GILGAMESH
Location Sort/Hvid, Staldgade 26-30, 1699 Copenhagen V
27.09.2024 - 19.10.2024
Tuesday-Wednesdag and Friday-Saturday 19H00
Language Danish
Duration approximately 3 h 15 m

The age limit for GILGAMESH is 15 years.

The audience both sit, walk, and stand during the experience. Therefore, the performance is, unfortunately, not accessable for wheelchair users and people with walking difficulties.

Be aware that the the floor and walls can be dirty and splashes of liquid may occur (everything can be washed off). GILGAMESH is an immersive experience where audience interaction, strobe lights and smoke might be used.

Explicit sexual and violent scenes may occur.

Logen ANJA BEHRENS, PATRICK BAURICHTER, NATHALIE MELLBYE Also starring BJØRK-MYNTE PAULSE, CHRISTINE SØNDERRIS, JOËLLE MARIE MCGOVERN, LORENZO COLOMBO, and the audience of the evening Guest set designer SIMONE BARTHOLIN Light designer CHRISTOFFER ØSTERGAARD MEIER NIELSEN

Stage manager LÆRKE LEONORA KOLDING Technician CHRISTOFFER ØSTERGAARD MEIER NIELSEN Sound technician KARL HEDING Costumes and props JONATHAN CARL Builders SARINA GIULIA BOSIO, MARIANNE FEMERLING

Basis for the text is Gilgamesh, rewritten by Morten Søndergaard and Sophus Helle in 2019, published by Gyldendal.

THANKS TO Billedskolen I Tvilllingehallen/Ditte Egholm (a children’s painting school), Husets Teater and Toaster

Funded by BIKUBENFONDEN, AUGUSTINUS FONDEN, WILLIAM DEMANT FONDEN, KNUD HØJGAARDS FOND, AAGE OG JOHANNE LOUIS-HANSENS FOND, BECKETT-FONDEN

GILGAMESH

Tickets

LOGEN’s version of GILGAMESH beginns with a blockbuster film. This is VIP. This is Blitz-blitz-blitz. This is MEGALOMANIAMEGALOMANIAMEGALOMANIA. You and your inner beast are specially invited to an intimate evening in the company of the abyss.

The artistic director of S/H opens her first season with the transgressive performance collective LOGEN who has dedicated the last ten years to expressive and intimate stage experiments. Now they tear apart the primordial myth GILGAMESH and convert it into an immersive experience for humans and monsters. A film premiere developing into a ritualistic monstrous battlefield to be etched into eternity.

Five meters high he stood as an undefeatable giant. 2/3 God, 1/3 human. The primordial myth of Gilgamesh written on clay tablets as far back as 2000 years BC is the story of a tyrant becoming gentle as a lamb when his beloved nemesis dies, and he realizes that not even he is
immortal. Put into the hands of LOGEN the myth becomes a monstrous self-examination and combat for iconic immortality. The thousand-year-old story is fused together with performative associations, current societal incidents and music interpretations. Electronic musician and percussionist Lorenzo Colombo and spatial sound designer and electronic composer Joëlle Marie McGovern collaborate with LOGEN. They use both electronic and acoustic instruments to add an immersive auditory space to the primordial myth GILGAMESH.

About LOGEN
LOGEN is inspired by the monstrous. By the backside of humanity. By what we avoid speaking about. Dirty thoughts, overconfidence and the subconscious. The collective insists that there is beauty to be found behind everything ugly and unpolished. To them it is virtuous to vulnerably keep challenging one’s own capabilities. Not until we dare to acknowledge all sides of a human being can we truly get to know ourselves. Their performances are laboratories which one become a part of. They create immersive universes and installations as the basis for a raw, unpredictable community between audience and performers.

LOGEN is an interdisciplinary artist collective started in 2014. Today it includes Nathalie Mellbye, Patrick Baurichter and Anja Behrens and different guests. In GILGAMESH the guests are the dancer Bjørk-Mynte Paulse, sound artist and composer Joëlle Marie McGovern, live musician Lorenzo Colombo, actor Christine Sønderris, set designer Simone Bartholin and the evening’s audience.

GILGAMESH

Tickets
27.09.2024 - 19.10.2024
Tuesday-Wednesdag and Friday-Saturday 19H00
Location Sort/Hvid, Staldgade 26-30, 1699 Copenhagen V
Language Danish
Duration approximately 3 h 15 m

The age limit for GILGAMESH is 15 years.

The audience both sit, walk, and stand during the experience. Therefore, the performance is, unfortunately, not accessable for wheelchair users and people with walking difficulties.

Be aware that the the floor and walls can be dirty and splashes of liquid may occur (everything can be washed off). GILGAMESH is an immersive experience where audience interaction, strobe lights and smoke might be used.

Explicit sexual and violent scenes may occur.

LOGEN’s version of GILGAMESH beginns with a blockbuster film. This is VIP. This is Blitz-blitz-blitz. This is MEGALOMANIAMEGALOMANIAMEGALOMANIA. You and your inner beast are specially invited to an intimate evening in the company of the abyss.

The artistic director of S/H opens her first season with the transgressive performance collective LOGEN who has dedicated the last ten years to expressive and intimate stage experiments. Now they tear apart the primordial myth GILGAMESH and convert it into an immersive experience for humans and monsters. A film premiere developing into a ritualistic monstrous battlefield to be etched into eternity.

Five meters high he stood as an undefeatable giant. 2/3 God, 1/3 human. The primordial myth of Gilgamesh written on clay tablets as far back as 2000 years BC is the story of a tyrant becoming gentle as a lamb when his beloved nemesis dies, and he realizes that not even he is
immortal. Put into the hands of LOGEN the myth becomes a monstrous self-examination and combat for iconic immortality. The thousand-year-old story is fused together with performative associations, current societal incidents and music interpretations. Electronic musician and percussionist Lorenzo Colombo and spatial sound designer and electronic composer Joëlle Marie McGovern collaborate with LOGEN. They use both electronic and acoustic instruments to add an immersive auditory space to the primordial myth GILGAMESH.

About LOGEN
LOGEN is inspired by the monstrous. By the backside of humanity. By what we avoid speaking about. Dirty thoughts, overconfidence and the subconscious. The collective insists that there is beauty to be found behind everything ugly and unpolished. To them it is virtuous to vulnerably keep challenging one’s own capabilities. Not until we dare to acknowledge all sides of a human being can we truly get to know ourselves. Their performances are laboratories which one become a part of. They create immersive universes and installations as the basis for a raw, unpredictable community between audience and performers.

LOGEN is an interdisciplinary artist collective started in 2014. Today it includes Nathalie Mellbye, Patrick Baurichter and Anja Behrens and different guests. In GILGAMESH the guests are the dancer Bjørk-Mynte Paulse, sound artist and composer Joëlle Marie McGovern, live musician Lorenzo Colombo, actor Christine Sønderris, set designer Simone Bartholin and the evening’s audience.

Logen ANJA BEHRENS, PATRICK BAURICHTER, NATHALIE MELLBYE Also starring BJØRK-MYNTE PAULSE, CHRISTINE SØNDERRIS, JOËLLE MARIE MCGOVERN, LORENZO COLOMBO, and the audience of the evening Guest set designer SIMONE BARTHOLIN Light designer CHRISTOFFER ØSTERGAARD MEIER NIELSEN

Stage manager LÆRKE LEONORA KOLDING Technician CHRISTOFFER ØSTERGAARD MEIER NIELSEN Sound technician KARL HEDING Costumes and props JONATHAN CARL Builders SARINA GIULIA BOSIO, MARIANNE FEMERLING

Basis for the text is Gilgamesh, rewritten by Morten Søndergaard and Sophus Helle in 2019, published by Gyldendal.

THANKS TO Billedskolen I Tvilllingehallen/Ditte Egholm (a children’s painting school), Husets Teater and Toaster

Funded by BIKUBENFONDEN, AUGUSTINUS FONDEN, WILLIAM DEMANT FONDEN, KNUD HØJGAARDS FOND, AAGE OG JOHANNE LOUIS-HANSENS FOND, BECKETT-FONDEN