Alt_Cph is an independent exhibition bringing together selected contemporary artist-run and alternative exhibition spaces across Europe. This year there is a dedication to presenting new performance art.
Beginning today and taking place at FABRIKKEN for Kunst og Design in Copenhagen, Alt_Cph 18 will continue until Sunday. The idea for the exhibition is that it will be in constant development throughout its three day presence. Each performance will leave an artefact or mark behind, as an acknowledgement of what took place. In this way the exhibition will have various artistic components that will culminate into a complete, frozen form by the ending of the exhibition on Sunday evening. Tying the displayed content together is Alt_Cph 18’s design – a giant metal grid and bright pink floor making up the body of a large living sculpture.
Art platform 1.1 will be participating in this year’s exhibition in collaboration with art collective CUSS Group. The collective will be presenting their new performance Why Die to go to Heaven – an open-ended and surreal work that re-stages one of the most iconic camera tricks employed by Vukani Ndebele, a Durban based filmmaker who specialises in lo-fi horror movies.
In conjunction with the exhibition is a programme of talks, lectures and seminars presented by artists and theorists with a theoretical focus.