Wired Studio (DK)
Boxed
"BOXED" is a living sculpture in urban space. A sculpture that is created by you, the participating audience. Through instructions given through headphones, you will be a part of a larger choreographic system, moving objects, creating formations, and shaping the space between you.
Presented in cooperation with IETM Aarhus 2023.
Venue: Åbne Scene, Godsbanen (Meeting Point)
“BOXED” is an audience-engaging performance installation for the urban space created by choreographer Simone Wierød, artistic director of Wired Studio.
The performers in “BOXED” are a registered audience, and can be observed by passers-by in the cityscape. The participating audience experiences the work from the inside, where they are confronted with a series of choreographic instructions. Together they create a changeable and mobile sculpture through moving and rearranging “BOXED”‘s graphic wooden scenography. “BOXED”‘s visual expression is therefore shaped by those who participate, which is why each behavior will be unique and reflect the choices and interpretations the local audience makes.
“BOXED” challenges the participants on cooperation skills and group dynamics, and provides both aesthetic and choreographic instructions. Along the way, they encounter a subtle power game that plays on herd mentality and belief in authority, and which gives food for thought. At the end, we round off with refreshments and facilitate a light conversation about what the audience has experienced and what happened in the group.
Good footwear and good physical shape are recommended.
Presented in cooperation with IETM Aarhus 2023.
PLEASE NOTE: 20 tickets per performance.
IMPORTANT: Event takes place on location in central Aarhus. Audience meet up at Åbne Scene, Godsbanen.
About Simone Wierød and Wired Studio
Simone Wierød is a Danish choreographer and the artistic director of Wired Studio.
She works in the formats of stage performances, dance films, and choreographic installations. Through cross-disciplinary collaborations, she continuously seeks to expand her choreographic approach and methods and address current agendas in society. She uses choreography as a tool to investigate and understand the cultural, social and political contexts in which she lives and works. Her main tool is bodily movement, but other elements in her works and practice are objects, space, and sound.
Simone Wierød has toured her works in more than 25 countries and won several international awards for her choreographic work, most recently for the dance films “BEYOND” and “SOLUS”. Simone Wierød and Wired Studio are based in Copenhagen, where their artistic work is supported by the Statens Kunstfond and several regional and private foundations and collaborations