- THE ONE WITH THE ASYLUMSEEKERS AND SOME REJECTED ONES
Spring 2010, NYAVENY A live theatre performance and sit-com recording in front of a live studio audience.
For 10 seasons the all time favourite sit com Friends aired all over the world. A show about ordinary people with ordinary problems, trying make it work in New York. Trying to get a job, a place to live, maybe get a girlfriend, or try to get rid of one.
This theatre performance casted some other ordinary people who just wants to make their lives work. A group of asylum seekers living in the asylum camps around Copenhagen starred in the roles as the six friends.
For 13 episodes they where hanging out in Central Perk instead of the camps in a serial performance. It was just like real friends, just like real life. Just a little bit funnier.
For the performance i created a simple minimalistic live editing station where i could mix different cameras, add chroma key and subtitles live to the audience. Both in the studio and live on the internet. The performance was directed by Tue Bierring and Jeppe Kristensen, the same people doing Pretty Woman A/S
Spring 2010, Recoil Performance Group, Dansescenen Together with Recoil Performance Group (choreographer Tina Tarpgaard and programmer Ole Kristensen), we created this danceperformance at Dansescenen. Like Frost we developed our own software that was tracking the 4 dancers live on stage, and generating various outputs on 2 projectors.
The show premiered at Dansescenen in Copenhagen, and has been shown in Firenze 2010 and Stockholm 2010.
You can read much more about the performance here: Recoils
Fall 2009, Danish Dance Theatre, Hippodromen Dance performance made together with Danish Dance Theatre, Tina Tarpgaard (choreographer), and Ole Kristensen. All the software that generated the scenographics with one projector, was created by me and Ole in approx. 1 month in OpenFrameworks.
The show won in 2010 a Reumert for best dance performance, has been shown several times in Copenhagen, and has been on tour to Amman (Jordan) and Århus (Denmark)
Summer 2009, Ståle Stenslie, National Theatre, Oslo
Art project by Ståle Stenslie on the National Theatre in Oslo as midnight performance where the audience where suited up in custom made suits with 64 vibrators, blind-folded and heard music/texts composed for the performance. I produced in collaboration with Ståle the suits in Oslo during the summer where we had to create a custom software to design the timelines for vibrations that could be played back on a small computer on the audiences back.
Winter 2009, Teater CampX, Copenhagen The past 5 weeks i’ve been working on a theatre play on theatre CampX called Hush Little Baby as video/image designer. And last week we had opening night after a pretty tuff period. The play is about Filipino au-pairs that travel abroad to earn money, leaving family and children behind in the Philippines. And here in the west they live without any legal protection from their homeland, and earn money under a system that was intended for something completely different. In the play we got some philipin women telling us these stories, together with 3 danish actors that tell the danish story about getting a girl into the house.
So the next 4 weeks i’m going to control sound and video every night at CampX together with these wonderfull people.
Fall 2008, Halmtorvet Copenhagen Tue Biering and Jeppe Kristensen created a theatre play which was based on the well known movie called Pretty Woman, but this time performed in 3 containers put together on halmtorvet in copenhagen with room for 50 audience and with a real prostitute from copenhagen on stage every evening. The play was probably the most discussed cultural event in copenhagen this fall. Many politicians went out without knowing anything about the play and taking distance from the project. Even though the organizations that are supporting the prostitutes where supporting the project. The discussion resulted that we had fully booked already before the premiere.
We wanted to create a film-like feeling in the play, so the whole play was recorded with cameras and shown on monitors above the small stage live edited by me. So the audience could look into the hotelroom that we had build (with a glasswall between the audience and the actors) and at the same time look up and see our cut of the movie. To make the delay between the real actors and the tv-monitors as short as possible, i had to buy a old videomixer (Panasonic WJ-MX50) with all the oldschool effects and sit live and cut between the cameras. And have lots and lots of BNC video cables.
Tosca is flying in the air with wings. She is actually lying on the floor under the eyeliner
Vision4, summer 2008, Kopparberg Sweden Vision4 was asked by Opera på Skäret to do the visual work for Tosca, and i was hired to do the video programming and assisting on creating the material. Opera på Skäret is a old big sawmill in the middle of nowhere that now is used by a private opera company that makes one to two plays each year, getting people from far away with special train to see it.
We builded 3 small eyeliners in this beautiful room hanging in long wires from the roof, and created virtual walls in the room. A mac pro running isadora was the core of the system creating the 3 projections, and in one scene i had Eyesweb running to track the opera singer and make blood float out of the body reacting on the movement of the singer. It was accomplished with a custom programmed addon for isadora i did myself. The material was otherwise primary prerendered video made by Arthur Steijn and me, and a couple of times live cams places around on the stage.
Hotel Pro Forma, spring 2008 I assisted Andreas Buhl on video and light on Hotel Pro Forma‘s performance called Relief, and assisted on animating several of the videos. Hotel Pro Forma is a copenhagen based performance group that creates very non-traditional plays in different theatres all over the world. Many of the plays are shown touring around, including this that has been shown around in europe and in Copenhagen.
Vision4, winter 2008, Damascus Syria
Vision4 was invited to Damascus to open it as Arab Capital of Culture 2008 in the big opera of Damascus, and i was hired to do the video technics and assisting on animation. It was a crazy eyeliner project with very limited time far away from our usual workplace. I was there in 3 weeks, the first two weeks we builded the eyeliner (12x8m), produced all the video material together with the video designer (Arthur Steijn) and a photographer and the concept developer Mikael Fock. And the last i was there alone with Mikael putting all the bits together for the show. The result was a big show shown on Syrian tv and seen by the president of Syria and Turkey and lots of other important people. The evening with most nerves in my live! A really crazy trip.
The technical setup was one big front 20.000 ansilumen projector for the eyeliner (we got it from Denmark by plane), one smaller back-projector and a mac pro running Isadora controlling both screens.
CampX, fall 2007
I helped do the video on the play called QUEER on CampX Aveny. It was a big performance with lots of televisions we had to control individually, and 3 projectors. I ended up helping on the techicnical side of the setup, doing some of the video material and running all the video every evening.
