Workshop: Gravitational Shift & Donnimaar med Katinka Fogh Vindelev og Marie Kølbæk Iversen

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[Tilmelding nødvendig/Registration nessesary via this link: nnimaar]

Festivalen Gong Tomorrow og RMC inviterer under overskriften ’vokal forbundethed’ til en gratis workshop med Katinka Fogh Vindelev (Sanger, komponist) og Marie Kølbæk Iversen (billedkunstner) med udgangspunkt i hver deres værker Donnimaar og Gravitational Shift.(Værkerne er beskrevet på engelsk nederst her)

Workshoppen vil bestå af en præsentation af de to kunstneres praksis og af de to værker, hvorefter deltagerne gennem vejledning skal synge værkerne i fællesskab.

De to kunstnere vil gerne skabe et trygt rum, hvor de medvirkende workshopdeltagere gennem fysisk opvarmning og simple sangøvelser - primært ledet af Katinka Fogh Vindelev - vil blive introduceret til værkerne.

Deltagerne skal grundlæggende arbejde med have et opmærksomt nærvær i krop og stemme samtidig, samt fokus på langsomhed, da musikken i begge værker er langstrakt og cirkulær båret af gentagelser.

Værkerne kommer ikke i nodeform. Det bliver sunget som en slags call and respons og Marie og Katinka vil guide og vil varetage nogle solostemmer, som kan klinge ind i den kollektive klangbund.

Workshopdeltagerne må meget gerne møde op i tøj de har det rart i, så de kan bevæge sig undervejs i både workshoppen og til performancen. Der vil være pauser, når det er nødvendigt.

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[Registration necessary]

The festival Gong Tomorrow and RMC invite you to a free workshop with the two artists Katinka Fogh Vindelev and Marie Kølbæk Iversen.

The festival Gong Tomorrow and RMC invites you to a free workshop with Katinka Fogh Vindelev (Singer, composer) and Marie Kølbæk Iversen (visual artist) based on their respective works Donnimaar and Gravitational Shift. (The works are described below here)

The workshop will consist of a presentation of the two artists' practice and the two works, after which the participants will sing the works together through guidance.

The two artists wish to create a safe space where the participants will be introduced to the works through physical warm-up and simple singing exercises - primarily led by Katinka Fogh Vindelev.

The participants will work on having an attentive presence in body and voice simultaneously, as well as focus on slowness, as the music in both works is elongated and circular, carried by repetitions.

The works do not come in sheet music. Instead, it will be sung as a kind of call and response, and Marie and Katinka will take care of some solo voices that can resonate in the collective soundscape.

The workshop participants are very welcome to show up in clothes they feel comfortable in, so they can move during both the workshop and the performance. There will be breaks when necessary.

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About Gravitational Shift
Gravitational Shift (2019 -) is a continuous choral work by soprano and composer Katinka Fogh Vindelev, conceptualised in collaboration with visual artist Marie Kølbæk Iversen.

Gravitational Shift manifests itself in many different forms: a performative choir piece, workshops, a vinyl just released this fall performed by opera singers, the vocal group Ilinx and retired amateur singers from Allegrokoret, a songbook, an installation etc. The work aims to explore the potential of collectivising lonely and isolating pain and trauma experiences. Because that space, that fear catapults one into, however, in their experience to a large extent is speechless, this work aims to establish another communication form than the conversation-based one: Gravitational Shift insists on ‘dialogue’ with the fear and the one being isolated by the fear and pain through music.

The composition is based on sound recordings of Katinka's own birth screams and sighs as well as a handful anonymously donated, which are time-stretched and transcribed to extract their melody. It is therefore an elongated, beautiful and meditative expression that contrasts with the composition's immediately dramatic starting point. Over the years, melodies kept being added, and Katinka started working with the memory of pain too.

The work aims to explore the potential of collectivising lonely and isolating pain experiences through music in order to dialogue with the terrifying instead of reproducing its effect. Pain is beyond gender - it needs to be shared, and participation is, therefore, open to all voices, ages, and genders.

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About Donnimaar
Donnimaar is a music and visual arts project by Marie Kølbæk Iversen revolving around the magic songs of her great-great-great-great-grandparents, who in 1873 were the ethnographic subjects of Danish folklore collector Evald Tang Kristensen when he visited their house on Ørre Hede in Western Jutland.

The title of her first album, Donnimaar. Vredens Børn, combines the main character Daughter Donnimaar from Æ Fåwanleng ('The Transformation’) with the title of the novel Vredens Børn ('Children of Wrath') written in 1904 by Jutlandic writer Jeppe Aakjær.
The songs relate to a different cultural tradition than the Protestant Christian and national romantic context of their collection: They are primarily (and in places explicitly) proto-feminist, apocalyptic, anti-Christian, anti-materialist, and anti-Danish.

Donnimaar is a shapeshifter, and Kølbæk Iversen's project consists of both live and recorded elements, which are produced and unfolded through a network of collaborations.
Donnimaar (DOMA) forms part of Kølbæk Iversen's practice-based artistic research project Neo-worlds: The Transformative Potentialities of Fright, which she conducts between the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and Aarhus University.”