TÅRNBY TORV FESTIVAL 2017
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The Tårnby Torv Festival 2017 was invented to explore specific approaches for local performance art. The event was called “festival” to underline its intention to create a place for fun, meeting, entertainment and dialogue – even if its size was rather small. The Tårnby Torv Festival 2017 was an artistic research pilot project with little money, staff and infrastructure. What kind of events might work as a model for the development of cultural activities between performance and community art? Tårnby Torv 7 people of the neighbourhood, politicians, citizens, artists and international guests joined. What does it mean to act locally and to think globally? Andreas Liebmann, the artistic leader of the festival, is a Tårnby citizen. With his family he lives around the corner of Tårnby Torv. After many years of creating theater and performances in Germany, Switzerland and other countries, he moved to Copenhagen where he is a teacher at the Dansk Scenekunstskole. His interest is to contribute with this background to the community he lives in.
The program of the festival was created through a direct dialogue with the citizens: By sitting on the street and talking with many passers-by about their “public life” in Tårnby, Andreas Liebmann developed some “Imaginations for the place” that ended up as parts of the festival. Some people he met on the street showed up as audience, contributed to events or influenced the festival by their ideas. The first event happened on 14.10.17. He invited artists Luckas Racky and Onur Agbaba who created a site-specific performance that started in front of the train station and ended up in the space at Tårnby Torv 7. The festival itself happened from the 16th to 18th of November 2017.
Since then, other smaller events have happened in Tårnby Torv 7: student works, a dance workshop etc. The program attracted a variety of people: Tårnby citizens, students, politicians, and invited guests from Germany, Hungary and Macedonia.
Here you can read an interview with Andreas Liebmann about the process and the festival by Mette Garfield, published in Iscene.dk:
Interview by Mette Garfield with Andreas Liebmann in Iscene.dk
TIMELINE
During autumn 2017:
Street performance for dialogue: “What is your public life in Tårnby” – Meeting passers-by at Tårnby Torv and surroundings. Street performance by Andreas Liebmann.
PROGRAM 14.10.2017
- 15.00 Tårnby – it’s happening. Opening performance by Lukas Racky and Onuar Agbaba
PROGRAM 16.11.2017
- 20.00 Public Space Odyssey – Debate about oplevelser and eksperimenter in performance art. Something for medborgerskab and art with Dirk Cieslak (D), Sarah Günther (HU), Andreas Liebmann (DK), Jan Philip Possmann (D), Biljana Tanurovska (MKD)
- 21.30 Public drinks at Oksen Bodega
PROGRAM 17.11.2017
- 10.00–17.00 Internal workshop for DDSKS students in art, politics and institutions. In front of the fire: international guests from the experience and eksperimenter om the association of the public kvarterområder
- 19.30 Imaginations for a place – Oplæg og soup til alle. Andreas Liebmann presents artistic research material from Tårnby and the rest of Europe. Guests: Hubert Franz, Morten Goll
PROGRAM 18.11.2017
- 10.00–15.00 Public space table: DDSKS students invite to coffee and dialogue outside Tårnby Torv 7
- 11.00 Dreams for sale – Josefina, Martin, Mikela & Oliver (young people from Tårnby) share their cultural experiences and hopes
- 12.00 “50 farlige ting” – Live Art for Børn. Performance for children from age 4 by Live Art for Børn
- 13.30 Concert with music school students from the cultural zones: Julie (guitar and vocal), ‘Den Laks Skal Ned’ (band with 2 guitars, percussion and vocals)
- 14.15 Sports and politics: Exercises for bodies and chamber advisory with Yusuf Alin, Ingelise Andersen, Dirk Cieslak, Sarah Günther, Yassine Idrissi, Jens Lauridsen, Andreas Liebmann, Frants Nielsen, Jan-Philip Possmann, Biljana Tanurovska
- 16.00 Neighborhood imaginations – DDSKS students present their work and experiences from Tårnby Torv
- 18.00 Soup & samvær
- 19.00 Tårnby – it’s happening by Onur Agbaba and Lukas Racky
- 21.00 Public space party with DJ Fabulous & Rocky feat. Karin Bergman & Sara Vita
