Sensuous City with Metropolis/KIT and Nikolaj Kunsthal

01.07.21 — 31.07.21

The project is a sensuous 24-hour walk (THE PERFORMANCE) and exhibition (THE ARCHIVE) that awakens visions of the future.

THE PERFORMANCE

Sisters Hope invites you on a deep, sensuous journey exploring the poetic layers of the city. For 24 hours, you will explore the city in groups of 10. Maybe you will follow the flow of the water through the city. Maybe you will experience the city through travelling sounds or the darkness of the basements.

As a participant, you will partake in a poetic walk and performance which will help us unfold the sensuous and poetic aspects of the city. In contrast to the idea of ​​the large, noisy, alienating metropolis, Sisters Hope brings us in contact with the things close to us, the tactile and the aesthetic dimension of the capital.

The walks are guided and facilitated by Sisters Hope’s performers such as: Ekko, The Invitation, The Shape-Shifter etc. Before your departure you will receive a letter with guidelines on what to prepare and bring on the walk. Along the way, there will be meals and a place to sleep.

During the 24 hours, you explore the city’s sensuous and poetic elements. What stories, atmospheres, movements, emotions lurk in the city? You perform an active research, and you bring your discoveries back to Copenhagen City Hall, where they are exhibited in display units for all the visitors of the City Hall to see.

Your discoveries lay the foundation for new dreams and visions of the city of the future – a city with room for poetry, beauty and the sensuous aspects of existence.

DATE: 4, 9, 11 July / starts between 12 and 13 hrs – finishes between 12 and 14 hrs the following day
DURATION: 24 hours
AGE RECOMMENDATION: from 18 years
LANGUAGE: English
MEETING PLACE: Copenhagen City Hall, Cph. K
PRICE: DKK 275

THE ARCHIVE

At Copenhagen City Hall, we open up this study of the city of the future, where everyone can contribute. In display units, we gather research from Sisters Hope’s poetic, participatory walks – material that unfolds the sensuous and poetic aspects of the city, or the lack of it. And on a large floor map of Copenhagen, you can leave your footprint and help outline new visions about how the city affects you in different places – and your dreams for the future.

Over three weeks, an emotional map is being built that draws a new picture of Copenhagen. Not a picture of buildings and infrastructure, but a picture of humans interacting in and with the city from the poetic and sensuous aspects of their being. An image of a fleeting city, where the everyday gives space for poetry, visions and dreams.

Let yourself be inspired by the narration of the exhibition and get inspiration for your own exploration of Copenhagen. What hidden, forgotten or idle potentials can you find for the city of the future?

DATE: 4-24 July 10.00-16.00 hrs / Saturdays 10.00-13.00 hrs / closed Sundays
PLACE: Copenhagen City Hall, Cph. K
PRICE: FREE ENTRY

CREDITS

Artistic director: Gry Worre Hallberg
Performers: Alba Liv, Cathrine Engelberth Olsen, Emilie Harrekilde, Emma Hornum, Freja Ek Sindberg, Gry Worre Hallberg, Julie Felding, Katrine Andersen, Ingrid Långström Einarsson, Kirsten Kaagaard, Louisa Aisin, Maja Ejrnæs, Marieke Breyne, Nathalia Fleron, Nicoline Thyrsted, Oline Brønd, Sara Vilardo, Sia-My Nielsen,Tania Henneberg,  Ulrika Selring, Viola Ellehammer Dasseville
Set-design production: Daniel Goody
Textiles: Mimi Ravn
Light design: John PG Johnsson and Maurizio Addone
Sound design: Ulf Rathjen Kring Hansen
Technical: Daniel Goody
Photos: I diana lindhardt

Sensuous City is created by Sisters Hope in collaboration with Metropolis and Nikolaj Kunsthal with support from the Danish Arts Foundation, Københavns Kommune and Indre By Lokaludvalg.