AXIS MUNDI is a new site-specific performance in large format with newly composed live music by Den Sorte Skole, 2 actresses and 22 performers.
AXIS MUNDI unfolds on the floor in Store VEGA’s beautiful concert hall on clippings and motives from the series of prints called Imaginary Prisons by the Italian architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78).
Axis Mundi means world axis and is the earth’s center within religion and mythology – a fixed element of traditional cultures’ world view, a connecting point between heaven and earth around which the universe unfolds.
Hotel Pro Forma’s performance AXIS MUNDI is about man’s persistent attempt to establish a personal axis mundi, structure, and order in life and in the chaos of reality.
The music for AXIS MUNDI is both created and performed by the critically acclaimed Copenhagen sample and composer duo Den Sorte Skole consisting of Martin Højland and Simon Dokkedal, who have received, among other things, the Crown Prince Couple’s Culture Award (2017), one of the most prestigious awards in Denmark.
MARIE DAHL
Marie Dahl on AXIS MUNDI
JESPER KONGSHAUG
Jesper Kongshaug discusses the process of designing the lighting for AXIS MUNDI.
TEASER TRAILER
Teaser trailer for AXIS MUNDI
