CPH:DOX reveals the full programme of its Inter:Active exhibition running March 25 to April 3, 2022 that will showcase a curated selection of ten new projects. Alongside the seven projects at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, three Inter:Active Specials will be presented at three different locations around Copenhagen. “The exhibition will explore new ways of documentary storytelling through virtual reality and mixed media art installations,” says the festival.
Mark Atkin, CPH:LAB Head of Studies and curator of the Inter:Active exhibition, adds: “I am really excited to be able to present a number of large-scale immersive installations at this year’s CPH:DOX Inter:Active exhibition. I am thrilled to be able to showcase some of the most exciting new work by world-leading Danish immersive artists as well as ground-breaking work from emerging artists that has been developed on the CPH:LAB. This collection takes us on a deep dive into themes of violence and identity in society and the human influence on nature, giving audiences an embodied experience of some of today’s most pressing issues.”
CPH:DOX Inter:Active line-up at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
- Captured by Hanna Haaslahti (Finland/Germany): A participatory installation, which captures your face and creates a new identity for you in a virtual community, where crowd behaviour leads to unsettling scenarios of ritualised humiliation.
- Civil Dusk by David Uzochukwu (Germany/Nigeria): A film installation about a post-migrant notion of belonging. In a semi-autobiographical narrative, Europe-born artist David Uzochukwu re-assesses his own gaze upon his Nigerian father. World premiere.
- Gondwana by Ben Joseph Andrews (Australia): A living virtual rainforest that awakens for 7 hours every day during this year’s film festival. It’s a quiet meditation on time, change and loss in an irreplaceable ecosystem.
- Liminal Lands by Jakob Kudsk Steensen (Denmark/France/US): A transitional zone where fundamental energies of sun, wind, water and bacteria connect to participants’ bodies in virtual reality.
- Myriad. Where We Connect by Lena Thiele, Sebastian Baurmann and Dirk Hoffmann, (Germany): A poetic virtual reality experience along the global paths of animal migration.
- Drengeblå / Sange fra i dag by Aske Zidore and Anders Lauge Meldgaard (Denmark): An installation and song cycle by Aske Zidore and Anders Lauge Meldgaard revolving around the theme of economy as a life form and language. World premiere
- The Memor: The Eternal Return series by Lundahl & Seitl, ScanLAB Projects (Sweden/UK): A choreographed, mixed reality installation exploring the future of memory. Enter a memory archive containing replicas from Earth’s deep past through to its post-anthropocene future.
Alongside the seven projects at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, three Inter:Active Specials will be presented at three different venues around Copenhagen.
- Shadow by David Adler and Ole Bornedal (Denmark) can be experienced at the Museum of Danish Resistance and Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen. The VR Experience is based on the British air raid against the Gestapo headquarters, the Shell House, in Copenhagen on March 21, 1945. Through the eyes of a RAF-navigator we experience the traumatic experience firsthand.
- We Are at Home by Uri Kranot and Michelle Kranot (Denmark/France/Canada) can be experienced at Art Hub Copenhagen. The VR experience is inspired by the Carl Sandburg poem “The Hangman at Home” (1922) and explores the themes of acknowledgement, participation and the awkward intimacy that comes with being human.
- Winner of CPH:PIX 2021 End of Night by David Adler (Denmark) can be experienced at The Danish Jewish Museum in Copenhagen. The cinematic VR experience takes place during the Nazi-occupied Denmark as Josef rows you to safety in Sweden.
