15 June, 2025 19 o’clock @Ungdomsøen, Copenhagen, KLANG festival

More info https://klang.dk/en/programme/k-art-x-jenny-graf-sheppard-visitations

Jenny Gräf Sheppard: Visitations (world premiere)

Visitations is a composition for performance of sound, text and movement, structured as a journey to Ungdomsøen, a former military fortress close to Copenhagen. A small booklet, The Sympathetic Metabolism of an Island, guides visitors through stages of distance, longing, reaching, absorbing, and letting go as they find themselves positioned in different locations on the island. Visitations explores island as figuration and geological figure, while reflecting upon how we parse the world into barriers and borders, both actual and metaphorical.

Premiere at KLANG – Copenhagen Experimental Music Festival 15.06.2025.

The boat departs from Nyhavn 71 at 19.00 and returns before 23.00. Wear comfortable shoes as the performance takes place outside and on uneven terrain. Drinks available for purchase on board.

Visitations is a new sono-dramatic work created by Copenhagen-based artist Jenny Gräf Sheppard for K!ART. Several exchanges and collaborations with performers and artists have been a crucial aspect of the creative process leading to the realization of the work. This includes choreographer Dorte Bjerre Jensen, costume designer Elisabeth Kiss, and writer Stephanie Barber, who contributed with the textual art-book, or visitor’s guide, which plays a significant role in the piece. For Visitations, K!ART has significantly expanded its standard cast of performers to include musicians Stephen McEvoy and MV Carbon and movers Yi Ten Lai, Freja Kreutzfeldt and Sebastian Kahr Rasmussen.

Images by Stephanie Barber.

Visitations was commissioned by K!ART and Klang – Copenhagen Experimental Music Festival with support from KODA Kultur and Statens Kunstfond. The project has been produced by K!ART with generous support from Statens Kunstfond, Augustinus, Obelske Familiefond, William Demant, KODA Kultur & Art Music Denmark.