Meet the artists: MOOT POINT FUJI HOFFMAN(SE) DAVID KUMMER (DE) MARLENE BONNESEN (DK) JENS SCHYTH BRĂNDUM (DK/US)
Name: Fuji, David, Marlene, and Jens
Age: 28, 26, 25, 24
The Danish National School of Performing Arts, BA/Diploma
Where in the world are you in this exact moment?
Third Planet from the Sun.
Tell us about your artistic practice!
We all have really different practices, therefore we are the Moot Points: An issue that is subject to, or open for, discussion or debate, to which no satisfactory answer is found: Originally, one to be definitively determined by an assembly of the people.
We have different interests and approaches to our own individual work, and when we work together we gather our experiences and thoughts, and share them equally between each other. In that sense we believe that our work, in the long term, gets more honest and diverse.
What ticks you!?
French science fiction, 1960âs comics, poetry, beats and bodies.
How do you come up with new work/topics?
Our question is âhow do we NOT come up with new topics?"
Do you have certain interests/subject matters that you tend to return to?
Our discussions and worries are always circling around the utopia/dystopia world picture, or at least as long as we have worked together in this group constellation. By discussing different issues and tendencies in society, new ideas and research points arise. From there we try to manifest these ideas into a body expression.
What Do You Do For Fun?
Laughing, eating cake, drinking coffee, and solving each others problems.
Tell us a little about the work you are participating with on the FUTURE LEGENDS OCTOBER 3.
With the springboard from the idea of the utopian body we have investigated how different utopias (and inevitably dystopias) are manifested and suggested through different medias:
By studying several science fiction movies from U.S. and USSR dealing with the imagined leap of human society living next to or confronted by the apocalypse, space travel, and the human robot hybrid, we have been led to the philosophical reading of Michel Foucault âUtopian Bodyâ, artistic understanding of the ancient civilization by Tito Lucretius, and beyond to the ideas of the Post-Human in an imagined future where humans are starting to co-exist with cyborgs.
Through these studies we have had the body as the central focus point; the body as the constant living organism that transforms into different states of being depending on the current situation. Inner and outer relations, with the body being the entity, have played a huge factor in our research.
âChill out, we have already been rebornâ is an invitation to our utopian proposal. Being aware of the fact that there is no such thing as a utopia, that we are not interested in creating statements, only suggestions, we would like to take the audience on a journey. Through questions and celestial noise our bodies will transform into all that is reachable in the imagination of the audience.
Dance or Dinner?
Dince!!!
Audio or Visual?
Headphones?
Rhythm or Bass?
Rhythm is a dancer.
What role does the artist have in society?
We somehow see art as a moot point (go back to question 5 for details)
Whatâs your favorite art work?
âMusic for 18 musiciansâ Steve Reich. Nils Frahm âSpacesâ. Early works from Marina Abramovic. two-woman-machine-show âMass Hysteriaâ. "This is concrete" by Jefta van Dinther. Lars Von Trier âAntichristâ. âPĂ„ Israels Pladsâ by Henrik Nordbrandt.
What should we talk more about?
Several things: How to let go. How to be more aware of our choices in general. How to be clear. How to treat each other. How to gain empathy. How to deal with online life/real life. How to navigate in a system that doesnât include you.
What wouldnât you do without?
I really should go to sleep nowâŠ
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