Strategies Of Magic #1
Summary
Strategies Of Magic #1 was a collaboration with artist and musician Cecilie Beck Kronborg and was presented at the cultural platform basso in Berlin in the summer of 2011. This venue, located in Kreuzberg, has been an experimental space for all kinds of cultural events over the last 7 years, and has also consituted the center of the Kreuzberg gay community.
Supported by
Statens Kunstråd, Danmark
Description of project
General:
Strategies of Magic is a lecture performance which discusses the concept of magic in relation to political and philosophical questions regarding power structures, hierarchies of knowledge, identity and gender. Here, the lecture is intertwined with poetry, music and magic where the purpose is to reveal rather than disguise the trick. Through the examination of the difference between trickery and transformation, this piece aims to bring out the human potential of making the impossible possible.
Strategies of Magic #1:
On this occasion, the lecture, poetry and magic tricks performed by me were accompanied by live music composed and performed by Cecilie Beck Kronborg on a large number of
more or less unconventional instruments. This performance had two acts of 30 minutes each with a pause in between.
Description of work included
PIC 1: Flyer for the performance
PIC 2: The Magic Pearls-Trick (1)
PIC 3: The Magic Pearls-Trick (2)
PIC 4: The Un-Restored Vase-Trick
PIC 5: Lecture
Type of work
lecture performance
Published in
Kulturplatform Basso Berlin, Berlin Germany
Link to web site
www.basso-berlin.de
Other description
For more information about the project Strategies of Magic and about my work in general, please visit my homepage www.annikalundgren.net
Date
2011-06-04Creator
Lundgren, Annika
Keywords
performance
politics
gender
power hierarchies
magic
transformation
text
lecture
Publication type
artistic work
Language
eng