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In December the Paris based gallery Castillio/Corrales has initiated a collaboration, taking place in the newly opened Nam June Paik Art Center in Korea. The idea is to work 10 days in the space creating a play or/and performances using the extensive archive of Nam June Paik and our own material. Read more…

In November 2008 the Nomad-Academy had organized an exhibition at Sharjah museum of modern art in the United Arab Emirates. The participants were mostly Danish or Danish residents. “Le théâtre Arabe” is an installation made as a site specific piece for the museum.
It is a piece asking a simple rhetoric question: What is the Arabic Theatre? But is it that simple, is there a Arabic cultural entity? Read more…

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On the 25th of September 2008 Theatre Får302 (Sheep302) constituted the setting of a cultural debate about the state of the Danish culture after 10 years with the liberal/ conservative government.
About 30 prominent people; politicians, artists, scholars and so on, made up the audience and the panels.
The debate was divided in three parts of 20 minutes, each with a new panel, debating over a topic or question: 1. What is liberalism? Do we have it in Denmark today? 2. Who have access to the media? (media in a wide sense) 3. Who defines art/ culture/ Danish culture?
The whole hour of debate was latter transcribed and made into a play. At the moment a Stockholm Theatre is considering staging the play, so one could say that the debate is already historical by its living on as a play.

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Post Holocaust is the result of a journey into the conflict of Israel and Palestrina, taken in 2006. The first idea was to film the meeting with Israel/Palestrina, but it seem to me that every inch was already photographed. Instead the project turned towards simply having a dialog with people in Ramallah and Tel Aviv. It turn out that without the camera there was one filter less and a more honest dialog. The first contact soon lead to new meetings with people dealing with problems everyday and toke the project deep into the midst of the cultures and its people. Can homosexual relationship between a Jew and a Palestinian work? What role dos post colonialism play? African and Asian non Jewish immigrants in Israel?
During the journey the idea arised to cut all the dialog together to a play, a staging of the words of the people, that could be read or performed as a “learning play”
In the 1930s Berthold Brecht did a series of “learning plays” in order for the reader or performer to understand the communist moral. Extreme situations, such as the offering of one man for the sake of saving the group, were the examples. Here, as with Brecht’s learning plays, the idea is that the readers or performers should try to identify themselves with the different characters in order to understand and recognise a different rhetoric. The play can be done among friends and family in homes or anywhere. You can download the script here.