Teach Each Other Mondays
B&W’s current main project is the Teach Each Other Mondays platform for non-hierarchical knowledge sharing across all forms of art. We have a fantastic program lined up for you all the way to summer.
May 2: Jörn Burmester Wium: Performance as Art. What was it again with this performance art thing? Let’s find out together!
May 9: Carmen Csilla Medina: Name (-) a cliché
We talked about the meanings of our names with Helene Kvint on April 25. With Carmen, dancer, paerformer, aerial artist, and one of our first Teach Each Other participants, we will experiment with our names as points of departure for more physical work.
May 16: Margrete Slettebø: Subconscious in dialogue
Margrete is a Norwegian movement artist and social scientist working in the intersection between dance, performance art, research and psychotherapy. We’ll go eep into our subconscious to play with notions of authenticity.
May 23: Taiwo Aiyedogbon: Water Tooling
Taiwo is a visiting artist with LiveArt Danmark. To highten awareness of our environment, we will engage in physical exercise and endurance, informed by the hussle and bussle of a market in Lagos.
May 30: Stuart Lynch
Stuart Lynch introduces us to his Butoh inspired work with Body Weather. He is a director, performance artist, teacher and the head of KFTS – Københavns Film & Teaterskole.
June 6: Mark Boombastik
Beat boxer, experimental musician and performer Mark Boombastik joins us from Hamburg/Germany
June 13: YOUR LAST CHANCE TO BE OUR GUEST ARTIST FOR A TEACH EACH OTHER MONDAY THIS SEASON!
June 20: Margaret Dragu
We end the season with our close friend and inspiring performer, dancer, yoga instructor and world famous cleaning lady: Margaret Dragu from Vancouver/Canada.
Preview October 30: Dani Ploeger (NL)
Find more info about upcoming events on our Facebook page.
International Guest Artists!
We’d like to share some great news. B&W received funding from Statens Kunstfond to invite some of our favorite international artists for short residencies and Teach Each Other Mondays. Look forward to meet Dani Ploeger from the Netherlands, Margaret Dragu from Canada, and Mark Boombastik from Germany. We’ll be back with details as they unfold.
Corona Rules
We are keeping fingers crossed that the current state of affairs without any pandemic restrictions on cultural events will last. However, if new rules should be imposed, we will support all measures to curb the pandemic.
Share your practice
Each Teach Each Other Monday features a guest artist, duo or group. We would like you to be one of them! Share your practice with a crowd of performers, professionals and enthusiasts for one hour on a Monday morning. Bring your favorite exercises, research practices, rehearsal methods, games, songs, dances or anything else you’d like to try out with others in a low threshhold, flat hierarchies setting. Only rule: Everything must be accessible for anyone, regardless of experience, education or ability.
These dates are available until summer 2022: May 2, 16, June 13.
Write to us at burmesterandwium@gmail.com to find out what we can do together!
Summer 2021: Island hopping up B&W’s Family Trees
B&W on Agersø
Our second island project this year took place on our favorite island of Agersø.
B&W received funding from Slots- og kulturstyrelsens sommeraktivitetspulje to host a workshop on identity and belonging. Based on our Stammbaum project, our entire family hosted islanders and vacationers to tell family stories, draw family trees and build kinetic sculptures, mobiles from natural materials. We have found the idea of the “Uro”, as it is called in Danihs, to be an exciting approach to working with our ever moving, carefully balanced, mixed, changing, patchwork or rainbow families.
The project was made possible by a grant from:
B&W on Bornholm
In June 2021 B&W were awarded one of four family residencies at BIRCA Bækkelund International Residency Center for Artists on the island of Bornholm in June 2021. The residency was designed especially for artists who include their children in their working process – just what we aim to do within the framework of our thematic complex „Das Familiensystem ist das Kunstsystem. Das Kunstsystem ist das Familiensystem“. We decided to use our stay on beautiful Bornholm to initiate our collective work on family stories, identity and belonging, the „Stammbaum“ project, together with our two daughters, Ronja (13) and Sille (almost 2). Read more about this project here.
