STRANGELY FAMILIAR

Curated for and performed by K!ART in collaboration with Mikkel Schou

Strangely Familiar brings together works that toy with our relationship to everyday spaces, sounds, objects, technologies, and the automatic, repetitive behaviours that litter our daily routines.

In ‘ctrl+Y’, Matthew Grouse looks for the latently musical and absurd in the act of typing. Joanna Bailie’s audiovisual piece ‘He just missed the train’ examines what it must have been like to see the world anew, at a higher speed, after the advent of the steam train. Louis d’Heudieres foregrounds the performers’ relationship to the quotidian in ‘Laughter Studies no.3’, namely human-produced sounds that usually occur spontaneously or involuntarily. Caitlin Rowley works with sounds suggested by interactions with paper – drawing, erasing, cutting, crumpling, and allowing paper to uncrumple itself. In the premiere of Joss Smith’s ‘Misattributed signifiers’, performers look for connections where they might not find them. The work gradually plays with the limits of information that can be mimicked, eroding and subverting perceivable imitative connections.

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PROGRAMME:

Caitlin Rowley: Paper (2016-17)

Matthew Grouse: ctrl+Y (2021)

- Intermission -

Joss Smith: Misattributed Signifiers (2022, premiere)

Joanna Bailie: He just missed the train (2020)

Louis d’Heudieres: Laughter Studies no. 3 (2016)

Performances:

Strangely Familiar | ungK, Aarhus 09/08/22

Strangely Familiar | Koncertkirken, Copenhagen 06/08/22

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