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JESUS_C_ODD_SIZE / 2000

JESUS_C_ODD_SIZE

A performance by Hotel Pro Forma – An exhibition of contemporary art

2000-2002



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Credits
PARTICIPANTS

Jesus Mike Diana
Virgin Maria Helle Rafn
Mary Magdalene Gritt Uldall-Jessen, Cecilie Ramskov Dreiøe
Stephen Jonas Tolstrup
Judas Henrik Sartou
+ 50 persons chosen from their experience, skills, age, personality

Concept Kirsten Dehlholm, Gritt Uldall-Jessen, Lawrence Malstaf
Direction Kirsten Dehlholm
Text Gritt Uldall-Jessen, Erik A. Nielsen
Installation/set design Lawrence Malstaf
Light design Jesper Kongshaug
Sound design Carl Michael von Hausswolff
Costumes Anne Sofie Olrik

The performers have been chosen because of their personality, life story, know-how and knowledge.

Furthermore, performers from Bilderwerfer, Vienna as well as type-cast people from Denmark, Austria, Gambia and USA participate. Erik A. Nielsen, dr.phil. and Gitte Berg, cand.theol. give a lecture and a sermon from the virtual lectern.

The exhibition consists of works by the artists Lawrence Malstaf, Belgium, Mikael Thejll, Denmark, Michael Janiszewski, Germany, William Anastasi, USA, Svein Ove Kirkhorn/Regin Hjertholm/Bjørn Eivind Aartun, Norway, Roy Andersson, Sweden, Carl Fredrik Hill, Sweden, Tomas Lahoda, Denmark/Czech, Franko B, UK/Italy, and Kirsten Dehlholm, Denmark, as well as anonymous works from the Danish Middle Ages. Installations, film and video from the performance is also a part of the exhibition.

DVD/stills Richard Sandler

Reviews
Weekendavisen (DK)
It is a performance that has a host of elements on offer and to think about, one that is not least certain to provoke a discussion among those present. Is it possible to stage Christianity so concretely with Jesus and all the trappings nowadays? Or does it not inevitably end up as superficial and ‘tivoli’-like entertainment tableaux? Why is it that Christianity, at one and the same time, fills so little and so much in our culture – not least in the visual arts? Neither the performance nor this reviewer provide the answer, although I can confirm that it is an interesting, important attempt which Hotel Pro Forma is making here.
– Mette Sandbye
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Kristeligt Dagblad (DK)
Jesus is an odd-size figure. Not one that can be easily integrated into widely-held norms. But are not all of us that? Like the tiny, homeless
watchmaker, nicknamed ‘Little Lord’, up there under the ceiling of the Nikolaj Art Center, repairing clocks, or the young girl possessed by
demons – completely oblivious of the concrete
world around her.
It is Christ the man who is in focus at the Hotel Pro Forma performance ‘jesus_c_odd_size’ in the Nikolaj Art Center in Copenhagen – and us as
reflections of him. ‘jesus_c_odd_size’ is an exciting, strange and stirring way of presenting Christianity.

– Rikke Rottensten
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Poltiken (DK)
Hotel Pro Forma is always site-specific, the performances are created with great sensitivity for the given space. Indeed, it almost seems as if the performances never completely leave the rooms in which they take place. When one visits the venues, now quite considerable in number, where Pro Forma has been – from the Copenhagen Business School to the Glyptothek – one recalls how brilliantly the focal point of Hotel Pro Forma, Kirsten Dehlholm, has left her imprint.
– Janus Kodal
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First performances
Opening on 15 April 2000 at Malmö Högskola, Malmö, Sweden

When did you last speak to Virgin Mary?
Have you heard the lepers sing?
What do the disciples do when they are not asleep?
Is Judas among us?
Do you want to meet at Golgotha?

jesus_c_odd_size is an evocative performance with an examining approach to a topic which has fascinated us for 2000 years. The title alludes to the websites of today where we all become canonised in the dim electronic heaven, and at the same time, like Jesus, feel more or less unaccommodated by our own time. We are, each in our own way, an odd size.

The Jesus figure appears as several different characters, as many different acts. But always hidden or disguised in the most visible, the most concrete. There is the secret, it is right there.

The performance consists of acting, live art, installation, lecture, projection, and film. It will not be staged at a theatre, but at the Nikolaj – Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center. The audience walks around the building, from porch to oratory, from office to kitchen, from tower to crypt. A non-linear sequence of sculptural acts can be experienced by a small or a big audience at the same time. The performance has an underlying web of meanings, which the audience can explore, be seduced by, loose track of or renounce as they proceed. The total duration is 3 hours depending on how long you wish to stay.

A total of 50 performers from four different countries participate. They are all people of our time.

jesus_c_odd_size in Nikolaj – Copenhagen Contemporary Art Centre could be experienced as exhibition during the day and as performance at night. jesus_c_odd_size used all the rooms of the church building – including the secret ones!

In October 2000, parts of the performance was shown at Malmö University, Sweden.


Danish
JESUS_C_ODD_SIZE
En forestilling og en udstilling om Jesus og vor tid
2002

jesus_c_odd_size er en billedskabende og undersøgende forestilling omkring et emne, der har fascineret os i 2000 år. Titlen hentyder til nutidens websites, hvor vi alle kanoniseres på den elektroniske nattehimmel, samtidig med at vi som Jesus går rundt og er mere eller mindre malplacerede i vor egen tid. Vi er hver især en mærkelig størrelse.

Jesusskikkelsen viser sig som flere forskellige personer, som mange forskellige handlinger. Men altid skjult eller forklædt i det mest synlige, det mest konkrete. Dér ligger hemmeligheden, den ligger lige for.

Forestillingen består af skuespil, performance, installation, foredrag, projektion og film. Den opføres ikke på et teater, men i en kirke, der fungerer som udstillingssted for moderne kunst. Publikum går rundt i bygningen, fra våbenhus til kirkesal, fra kontor til køkken, fra tårnrum til krypt. Et ikke-lineært forløb af skulpturelle handlinger kan opleves og overværes af få eller mange tilskuere på én gang. Opførelsen er et rodnet af betydninger, som tilskueren kan gå på opdagelse i, lade sig forføre af, fare vild i, eller forsage. Varigheden er op til 3 timer alt efter hvor længe du bliver.

50 personer medvirker fra fire forskellige lande. Alle er de mennesker af vor tid.

jesus_c_odd_size i Nikolaj Udstillingsbygning kunne opleves dels som udstilling om dagen dels som forestilling om aftenen. jesus_c_odd_size gør brug af alle rum i kirken.

Dele af forestillingen blev vist på Malmö Högskola i oktober 2000.

Varighed 3 timer uden pause

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