Metropolis Residencies 2024 May-June – meet the artists

This summer, Metropolis hosted two 3-week residencies, each residency for 7-8 international artists. Here, you can read about the resident artists in may/june.

The theme of Metropolis’ new four-year cycle is “from Metropolis to Ecopolis” with a focus on a more ecologically related artistic practice, redefining cities as more hybrid and complex landscapes.

We are interested in exploring how artistically driven processes can activate new awareness and commitment in a shared future. As we have our main focus on the “condition of the world” and the climate and ecological crisis, we have invited artists who have this consciousness as an integrated aspect in their work.

Our mission is to support artists to be able to work in and to change our notion of the public space and to develop methodologies, practice and concepts which are explorative and engaging.

The artists will be based on Refshaleøen but are free to work all over Copenhagen. You may meet them randomly, while they are out exploring, or you can keep an eye on our invitations for try-outs and showings with the residency artists.

Continue reading to get to know more about the artists and their projects.

 

MAY/JUNE RESIDENCY

Silje Erøy Sollien / Tired Architecture (DK)

…created Tired Architecture +C. as a response to a deep sense of personal and planetary burnout, as an artistic platform to explore the deep collective need for designing a more regenerative future. This is based on collective embodied and poetic work, restoring a sense of truly being part of the landscape instead of separate from it, as we are so often tricked into believing. Sollien has experience working as housing and settlements researcher in South- and West Africa, the Himalayas and in northern Europe. As an urban planner, Sollien has also worked with artistic and speculative installation art in 1:1 in order to explore aspects of an urban master plan and transformation of public spaces.

Hot Compost/ Composting in Awkward Spaces 

As part of a process of grieving and taking care of acute stress illness, Sollien started composting and looking for soil to bury her tired body in, in order to ferment, decompose and grow anew. As she lives in an apartment without her own garden, composting could be quite awkward, but also a way of looking for community. This project invites the participants to take part in the soil making process and feel the warmth and care of the bacteria, the micro life and the life-giving soil-in-the making, as soil and human regenerate. In collaboration with David Sebastian Lopez Restrepo, The Performance Kitchen.

As part of her residency, Silje produced a scrapbook which doucments the project’s process

Adam Man (DE)

…is an artist working with live performance, video and text. Since 2017, he has been working mainly outdoors on a new relationship between body and landscape. Adam collaborates with dancers and performers; they move and speak in/with the environment. Adam is based in Berlin. He has been showing his work at Tanzfabrik Berlin, HAUNT Front Views, Tanznacht Berlin Festival), Vienna (wuk performing arts, imagetanz Festival, Tanzquartier Wien), Klagenfurt (Kunstraum Lakeside).

www.adamman.com

Aeon III

…is an outdoor performance dealing with the encounter of body and landscape. What does it mean, how does it feel to be on earth? In movement and spoken words, three performers explore being embedded in and being exposed by a surrounding. Aeon is a series of works dedicated to geological time. It was originally co-created with Moritz Majce for Tanznacht Berlin 2020. For Metropolis, Adam Man will work on a site-specific new part.

 

Kevin Trappeniers (BE)

…develops a stilled, visual, physical artistic language in detailed, sensate work at the intersection of performing arts and visual arts. In the performances, sound and visual art objects play a major role. Trappeniers moves freely between disciplines, mixing them together in (live) interdisciplinary visual and performative work, in theatres, exhibition spaces, and in public space. The last couple of years, he has moved away from the theatre black box, creating more in situ work, for example within Present, an ongoing series of site-specific art interventions in city and nature.

www.kevintrappeniers.be

Residency project

Trappeniers focuses artistically on the vulnerability of Earth in the age of Anthropocene, and specifically the impact of climate change on Copenhagen as a coastal city. The way the city tries to protect itself (e.g. Lynetteholm) and to adapt to it (Tåsinge Square) are of interest as a starting point for in situ work.

At the same time, Trappeniers prepares a research into ‘Dark Sky Reserves’: public or private landscapes with an exceptional or distinctive quality of starry nights and nightlife that are specifically protected for their darkness. The islands of Møn and Nyord were the first places in Scandinavia to together become a Dark Sky Park.

 

Nanna Stigsdatter & Snorre Elvin (DK)

…are both dancers and choreographers based in Copenhagen. They first crossed paths during their dance studies at the Danish National School of Performing Arts. They both have been part of initiating and establishing the dance collective Danseatelier to then embark on their choreographic research together as a duo. Their work revolves around thresholds, transformation, friendship and romance.

Waste Water Slide
…delves into the borderland of urban landscapes and the ideas of nature, exploring the ambiguity and paradoxes inherent in these concepts. This site-specific choreographic research unfolds the relationships between water and dance, drawing inspiration from springs, slides, and sources. WWS is a duet that hangs out with the harbor, each other and the dances that exist on the edge of the waterfront.

 

The New Liquidity (DE)