The Glyptoteket in Kopenhagen is a very special place, a collection of statues of Egyptian, Greek, Roman and modern origin. In this environment about 72 artists from very different disciplines came together and spent one week talking about and engaging in new ways of collaboration.
I am used to work together with others on a common goal, like a theatre or movie production. There is a job, you try to make the best of it, you spend a lot of time finding answers to production inherited problems, rehearse until there is no more time left and you hopefully have the impression that you have developed something that makes sense and helps the production.
But it’s something different if there is no mission goal right at the beginning, just personalities and interests. It gets more personal this way. There are much more questions. And there is always the possibility of complete denial of the ongoing of the collaboration. Of not finding a common ground. Of failure.
So speaking of practical work: Our „final performance“ was a presentation of a working process: On my part I initially started with 3 small audio productions that had to do with the program of Travers.
During the presentation I collected sounds and noises from the ongoing activities in our and the surrounding exhibition rooms and placed, played them back in other rooms.