Meditation & Performance by Cassie Augusta Jørgensen

Join us for the opening of our ART:CINEMA programme at SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst with a special screening of ‘A Sweetness From Nowhere’.

Before the film begins, director Ester Bergsmark invites the audience into a short guided meditation — an embodied starting point designed to shift the way we experience cinema. Rather than simply watching, we begin by tuning in: to breath, to sensation, to the physical presence of being in a room together. It’s an invitation into a more sensual and attentive way of engaging with film.

After the screening, the evening continues with a live performance of ‘Natures Freak’ by dancer, visual artist and choreographer Cassie Augusta Jørgensen. 

In the performance, Jørgensen cracks open the skull of the situation and listens to the internal monologue of the Hamlet of today – the transgender female. In her room she contemplates inheritance and the things that have been passed on to her. Both in a social and economic sense. What things are ingrained in our understanding of the concept of family, which bodies we empathise with and which we don’t.

Hamlet is forever trapped at home inside his fathers past as a successor of revenge and melancholia. In Hamlet’s nonsensical approach to life we have an interesting intersection into the livelihood of transgenderism. Things that are unexplainable – but don’t cease to exist. There is a certain human attraction to the things we don’t understand – the actions in which we sympathise with a character in a film or novel who doesn’t choose the obvious. The misunderstanding of today is to fanatically make factual out of nature when nature isn’t a fact.

When you buy tickets for a CPH:DOX screening at SMK, you get access to all of the museum. 

This event will be in English. 

ART:CINEMA at SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst
ART:CINEMA is a collaboration between SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst and CPH:DOX between March 20th – March 22nd. You can experience films from Greece to Greenland, with performances, talks, live music, and most importantly lots of art. ART:CINEMA presents a program that explores the many facets of art, examines ancient myths and theories, and celebrates nature as an eternal source of inspiration.

Photo: Kirstine Autzen