Movement Shaped Like A Heart at Xenon

Movement Shaped Like A Heart At Xenon
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Movement Shaped Like A Heart invites you to an evening at Xenon, inviting Eat The Frog Kollektiv from Berlin to perform their piece “uncivilisation - the dark mountain manifesto”
- a piece based around the text by Paul Kingsnorth and Dougald Hine, featuring the group improvising in a setting collaborating with local dancers from Copenhagen.

Along with this the evening will feature the art-pop duo Velvy, presenting music from their debut EP
“The Room We Lived In” as well as Sture Ericson’s new trio “Ballads”.
All three concerts will feature Hannah Unger Coff on live visuals
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Eat The Frog Kollektiv:
"Mainstream art in the West has long been about shock; about busting taboos, about Getting Noticed. This has gone on for so long that it has become common to assert that in these ironic, exhausted, post-everything times, there are no taboos left to bust. But there is one. The last taboo is the myth of civilsation. It is built upon the stories we have constructed about our genius, our indestructibility, our manifest destiny as a chosen species. It is where our vision and our self-belief intertwine with our reckless refusal to face the reality of our position on this Earth. It has led the human race to achieve what it has achieved; and has led the planet into the age of ecocide. The two are intimately linked. We believe they must be decoupled if anything is to remain.
We believe that artists - which is to us the most welcoming of words, taking under its wing writers of all kinds, painters, musicians, sculptors, poets, designers, creators, makers of things, dreamers of dreams - have a responsibility to begin the process of decoupling. We believe that, in the age of ecocide, the last taboo must be broken - and that only artists can do it.“
from „Uncivilisation - The Dark Mountain Manifesto“, written by Paul Kingsnorth and Dougald Hine (2009)
Eat The Frog Kollektiv is:
Tobias Brügge, Tobias Link and Stefan Vidal Schneider

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Velvy:
In a mix of innocent naivety and distorted acid trip the little child is placed in a world even the adults can’t understand. Throughout the last two years the new danish duo Velvy consisting of Laura Teglbjærg (vocal/lyrics) and Asbjørn Busk Horne (production/ lyrics) has builded up their own world sharing characteristics with electronica, rock and improvised music with a fundament in modern pop aesthetics. Velvy released their debut-EP “The Room We Lived In” in November 2024.
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Ballads:
Ballads is the meeting of Sture Ericson, Mikkel Wilstrup and Halfdan Magnus Stefansson. It’s a fascination of the old school. Rockin’ freejazz and abstract free improvisation.
Wanting to be zen but being too messy to make it for that.
Deconstructing their instruments, both culturally and literally - delving into very abstract sounds until they turn very concrete.
Sture Ericson - reeds
Halfdan Magnus Stefansson - acoustic guitar
Mikkel Wilstrup - drums
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Live visuals by VJ and visual artist Hannah Unger Coff
Hannah's approach to visuals is characterized by a curiosity towards the manipulated, with an intention to explore the boundaries between the real and the distorted. Her visual expression is based on her own video recordings and drawings, which she edits in various programs and presents live at events.
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poster by jens højbøge mosegaard
more info at www.movementshapedlikeaheart.com