This event will be in Danish

Helle Malmvig, senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) and one of the most cited scholars in the current, highly charged debate, meets chairman of the Danish-Palestinian Friendship Association (TBC) Fathi El-Abed and senior curator at Copenhagen Contemporary, Aukje Lepoutre Ravn, in a conversation about strategies of resistance in art.

Alongside the conversation experience a resistance poetry performance with author Deniz Kiy and artist Ihsan Saad Ihsan Tahir.

“In the end, my art is about representation”

– Ihsan Saad Ihsan

“it has gotten cold around home is always on the other side the paths of years are vulnerable.”

– Deniz Kiy from the poetry collection Blue Eyes

Photo: Still from Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth: only sounds that tremble through us, 2020-2022.

Practical information

The conversation will be in Danish

Program: 

18.15 Check in and pick-up in the CC Foyer

18.30 Talk and performance

20.45 Thank you for tonight

Your ticket includes admission to Copenhagen Contemporary on the day and we recommend experiencing Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s exhibition The song is the call, and the land is calling before the event begins.

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Price for CC members kr. 75
Price for non-members kr. 225

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If you change your mind and do not wish to join CC, you can purchase entrance on the day.

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