​CLICK Festival launches performance programme

New technologies, new formats, and three world premieres

Theatre and performative formats are the common denominator of this year’s CLICK Festival. Not only will the Festival include the biggest ever performing arts programme in its history, the programme will also be presenting an impressive three world premieres in the field of digital theatre production, created in collaboration with both Danish and international partners. The musical aspect of the Festival is also much more performance-based than ever before, exploring the interplay of music, installation and performance.

Danish and international co-productions

In just a few years CLICK Festival has developed its own, independent approach to performance, establishing itself as a serious force to be reckoned with on the international, digital performing arts scene. The Festival’s collaboration with both Danish and international artists, programmers and developers has both an artistic and technological aspect. The aim is to further enhance and develop this network and platform for digital performing arts in Denmark and abroad. This year’s Festival includes the following three world premieres:

STEREO – Tina Tarpgaard, recoil performance group and Kulturværftet

Since 2013 recoil performance group have been exploring the choreographic potential of stereographic projection (3D graphics). recoil have conducted this research in the context of residencies and workshops at Kulturværftet in Elsinore, at 3LD in New York and as a showcase at CLICK Festival. This year sees the presentation of the complete version of STEREO. It is a powerful sensuous sleight of hand, a graphic 3-D universe, an intense duet between man and woman and a new chapter in the use of illusion in the performing arts.

Taipei-Copenhagen – an anthropological investigation of the concept of happiness

Over the past three years, Kulturværftet, CLICK Festival and Very Mainstream Studio from Taiwan have been developing the performance, Taipei-Copenhagen. This is an opportunity to delve beneath the surface of two extremely different nations in an anthropological investigation of the concept of happiness. For many years, the United Nations World Happiness Report has named Denmark as one of the happiest nations in the world. However, while Copenhagen is often selected as the most desirable city to live in and associated with design, taste, aesthetics and ‘the good life’, the likes of the Commonwealth Economic Forum have declared that Taiwan is the Danish capital’s diametric opposite. The special technology, which Kulturværftet’s new stage (The 4D Box) makes possible, will take the audience on an elastic, surreal journey between the two cities. The poetic, dreamlike universe will be reflected throughout by the statistical reality of the two countries, questioning just how one actually measures happiness.

It’s probably you – Silicium and Kulturværftet

A new concert format will see the light of day, when Silicium (Bjørn Svin & Carl Emil Carlsen) present a sequel to their successful debut performance at last year’s CLICK Festival: a new visual musical production. This time Tina Tarpgaard acts as dramaturg. Together they will present a purely synthetic universe, expressed in holographic 3D around the performer. This universe is inspired by the hypnotic behaviour of biological phenomena.

This year’s performance programme

The entire performance programme includes a wide range of slants on the performing arts of tomorrow. In addition to the productions mentioned above, the programme includes Yan Marruish’s spectacular performance installation, Bleu Remix, which also reflects the Festival’s focus on biotechnological art – bioart. Also in this category are the performance installations Latent Figure Protocol (the United States), Transmutation de Base Colombia/France) and Living Ashes (Taiwan). The music-performing arts category also includes Pedestrian Deposit (the United States), Breadwoman and Other Tales (the United States) and UKI (Taiwan).