Last part in our series exploring anger, the untranslatable and the speculative.

Filip Vest is a powerful, distinctive voice on the Danish art scene whose performances, installations, films and texts investigate queer love, gender and identity — and how the small and large crises in our lives are intertwined. He invites guests who both inspire and open up new ways to experience everyday life in 2025. This time, the theme is “Speculations.”

The conversation takes place within the work Hell Mouth, created by world‑renowned British performance artist Monster Chetwynd.

Program
Arrive early to get through the entrance and secure your place in the exhibition.
18:00 – Engagement in Monster’s Mouth in Hall 4. Meet Filip Vest, Phyllis Akinyi, Jason Jacobs and Alma Silva
20:00 – Explore CC, enjoy a glass of wine or dine in our café CC & Darcy’s
21:00 – CC closes

Your ticket is valid for general entry to CC all day and for the event itself. Please purchase in advance.

This evening, Vest has chosen the theme “Speculations.” You’ll have the chance to experience three different artists in speculative conversations about past and future, bodies, spirituality and identity across time:

• Phyllis Akinyi presents an iteration of her performance “Flamencura.”

• Alma Silva offers a performative reading from her new novel “Figure Eight.”

• Jason Jacobs gives a talk in connection with their work “KRAAL.”

The talk with Jason Jacobs is curated in collaboration with Black To Normal for the Black History Month Festival, taking place October 16–18, 2025 at various Copenhagen venues.

Jason Jacobs (he/they)

A storyteller and traditional healer in training, Jacobs weaves narratives that awaken the spirit of home, community and connection to source. They are passionate about creating sacred spaces where others can remember — and step into — their wholeness.

Phyllis Akinyi (she/her)

Danish‑Kenyan dancer, choreographer and researcher whose work explores Africanist spirituality within flamenco, alongside a continuous investigation of the “betwixt and between” — entanglements of movement, culture and identity through an anthropological lens of bodies caught in cultural in‑betweens. Akinyi is artistic director of Diasporic Dimensions, a performing‑arts company centering the experiences and voices of the African diaspora, and a founding member of The Black Flamenco Network. Her work has been shown on both sides of the Atlantic and featured in US publications such as Dance Magazine. She lives between Madrid and Copenhagen.
Photo: “Flamencura” (2023), Close Encounters / Embodied Journeys, Den Frie (Photo: Anderson Matthew)

Alma Silva (she/her)

Brazilian‑born, Copenhagen‑based artist working at the intersection of writing, music and movement. FIGURE 8 is a live embodiment of her dark fantasy novel of the same name, telling the story of a young traveler possessed by an ancient entity carrying messages from a future past. The entity has come to announce the end of linear time, tasking the traveler with a mission through time and space to transcend the limitations of their human body and ultimately find the source of their true power. Through an unconventional and visionary approach to literary tradition, Silva aims to join a broader canon of contemporary artists who use autofiction to rehearse alternative worlds where possibility has yet to be defined — and killed.
Photo: Sinem Øzkan