Utopia and Collapse

Through a three-day program titled Utopia and Collapse, we present projects by performing artists who actively utilize and investigate how digital technologies are transforming our living conditions. Do these technologies represent utopian futures and societal improvements, or are they leading us—both humanity and the planet—toward collapse? These projects offer diverse artistic approaches to such questions. While they can be experienced individually, we recommend attending the entire program.

In NFTs: Non Fuckable Tokens, Claudix Vanesix combines live performance with AR and VR to reveal how gender-discriminatory and racist structures are perpetuated in digital spaces. Vanesix creates art from a decolonizing, feminist perspective, transforming these structures to create future narratives that value indigenous identities and practices.

Transformation is central to MORTALITIES by Rebekka Bohse Meyer’s company, Jakobe Performing Arts. Life and death are part of the same cycle, where the body is not a closed entity, but part of something larger. The performance emphasizes vulnerability as a fundamental human trait.

NanoPlanet by Karolina Bieszczad-Stie and Patryk Lichota sheds light on the usually invisible: cancer cells. By allowing us to step into our internal biological landscape, they present the human being as a web of processes and movements.

Welcome!
– Jørgen Knudsen, Artistic Director