Touching Mirrors

Objective

Touching Mirrors is an interdisciplinary artistic collaboration between students at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Albin Werle, and the actress Asta August from the School of Theatre, Aarhus. The aim is to create a dialogue between two artistic forms and to inspire to meet and rethink the artistic forms.

Project description

The project takes place at the interface between the visual arts and the performing arts. The two students work together on developing an artistic concept that will bridge the gap between the two art forms. In that way the project mixes and explores the boundaries between theater and visual arts in a distinctive, scenographic installation and monologue.

The collaboration will culminate in a performance and a salon with opportunity for discussion of the work and the artistic process with a focus on crossartistic collaborations and intercultural artistic learning.

The students explain about the project

“On the art academys and in the art world in general there is made many performances and there is a lot of talking about the performative – but we never perform theater or speak about theater. Touching Mirrors is a performative project without being performance art. It is a play within a visual artistic context with all the rituals and the conceptual framework that is a part of being in a visual art context.

The goal of the salon is to create a common language between the two art forms and get people to come together and rethink. Hopefully we can build a bridge between the schools at Holmen and in Nyhavn and start an ongoing dialogue.”