ROSKILDE FESTIVAL ARTS 2017

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1 ROSKILDE FESTIVAL ARTS 2017 Presenting this year s art projects ART MUST OVERWHELM AND ENGAGE With the music programme and the focus on equality, art is a leading element in Roskilde Festival s programme. Art plays an important role of knowledge in society: It challenges, asks questions and creates experiences. In all its forms and expressions, art has been a part of Roskilde Festival s programme since its beginning, and has acted as a surprising, intervening, and entertaining part of the festival, through all the years. When the festival s curator group selects art for the festival, we look for expressions that will create dialogue, are interactive, humorous and moving. We want to overwhelm and engage the thousands of participants who meet the art when moving around the festival area. Most importantly, we want to create a dialogue about subjects we think are important to cover. Art must be a catalyst for the community: No matter who you are and what your understanding of art is we want to involve, surprise and influence festivalgoers to take a stand - at the festival and in society in general. The art programme at Roskilde Festival 2017 invites you to experiences within a number of categories such as performance, visual art and sound art, talks and graffiti. However, categories are often challenged due to the festival s focus on interdisciplinary projects. This means that participants can e.g. experience a coffee bar as an art project and that biological materials such as plants and trees are included in the art. More than 90 different types of artists, writers, biologists, theorists and musicians from the established scene as well as the underground present their artistic contributions and interpretations of this year s theme. OVERALL THEME: EQUALITY From 2016 to 2018, Roskilde Festival will focus on equality. Because we believe that everyone is born equal and have the right to equal opportunities. Moreover, we believe that equality between people and countries is essential for sustainable, well-functioning and democratic world communities. 1

2 At Roskilde Festival 2017, focus will be on cultural equality. We will work with subjects such as ethnicity, religion, sexuality and gender, when examining what influence our culture has on our opportunities and conditions in life. Even in Denmark, we experience that cultural equality is challenged by lacking respect and tolerance, when discriminatory rhetoric and sexist undertones break through and subjects such as national belonging and sexism daily give rise to debates. ARTS THEME: HUMAN/NON-HUMAN The focus on the interdisciplinary projects is especially visible in the arts programme 2017, where EQUALITY and music is highly integrated, and where the fusion between the three is examined. The core of arts own focus on the human and non-human is furthermore an extension of the festival s focus on cultural equality. Art projects are developed to investigate the relationship between art, the inner festival area as nature and the people it interacts with. At the same time, some of the art projects investigate how the technological development has influenced our lives and identities. What do the glowing screens do to our corporeal bodies and to our relationship with each other? Is it even possible to separate the virtual from the physical? How does technology influence communities and being together? Questions like these are what the artworks address at this year s festival. Consequently, the art programme does not only touch the subject equality between people it also touches on equality between all the species of the earth: animals, plants and humans. This is done with the theme Human/Non-human. The art programme asks us about the future in a time when climate changes have immense consequences and when technology affects us in yet unknown ways. That way, we show how Roskilde Festival dares challenge own themes and is not afraid of being in the spotlight. GUIDE TO THE ART AT ROSKILDE FESTIVAL 2017 Art Zone is the epicentre for art at Roskilde Festival. However, this is not the only place you can find art at the festival. As a festivalgoer, you will also find art when moving around the surrounding festival city. This year, Roskilde Festival Arts collaborates with The Royal Danish Theatre, Gyldendal & Rosinante, the publishing house Virkelig, Kunsthal Aarhus (a contemporary art centre), Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology, Roskilde Technical College, SLA and the National Gallery of Denmark (SMK). Other partners this year are Absalon, Copenhagen Maker and Roskilde Psykologerne (psychologists Nina Werner & Jeanette Beierholm). Art Interpreters from SMK and language course participants learning Danish are ready to present and share knowledge about the artworks and the artists in Art Zone at Roskilde Festival They initiate a dialogue about art with people that have a different background than the typical art communicator at Danish museums; a different education (or none), a different mother tongue, a different history. 2

3 With the support of the art interpreters, the artwork in Art Zone creates the basis for talking about and discussing equality, power, borders, gender, body, nature and much more. On the following pages, you can read more about art s physical location at Roskilde Festival Art Zone Last year, Art Zone was located in the area between Orange Stage and Gloria near Food Court for the first time. The success is repeated this year. Art Zone is the epicentre for art at Roskilde Festival where festivalgoers actively can seek out installations, performances, literature readings and more. They can be surprised and find peace and quiet from the surrounding pulsating festival life. Again, Art Zone has its own stage, and this year, it is integrated into the exhibition design and total installation the Oasis (Oasen) that affects the entire area (read more about the stage and the Oasis below). Furthermore, Art Zone has grown, so that it also incorporates the stables and the area previously known as Graffiti Zone. It is here where KlubRÅ invites people into a giant installation in the area near the fence toward Camping East. The stage Gloria is also located in Art Zone. In the lounge area in the foyer of the building and south of the stage in Hesteskoen (The Horseshoe) (between Gloria and Food Court), festivalgoers can see artwork, which is brought to Roskilde Festival in collaboration with the contemporary art centre Kunsthal Aarhus. A total of six pieces can be viewed here. In Hesteskoen, the festivalgoers can also experience the video piece Trauma (2000) by the British artist Gillian Wearing. And there will be an invitation to a family dinner where festivalgoers will have the opportunity to live out a persona that they will be given while they enjoy a three-course meal. Both projects are a collaboration with SMK. Graffiti Graffiti has always been a part of Roskilde Festival, and for the past two years the art form has had its own area: Graffiti Zone. This year, the graffiti spreads across the entire inner area and is not limited to a specific area. Figures are constructed, painted and located where festivalgoers pass by. Graffiti is used more actively at Roskilde Festival 2017 to make participants aware of their movements: You have to pass the graffiti, notice it more and be surprised by it. The fence along the inner festival area toward Camping East is still covered by graffiti art, and here, festivalgoers can still walk along the fence and watch the pieces one by one. In addition, the grandstand wall has also been curated within the world of graffiti art keeping with tradition. Graffiti artists from more than 15 different countries and four different continents visit Roskilde Festival this year. FOR MORE INFORMATION: 3

4 The Camping Areas Art is mixed with science and integrated in festivalgoers homes at the camping area this year. The festivalgoers can take part in social and microbiological experiments in Multispecies Play Space, while the group The Alternate Antropocene collects soil samples from the camping area, analyses data and presents the results. Festivalgoers are invited to take a stand on how research and science is presented and how we perceive it. Rising Debates, art, concerts, performances, readings, food, films and much more. Where to experience the talents and stars of tomorrow from these fields? In Rising City of course. This is the place to be if you want a lil something to think about, reflect upon, pick your brain about you get the picture. In the Rising area you have the chance to get up close to both art and debates. The area consists of a main stage and to smaller architectonic structures. The three Rising days have three main themes: Sunday 25 June: Women, gender, feminism Monday 26 June: Gender identity, gender expression and identity Tuesday 27 June: Race and ethnicity The stage is set for surprises, contemplation, play and involvement. In the table of contents below you can get the full picture of this year s art programme. Here, we have made a list of artwork title, artist and location at the festival. After this, you see the full programme for Roskilde Festival Art events. The rest of the press kit contains descriptions of all Roskilde Festival Arts projects in Prepare ahead or just go and be surprised and read about the artworks afterwards. No matter what you choose, you are guaranteed to leave Roskilde Festival 2017 with art experiences you will not find anywhere else in the world! ENJOY! 4

5 ROSKILDE FESTIVAL ARTS PROGRAMME DAY TIME ART SUNDAY 12:15-13:00 13:00-14:00 15:00-16:00 16:15-17:00 22:15-23:00 Forfatterskabet Caspar Eric / AVATAR DK, Ida Holmegaard / GRACELAND DK, Lone Hørslev / EN ORDENTLIG MUNDFULD DK Moderated by Sigurd Hartkorn Plaetner DK (Dreamcatcher, Rising) Multispecies Play Space Insect Play Spaces: Ant Hunt by Eben Kirksey US/AU Presented in collaboration with Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology DK/DE (Camping EAST) Multispecies Play Space Bugjuice! A multispecies Kissing Party by Eben Kirksey US/AU Presented in collaboration with Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology DK/DE (Camping EAST) wet dream Klara Ström SE (FLOKRR, Rising) Your Life Covered in Music Musikparlamentet DK (FLOKRR, Rising) MONDAY 12:00-16:00 12:15-13:00 13:00-13:45 13:00-15:30 22:15-23:00 The Alternate Anthropocene Nanna Rosenfeldt-Olsen, Misael Soto, Mie Frederikke Fischer Christensen, Bennett Van Hoff DK/US (Camping WEST) Forfatterskabet Sophia Handler / FEBERFRIHED DK, Anders Abildgaard / IBIS DK, Niels Henning Falk Jensby / TECHNO DK Moderated by Sigurd Hartkorn Plaetner DK (Dreamcatcher, Rising) Dancing in (Safe) Space DK, RP/AUS HØNster (FLOKRR, Rising) Multispecies Play Space Amphibious Adult Swim by Eben Kirksey US/AU Presented in collaboration with Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology DK/DE (Camping EAST by the Swimming Lake) Your Life Covered in Music Musikparlamentet DK (FLOKRR, Rising) 5

6 TUESDAY 12:00-16:00 13:00-13:45 14:45-15:30 16:15-17:00 22:15-23:00 The Alternate Anthropocene Nanna Rosenfeldt-Olsen, Misael Soto, Mie Frederikke Fischer DK, US Christensen and Bennett Van Hoff (Camping EAST) Dancing in (Safe) Space DK, RP/AUS HØNster (FLOKRR, Rising) Forfatterskabet Tine Høeg/NYE REJSENDE DK, Caroline Albertine Minor/VELSIGNELSER DK, Signe Maxen/ SORT GALDE DK Moderated by Sigurd Hartkorn Plaetner DK (Dreamcatcher, Rising) Minority Talk privileges and inequality Mino Danmark DK (FLOKRR, Rising) Your Life Covered in Music Musikparlamentet DK (FLOKRR, Rising) WEDNESDAY 17:30 Art programme opening Moderated by Head curator Mette Woller and the curatorial team DK + surprise act (The Anthroposcene, Art Zone) 18:00 Art guide by the corps from the National Gallery of Denmark (SMK) Meeting place:lisbeth Bank's Rainbow Worm 18:15 Talk with Madame Ghandi IN/US & Moeisha Aden DK Moderated by Nazila Kivi IR/DK (The Anthroposcene, Art Zone) THURSDAY 12:00 Talk with EXP EDITION NY & I'm Making a Boy Band (Bora Kim SK + Karin Kuroda JP ) Moderated by Maria Bordorff DK (The Anthroposcene, Art Zone) 12:00 Art guide by the corps from the National Gallery of Denmark (SMK) Meeting place: Lisbeth Bank's Rainbow Worm 13:00 Talk with Marianne Torp DK and Jacob Fabricius DK : Gillian Wearing: A Real Danish Family Moderated by Maria Bordorff DK (The Anthroposcene, Art Zone) 14:00 Event: Family dinner Facilitated by the National Gallery of Denmark (SMK) DK (The space between Gloria & Food court, Art Zone 14:00 Art guide by the corps from the National Gallery of Denmark (SMK) Meeting place: Lisbeth Bank's Rainbow Worm 14:30 Talk with Tue Greenfort DK Moderated by Maria Bordorff DK 6

7 (The Anthroposcene, Art Zone) 15:00 Forfatterskabet Conversation and readings with writers: Amalie Smith DK, Julie Steen- Knudsen & Signe Gjessing DK. Performance by Ursula Andkjær & Claus Handberg DK. Moderated by Maria Bordorff DK (The Anthroposcene, Art Zone) 16:00 Art guide by the corps from the National Gallery of Denmark (SMK) Meeting place: Lisbeth Bank's Rainbow Worm 18:15 Talk with Princess Nokia US : Femininity in hip hop Moderated by Nazila Kivi IR/DK (The Anthroposcene, Art Zone) 19:15 Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard DK : Triangular Mass (The Oasis, Art Zone) FRIDAY 12:00 Talk: Rune Bosse DK & ThinkingHand DK/AU + Line Falk DK Moderated by Torben Sangild DK (The Anthroposcene, Art Zone) 12:00 Art guide by the corps from the National Gallery of Denmark (SMK) Meeting place: Lisbeth Bank's Rainbow Worm 13:00-13:45 Performance: The Alternate Anthropocene Nanna Rosenfeldt-Olsen, Misael Soto, Mie Frederikke Fischer DK, US Christensen and Bennett Van Hoff (The Anthroposcene, Art Zone) 14:00 Art guide by the corps from the National Gallery of Denmark (SMK) Meeting place: Lisbeth Bank's Rainbow Worm 14:00-18:30 The Alternate Anthropocene Nanna Rosenfeldt-Olsen, Misael Soto, Mie Frederikke Fischer DK, US Christensen and Bennett Van Hoff (Art Zone, walk to Camping EAST + WEST) 15:00 Talk: Young boy dancing group AR, CH, DE, EE, SE + Casper-Malte Augusta Jørgensen DK & Bhenji Ra AU/PH Moderated by Torben Sangild DK (The Anthroposcene, Art Zone) 16:00 Art guide by the corps from the National Gallery of Denmark (SMK) Meeting place: Lisbeth Bank's Rainbow Worm 16:00 Talk: The life & practice of H.R. Giger CH With H.R. Giger s former assistant David H. Jahn CZ Moderated by Jacob Fuglsang Mikkelsen DK (The Anthroposcene, Art Zone) 17:00 Talk with AIKO JP Moderated by Torben Sangild DK (The Anthroposcene, Art Zone) 18:15 Talk with Bush Tea VI/DO Moderated by Nazila Kivi IR/DK (The Anthroposcene, Art Zone) 19:15 Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard DK : Triangular Mass 7

8 (The Oasis, Art Zone) 21:00 Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard DK : Triangular Mass (The Oasis, Art Zone) SATURDAY 12:00 Performance: Marie Kølbæk Iversen DK Presented in collaboration with Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology DK/DE (The Anthroposcene, Art Zone) 12:00 Art guide by the corps from the National Gallery of Denmark (SMK) Meeting place: Lisbeth Bank's Rainbow Worm 13:00 Performance: Johannes Heldén SE & Angela Rawlings US Presented in collaboration with Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology DK/DE (The Anthroposcene, Art Zone) 14:00 Art guide by the corps from the National Gallery of Denmark (SMK) Meeting place: Lisbeth Bank's Rainbow Worm 14:00 Reading: Økopoetik with Forlaget Virkelig and Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology DK/DE Presented in collaboration with Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology DK/DE Moderated by Louise Steiwer DK (The Anthroposcene, Art Zone) 16:00 Art guide by the corps from the National Gallery of Denmark (SMK) Meeting place: Lisbeth Bank's Rainbow Worm 16:00-18:00 Multispecies Play Space! A frog wedding and a performance lecture With Adam Bencard DK, Dehlia Hannah US, Jens Hauser FR/DE, David Stjernholm DK, and Josh Evans US. Moderated by Eben Kirksey US/AU Presented in collaboration with Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology DK/DE (The Anthroposcene, Art Zone) 18:00 Weatherwriting with Miriam Wistreich DK Presented in collaboration with Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology DK/DE (The Anthroposcene, Art Zone) 20:00 Performance: Poison Paradise with Natasja Loutchko SE/DE (The Anthroposcene, Art Zone) 8

9 ART IN ART ZONE SEVERAL ARTISTS THE ANTHROPOSCENE ART ZONE The Anthroposcene is the stage in Art Zone. On the Anthroposcene, performances, readings, talks and other democratic conversations will take place in an oasis of plants, which is a part of the overall design of the Oasis (Oasen) in Art Zone. The stage will be a round clearing amidst trees and small hills. It is placed in the middle of the Oasis in order to make festivalgoers consider the way they move around the area, and to make them aware of the stage s presence as a big, strange alien-like foreign body, which keeps shedding its skin through different lighting day and night. When the stage is in use, people can place themselves along the edge of the clearing, on the edge of the forest or inside the dense vegetation of the Oasis. In varying degrees, the stage can be seen from all angles, but the different participation zones also make it possible for festivalgoers to retreat or come in from outside without feeling like they are disturbing the activities on stage. Artworks are placed in a circle around the stage and tied together by the dense vegetation of the Oasis, which makes them a part of the collective effect of the Oasis and an experience in itself. Purposely, the stage is not elevated, as speakers and participants are on the same level: On the Anthroposcene there is not one audience and one performer, here everyone has a voice and can partake in dialogues about artworks, earth phenomena, cultural equality and social justice between people and other inhabitants of the earth. The Anthroposcene is democratic and centred around community. It is inclusive and can arouse the curiosity of passersby, because it is possible to watch activities on the Anthroposcene even if you are not in the first row. 9

10 IN COOPERATION WITH SLA AND ROSKILDE TECHNICAL COLLEGE (DK) OASEN (THE OASIS) ART ZONE Oasen, or the Oasis in English, can be found between the Orange stage and the Gloria stage. It is a type of total installation covering the entire area. Specifically, the Oasis consists of plantation, water, artworks and a stage, just as the stands in Art Zone are integrated into the Oasis overall layout. The desire is that festivalgoers become aware that they are now part of a special area that can overwhelm and surprise. The Oasis is a breathing space where participants can have a calm moment from the festival s pulsating life, but people can also find unexpected and challenging experiences. Roskilde Festival is a special ecosystem where borders are dissolved, control is released and new meetings occur. Based on this thinking, the Oasis has arisen as a physical and experimental platform. The Oasis studies the communities that arise and focuses on the nature and wildlife that is also part of Roskilde Festival. In a way, the Oasis is a kind of a miniature model of Roskilde Festival; it zooms in and investigates what the festival really is. In the Oasis art, nature and people meet. It shines a light on how we are all connected - like a network - and how art, nature and people interact at the festival. In the Oasis, humans are just one among many participants. The Oasis celebrates difference and diversity. Here, community is cultivated. The Oasis embraces the festival s focus on cultural equality, where all are born equal and should have equal rights. The Oasis is - contrary to a traditional exhibition space with white walls - an organic exhibition space. That means, that the setting of the Oasis relates politically and ideologically - not neutrally - to art and the experiences it creates. With its organic exhibition design, the Oasis does not only focus on nature being in flux just like art is. The experience of art is not contained in one room, but reaches across the exhibition space and into society s other rooms. That way, the Oasis puts important subjects on the social agenda. 10

11 LISBETH BANK (DK) IN COLLABORATION WITH LABORATORY FOR AESTHETICS AND ECOLOGY (DK/DE) REGNBUEORM (RAINBOW WORM) ENTRANCE GATE TO THE OASIS, ART ZONE Lisbeth Bank is responsible for this year s entrance gate to Art Zone in collaboration with Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology. The gate is constructed out of wood coated with a colourful substance; and like a worm, it is peaking out of the ground reminding us about the species under our feet at Roskilde Festival, but also about how we can work together with them. A transparent piece of the sculpture offers a view to the roughly 100 worms that live in an intestinal Lisbeth Bank, Regnbueorm (skitse) system mimicking the earthworm s real anatomy. Here, they are decomposing festivalgoers organic waste, which you are invited to feed the sculpture with, and by so doing the process points to another sense of time than the festival s short pulsating existence. The artwork Regnbueorm emphasises animals unnoticed ability to transform dead material into life, and shows us the potential in what might be worthless to man can be very valuable to others, like worms. They are not shown as disgusting creepy-crawlies, but interesting and beautiful collaborators to us, humans. PROGRAMME FOR REGNBUEORM: WEDNESDAY-SATURDAY when the Inner Festival Area is open 11

12 LINE FALK (DK) UNWORLD THE OASIS IN ART ZONE Unworld consists of postapocalyptic concrete sculptures and originates from the artist s longing for the magical nature; to disappear into a releasing death. The borders between creation and destruction are dissolved in the sculptures, where the difference between new material and reused material is blurred becoming part of the same slow movement and design. Old crushed concrete pieces and new liquid concrete are indispensable in the sculpture s creation and cycle; they are resurrected by their own deconstruction. The old world must die for a new one to grow out of the pieces. Unworld works with thoughts about our ability to care for our world, our fellow human beings, animals and plants, to see the beauty and value in the landscapes we are familiar with and about the earth s accelerating decay and the question about what will happen after our collective death as a species. Line Falk has grown up among granite mountains, gravel and Copenhagen air-raid shelters. She works with imitations of landscapes that seem to come from another universe; an enticing geology with traces of a twin dimension s refinement, collapse and rebirth. FOR MORE INFO: PROGRAMME FOR UNWORLD: WEDNESDAY-SATURDAY when the Inner Festival Area is open FRIDAY at 12 p.m. Line Falk participates in a talk on The Anthroposcene in Art Zone 12

13 RUNE BOSSE & THINKING HAND (DK/AU) NETWORK THE OASIS IN ART ZONE The artist Rune Bosse and the art and design collective ThinkingHand have collaborated on creating Network. The work consists of an open circle of six man-height towers made out of the root of wheat. They are activated through smoke and light and create a performative frame for personal studies of correlations and connections across experiences and senses. Like a Stonehenge of server towers the (net)work functions as a sensuous ritual place dedicated to the great network of nature and life. Rune Bosse & ThinkingHand have created the work specifically for the festival to focus on the ritual, poetic and sensuous aspects that we humans live off and in, and to open up a space for inner reflection in an outer relationship to the surroundings. In connection with the work the artists have written this text: We are drawn into a ring of rounded edges, being pulled up. The invisible becomes visible. We cannot see, cannot hear, cannot speak. What is it that we don t understand? What is it that we don t have to understand? We are dancing in the middle, between eternity and ego. We disappear in the mist and meet where we dissolve. The chlorophyll mixes with the blood. We let go. Where we don t exist, we are found. Where we disappear in the horizon, our world begins. Where we dance, we sprout. Where we love, we grow roots and become more than One. Why not human? How human? FOR MORE INFORMATION: Runebosse.com, Thinkinghandproductions.com PROGRAMME FOR NETWORK: WEDNESDAY-SATURDAY when the Inner Festival Area is open. Smoke, light and sound are activated continually. FRIDAY at 12 p.m. Rune Bosse & ThinkingHand participate in a talk on The Anthroposcene in Art Zone 13

14 MULTIPLE ARTISTS (DK) FORFATTERSKABET (THE AUTHORSHIP) RISING + THE ANTHROPOSCENE, THE OASIS, ART ZONE Roskilde Festival has engaged the Danish publishing houses Rosinante and Gyldendal to explore the collaboration Forfatterskabet on the Anthroposcene for three sessions from Thursday to Saturday focussing on this year s theme Human/Non-human, presented by talents from the literary scene. The collaboration between Roskilde Festival and Rosinante/Gyldendal is running on its seventh consecutive year, but will be different this year, as it will experiment with the frames for the classic recitation, inspired by performative and auditory elements. Some of the authors have been paired together and must create new material in unison. Others must have conversations with a moderator before reciting their works. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Gyldendal.dk, Rosinante-co.dk (both sites in Danish only) PROGRAMME FOR FORFATTERSKABET (ALL IN DANISH): SUNDAY at p.m. in the Dreamcatcher, Rising MONDAY at p.m. in the Dreamcatcher, Rising TUESDAY at p.m. in the Dreamcatcher, Rising THURSDAY at 03:00 p.m. Author conversation (with recitation): Amalie Smith with "Et Hjerte i Alt (A Heart in Everything) Julie Sten-Knudsen with "Spor Efter Fugle Signe Gjessing with "Ideale Begivenheder (Ideal Events) A conversation about how the relationship between the human and the non-human is present in the authors works. Performance: Ursula Andkjær Olsen and Claus Handberg with Digt og Maskine (Poem and Machine) 14

15 MIRIAM WISTREICH VEJRSKRIVNING (WEATHERWRITING) THE ANTHROPOSCENE, THE OASIS, ART ZONE We are all of this world, suntanned, weathered wind bodies that collaborate with the elements to create each other. We become tanned, freeze and cough urine dust. Vejrskrivning (Weatherwriting) is an attempt to describe the ecology surrounding us; to channel a more saturated understanding of the interweaving of people and climatic nature. Miriam Wistreich invites festivalgoers to come and write their scented flesh and together stimulate our meteorological imaginings, while experiencing the weather in and through our bodies to better understand how people and the weather is permanently existing collaborators and co-creators. PROGRAMME FOR WEATHERWRITING: SATURDAY at 6 p.m. 15

16 TUE GREENFORT (DK) DRÆBERGOPLE (KILLER JELLYFISH) THE OASIS, ART ZONE The jellyfish species have spread throughout the oceans with disastrous consequences to the ecological balance. They have e.g. been imported via ballast water from tank ships and have reached Danish waters, where they have been called dræbergoplerne/killer jellyfish. Tue Greenfort will put up a huge jellyfishlike helium balloon in Art Zone at Roskilde Festival The artwork will test the festival in different ways as a social phenomenon of co-existence between nature and people and explore our relationship with other species. Jellyfish are an interesting representative of the life that surrounds the human species, because, like humans, it reproduces to an extreme extent in an environment that would normally cause huge numbers of extinct species. Tue Greenfort works cross disciplinary with ecology and biodiversity in an organic, socially, political, historical and philosophical perspective. Through the years, the starting point in his works has been an investigation of climate change and how it is treated politically. Jellyfish are fascinating in their peculiarity and grace, while at the same time being able to burn or have destructive consequences to humans. Tue Greenfort s work at the festival focuses on cohabitation and a more inter-species and horizontal understanding of species thereby also creating equality between species various cultures. FOR MORE INFORMATION: PROGRAMME FOR DRÆBERGOPLE: WEDNESDAY-SATURDAY when the Inner Festival Area is open THURSDAY at 02:30 p.m., Tue Greenfort participates in a talk on The Anthroposcene in Art Zone 16

17 LABORATORY FOR AESTHETICS AND ECOLOGY (DK/DE) + MARTIN MALTHE BORCH (DK) + ELENA LUNDQUIST ORTÍZ (DK) + NAJA RYDE ANKARFELDT (DK) + PETER HJETTING (DK) + JOHAN PEDERSEN (DK) + ANDRÉ HANSEN (DK) + ANDREAS REFSGAARD (DK) + LASSE KORSGAARD (DK) + KASPER HOLM (DK) + LINE KJÆR (DK) HUMAN-TREE-MACHINE IN AND AROUND THE JUDGES TOWER IN THE OASIS, ART ZONE The Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology has gathered a strong team of programmers, biologists and artists, who will work interdisciplinary inside the four walls of the judges tower of Roskilde s show yard. Like a total installation, you step into projected animations on the walls. The animations reflect how microorganisms look through a microscope, but the organisms are manipulated based sensors placed in Roskilde Festival s trees. In the tower, festivalgoers can chat with the microorganisms through installed computers. They receive signals from an artificial intelligence via sensors that speak for the trees. A light installation is strung out across the room. Sensors in the light installation send input to the entire installation, thereby changing the level of light accordingly. PROGRAMME FOR THE HUMAN-TREE-MACHINE: WEDNESDAY-SATURDAY when the Inner Festival Area is open 17

18 REGITZE ENGELSBORG KARLSEN (DK) THE OASIS IN ART ZONE When 130,000 people come to Roskilde Festival, the area transforms from being empty fields to being Denmark s fourth biggest city. It is this change from nature to culture that Regitze Karlsen s piece investigates. Therein is also a consideration of whether it is even possible to separate nature from culture. The piece consists of 15 sculptures located around the Oasis. Each sculpture is covered with dirt and trash collected from the camping area and the inner festival area. The title of the piece references the GPS coordinates from where the materials have been collected. The dirt from the area contains leftovers from previous year s festivals and that way Regitze Engelsborg Karslen s piece investigates how we become a part of the festival s ecosystem with everything we bring and leave behind as participants. Thus, the sculptures ask you to contemplate how the presence of culture leaves a lasting mark on nature. FOR MORE INFORMATION: PROGRAMME FOR : WEDNESDAY-SATURDAY when the Inner Festival Area is open 18

19 GILLIAN WEARING (UK) IN COLLABORATION WITH THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF DENMARK (DK) TRAUMA ART ZONE At Roskilde Festival 2017 the renowned British artist, Gillian Wearing, in collaboration with SMK (National Gallery of Denmark), will present her video piece Trauma, which is 30 minutes long. In the video, various adults talk about traumatizing experiences from their childhood and early youth. The narrators are hidden behind masks of children s faces, which recreate and stage them as children and teens. With her video, Gillian Wearing puts moving and unpleasant stories about personal relations and human identity in focus. FOR MORE INFORMATION: PROGRAMME FOR TRAUMA: WEDNESDAY-SATURDAY when the Inner Festival Area is open THURSDAY at 1 p.m.: Talk with senior research curator at SMK Marianne Torp and director from Kunsthal Aarhus Jacob Fabricius about Gillian Wearings current sculpture project for Copenhagen Municipality: En Rigtig Dansk Familie (A real Danish family). THURSDAY at 2 p.m.: Family dinner hosted by the National Gallery of Denmark between the Gloria Lounge and Food Court in Art Zone 19

20 SEVERAL ARTISTS (INT) KLUBRÅ IN ART ZONE BETWEEN ARENA AND TRADE ZONE On the following pages you can find descriptions of the art projects in KlubRÅ. KlubRÅ is an interdisciplinary project, combining music and art and presenting an alternative club experience never before seen at Roskilde Festival. KlubRÅ is a collaboration with Tuborg and consists of five different universes based on Yin and Yang and its five energies: tree, fire, earth, metal and water. Water nourishes tree; tree nourishes fire; that way all the energies affect each other. Nothing is static; everything is a phase you have to go through. In KlubRÅ the five universes are represented in five rooms. Each room represents a new feeling, a new energy and experience. The rooms change from day to day varying between different art and music experiences that activate the five rooms at different times. Inspired by Yin and Yang, KlubRÅ examines the duality of everything and is thus a manifestation of the fact that the world cannot be divided into black and white: Black will always contain some white and vice versa. This is also symbolised in the project s combination of music and art. Yin & Yang are based on the philosophy that two seemingly opposite forces can supplement each other; and that they are connected and mutually dependent. The same way in which we understand music and art at the festival. The two overlap and contain elements of each other, even though they are mostly separated in the programme. Combined, they can create extraordinary energies and unique experiences. The artists and musicians in KlubRÅ will all perform at different times of the day and some of them in different rooms to see what will happen with the energy when their performance changes place and time. As festivalgoer, you will never have the same experience twice in KlubRÅ. Music will not always be live or played by a DJ. Sometimes it may be a soundtrack created especially for the room. That way, the festivalgoers will experience something new and exciting over and over again, when they visit the total installation, which is a closed off area of the festival. The festivalgoers must find the Yin & Yang symbol and door attendant to get in. THE FIVE ROOMS The five rooms are connected with Yin and Yang energies and are each connected with a colour. Tree is the green colour connecting to nature in relation to the human and artificial. Fire is the red colour and the most masculine energy in Yin and Yang. In the room, sexuality and the understanding of gender and identity are examined. Earth is the yellow colour and the most balanced energy in Yin and Yang. This room examines Mother Earth as the beginning and end to everything. 20

21 Metal is the white colour and the most feminine energy. This room mixes the meditative and the pulsating life. Water is the black colour and the fastest energy. The room examines water as an element in us, around us and on us as well as concepts like rebirth and contemplation. PROGRAMME FOR KLUBRÅ: WEDNESDAY-SATURDAY: 12 p.m 3 a.m. ATSUSHI NISHIJIMA (JP) [SITE- ACOUSTICAL SCENERY] METAL To Atsushi Nishijima sound is the relation between things. Listening is a practice of realisation and a creative act in itself. Nishijima is inspired by the less is more principle, which can be compared to the principle of the Japanese kitchen where few ingredients are preferred over a mix of many. In time, the few ingredients will affect each other. In that way, Nishijima s performance fits the intended energy of the simply installed metal room in KlubRÅ. By use of candles and fire, Nishijima underlines the different energies of Yin and Yang, and how they are connected and affect each other: As a starting point, metal is cold. When it is heated, it emits energy. But if it gets too hot, it starts to melt and loses its shape. Nishijima s performance will balance on the border, and the festivalgoers movements and actions in the room are decisive for the outcome. FOR MORE INFORMATION: 21

22 BUSH TEA (VI/DO) TROPICAL MERMAID FIRE, WATER Bush Tea, a Virgin Islands native, is bringing Caribbean flavour to the stage, with dancehall sound waves stewing with allegories of power, binary bending, and Crucian flavour. Inspired by quelbe folk tradition of the Virgin Islands, she tells day-to-day stories of life and society in her native land. Celebrating interweaving of afro-caribbean culture through light bubble gum pop sounds, she uses a second, super ego persona to disrupt culturally imposed binaries, testing the delicate balance of instilled culture. At Roskilde Festival, her music, choreography, and imagery, transport her audience to sky blue water beneath white and black sand beaches, sweet nectar, and the loud hum of island life. KlubRÅ s Fire room, wrapped in its bubble gum aesthetic, matches the feminine energy of Bush Tea s light persona, which takes you through a tropical paradise of sweat and dance. The RÅ alternative clubbing room, Water, personifies the Yang to Bush Tea s dual persona the more R&B/experimental influenced sound, dark and heavy hitting, vulnerable and discursive side with a distinctive aesthetic of imagery and choreographed pop/locking/contemporary dance movement. FOR MORE INFORMATION: CASPER-MALTE AUGUSTA JØRGENSEN & BHENJI RA (DK, AU/PH) KIN-KONG FIRE KIN-KONG works with the post-human body. Through the manifestation of the artists own bodies as collective bodies, they have created an animated double ganger. As a genre, the duo uses Cosplay (costume + roleplay) as a tool and discards masculine oppression by recreating ideas about sexuality through a gender deviating/female approach. The title of the duo s performance refers to the movie King Kong, which, to the artists, symbolises a non-binary creature that the human counterpart wants to lock up and observe. At the same time, the reference points to an oppressed sexuality and binary understandings of gender in modern society. 22

23 DJ WINDOWS 98 (US) (UNTITLED) WATER American Win Butler, who is also the lead singer of the band Arcade Fire, performs under the stage name DJ Windows 98 in KlubRÅ. DJ Windows 98 mixes a number of musical styles in his energetic live performances. With remixes of tracks from Major Lazer, Outkast, Kanye West and The Knife, Win Butler s solo project is far from the style of indie rock band Arcade Fire. The pulsating water room in KlubRå frames the world famous DJ s concert. The unique mixture of the very intimate, wet room and Win Butler s DJ set makes for an unforgettable experience for the festivalgoers and adds a whole new and energy charged dimension to clubbing. FOR MORE INFORMATION: DUEN DANISH NATIONAL YOUTH ENSEMBLE (DK) DUEN DANISH NATIONAL YOUTH ENSEMBLE METAL DUEN Danish National Youth Ensemble consists of 26 talented string players. With a new approach toward classical music, DUEN inspires new audiences to appreciate formalised music. DUEN performs a programme with both old and new works, including the work Body Textures composed for DUEN by Signe Lykke. Within Yin and Yang, metal is connected to the lungs, meditation, insight and physical and mental cleansing. The metal room in KlubRÅ focuses on the contrast between being both a meditative and pulsating room. DUEN s repertoire goes from classical to almost experimental and near-trancelike rhythms, which is exactly the balance the room aspires to reach. FOR MORE INFORMATION: 23

24 EMILIE ALSTRUP (DK) LIQUID FLESH + POSITRONIC LUST (W. SIGNE EMMA (DK)) TREE Emilie Alstrup s project consists of the total installation LIQUID FLESH that also contains the video Positronic Lust, a collaboration with Signe Emma. The focal point is the modern human, a hybrid of flesh and virtual segments fused with modern behaviour that does not intend to obey the normative limitations of the past. In LIQUID FLESH concepts of synergy between technology and nature are represented as a home for foreign species in a future climate created by the anthropogenic era. The piece explores futuristic hybrid species by fusing human and nonhuman traits. It refers to a synthetic biology and mutation as a result of environmental changes and high tech possibilities. The artist WHY BE comments on Alstrup s work through a soundscape, which is embedded in Alstrup s installation. Video: Positronic Lust Cinematographer: Mads Junker Performer: Eugene Noble FOR MORE INFORMATION: EMILIE CARLSEN (DK) SKIN FIRE Emilie Carlsen s work is based on the fascination with the digital age. With her pictures and textile works of art, she questions the relationship between the physical and imagined space. With the artwork SKIN, she examines the Yin and Yang energy fire as a spatial concept. The design of the room is centred around a bed in a teenage room. It examines the body, sexuality, fusion of the genders, the transition from child to adult, the feminine and masculine. It works with fire as something intimate, secret and private both in play and rest. Fluids and secrets are shared in adult as well as innocent groping in soft, pink layers of the bed and pillows. FOR MORE INFORMATION:

25 EXP EDITION (NY) + I M MAKING A BOY BAND (RK, JP) FEEL LIKE THIS FIRE The creative collective I m Making a Boy Band (IMMABB) deals with topics such as post colonialism and gender policies and the transnational spread of K-pop (Korean Pop). The group does so by communicating the process of making a non-korean K-pop boy band with the name EXP EDITION. IMMABB is interested in discussing idolisation in relation to feminism and sexuality using an indepth analysis of the K-pop industry as well as Visual Direction by Bora Kim and Karin Kuroda. of themselves, while at the same time blurring Foto: An Sangmi the lines between art and pop culture. EXP EDITION performs where idol worship is manifested and the Western understanding of masculinity is challenged. They will perform their own material as well as K-pop cover songs. FOR MORE INFORMATION: H.R. GIGER (CH) + DAVID N. JAHN (CZ) ART IN MOTION WATER The paintings of Oscar winning Swiss surrealist H.R. Giger are said to be channelled from another dimension with darkness and fear as one of the main themes. H.R. Giger was an environmentalist with a critical understanding of the future, and he transferred his worst fears to the canvas. H.R. Giger is probably most famous for his Oscar winning alien monsters in the ALIEN movies. In KlubRÅ, H. R. Giger s art will be visualised by his former assistant and filmmaker David N. Jahn. H. R Giger s art represents water and the dark side of Yin and Yang. The artwork also liberates fear and darkness by confronting the two. It is a matter of facing your worst fear and getting out on the other side as a new person. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Art in Motion trailer: 2D8N9isV0, Rolling Stones article: 25

26 JESPER JUST (DK) INTERPASSIVITIES METAL Jesper Just is world-famous for his ability to explore gender, lust, relations and identity through his works of art. With the piece Interpassivites, which can be found at this year s Roskilde Festival, Just challenges our perception of borders when festivalgoers are fenced in between USA and Mexico. In KlubRÅ the video installation is presented as one of three parts featuring Corpus from the Royal Danish Ballet. The installation challenges the way in which space, communication and choreography has been changed by modern technology. The video piece is with Kim Gordon from Sonic Youth. Jesper Just s work represents the metal room in KlubRÅ, which explores how time and space dimensions collide through today s media, and how it challenges borders and hierarchies between the real and virtual spheres. JOMI MASSAGE (DK) RITUALER FOR FÆLLESSKABER (COMMUNITY RITUALS) EARTH Ritualer for Fællesskaber (in English, community rituals) stems from a desire to explore the ritual and is an examination of the way humans act. The work is supposed to help the festivalgoers remember what moves between people, and it encourages you to break out of your usual, social circles. Jomi Massage asks the questions; What are we doing for each other? When do we say no, when do we say yes and, not least, why? Jomi Massage carries out rituals where the festivalgoers become co-creators of an intense, but steadily growing artwork. Together, they create a work of sound, words, stage design and costumes. The art is created by the community. FOR MORE INFORMATION:

27 KENTON SLASH DEMON (DK) EQUAL PARTS OF WATER WATER Equal Parts Water is a unique installation created for Roskilde Festival s KlubRÅ concept and will feature newly composed electronic soundscapes with visual work by architects Lenschow & Pihlmann. Visual identity has always played an important role in Kenton Slash Demon s artistic creation process and this performance is set to merge music and visual art in equal parts, and thereby moving away from the more traditional concert experience, as we know it. Foto: Dennis Morton The installation offers electronic soundscapes combined with visual effects. While the installation is found in KlubRÅ s water room, metal is the supporting element, underlining the relationship between the different energies of Yin & Yang. FOR MORE INFORMATION: LIGIA LEWIS (US/DE) I CAN T STAND THE RAIN WATER Ligia Lewis is a choreographer and performer who creates affective choreographies that interrogate the metaphors and social inscriptions of the body. Her work makes use of pop culture, affect and empathy, to this end creating visceral work that engages the flesh along with a nuanced play with speech and embodiment. I Can t Stand the Rain is a new commissioned work for Roskilde Festival and a collaboration between Ligia Lewis, Ariel Efraim Ashbel,DJ Nkisi, and and Jonathan Gonzalez. Water Foto: Martha Glenn and rain are subject to beauty and disaster. Lewis is interested in the dramatic tension between water as a source of life and water as a life threatening element in the form of flooding and catastrophe. She explores the qualities in the feminine in relation to the bestial. Through melodrama and the spiritual world, she examines the potential for transformation of the untamed feminine. Lewis works with water as a symbol as well as a texture. She transforms KlubRÅ s water room into a dramatic meeting of water, light and sound. 27

28 MADAME GANDHI (US/IN) (UNTITLED) METAL Madame Gandhi is the artistic alias for Kiran Gandhi, activist and former drummer for M.I.A. She brings energetic drum rhythms to KlubRÅ s concert in the metal room. In Yin & Yang, metal is defined as the raw and controlling sword, which Madame Gandhi observes in her work with female leadership. Madame Gandhi challenges the binary gender system through her music, including the song and representative for the movement The Future is Female. In the metal room, the mood alternates between meditative yoga scenarios and immersive soundscapes and raw and pulsating trance states. Madame Gandhi represents the latter. FOR MORE INFORMATION: MAJA MALOU LYSE (DK) BB S CORNER FIRE Maja Malou Lyse performs in KlubRÅ with her character Booth Bitch a former online-based persona. The character will perform BB s Corner, an advisory column, which is based on the s that her followers have sent her through time. BB s Corner is always themed for a certain setting: the bedroom, a radio show, an art institution, etc. In the fire room, we encounter Booth Bitch in a loving and giving talk show format. In BB s Corner and the fire room, focus is on restoring notions of masculinity. Maya Malou Lyse works with femininity and explores how it is maintained and perceived, but also how the conventional notions are expanded. FOR MORE INFORMATION: 28

29 MODDI (NO) UNSONGS EARTH The Norwegian singer-songwriter, Moddi, celebrates diversity in KlubRÅ s earth room. In Yin and Yang, earth represents the feminine Yin and the masculine Yang equally. This makes earth one of the most balanced of the five elements. Moddi s latest album, Unsongs, contained songs that were banned, censured and silenced to death. The album features songs from countries like Mexico, Vietnam, Israel and the United Kingdom. There were many attempts at suppressing the forbidden songs: From airplay bans to something as brutal as murder. Thus, it is with great sensitivity, but also imagination, that Moddi has given new life to the songs and created a moving and eyeopening album. Unsongs celebrates the censored songs and exposes the people that define the censorship. The album gracefully shows us a way of balancing the world by balanced of the five energies. Moddi s project is a beautiful way of bringing balance into the world by giving silenced messages a voice again. FOR MORE INFORMATION: NIELS LYHNE LØKKEGAARD (DK) TRIANGULAR MASS METAL Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard turns sound inside out, with his piece, Triangular Mass, when he takes over the metal room in KlubRÅ. Løkkegaard multiplies sound making his artworks the sound of an instrument multiplied by itself, giving the instrument several layers of sound. Triangular Mass is a work of multiplied triangles, which will be played by an ensemble of 200 triangles consisting of the festivalgoers that volunteer. The work becomes a whole through the participants. The volunteering musicians will be equipped with triangles in different sizes and together they will create a crystallic and prism-like sound. FOR MORE INFORMATION:

30 PRINCESS NOKIA (US) (UNTITLED) FIRE Princess Nokia is a musical group lead by 24-year-old Destiny Nicole Ortiz. Destiny is an upcoming, multifaceted, DIY artist from the New York underground scene, and she is quickly making her way to the established music scene. Her unique musical style mixes tribal rhythms with trip hop and R&B, creating an exciting universe of fusion sound never heard before. Her first album in 2014, Metallic Butterfly, mixes a postinternet-era vision of cyber feminism with a metaphysical consciousness about nature, sex and drugs, which is often set in a dystopian or overgrown landscape. Her songs are both hypnotic and driven by hyper reality. Besides making music, Destiny is also a DJ host on a radio show as part of her group of feminist artists, Smart Girls Club. Here, she facilitates dialogue and support for young multiethnic women in the world of art and music. As a strong women s rights advocate and with her ruthless emphasis on the world s structures of society that continue to oppress women, Princess Nokia seems as if she has been chiselled in the fire of the fire room in KlubRÅ. FOR MORE INFORMATION: STINE DEJA (DK) 4K ZEN METAL In light of the political turmoil and shocks that we are experiencing in the Western World, Stine Deja creates an escapist route away from these stressors into a safe and relaxing state of mind. This distraction installation offers the festivalgoers the chance to put their mind on standby and recharge. Recent studies show that we are more relaxed when we watch TV than when we are sleeping. When watching TV we are passive active which reduces our cortisol levels. 4K ZEN is a stress diet that takes advantage of this study and offers an escape from the complexity of modern life. The product combines ideas from meditation, YouTube tutorials, and infomercials. 4K ZEN provides a means to stop thinking about the world, your worries and feelings - offering a path to personal improvement. The immersive experience requires that you surrender yourself to the comforting voice and the 4K nature images, whilst entering a state more restful than sleep. 30

31 WHY BE (DK) (UNTITLED) TREE + WATER WHY BE is the Korean-born, Danish-raised producer and DJ Tobias Lee. Lee has created an auditory story about a journey into the woods. With Emilie Alstrup s installation in KlubRÅ s tree room, Lee supplies the atmospheric soundscape that together with Alstrup s installation creates an interplay and symbiotic relationship. The piece can be perceived as an auditory guide to exploring the forest. When, how, what and where the forest is, is up to the listeners themselves to figure out. The work is merely a museum guide for the festivalgoers to keep in their own brains. Foto: Philippe Gerlach WHY BE also has a pulsating DJ set in the water room, which integrates the wet elements of the room and lets the festivalgoers get out on the other side reborn. FOR MORE INFORMATION: YOUNG BOY DANCING GROUP (AR, CH, DE, EE, SE) ELAINE STURTEVANT EARTH Young boy dancing group (YBDG) is a performance group with a constantly changing dance troupe. At Roskilde Festival 2017, the group will consist of Nils Amadeus Lange, Maria Metsalu, Ofelia Jarl Ortega, Tomislav Feller, Vincent Riebeek, Nicolas Roses, and Manuel Scheiwiller. YBGD s performances are best described as structured improvisation. With a unique, aesthetic approach, YBDG makes an Foto by David Stjernholm entertaining performance about sexuality, the digital age, fetishes, modern dance, pop and youth culture. The group is mostly known for their performance PowerPoint Presentation. The performance deals with the liberation of the heterosexual man and his attempts to have an anal orgasmic experience through dancing. At the same time, the presentation is also a critique of the institutionalised dance shows. In KlubRÅ, the laser lights have been exchanged with burning candles. 31

32 YBDG performs in KlubRÅ s outdoor earth room, which is the most balanced of the five elements and has equal measures of Yin (femininity) and Yang (masculinity). Here, Mother Earth is both the beginning and the end of all things. This mimics YBDG's hope of balancing the world's understanding of gender, identity and sexuality in a way that does not divide the world into black and white but allows room for versatility. FOR MORE INFORMATION:

33 ART IN GLORIA S LOUNGE AND HESTESKOEN (THE HORSE SHOE), ARTZONE Collaboration with Kunsthal Aarhus RICHARD JOHN JONES (UK) SMOKE SIGNAL (2017) GLORIA S LOUNGE, ART ZONE Richard John Jones works with stories that have been deleted, forgotten or marginalised. At Roskilde Festival 2017, he will create an installation, an atmosphere, which highlights the connections and differences between the human and non-human. The installation consists of four digital prints, light, especially designed reflective screens and smoke machines. The pictures in the installation show a moment of visibility just before the unavoidable disintegration; the foreground of an image, for example of a body, which is gently blurred into the background. They are all inspired by the psychic Ingo Swann (US), who invented the concept Remote Viewing, which deals with the understanding of images from another time and space. In Smoke Signal, Jones uses documentation from his earlier performances and combines it with collages and digital illustrations. The smoke signals in the installation indicate a cry for help, but also a passing image that disappears into nothingness. FOR MORE INFORMATION: PROGRAMME FOR SMOKE SIGNAL (2017): WEDNESDAY-SATURDAY when the Inner Festival Area is open 33

34 HEECHEON KIM (KR) SLEIGH RIDE CHILL, 2016 GLORIA S LOUNGE, ART ZONE South Korean artist Heecheon Kim mixes recorded video material with semianimated elements. Sleigh Ride Chill is a continuation of Heecheon Kim s trilogy from 2015, which represents modern Seoul, the city s inhabitants and the world they live in. In the video, three stories cross paths and chase each other, while the camera navigates around the city centre of Seoul: 1) One person has lost his laptop, and his personal data has been leaked on the internet 2) One person streams online while playing a well-known game from the recent past 3) A TV programme shows stories from the new Suicide Club of Korea Together, the three stories show a side of the modern, Korean society while demonstrating technological tools (such as VR and Face Swap), which is a way of giving us a better understanding of the society. The piece was created to highlight the influence digital technology has on human relations today. FOR MORE INFORMATION: PROGRAMME FOR SLEIGH RIDE CHILL, 2016: WEDNESDAY-SATURDAY when the Inner Festival Area is open 34

35 MATILDE MØRK & NAT BLOCH GREGERSEN (DK) SOLIDARITY IS NOT OLD FASHION HESTESKOEN (THE HORSESHOE), ART ZONE By use of different collaborative strategies, Mørk and Gregersen explore concepts of staying still and slowness as a possible means to reflecting on acceptance and solidarity. At Roskilde Festival, the duo presents abstract figures and neon signs. The focal point of the work is staying still and collaborative processes. Mørk and Gregersen examine whether the daily pace is human, and whether we can create more humane ways of collaboration. Among others, they pose the question: Can the world be changed through establishing friendships? When it turns dark, the signs in the artwork will light up Hesteskoen. PROGRAMME FOR SOLIDARITY IS NOT OLD FASHION: WEDNESDAY-SATURDAY when the Inner Festival Area is open 35

36 MERETE VYFF SLYNGBORG (DK) WAYFEYER GLORIA S LOUNGE, ARTZONE Merete Vyff Slyngborg works with photography, painting, digital print, video and found items. 60 beach chairs form the basis of this piece, which is a fusion of function and art: Here, the festivalgoers can use the artwork to sit and relax in. Merete Vyff Slyngborg has covered the chairs with analogue and digital collages, whose patterns are reminiscent of patchwork and draw parallels to the hippie movement of the late 1960 s, where festivals like Summer of Love and Woodstock were born. One of the goals of past festivals was to create more equality between people by erasing the social hierarchy. In continuation of that, in Slyngborg s piece, you can see different motifs and expressions that move across cultures and reflect the diversity of the festivalgoers. PROGRAMME FOR WAYFEYER: WEDNESDAY-SATURDAY when the Inner Festival Area is open 36

37 BARTHÉLÉMY TOGUO (CM) MOBILE CAFETARIA GLORIA S LOUNGE, ARTZONE Mobile Cafetaria is a travelling exhibition and coffee shop, which festivalgoers can be a part of. It was originally created under Bandjoun station, which is a centre for contemporary art and cultural, social projects in Cameroon initiated by Barthélémy Toguo and his partner Germain Noubi. The first production of Bandjoun Station Coffee was planted, roasted and ground at Bandjoun Station in collaboration with the local residents. Mobile Cafetaria was created to highlight the commercial relations between countries in North and South Africa; their economy and the social and cultural differences as well as possible changes. FOR MORE INFORMATION: PROGRAMME FOR MOBILE CAFETARIA: WEDNESDAY-SATURDAY when the Inner Festival Area is open 37

38 NATSUKO UCHINO (JP) COFFEE CUPS FOR BANDJOUN STATION GLORIA S LOUNGE, ART ZONE Japanese artist Natsuko Uchino s artwork is a collaboration with Mobile Cafetaria (mentioned above) at Roskilde Festival. Uchino has made 200 clay cups especially for Roskilde Festival, which will be used and reused for serving coffee at the festival. As with the production of the coffee that is served, the cups have both a practical and social function they hold the coffee and gather the people who can share a moment s reflection over the story, especially within trade and production. The clay cups are handmade and decorated by Natsuko Uchino. FOR MORE INFORMATION: PROGRAMME FOR COFFEE CUPS FOR BANDJOUN STATION: WEDNESDAY-SATURDAY when the Inner Festival Area is open 38

39 ART IN THE CAMPING AREA EBEN KIRKSEY (US/AU) A COLLABORATION WITH LABORATORY FOR AESTHETICS AND ECOLOGY (DK/DE) MULTISPACES PLAY SPACE CAMPING +THE ANTHROPOSCENE, THE OASIS, ART ZONE As a scientist, artist and curator Eben Kirksey is studying the meeting between people and other species. In collaboration with bio artists, who work with living material as medium, he has created The Multispecies Salon an exhibition resulting in a book that brings together thoughts from humanistic studies about microbiomes, disease, food, environmentalism and synthetic biology. In line with this, Eben Kirksey will investigate questions between humans and non-humans through artistic, performative workshops at the festival. During the warm-up days, festivalgoers in the camping area will have a chance to participate in a social sculpture, where they have to kiss strangers by sharing a liquid, just as ants do normally when sharing food. In this way, festivalgoers can experience the social ant life and have power balances and gender norms turned upside down. Eben Kirksey will also make it possible for the festivalgoers to dive into the Swimming Lake to find frogs and investigate the microbial underworld put under a microscope. Everything culminates in a talk on Saturday 1 July where Eben Kirksey will present the results of these workshops in a performative talk. This will also include a wedding ceremony where festivalgoers can marry frogs. FOR MORE INFORMATION: PROGRAMME FOR MULTISPECIES PLAY SPACE: SUNDAY at 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Camping EAST MONDAY at 1.00 p.m p.m. Camping EAST by the Swimming Lake SATURDAY at 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Eben Kirksey moderates a performative lecture at The Anthroposcene in the Oasis, Art Zone, along with With Adam Bencard (DK), Dehlia Hannah (US), Jens Hauser (FR/DE), David Stjernholm (DK), and Josh Evans (US). 39

40 THE ALTERNATE ANTHROPOCENE (DK/US) THE ALTERNATE ANTHROPOCENE CAMPING EAST, CAMPING WEST, ART ZONE The alternative Anthropocene questions how scientific facts are spread and randomly presented - and often accepted unconditionally. The group will move around the camping area and collect ground samples in a live performance. Dressed in orange costumes that jokingly reference the 1960s sci-fi kitsch culture, The Alternate Anthropocene wants to create confusion and dialogue with their performance. Festivalgoers can wonder and ask about who the group is, what they do and why. Toward the end of the festival, The Alternate Anthropocene will present their results of the dirt samples as scientific facts. It will take place during a performance that open as a serious lecture, but which will develop to become a playful and perhaps confusing presentation of the collected data; a mix of the actual findings, alternative data and irregular scientific facts presented in images, graphs and equations. The Alternate Anthropocene are: Nanna Rosenfeldt-Olsen (DK), Misael Soto (US), Mie Frederikke Fischer Christensen (DK) and Bennett Van Hoff (US). FOR MORE INFORMATION: PROGRAMME FOR THE ALTERNATE ANTHROPOCENE: MONDAY at 12 noon - 4 p.m., Camping WEST: 4 excavations TUESDAY at 12 noon - 4 p.m., Camping EAST: 4 excavations Each excavation lasts an hour. There will be several excavations during the four hours, each day. FRIDAY at 1 p.m p.m., The Anthroposcene (the stage), Art Zone: Performance with presentation of results from the excavations. 40

41 ART IN RISING HØNSTER (DK, RP/AU) DANCING IN (SAFE) SPACE FLOKRR, RISING Queerleading HØNster is a group with different identities that will try to create a room for communal dancing, mediation and workout through body movement and music. A room building on safety (safe space) for the bodies that are exposed in public. People who break norms through gender, skin colour, sexuality, disability etc. At Roskilde Festival, HØNster invites to a 45 minutes workout beginning with body positive meditations seen through a queer theoretic lens and ends in communal techno dancing to create a complete techno body (the new body). It will symbolise and perform as an example of the termination of the binary system through community. PROGRAMME FOR DANCING IN (SAFE) SPACE MONDAY at 1 p.m p.m. TUESDAY at 1 p.m p.m. FRIDAY at 3 p.m.: HØNster will participate in a talk on the Anthroposcene in Art Zone 41

42 KLARA STRÖM (SE) WET DREAM FLOKRR, RISING Klara Ström uses her voice to investigate deep structures of inner colonisation of the most personal: Intimacy, love, sex, psychology and sensitivity. wet dream is a voice oriented performance divided into two parts (the first was presented at the National Gallery of Denmark in May, the other at Roskilde Festival 2017). In the piece, Klara Ström works with the concept water in relation to sex and the sensation of becoming liquid, like melting. Wearing a costume that also changes Klara Ström into a wet material; she investigates the cliché representation of lesbian intercourse and the constant presence of and relationship with water. She plays with the story and the idea about the sexual dramaturgy, where the climax is no longer orgasm, but what comes after. Participants will experience a sexy and wet atmosphere in FLOKKR when Klara Ström takes the stage! Klara Ström starts from a queer feminist perspective and mixes in personal experiences with current social debates. She investigates sex from a non-normative perspective and challenges power relations within intimacy and love. FOR MORE INFORMATION: (webpage mostly in Swedish) PROGRAMME FOR WET DREAM: SUNDAY at 4.15 p.m. - 5 p.m. 42

43 MINO DANMARK (DK) MINORITY TALK PRIVILEGES AND INEQUALITY FLOKRR, RISING Mino Denmark invites everybody to Minority Talks Special at Roskilde Festival Here, they will discuss inequality and privileges in Denmark with a number of prominent guests within different aspects of Danish popular culture. Mino Denmark dives into various facets of privileges and inequality with journalist Petra Nagel, actor Zaki Youssef and the human rights advocate Ahlam Chemlali. Things they experience in their daily lives. They will investigate how privileges actually work when it comes to ethnicity, and whether we are even able to do anything about the inequalities that exist between us. Mino Denmark asks the critical questions, investigates narratives and offer festivalgoers a chance to give their opinions: they can express their views toward privileges and inequality and that way, they will be heard in connection with the presentations. Journalist Abdel Aziz-Mahmoud will facilitate the event. At the end of the presentations, Amin Al-Jaderi will sum up what was said in a short poem. FOR MORE INFORMATION: (In Danish only) PROGRAMME FOR MINORITY TALK: TUESDAY at 4.15 p.m.-5 p.m. 43

44 MUSIKPARLAMENTET (THE MUSIC PARLIAMENT) (DK) YOUR LIFE COVERED IN MUSIC FLOKRR, RISING The Music Parliament invites participants to live music, artist talks about music in relation to societal tendencies and a lot of cool stuff in FLOKKR in Rising, each night at p.m. during the warm up days. Watch Hater, Pom Poko, Beast and The Kutimangoes when they are put together two and two to explore each other s and own music. They will each play one of their own songs and interpret one of the counterparts songs. The events will challenge the musicians and test new boundaries - because what does it sound like when a tough metal band interprets experimental world music and vice versa? The Music Parliament is here to find out. To many, music works as a conduit for society related tendencies. The Music Parliament will focus on a current theme within music and culture through the meeting with the chosen bands, who all have roots in different genres and traditions. The musical interpretations and the three talks are meant to build a bridge between people and genres to relate understanding and respect - for musicians as well as festivalgoers. FOR MORE INFORMATION: (In Danish only) PROGRAMME FOR YOUR LIFE COVERED IN MUSIC: SUNDAY at p.m p.m. MONDAY at p.m p.m. TUESDAY at p.m p.m. 44

45 GRAFFITI AIKO (JP) THE GRANDSTAND WALL IN FRONT OF ORANGE STAGE Previously, artists such as Steve Powers, Ron English, HuskMitNavn (RememberMyName) and Niels Shoe Meulman in 2016 have had the honour of decorating the wall. In 2017, the Japanese street art artist Aiko will create a new work interpreting the festival s focus on cultural equality. Aiko is world famous in street art. She is one of the few women in a male dominated subculture and has belonged to the elite within her field for many years. She shows her talents in one big project after another. We were very fortunate when she stopped by Roskilde Festival 2016 where she created two minor works. In 2017, she steps onto the big stage when she is decorating the approx. 100 m long wall in front of Orange Stage. You can expect a powerful and colourful piece with lots of details. FOR MORE INFORMATION: PROGRAMME FOR AIKO: WEDNESDAY-SATURDAY when the Inner Festival Area is open (best when there are no concerts at Orange Stage) FRIDAY at 5 p.m., AIKO will participate in a talk on the Anthroposcene in Art Zone 45

46 ACHES (IR), BRANDON LEWIS (US), BRAVE (UK), DVATE (AU), LUSH (AU), JAYN (DE), STEREOHEAT (DE), STINE HVID (DK) ROSKILDE WALLS BY THE SAILS AND ALONG THE SOUTH FENCE TOWARD ARENA Roskilde Walls are eight miniature murals, eight miniature wall paintings done by eight different artists. Mural art is presented on Roskilde Walls, just as seen around the world. However, the biggest challenge at the Inner Festival Area is that there are no large buildings. Instead, four large boxes are constructed for this project. The size of the pieces and high quality might be an immediate eye opener and work as unofficial meeting points and points of orientation for festivalgoers. FOR MORE INFORMATION: The eight artists on Instagram (subject to changes): Brandon Stine PROGRAMME FOR ROSKILDE WALLS: WEDNESDAY-SATURDAY when the Inner Festival Area is open 46