities, as it is being created right before your eyes, and it is being created by you too! We are celebrating the opportunity to collectively envision the future, to design a collaboration and a way of living together. We claim and insist that the future is shapeable, that it can be fun and enjoyable, intelligent and surprising. How do we want to live together? How do we want to think about culture / nature / waste / beauty / resources / energy / wastefulness / wealth / scarcity / joy? All these questions can only be answered together, and with diverse responses. Nothing is over, all possibilities are still here. Step into Økocity 2.0: The luxury of two weeks of collective playful thinking, building, celebrating, failing, and discovering. With an inspiring opening speech by the Mayor of Tårnby, Allan Andersen, and a participatory musical performance by Greta Eacott and Anne Hollænder Schmidt.

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PYLAIELLA LITTORALIS – A PLAYABLE SEAWEED SCULPTURE ↑

Artists: Anne Hollænder and Greta Eacott
When: 02.09. kl. 17.00
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Artists Anne Hollænder Schmidt and Greta Eacott work with children and young people to create an opening ritual that initiates the building of Økocity 2.0 – Tårnby Park Performance Festival. With the help of seagrass, they will contribute a musical experience that shifts our perspective on the festival site and forms the starting point for the great work of building the future city.

This summer an explosion of brown algae has created changes in our ecological environment. Brown algae. The sticky experience at our beaches. The name of brown algae in latin is Pylaiella Littoralis. Listen to that. There might be sound in it.

Over months we have collected, treated with vinegar and dried different types of seaweed from local beaches on Amager, merging and transforming them into fragile biodegradable musical instruments. Joined by local participants for the opening ceremony of Ecocity 2.0, we will try (and maybe fail) to overpower the sound of the nearby highway at Tårnby Station, with our very fragile and quiet instruments.

Maybe you have to be close to us. Maybe you need to be a part of it. Maybe you need to hear the name of the seaweed again to feel the poetry.
Pylaiella littoralis. Try saying it out loud!

Greta Eacott is a critically acclaimed British/Swedish composer based in Copenhagen. She is primarily known for her boundary-pushing experimental percussion works and her ‘sensory-disciplinary’ approach to music composition; incorporating spatial aesthetics, design theory and physical movement as integral elements of the musical compositions. Her works have been commissioned and performed by ensembles such as Musarc Choir [UK], Copenhagen Clarinet Choir [DK], New Maker Ensemble [UK/PT], Damkapellet [DK] & G-Bop Orchestra [INT] as well as by soloists such as Christian Balvig [DK] & Derya Yıldırım [DE]. As a percussionist and drummer, Eacott has performed all over Europe. Since 2014 she has been running the DIY record label One Take Records (https://one-take-records.bandcamp.com/). She is currently writing music for a children’s ballet to be performed at the Royal Theatre’s Old Stage.

Anne Hollænder works with curation, facilitation and performance. Inspired by the dark parts of nature, she creates weird and wonderful moments of hope in any way she can. Not a loner, she often finds herself in collective creations. Like when she composed music for the human-powered drum machine “Tasty Score”, which turned recipes into an interactive percussion performance played on kitchen utensils.

As part of FUKK (Forenede Uafhængige Københavnske Kunstnere) she hosted feminist meetings including FUKK gets EQUAL, co-organised Utopia School at Christania and curated a series of performances for Kosmologym: GYM at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning. As a performer, she explores issues of inferiority and fragility. She is currently exhibiting an interactive sound installation called Water the Sounds with Ranjit Bhatnagar at BioBat in New York. Her previous collectives include Kosmologym, Sisters Hope, Grodin&Tonning&Hollænder and FUKK. She has worked with performance, curating and installation in New York, London, Prague, St Petersburg and Copenhagen.

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ØKOCITY 2.0 BUILDING PHASE ↑

With: Neighbors, citizens, passers-by, Tom Silbiger, Andreas Liebmann, Tanya Rydell Montan, Delia Keller, Max Morris-Doherty, Stine Linnemann, Lukas Hartvig, et al.
Where: Behind Tårnby Station, follow the signs
When: 17.00

About
In the first week, we will build Økocity 2.0. We will construct a stage, a bar, a library, chairs, and more. But building doesn’t just mean picking up hammer and nails. It also involves exchanging ideas about how we want to live together, what we want to change, and how we can use technical, social, and artistic possibilities to create a place where life is good. The old philosophical question of what constitutes a good life must be reconsidered in the context of our planetary crisis, and everyone has answers! Økocity 2.0 is an invitation to contribute your own unfinished ideas or skills. You will definitely find conversation and building partners! Come and build with us!

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5 MINUTES AGO↑

interactive sound installation with material
from CRYING BY THE SEA | البكاء على حافة البحر 

Artist: The Post-Cultural Body (Amine Kouraichi, Ahmed Ben Abid, Moayed el ghazouani, Mohammed Rowe, Rania Rezgui, Jazbo Gross, Monia Sander Haj-Mohamed, Eliza Bozek)
When: Sound installation – daily 2.9-13.9 | Activation – 8.9. at 12.15 | Sharing session – 11.9 at 18.30
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During Ecocity 2.0, The Post-Cultural Body will read scripts about distance, grief and waves from Tårnby, Tunis, London and Madrid. The scripts have been created through a series of writing workshops in Denmark and Tunisia and the festival audience is invited to participate with new versions through an open source writing workshop. The readings of The Post-Cultural Body will blend through time and space using a python script created by Jazbo Gross and Mohammed Rowe.

يقرا “الجسد ما بعد الثقافي” في المدينة الايكولوجية 2.0 نصوص في معاني المسافة و الحزن في علاقه بالبحر و امواجه مباشرة من تارنبي، تونس، لندن و مدريد. 

هالنصوص تكتبت في ورش كتابة في الدانمارك و تونس بشكل مفتوح و متواصل و جمهور المهرجان في تارنبي مدعوا للمشاركة في تجربة الكتابة. 

تتداخل قراءات “الجسد ما بعد الثقافي” في الزمكان عن طريق نص برمجي كتبوه و ركبوه “جازبو غروس” و “محمد راو” بلوغة “بايثون”

The theatre project Crying by the Sea touches on the grief associated with socio-economic migration through collective writing processes and on-stage role-play, connecting audiences in Denmark and Tunisia through the use of telecommunications.

The project provides a writing platform through open writing workshops, both online and in Denmark and Tunisia. The online writing platform, available at theatrebuilding.com, allows users to log in to version-controlled writing sessions and upload text and audio files that become part of a constantly evolving collective cript, visualised as an open source family tree.

يتطرق المشروع المسرحي “البكاء على حافة البحر” إلى مشاعر الألم و الحزن المرتبطة بالهجرة الاجتماعية والاقتصادية من خلال الكتابة الجماعية ولعب الأدوار على خشبة المسرح، ويربط بين الجمهور في الدنمارك وتونس من خلال استخدام تقنيات الاتصال.
المشروع مفتوح المصدر ويوفر مساحة مفتوحة للكتابة على الويب وكذلك من خلال ورش الكتابة المفتوحة في الدنمارك وتونس وعبر الإنترنت. على موقع theatrebuilding.com، تحتوي منصة الويب الخاصة بالمشروع على ميزات مثل: تسجيل الدخول للمستخدم، و فضاء للكتابة، وتحميل وتنزيل الملفات النصية والصوتية، وإصدار النصوص على هيئة شجرة عائلية .هنا، كل نص مكتوب سيكون مصدر الحقيقة لأبناء النص المكتوب.
تتمثل فكرة مساحة الكتابة مفتوحة المصدر في دعوة أصوات من خارج المجال الفني لمشاركة ومناقشة واستكشاف الموضوعات التي يطرحها المشروع. من خلال تقديم “الممثل الطيفي”، من مسرح المضطهدين لأوغستو بوال ،و عبر البرمجة مفتوحة المصدر، سنتشارك البناء من و عبر أصوات بعضنا البعض من خلال إعادة كتابة نصوص صغيرة لبعضنا البعض عن البحر والحركة والمال والتنفس والضياع في قصة متفرعة ومتطورة باستمرار. من خلال دفع خيالنا الجماعي، سنقوم بتشكيل بوصلات جديدة يمكن أن تساعدنا على الإبحار في الظروف الاجتماعية والاقتصادية التي نعيشها.

Activations

5 Minutes Ago / Sunday 8.9 at 12.15

In this activation, a collective reading and listening session will be facilitated by Monia Sander Haj-Mohamed. The reading will become part of the performance installation.

Sharing session: Rewriting the stories of each other / Wednesday 11.9 at 18.30

Monia Sander Haj-Mohamed will share some of the ideas behind Crying by the Sea | البكاء على حافة البحر – an open source theatre production connecting two continents during 2024 and 2025 through the character “spect-actor” and programming with an emphasis on data security, community and decolonisation of digital and physical art spaces.

About the members of The Post-Cultural Body

Amine Kouraichi, working as a software engineer since 2020, she gained substantial experience in programming using different technologies to build modern web applications. She has been passionate about writing and acting since a young age, and has written multiple essays (poetry and plays). Amine also trained as a professional actor between 2016 and 2017 in the Tunisian National Theater’s actor school.

Ahmed Ben Abid, born in 1996 in Tunis, is a multidisciplinary artist with a master degree from The Higher Institute of Multimedia Arts of Manouba. He joined The Mediterranean Center of Contemporary Dance in 2013 and later joined The Sybel Ballet Theatre Company. Ahmed collaborated with the Theatre Building on “Every Time I Try to Move” and addressed sexual health with Oxfam’s Masarouna program. Inspired by these experiences, Ahmed created “Unwell,” exploring suffering, isolation, minority rights, and social justice through his art to raise awareness and inspire empathy for social change.

Moayed el ghazouani, has since 2015 been a theatre coach and performer, evolving into a queer performer and content creator in the homophobic landscape of Tunisia. As a member of Nawel Skandrani’s collective since 2018, he contributed to the queer performance scene and has conducted physical theatre classes since 2017. Moayed directed and designed the stage for “Rouheb,” earning the Scenography Award in 2023. Internationally, he’s collaborated with “Instabili Vaganti” in Italy and the Danish collective “Theatre Building.” The work with Oxfam’s feminist project (2023-2024) highlights his dedication to social and gender equality through the arts.

Mohammed Rowe, a London-born artist, intricately weaves the tapestry of sound to articulate his expressions and foster communication. Rooted in the urban pulse of his upbringing, his compositions resonate with the essence of found sounds, experimental compositions, and spontaneous musical explorations. Drawing inspiration from the vivid tapestry of his surroundings, Mohammed employs a diverse arsenal of processes and recording methodologies. These tools allow him to capture and sculpt compositions, each a unique reflection of his sensory experiences. Beyond the confines of traditional mediums, Mohammed’s artistic vision transcends boundaries. Collaborating seamlessly with artists across disciplines, he integrates his sonic creations into interactive installations, dynamic moving images, film and immersive theatrical performances. These collaborations serve as catalysts, enriching his creative journey and expanding the horizons of his artistic expression.

Rania Rezgui: Treasurer of a cultural association / Project Management Consultant. Rania Rezgui is a consultant in associative project management with over 8 years of experience in the field. She has extensive expertise in project design, planning, implementation, evaluation, and monitoring. Rania has worked with various local associations to manage and implement impactful projects across multiple themes (Theatre Performance Management , cultural projects in rural areas, theater workshops for youth, prevention of violent extremism, rehabilitation of women victims of violence, coaching youth in vulnerable situations).

Jazbo Gross works in video, sculpture and writing. He has an MA in Moving Image from the RCA, London, 2017. Gross looks at how objects are encoded in social practices and technology, probing their material histories and popular narratives. His work has been screened and exhibited in the UK, Germany, Norway and Denmark with his most recent shows at Calcio, London; RIBA, London; Salt, Oslo; ICA, London and St. Peter’s House, Manchester.

Monia Sander Haj-Mohamed lives and works in a field between writing, performance art, and direction. With references to the theater, Haj-Mohamed explores the range of the performative space where reality and fiction blend, and where the distinction between real people and literary characters is blurred. She graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2020 and was the artistic director of Momentum Theater in the 21/22 season. Through Forlaget Korridor, she published “Dominique” in 2015 and “The Alexander Trilogy – a Performance Essay in Three Acts” in 2019, for which she received the Schade Prize. She has exhibited at O-Overgaden, the National Gallery of Denmark, and Amager Psychiatric Hospital, and is part of the decentralized exhibition platforms Hosting Lands and theatrebuilding.com.

moltamole [Eliza Bozek] is a Copenhagen based artist with a background in electronic music and performing arts – oriented sound design, working within the field of composition, installation, dance, theater and digital art. Sound poses a medium via which moltamole lets herself explore and absorb external environments, as well as sonify inner, emotional landscapes. The intimacy of her sonic meandering is often imbued with field recordings, voice, noise, ASMR or poetry. Preoccupied by sonic tactility, she often weaves textural compositions and abstract soundscapes. A lot of her current work is conceptual, evolving around creating scores for composition and room sound design. Graduated from Den Danske Scenekunstskole (Copenhagen) and Catalyst (Berlin). Some of the projects she has been involved in are: MINOTAUR GRL [Inter Arts Center], GROUNDINGS [O – Overgaden], ENTANGLED [Det Kongelige Teater], TRAGISKE MÅDER AT SLÅ EN KVINDE IHJEL PÅ [Odense Teater] or SCINITLLAE [Basement, Teater MOMENTUM].

Idea, dramaturgy and direction: Monia Sander Haj-Mohamed
Dramaturgy and co-direction: Mouayed El Ghazouani
Video, sound and audio-visual programming: Eliza Bożek, Mohammed Rowe, Jazbo Gross, Ahmed Ben Abid
Programming of open source web space: Amine Kouraïchi
Producer in Denmark: Maja Bonde Holtze
Production management in Tunisia: Rania Rezgui
Cooking, caring, questioning, unfolding: Everyone + friends

Generously funded by the Danish Arts Counsel

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A GARDEN FOR NOW ↑

Artists: Punctures (Micaela Kühn, Maxwell McCarthy, and Alfredo Zinola)
When: Public residency – daily 02.09.-13.09. | Sharings – 11.9. at 19.15 / 13.9. at 17.00
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About
A Garden for Now is an endeavour to design, cultivate, and care for a temporary garden, facilitated by the artists of Punctures. Over the course of the festival, this garden will materialize and de-materialize through a collective effort as we define, shape, develop, and care for this ephemeral garden together with the public. In materializing the garden, we will support an attunement to what is already there, while discovering what new elements could be germinated over the course of days. We want to see what can flourish through a symbiosis of observation and contribution, exploring what a place of temporary cultivation could yield. Creating an impermanent frame and forging temporary pathways, we will define an intimate gathering space for conversations and experiences within the garden. Essential to de-materializing A Garden for Now, we will conspire to see how this garden might continue to exist — through the dissemination of ideas, observations, and actions with the public — even after it ceases to exist in its physical form. With A Garden for Now, we want to create an ephemeral frame to contemplate the relationship between humans and the living world around us, asking what it might mean to collectively engage in a caring practice of impermanence.

Punctures is a long term project between art and ecology by three artists working in the field of dance: Micaela Kühn, Maxwell McCarthy, and Alfredo Zinola. With the aim to effectively foster biodiversity within landscapes of widespread monoculture, the project broke ground in 2022 by planting a rich mix of non-crop plants on a disused field in the agricultural flatlands of Cavallermaggiore, Italy. Alongside the work on the land, Punctures sets out to create space and time to share the experiences from the land in the arts field, hosting wider dialogues and actions across artistic and ecological lines.

A garden for now is supported by Statens Kunstfond

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CURRENTS / STRØMME ↑

Artist: Jon Bonnici and Sophia Mage
When: 08.09. at 11.00
Where: Tårnby Hovedbibliotek, Kamillevej 10
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About
Strømme/Currents is 35 minute in duration and created with children between the age of 4-8 in mind. Two beings arrive prepared to enact a ritual of transformation. They clean with rose petals, they consume to excess, they shed their cocoons in dances of self love. It is a journey everyone takes together, traveling through many morphing bodies and meeting in the ecstacy of celebration.

Jonathan Bonnici graduated from RADA in 2008 and has worked extensively across theatre, film, and television. In 2015 Jonathan moved to Denmark and began developing his own stage works mostly in collaboration with choreographers and dancers. His works have toured internationally, to festivals and venues such as Berliner Festspiele, Martin Grupius Bau (Berlin) SIDance (Seoul), Target Margin (NY), Shakespeare Centre (LA). He lives on the island of Møn and continues to make work for the stage. He is currently developing a new theatre piece with his US collaborators, a choreographic work with a forest in Denmark, and writing a play text to be published in 2025.

jonbonnici.com

Credits

Initiation: Jonathan Bonnici
Co-Creation: Sall Lam Toro
Performance:  Sophia Mage & Jonathan Bonnici
Guidance and support: Boaz Barkan
Photography: Sam Moore
Wig maker: Katrin Cecilia Jacobsen
Special Prop maker: Christine Linnea
Sound: S Rieser
Production: Ulla Gad and Unne Loa Jensen
Thanks: Johannes Hornberger
Produced by and for Dansehallerne’s KORA programme

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IMPLICATION STUDIES – OR, PERFORMANCE
FOR THE ENGLISHMEN TO SEE ↑

Artist: Marina Dubia
When: 8.9. at 13.00 / 13.9. at 18.00
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About
Marina Dubia calls “study of implications“ a thinking together with images, a sketch of relationships between “how did I get here” and “what do I do with that?”. The alternative title makes this a suspicious work: in Brazil, we say slavery was abolished “for englishmen to see”: that is, only on paper.

“I have a folder titled “Image Studies 1 [92]” in my computer. It is grouped together with “Image Studies 2 [50]”, and “Image Studies 3 [35]”, just short of Image Studies 4 [12] — 12 seemed like an adequate number of pictures to help elaborate my personal stakes in a wider global narrative of violence. And you may ask yourself, “Well, how did I get here?”  We can start with me moving to Denmark. Or, with my white mother falling in love with a black man who holds dear the values of whiteness. We can start with the colonization of Brazil, with the transatlantic slave trade, with the immigrant grandmother who granted me access to Europe, even if she’d been part of a peasant family in Portugal who first landed across the Atlantic to labor on coffee bean plantations. We could start with a bust tipping into the channel. Although I could never quite get to my target 12 images, this artisanal, intentional archive making became Implication Studies: a performance where I use a minimal non-verbal structure to dig into the complexity of our interwoven global narratives, thinking through and with printed images and gestures. The goal here is to sketch the relations between “how did I get here” and “what do I do with that?”, inviting intentionality and responsibility into our narrative engagement with the world’s afflictions. The alternative title, performance for englishmen makes this a suspicious work: in Brazil, we say slavery was abolished “for the englishmen to see”, that is, “only on paper”.”

Marina Dubia is alive. She acts (rehearses, operates, makes way) through visual arts, dance and discourse. Her work focuses on organizing attention toward physicality as the center social and affective entanglements and their implications, cross-pollinating wider historical narratives with intimate personal and sensorial relations. Born and raised in São Paulo, Marina has lived since 2018 in Copenhagen, where she studied at Carla Zacagnini’s School of Conceptual and Contextual Practices at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

Credits
Implication Studies was first developed at the Pivô Pesquisa residency in São Paulo, 2023. Pictures by Christoph de Barry at 2024’s INACT Festival in Strasbourg.

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When: Monday 09.09 at 10.00-16.00
Where: Behind Tårnby Station (see signs)
With:  Marijana Cvetković, Annett Hardegen, Andreas Liebmann, Storm Møller Madsen, Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt (Moderation), Joana Öhlschläger (Production)
Free Ticket  for the Symposium. Please click here to register per email with Joana

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).

Marijana Cvetković is a producer, curator and lecturer with a background in art history, cultural policy and cultural management with significant contributions to the social dimensions of culture and art. She has a master’s degree in management in culture and cultural policy. She is a co-founder of Station Service for contemporary dance  and Nomad Dance Academy, platforms dedicated to the development of contemporary dance and performing arts in the Balkans. She is also co-founder of platforms such as druga scena (other scene), Cultural Centre Magacin, Association of Independent Culture of Serbia, and platform for the Commons “Zajedničko”. She lectures at the University of Arts in Belgrade and the University Lyon 2 as well as many informal education platforms. In 2018 she received the Jelena Šantić award for activism in culture.

Annett Hardegen has been a freelance dramaturge and producer since 2003, based in Berlin. She studied theatre studies, philosophy and art history at the FU-Berlin. As a dramaturge and producer, she has worked for, among others, Sophiensaele Berlin, HAU Berlin, FFT-Düsseldorf, Theaterhaus Jena, Nationaltheater Weimar, Berlin Biennale, Ruhrtriennale and Kaserne Basel. She is co-founder and artistic director of the venue VIERTE WELT, which she runs together with Dirk Cieslak.

Andreas Liebmann is a Swiss performance artist, writer and researcher based in Copenhagen. Currently artistic driver of the site – and municipality-specific place “Tårnby Park Studio”, a place for artistic experimentation in close contact with the social context. There he creates festivals, performances, collaborative projects with local and international artists and other neighbours, and a space to reflect on the entanglement of artistic activities with the society. His last research publication “Imaginations for a space” describes the interconnected processes that led to Tårnby Park Studio. Since 2015 he has been a teacher of performance practices and direction at the Danish National School for Performing Arts Copenhagen.

Storm Møller Madsen (they/them) is a performance studies scholar, curator and dramaturg. They are a PhD fellow at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, Section for Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Their PhD research project explores body-based performance art by transgender artists, with a particular focus on how this genre challenges fundamental understandings of concepts such as affective collectivity, archival activations and bodies on the stage. As a curator and dramaturg, they specialize in issues related to representation, gender and feminist/queer strategies for artistic production.

Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt is an associate professor and deputy head of the New Calrsberg Foundation’s research centre Kunsten som Forum, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. Her research analyses conditions of production for artists, precarity and self-organisation in artist collectives and she has recently focused on diversity policies, including anti-racist, anti-colonial and anti-whiteness initiatives in art, cultural policy and art education. She has a background in performance art and curating, has taught from 2012-2016 at the bachelor programme ‘Dance, Context, Choreography’ at Universität der Künste in Berlin and is a member of the Performing Arts Committee of the City of Copenhagen.

The producer of “Phantoms of Stability”

Joana Ellen Öhlschläger (she/her) is a German choreographer, dancer and producer based in Copenhagen. Her work is rooted in the movement of human and other bodies as essential reference point and invitation. Through transdisciplinary collaborations she constructs sensorial universes that employ humor, surprise and abstracted cliché to invite an audience into places of imaginative recognition and emotional permission. Her most recent works are ALL GOOD IN (2024), piece off (2023) and ETERNAL SUPPORT ACT (2023). Joana holds an MfA in Choreography from The Danish National School of Performing Arts. She is co-founder of KOMMA Performance Productions, an association supporting freelance performing artists to realize their work. Furthermore, she works as curator and artistic producer for Fuchsbau Festival e.V.

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THE LIBRARY IS PRESENT – Tårnby Main Library offers its Økocity 2.0 book selection ↑

Artist: Tårnby Library
When: 11.9 / 12.9 at 16.00-18.00

About
Tårnby Main Library presents its reading suggestions. When we think about the library of the future, what is important? Science, science fiction, poetry, climate literature, philosophy, music: we’re excited to see the eco-future canon from the local library! Stop by, talk to Helene and Asta from the library about their reading recommendations, or bring your own!

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OPEN ECO-MIC ↑

Artist: Citizens, nerds, neighbors, you
When: 11.9. at 17.00-19.00
Free registration

About
There are probably more ideas about what is ecological than there are people, plants, and microorganisms in Tårnby. What is certain is that everyone has a practice, an idea, or an experience related to this. Seize the opportunity and share your approach in a short presentation of 10-15 minutes. Everything is welcome: everyday knowledge, scientific facts, creative practices, viable utopias, or unfeasible speculations. Improve the world and showcase your contribution!

Register with an idea: info[at]taarnbyparkstudio[.]org

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OPEN GRILL  AND LOCAL FOOD↑

Artist: Everyone and you and Vilde Krydderier (Johan Ruggard, Julie Swane, Johan of Ulmus (Cocktails)
When: 11.9.-13.9 at 17:30-18:30

As in the other years, we want to picnic with you. Bring your own meal, have a drink and sit down at our tables, Meet a stranger, a neighbor that you never saw, meet the people you always miss when sitting in a public transportation because you or the other are staring into the smartphone. Going Picnic is much smarter!  And if you’re interested in truly local food, you can also indulge in the creations of our chefs from Vilde Krydderier. They gather edible ingredients from the surrounding area and conjure up the most delicious dishes! The menu will be announced on the evening itself.

Click here to get your food ticket!

WATER READINGS / Residency sharing ↑

Artist: Madee Cole & Aleksandra Lewoń
When: 11.9. at 18.00 / 12.9. at 18.00 / 13.9. at 16.00
Free registration

About
Madee Cole and Aleksandra Lewoń  is an artistic duo working collectively and site-specifically. Their practice has centred around water, and, in residency at Tårnby Park Studio during the festival, they are answering the call to dive deeper into their physical and intellectual knowledge of watery bodies. During Økocity 2.0, they will continue their investigation into water ecologies and hydrofemisim. Participants of the festival are invited to their informal bookclub – to join daily water readings and possible discussions afterwards. We will read fragments of the scientific, or philosophical, or sociological or artistic texts that will inspire our further work with microchoreographies/microperformances with water as a lens through which to understand a landscape.
The readings will last approx. 30-40 mins.

Aleksandra Laura Lewoń –  scenographer, costume designer, performance artist. Her artistic interests dwell from relations between places, materiality and emotions, as well as interactions between body and landscape. She has an established site-specific practice with choreographer Madee Cole that encourages audiences to reimagine their perspective of place. Co-founder of Copenhagen based FABFAB Collective which connects visual arts and choreography, and informal collective in Warsaw together with K. Dudzińska i A.Nasierowska, which challenges the polish emotional landscape.

Madee Cole (she/they) is a British dancer and choreographer, based in Copenhagen. Both as a dancer and maker, they work with the intrinsic and intuitive flow between physicality and imagination – unfolding thinking, feeling, fantastical, tactile universes for performers and audience alike. She has an established site-specific practice with scenographer Aleksandra Lewon that encourages audiences to reimagine their perspective of place. As a performer, Madee has worked with choreographers such as Sharon Eyal, Matija Ferlin, Sung-Im Her, Ray Roa Alonso and Joana Öhlschläger. A curious and investigative performer, Madee dedicates her technical skills, proficiency in improvisation, and her joy for performing into the works of others.

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POMPEJI ↑

Artist: Hungry eyes (Ida Oldmark Østman, Dina Viksten Abrahamson, Mie Katrine Kristensen, Olivia Klang)
When: 11.9. at 20.15  & 13.9. at 20.00
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About
Hungry Eyes (DK/SE) presents the performance POMPEJI – a declaration of love to all people in all times. Pompeii before the ashes, before the pumice, before the tourists. Warm bodies on hot stones. Vesuvius looms on the horizon. The pace is fast, earthquakes follow earthquakes, follow earthquakes, and what place does love have when everything you build up can fall down again? The performance is based on Maja Lundgren’s novel of the same name, where the author delves into history and gives voice to volcanoes, pubs, dogs and gods. The ancient city and the catastrophe echoes through Tårnby and the four women in Hungry Eyes, it sits in their bodies and voices, finding its way through stories and movements. There is a before and an after Pompeii.
Language: Danish and Swedish.

About Hungry Eyes (DK/SE)  Hungry Eyes is an interdisciplinary and transnational performing arts group based in Malmö, Copenhagen and Stockholm, consisting of Ida Østman, Dina Viksten Abrahamson, Olivia Klang and Mie Kristensen. Together they have a bachelor’s degree in Conceptual Performing Arts from Malmö Theatre Academy, a programme focusing on concept development and performing arts processes. In Hungry Eyes they create performances somewhere between performance, dance theatre, storytelling, reading and sound work, and they experiment with using the group’s multilingualism actively in their performances. They work without major disciplinary boundaries – they each have knowledge of many aspects of performing arts production, and change roles and functions according to desire and project.

Ida Oldmark Østman (DK) is a performing artist and actor based in Copenhagen. Her artistic work is rooted in physical theatre and creative writing, and she is particularly interested in comedy, existence and language. Performing art feels meaningful to her as she creates moments of intense shared attention and engagement in a time when concentration and presence are under attack. Ida holds a bachelor’s degree in Conceptual Performing Arts from Malmö Theatre Academy and a dance theatre education from Copenhagen Academy of Music, Dance and Theatre.

Dina Viksten Abrahamson (SE) is a performing artist based in Stockholm, Malmö and Copenhagen. Dina creates her own performances and participates in others. Most often she is a director and actor/performer, but also works as a stage technician. Much of her practice consists of exploring how – and if – absurdity and comedy can go hand in hand with philosophical and political theory. In Dina’s performances she works cross-artistically, is often her own stage technician, and plays with direct communication with the audience.

Mie Katrine Kristensen (DK) holds a bachelor’s degree in Conceptual Performing Arts from Malmö Theatre Academy and works as a theatre artist and performer in the independent field in Denmark and Sweden. She has a background in movement and dance theatre from the Copenhagen Academy of Music, Dance and Theatre and works as a freelance choreographer and dance teacher. She is inspired by everything that can set bodies free, in and outside the performing arts, and always works with physical expression as a starting point. She is interested in collective processes and narratives – and especially in creating community with the audience.

Olivia Klang (SE) is a Malmö-based theatre artist and performer working in the independent field in Sweden and Denmark. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Conceptual Performing Arts from Malmö Theatre Academy and has also studied modern dance at Kävesta Folkhögskola and at the Performing Arts School at Øland Folkhögskola. With a background in dance and theatre, she works interdisciplinary, focusing on time, space, text and movement. With her art, Olivia wants to challenge which stories are told where and how.

Credits

Based on Maja Lundgren’s novel Pompeii (2001)
Idea and concept: Hungry Eyes
Screenplay: Maja Lundgren and Hungry Eyes
Cast: Mie Katrine Kristensen, Dina Viksten Abrahamson, Olivia Klang and Ida Oldmark Østman
Sound: Hungry Eyes
Music: Oskar Nyman
Photographer: Sylwia Dziobon
Graphics: Anna Wittenkamp Rich

The performance is supported by Konstnärsnämnden, Malmö Theatre Academy, Tårnby Park Studio and Kulturhuset Cyklopen, Stockholm.

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MUSCLE CLUB ↑

Artist: Inge Agnete Tarpgaard & Niels Bjerg in collaboration with Amager Atletik and AK Viking
When: 12.9. at 17.00
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About
Children and young athletes from Tårnby do a “sports dance” with Muscle Club. Playing sports is great, you build muscles and your body performs better and better all the time. What happens when sports activities are choreographed and become an aesthetic experience? And do the different types of sports have a particular social status or local identity associated with them? We have investigated how the systematic movements of the sports disciplines can be transformed into a choreographic, spatial and musical experience and presented in a different way. What is the essence of the movement in a shot put? Which muscles need to be activated in which order to optimally throw the barbell? Where should the tension be when getting ready for a running sprint? Over the summer, the clubs met with social choreographer Inge Agnete Tarpgaard and recorded the elements and movements of their sports, but also training philosophies, cheering culture and the relationships between each other. Composer Niels Bjerg recorded the sounds from the sports and transformed them into the composition that accompanies the dance.

More info: www.amageratletik.dk www.akviking.dk www.ingetarpgaard.com www.wego.dk

Inge Agnete Tarpgaard has been working with socially engaging art since 2005, developed from a performative practice. Her works are based on local stories in a social reality where we use art to rethink given circumstances: a car dance with auto mechanic students, young new Danish girls reviewing fine theatre plays, an empty apartment in a housing complex that citizens transform into a testimony of neighbourliness. The activities we participate in are like a dress rehearsal for a temporary reality. In an exploration of human relationships and co-creation, we make works that push the balance between reality and homemade magic.

Credits
Participants: Ada, Asta, Ami, Jacob, Mikala, Johanne, Mark, Else and Karla from Amager Atletik Club and Freja, Alberte, Elin, Rikke, Emily and Smilla from AK Viking
Choreography: Inge Agnete Tarpgaard
Composition and sound design: Niels Bjerg
Photographer: Astrid Dalum
A big thanks to Elisa Thyrsted from Amager Atletik Club

Supported by the Danish Arts Foundation’s Huskunstner Program

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PARADE FOR THE FUTURE ↑

Artist: Tårnby Girl Club & Fremtidsklubben
Artistic Leadership: Delia Keller (set, conceptual framing), Birgitte Skands (choreography)
When: 11.9. at 17.30
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About
“Parade for the Future” is a theatrical and dance manifestation by young and young-at-heart people from Tårnby to maintain a playful spirit despite the seriousness of the situation. The Tårnby “Girl club” along with guests and members of the Tårnby Park Studios amateur theater club “Fremtidsklubben”, will dance, act, transform into future beings, and look back from the year 2080 at today’s citizens of Tårnby. What do they have to say to us, and how do they inspire us?

Fremtidsklubben (The future club)
Tårnby Park Studio is a theatre association in Tårnby that integrates theatre with everyday life, contemporary art and local engagement. It organises festivals, performances and various events. Fremtidsklubben is Tårnby Park Studio’s theatre club, which offers workshops in theatre and dance. The Future Club provides rich cultural experiences for children and adults of all ages. It serves as a creative playground where people can meet and exchange ideas with professional artists from various performing arts fields, including puppetry, visual arts, theatre, dance and film.

Delia C. Keller, born in 1989 in Pratteln, holds a Master’s degree in theatre pedagogy from Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). Since 2017 she has been working internationally as a freelance theatre and art educator in theatres and museums. In 2017, she participated in ZHdK’s dissemination programme “Recherche (V)ermitteln” in Zurich and Ouagadougou. Her work moves on the border between installation and performance, focussing on light, objects and video. Delia also works as a theatre educator and producer at Tårnby Park Studio in Tårnby, Denmark. You can find more information on her website: www.deliacorinakeller.dk”

Birgitte Skands is a Danish dance artist (with roots in many genres and dance traditions) who has worked in the field of dance and choreography for more than four decades.She trained at The Juillard School in New York in the early 80s, and her artistry is characterised by the vibrant progressive art scene she was part of there.Having toured worldwide with Garth Fagan Dance Company and Dance Brazil, among others, and worked with choreographers such as Kitt Johnson, Taneli Törmä and Antoinette Helbing, Birgitte continues to explore and engage with hybrid contemporary aesthetics, collective practices, research and cross-generational artistic encounters.
Alongside choreographing and being an active part of the Copenhagen performing arts community, Birgitte has worked with children and young people all over Denmark for over 25 years; in schools, in house artist programmes, many outreach programmes and dance and participation workshops. For three years, she has been part of the artistic team working in and with Fremtidsklubben together with Delia Keller and Andreas Liebmann.

Credits

Artistic leadership: Delia C. Keller and Birgitte Skands

Supported by the Danish Arts Foundation Huskunstnerordning

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GREEN TRANSITIONS – WORK TALK ↑

Artist: TBC
Date: 12.9 at 18.30
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About
“Green Transition” is the catchphrase when it comes to the transformation that lies ahead: a new economic model, a new way of thinking, a new way of living together. “Green transition” is a nice slogan, but given how difficult our societies find it to reach consensus despite realistic warnings and rising temperatures, it is clear that even this term can only exist in a diversity of forms. There is no single “green transition,” but many. We invite three different perspectives to engage in a discussion this evening: politics, science, and economics. The detailed program will be announced soon.

Panel

Einer Lyduch – has been a member of Tårnby Municipal Council since 2014. He is Deputy Mayor, Chairman of the Health and Care Committee, Chairman of Tårnby Forsyning, member of the Finance Committee and the Culture and Leisure Committee, the Council for the Disabled, the Disability Council and various boards and councils. Einer also holds a Master’s degree in History, English, Danish, Social Studies and has been a student lecturer, union representative and board member in previous jobs. He was a candidate for the European Parliament in 2004 and 2009 for the Social Democratic Party.

Lea Schick is a researcher and works at the Alexandra Institute, where she facilitates innovation within digital and sustainable transitions. Since her PhD thesis on how to engage publics in their energy consumption, she has worked intensively on innovating intelligent solutions that will enable our electricity grid to keep up with the rising energy consumption when we convert other fossil-based energy sources such as petrol and gas into green electricity. This is a major systemic change that requires new mindsets and especially new dialogues and collaborations between stakeholders who have not otherwise had to interact with one another.

Mathis Kærn Berggreen coordinates everything from the People’s Meeting to volunteer meetings in the association Gode Penge (Good Money). He is responsible for internal and external communication and also manages the members. He is also a student of economics at Roskilde University. Gode Penge works for a democratic money system where the money supply and money creation is not controlled by private banks, but is instead democratically determined. In other words, a monetary system where the decision to issue new money is not driven by interests in profit, but by democratic considerations for the economy and the welfare of society. We investigate and support various reforms of the monetary and banking system that can fulfil the vision of a democratic monetary system.

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LOST HIGHWAY ↑

Artist: Denise Lim
When: 12.9. at 20.15 / 13.9 at 19.15
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About
In Lost Highway, Denise experiments with different materials to challenge her own methods as dancer and choreographer. She enters the world of electronic music and audio engineering to develop greater sensitivity to sound design in her performance making. Inspired by punk and DIY cultures, she learns how to build her own analogue synthesizer. She works with doubles and doubling, with intensities and on edges. She finds herself lost in a sea of possibilities. She asks herself: What do I already know and what else do I need to know to proceed?

Lost Highway is a research project made and performed by dancer and choreographer Denise Lim. It is mentored by Sara Hamming and sound design is developed in consultation with madam data soundlabs (mdsl) in Singapore.

Denise Lim is a Singaporean dancer and choreographer, currently based in Berlin. Her practice is deeply interested in the body’s confrontation with objects and environments; how it forms and is formed, invites and rejects closeness, pleasure and the gaze. Using methods of scoring and improvising, she works towards intensities that enchant and invite experimental modes of witnessing.

Denise holds a BFA in Dance and Choreography from the Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen. She was a recipient of the ImPulsTanz danceWEB scholarship in 2019.

Credits
Dance and choreography: Denise Lim
Sound design consultation: madam data soundlabs
Mentor: Sara Hamming
Photo: Ursula Böckler

Supported by Tårnby Park Studio, Performing Arts Forum, National Arts Council Singapore, Danish Arts Foundation

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IN DUO WITH EARTH ↑

Artist: Birgitte Skands
When: 12.9. at 21.00
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About
Nature processes take place in cyclical repetition, and so it is with the dance work IN DUO WITH EARTH. Birgitte is back at Tårnby Park Performance Festival for the 3rd time – this time with version 6 of her piece, as a new work performed outside for the first time. The work is performed within the same frame as a yearly ritual, but also as a ritual of the idea behind: respecting the essence and the action of that of performing a work, year after year, and hereby acknowledging the finished and unfinished, recycling material just as in nature; the beauty will be in the simple and natural with room for improvisation.

IN DUO WITH EARTH is a movement reflection on the global body, our connection to each other, circular time and how we meet life. Through thoughts and movement, this year will be Dancy. This Dance Piece is for Birgitte connecting to the sanity in a tumultual world going mad, where dance may hold the power of and be our strongest residence, our last bastion to be human and see and feel clearly.

Birgitte Skands is a Danish dance artist (with roots in many genres and dance traditions) who has worked in the field of dance and choreography for more than four decades.She trained at The Juillard School in New York in the early 80s, and her artistry is characterised by the vibrant progressive art scene she was part of there.Having toured worldwide with Garth Fagan Dance Company and Dance Brazil, among others, and worked with choreographers such as Kitt Johnson, Taneli Törmä and Antoinette Helbing, Birgitte continues to explore and engage with hybrid contemporary aesthetics, collective practices, research and cross-generational artistic encounters.

Alongside choreographing and being an active part of the Copenhagen performing arts community, Birgitte has worked with children and young people all over Denmark for over 25 years; in schools, in house artist programmes, many outreach programmes and dance and participation workshops. For three years, she has been part of the artistic team working in and with Fremtidsklubben together with Delia Keller and Andreas Liebmann.

Credits
Author: Choreography words Birgitte Skands
Costume and assistance: Delia C. Keller
Photography: Max Morris Doherty and Henning Sjøstrum

DOUBLE YOU SINGLE VIEW ↑

Artist: Magali Camps
When: 13.9. at 18.30
Free registration

About
Double You Single View is a choreographic solo of scenic and performative nature centred around the investigation of voice and corporeality to unfold devices of representation and thought. By subtly combining casual intonations with minimal melodies, occasionally transforming them into song, a line is drawn between music, speech and outcry. The inseparability of body and voice is revealed as the inseparability of sound and matter. A dance emerges as a body that recalls stories of the past.

“The experience of the body as a hole is to choose what you let in, and what you let out. An eye is not an orifice, but a mouth is. So is a cunt, a crack, a nostril, there to be filled, with material as well as immaterial content. The orifice is a sisyphus of its own. You can not own what is not your own, that is; the words of others. Speaking is a shared experience, whether it resonates within your own ears or in front of an audience. Speaking, in its own speed, in its own speech. Does speech own itself, when it leaves the body, behind? A voice that tries to explain itself too much loses its tongue. An eye is not an orifice, but a mouth is.” Sprouted (excerpt), Hanne Lippard

Magalí Camps (she/her) is a dancer and performer. She grew up in northern Catalonia, where she trained at the Escola de Dansa de Celrà and in the company Mal Pelo. She continued her studies at the Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen (DK), where she graduated in 2022 with a bachelor’s degree in dance and choreography. She has been an apprentice and guest dancer at Cullberg in Stockholm (SE), where she has worked with Alma Söderberg, Halla Ólafsdóttir, Hooman Sharifi, Jeanine Durning and Jefta van Dinther. She has also worked with choreographers Doris Uhlich, Francesco Scavetta, Matija Ferlin, Renan Martins and Samuel Feldhandler. Her dance work revolves around the connection between language, writing and song, intersecting with concepts of intimacy and performance.

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THE STORY OF ØKOCITY 2.0 – CLOSING RITUAL ↑

Artist: Tårnby Park Studio Team
Date: 13.9 at 21.15
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About
After two weeks of Økocity 2.0, we know more. Certainly not everything, but some things have come together. We have built, talked, observed, and experienced. We have encountered new forms and ideas, engaged in imaginations, sketched solutions and problems, waited, been active, run, played, been puzzled, happy, and desperate. Or perhaps everything has been completely different. The closing ritual gathers and condenses the experiences and contributions of the past two weeks. What remains? What is the echo? An action arising from art, exchange, politics, debate, collective struggle, failure, success, Earth, and Tårnby.

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TEAM ↑

Kontakt – info[at]taarnbyparkstudio[.]org
Andreas Liebmann  –  Artistic Director
Delia Corina Keller – Executive Producer
Tanya Montan Rydell – Excecutive Prroducer, Artistic Contact and Logistics
Lukas Hartvig – Technics & Building
Tom Silbiger – Architect
Max Morris-Doherty – Grafic Design and Documentation
Stina Linnemann – Press pr[at]taarnbyparkstudio[.]org
Joana Oehlschläger – Producer of “Phantoms of Stability” Symposium and production assistant festival
Nadja Mattioli – Host
Malena Vilche – Host
Thorunn Gudmundsdottir – Host & Assistance
Sebastian Krog – Builder
Birgit Oesen – Builder
Andreas Martin Thaulov Nielsen – Builder

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TÅRNBY PARK PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL
PRESENTS: ØKOCITY 2.0
2 – 13 September 2024  ↑

The annual Tårnby Park Performance Festival will take place behind Tårnby Station, on top of the Tårnby Tunnel above the Øresund Motorway. Here we will design and build a city imagining the future together: Økocity 2.0.

Økocity 2.0 is a place to reflect on future co-existence. Within two weeks, we help each other to think, dream, plan and build. We share stories about possible futures and we explore an ecological approach that deals not only with the relationship between humans and nature but with shaping all our relationships. What will be its story? Let’s find out though building Økocity 2.0!

The Tårnby Park Performance Festival: A two-weeks performance carried out by everyone involved: neighbors, artists, young and old, local and international. Performing artists: Jon Bonnici and Sophia Mage, Punctures, Fremtidsklubben, Denise Lim, Hungry Eyes, Birgitte Skands, Inge Agnete Taarpgaard & Niels Bjerg, Monia Sanders, Tårnby Main Library, Greta Eacott & Anne Hollænder Schmidt and Tårnby Park Studio artists in residence: Aleksandra Léwon. Madeleine Cole, Marina Dubia and Magali Camps.

Festival Team: Tanya Rydell Montan, Delia Keller, Stine Linnemann, Max Morris Doherty, Lukas Hartvig, Andreas Liebmann & Architect Tom Silbiger

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