The evening will open with a screening of Madeleine Andersson’s film Degenerative Knowledge Production followed by the multimedia performance Kofta Machine by Mandus Ridefelt and Simiyya. Afterwards, Andersson will talk about her new body of work with PhD and researcher Anne Kølbæk Iversen, and finally Maja Li Härdelin will present the performative speech En dåres forsvarstale on stupidity, Blockhead Hans, love, and the desire to be a human without an inner life.

PROGRAM
16–17.15: Screening of Degenerative Knowledge Production
17.30–18: Kofta Machine – A Public Health Drama, performance by Mandus Ridefelt and Simiyya
18–18.45: Artist talk with Madeleine Andersson in conversation with Anne Kølbæk Iversen
19–19.30: The Defence of a Fool, performance by Maja Li Härdelin

Entry is free, as is admission to all of O—Overgaden’s exhibitions.

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KOFTA MACHINE

The multimedia performance Kofta Machine is presented by Mandus Ridefelt and Simiyya. Artist Inger Sif Heeschen has produced a ceramic interpretation of the kofta machine based on its patent drawings.

by Mandus Ridefelt
Research: Simiyya (Assem Hendawi, Mandus Ridefelt, Mostafa El Baroody)

Ceramics: Inger Sif Heeschen
CGI animation: Mostafa El Baroody
Thank you: Ba Bladh, Eylül Isçen, Ward Alkhalaf, Ali Adawy, Nellie Lindquist, Madeleine Andersson

The performance is a part of Simiyya, an artistic research platform focusing on technoscience in a planetary frame. Simiyya is funded by Nordisk Kulturfond Globus and supported by the Danish Arts Council.

MADELEINE ANDERSSON

Graduate of the Royal Danish Art Academy (2022) and lives and works in Copenhagen. Andersson has previously exhibited at venues including Färgfabriken, Stockholm (2023): Bærum Kunsthal (2022); Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2022); Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen (2019, 2020); Accelerator, Stockholm (2019); and S.M.A.K, Ghent (2019). The exhibition Degenerative Knowledge Production marks the culmination of Andersson’s participation in O—Overgaden’s one-year postgraduate program, INTRO, supported generously by the Louis-Hansen Foundation.

ANNE KØLBÆK IVERSEN

Is a researcher, curator, editor, and writer based in Copenhagen. She is currently affiliated with the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen and O—Overgaden, conducting the research project Crip Time: Art of Impairment, Withdrawal, and Impatience, funded by the New Carlsberg Foundation. The project examines artistic articulations of illness and disability as well as the institution’s own “impairments” in the form of lack of accessibility and inclusion.

MAJA LI HÄRDELIN

MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, earned in 2023, and a BA from the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, completed in 2020. Her work has been featured in various esteemed venues, including the Institut Funder Bakke, Kunstraum Schwaz, Gallery Q, Sans Souci, Salon 75, and 44Møen. Her work delves into the intricate and often unspoken narratives within personal and domestic realms. Härdelin’s academic background includes an MA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, earned in 2023, and a BA from the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, completed in 2020. Her work has been featured in various esteemed venues, including the Institut Funder Bakke, Kunstraum Schwaz, Gallery Q, Sans Souci, Salon 75, and 44Møen.