Gone is Nowhere – film, performance og talk
The music film work explores the innate inner dissonance of generational trauma in a documentary and performative treatment of the movement, elongation and fragmentation of escape.
Based on the Armenian Genocide and Danish humanitarian Karen Jeppe’s extensive work to rescue thousands of captured Armenian refugees, mainly women and children in the early 20th century, the horrors of the past are revealed in flashes. ‘Gone is Nowhere’ emphasizes how the complex and elongated nature of refuge, in the face of the cyclical dynamics of human experience, can never be confined to one time, but will continue to affect present and future generations. During CPH:DOX, the film ‘Gone is Nowhere’ will be presented framed by a live performance with the film’s directors and performers, musicians Katinka Fogh Vindelev (soprano) and Louise Gorm (violinist). In addition, Armenian documentary filmmaker and photographer Nazik Armenakyan has been invited to participate in a post-screening talk with Katinka and Louise and others. Over a ten-year period (2005-2015), Nazik has documented and portrayed the last survivors of the Armenian Genocide in the photo series ‘SURVIVORS’.
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Pop-up exhibition “Survivors” and talk with Armenian documentary photographer Nazik Armenakyan
Place: Fotografisk Center
Exhibition period: March 20 – March 30
Talk: March 20, 5 – 5:30 pm
As part of CPH:DOX, Fotografisk Center invites you to the opening of the pop-up exhibition Survivors by acclaimed Armenian documentary photographer Nazik Armenakyan. The exhibition presents Armenakyan’s decade-long project “Survivors” (2005-2015) which portrays the last survivors alive of the Armenian genocide. At the opening, Armenakyan will give a talk, offering an insight into the working process and the stories behind the photographs and afterwards the visitors will have the chance to ask questions.
It will be possible to purchase a copy of the book “Survivors” after the talk.