Come along when CC invites you to a performative conversation about gender, equality, language, working life, power structures and the right to define your own life with several strong artistic and activist voices.

As part of the project person – in motion, created by visual artist Marie Thams and curator Rebekka Elisabeth Anker-Møller, several leading authors and cultural actors will each give a speech, which will involve us in the relationship between gender and power in the Danish language and society: Merete Pryds Helle, Liv Helm, Nazila Kivi, Natalia Rogazewska, Marie Thams and Rebekka Elisabeth Anker-Møller, based on each of their own lived and professional experience.

person – in motion

The art project person – in motion, created by visual artist Marie Thams and curator Rebekka Elisabeth Anker-Møller, is the art film person that will be shown at CC Cinema in the period 08.02-26.02-23 with an accompanying series of performative conversations with Danish authors, scientists and business professionals.

The film person by Marie Thams (2022) examines the term ‘chairperson’ versus ‘chairman’ and addresses the way the gendered word follows a linguistic tradition that contributes to the perpetuation of particular notions of gender and the distribution of roles and influence in society. The artwork puts the subject matter in a wider perspective and reaches out to future generations, a who have the right to define the language of the future and their own leeway.

The performative conversation takes place in Danish in the Common Room on the 2nd floor. Registration is not necessary, but there is a limited number of seats, so please come early. It costs normal admission and there will be an opportunity to experience the film or see CC’s other exhibitions before.

We look forward to seeing you!

CC Art Talk: Performative Conversation

23.02.23 at 17.00 – 19.00
CC Fælleslokalet (The Common Room)

Participants: author Merete Pryds Helle, theater director and artistic director of Husets Teater Liv Helm, literary critic Nazila Kivi, director of Kvindeøkonomien (Women’s Economy) as well as founder and director of Værdbar Natalia Rogaczewska, visual artist Marie Thams and curator Rebekka Elisabeth Anker-Møller. The conversation is moderated by the feminist debater and activist Emma Holten.

Film screening

Marie Thams, person (2022)
Duration: 16 min
CC Cinema from 08.02–26.02.23

About Marie Thams

Marie Thams is a visual artist, educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts and Goldsmiths, London. Thams has exhibited nationally and internationally and works in installation, sound, film, sculpture, text and performance.

About Rebekka Elisabeth Anker-Møller

Rebekka Elisabeth Anker-Møller is a freelance curator affiliated with the SixtyEight Art Institute in Copenhagen. Anker-Møller holds a Master’s degree in Visual Culture from the University of Copenhagen and in Curating from Aarhus University.

The project has received generous financial support from

The Danish Arts Foundation, Beckett-Fonden, Knud Højgaards Fond, Næstved Kommune, Copenhagen Contemporary and Aalborg Kommunes Billedkunstpulje.