Month: November 2014
PROTOTYPE/PROTOKOL
PROTOTYPE/PROTOKOL
In November 2014 Martin Hall wrote and directed the performance play Prototype/Protokol, an inter-aesthetic meeting between Martin Hall, the avant-garde ensemble Lydenskab and Staal Film. In this relation a program containing stills and texts from the show was made available to the guests.
Prototype/Protocol is a story based on the broken chain of connection between three generations – a fragmented, highly personal memory protocol made up of letters, recordings and fictitious memories.
Via videos, recited pieces of text and an ever-changing musical setting a collage-like story is told – a story about consequences; how the loss of hope in one generation may affect the next. The lyrical content of the show is both abstract and easily recognizable, an emotional biopsy of personal decline.
During November 2014 the play was performed at KØS (Museum for Art in Public Spaces) in Køge (14/11), Gran Teater in Aarhus (16/11), Københavns Musikteater in Copenhagen (21/11) and The Royal Danish Embassy in Berlin (25/11).
In August 2015 it was staged once again in relation to Odense Spoken Word Festival (21/8).
Martin Hall: Voice
Maiken Kildegaard: Performer
Eskild Winding: Piano (Lydenskab)
Thea Vesti: Guitar (Lydenskab)
Sofia Olsson: Cello (Lydenskab)
Michael Dinesen/Staal Film: Video
Design: Kenneth Schultz
Poster photo: Maiken Kildegaard
“In the attempt to uncover clues and traces you go backwards. You begin with the misunderstandings. The nodes. You let your thoughts run along a constantly moving boundary of interacting fields, in an attempt to correct what you still have access to. It’s a matter of tidiness – of plain vanity.”
EXTENSIVE MARTIN HALL INTERVIEW IN BERLINGSKE
In connection with the premiere of Hall’s new performance play Prototype/Protokol, the Danish newspaper Berlingske’s Sunday section MS (equivalent to The Sunday Times) published an extensive Martin Hall interview on Sunday the 9th of November.
The combined interview and portrait is made by Anders Højberg Kamp. The photographs are taken by is Thomas Lekfeldt. You can find the feature here:
”PROTOTYPE” PERFORMANCES IN CPH AND BERLIN
Prototype/Protocol is a performance play (written and enacted in Danish) combining music, film and graphics – an inter-aesthetic meeting between Martin Hall, the avant-garde ensemble Lydenskab and Staal Film. The stage play will be performed during November 2014 at the following occasions:
Friday the 14th of November: KØS MUSEUM (Køge)
Sunday the 16th of November: GRAN TEATER (Aarhus)
Friday the 21st of November: KØBENHAVNS MUSIKTEATER (Copenhagen)
Tuesday the 25th of November: THE ROYAL DANISH EMBASSY (Berlin)
Prototype/Protocol is a story based on the broken chain of connection between three generations – a fragmented, highly personal memory protocol made up of letters, recordings and fictitious memories. Via videos, recited pieces of text and an ever-changing musical setting a collage-like story is told – a story about consequences; how the loss of hope in one generation may affect the next. Watch the trailer for the show here:
The cast of the show features Martin Hall (voice), Maiken Kildegaard (performer), Eskild Winding (piano), Thea Vesti (guitar), Sofia Olsson (cello) and Michael Dinesen/Staal Film (video).
You can find more information about the shows at sites such as Seismograf, Time Out, Berlingske, Jyllands-Posten, Bongorama and Kulturhaus Berlin.
PROTOTYPE/PROTOKOL
PROTOTYPE/PROTOKOL
MARTIN HALL/LYDENSKAB/STAAL FILM
PROGRAM
NOVEMBER 2014
In November 2014 Martin Hall wrote and directed the performance play Prototype/Protokol, an inter-aesthetic meeting between Martin Hall, the avant-garde ensemble Lydenskab and Staal Film. In this relation a program containing stills and texts from the show was made available to the guests.
Prototype/Protocol is a story based on the broken chain of connection between three generations – a fragmented, highly personal memory protocol made up of letters, recordings and fictitious memories.
Via videos, recited pieces of text and an ever-changing musical setting a collage-like story is told – a story about consequences; how the loss of hope in one generation may affect the next.
The lyrical content of the show is both abstract and easily recognizable, an emotional biopsy of personal decline.
During November 2014 the play was performed at KØS (Museum for Art in Public Spaces) in Køge (14/11), Gran Teater in Aarhus (16/11), Københavns Musikteater in Copenhagen (21/11) and The Royal Danish Embassy in Berlin (25/11).
In August 2015 it was staged once again in relation to Odense Spoken Word Festival (21/8).
Martin Hall: Voice
Maiken Kildegaard: Performer
Eskild Winding: Piano (Lydenskab)
Thea Vesti: Guitar (Lydenskab)
Sofia Olsson: Cello (Lydenskab)
Michael Dinesen/Staal Film: Video
Design: Kenneth Schultz
Cover photo: Maiken Kildegaard
“In the attempt to uncover clues and traces you go backwards. You begin with the misunderstandings. The nodes. You let your thoughts run along a constantly moving boundary of interacting fields, in an attempt to correct what you still have access to. It’s a matter of tidiness – of plain vanity.”
MEN
MEN
ROBIN SKJOLDBORG/ROBERTO ZACHARIAS
PHOTO AND INTERVIEW BOOK
NOVEMBER 2014
GYLDENDAL (ISBN 9788702165838)
The book Men (“Mænd”) consists of a selection of Danish top photographer Robin Skjoldborg’s male portraits taken in the period between 1984 and 2014. Among the recurrent faces portrayed in the 256 pages thick volume you’ll find artists such as Martin Hall and Jesper Binzer, singer in one of the most successful Danish rock bands ever, D.A.D.
The theme of the photo- and debate book is male identity – i.e. sexuality, gender and values. Towards this end the journalist Roberto Zacharias has interviewed a line of the portrayed artists such as Danish filmmaker Jørgen Leth, actor Lars Mikkelsen (featured on the front cover of the book), the rock groups Kashmir and Nephew and ultimately Martin Hall. It probably comes as no surprise that the latter is the far most outspoken in this selection of masculine profiles.
