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    • Sun 25.1 13:30 – 14:30

    CC10: Torben Sangild – What Art Can Do

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    The ticket also grants access to Copenhagen Contemporary for the entire day.

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    Venue: Copenhagen Contemporary, Hall 6

    The lecture will be in Danish.

    The lecture is part of CC10 – a three-day festival of performance, talks, and concerts at Copenhagen Contemporary, taking place from 23–25 January. The festival brings together artists, performers, and musicians in an intensive programme where performance unfolds across a wide range of forms and formats.

    Over the course of all three days, audiences can experience a rich and varied programme of performances, talks, and concerts that activate the entire space of CC and create encounters between body, sound, movement, and storytelling.

    Visual art has no obvious practical use. And yet it has survived for hundreds of years and fills museums, galleries, workplaces, and private homes. What is it that art can do?

    Building on his book ’Objektiv sensibilitet’, Torben Sangild explores themes such as beauty and ugliness; how we perceive art; how an artwork expresses emotion; how art provokes reflection; how art uses humor; why art is strange; and how art can process the terrible. His answers are at times both surprising and provocative. Along the way, he presents beautiful, ugly, funny, and unsettling examples from the diverse world of art.

    Torben Sangild has a wide range of interests, spanning music, natural science, philosophy, stand-up comedy, art, neuroscience, and psychology. His primary focus is understanding how we humans think, feel, and interact with the world around us – both when we understand and when we misunderstand each other. With an eager and almost nerdy curiosity for new areas of knowledge, he manages to make complex topics accessible and fascinating. He approaches scientific subjects with empathy and a deep appreciation for human emotion.

    As a writer for Zetland, he covers topics such as psychology, sociology, and science, as well as satire and current debates. He is also the voice behind “Comedy-kontoret” on Radio4 together with Anders Fjelsted, and has published Følelsernes bog in 2025 as well as the aesthetic theory book Objektiv sensibilitet in 2010.

     

    The lecture will be in Danish.
    Your ticket also includes full-day access to CC’s exhibitions.

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