Close Encounters: Embodied Journeys
Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art and Dansehallerne
Copenhagen, Denmark
June, 2023
Curated by Julienne Doko
a choreographic exhibition that brings together performers, visual artists, and dancers in a presentation of reflections on internal and external views of the black body.
Curator Julienne Doko has put together a program with six works by Danish-based pan-African/Afro-European artists. They have been invited to produce works for this choreographic exhibition within dance, performance and installation art. The works examine their identity as one of the “others” in Denmark and give an expanded perspective on Danishness and decolonization. It is an investigative journey about belonging and the right to speak.
BCN IMPROV TAKE 1 (2023)
Super 8mm (12 minute, 12-channel video installation)
Part of the Spanish Dance Trilogy - BCN IMPROV TAKE 1 is a collaborative flamenco dance film by Anderson Matthew and Phyllis Akinyi, installed as a multi-channel work included in Phyllis Akinyi’s Flamencura. The experimental super 8mm film flickers in starts and fits on the 12 monitors behind Phyllis as she dances her solo flamenco performance, investigating flamenco stereotypes in juxtaposition to its overlooked voices in front of a live audience.
Flamencura took place over 8 performances at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art and Dansehallerne, Copenhagen, Denmark in June, 2023.
