Visit our festival center at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Just like in the past years, Kunsthal Charlottenborg will once again constitute the heart of the festival. Here, you can drop by daily to visit cinemas, our VR exhibition INTER:ACTIVE, as well as the Thao Nguyen Phan exhibition Reincarnations of Shadows, which is the artist's first major solo exhibition in Scandinavia, running from March 13th to August 11th.
Welcome to CPH:DOX’s festival center at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Every day during the festival, we open the doors at 10:00 AM to two festival cinemas, exhibitions, events, and parties. You can also eat and drink at Apollo Bar, which is open every day from 10:00 AM (except for Monday), and at Apollo Kantine, which is open daily from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM. Also, visit our own DOX:BAR, which is open every day from the first to the last event.
At Charlottenborg, you’ll find our very own cinema – SOCIAL:CINEMA. Because at festivals like CPH:DOX, it’s not always easy to get to, from, and around if you’re, for example, a wheelchair user, we’ve built a new, temporary cinema at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. It is inspired by the principles of universal design and aims to be more inclusive for guests with mobility impairments.
The cinema, designed by the studio Aspekt Office and supported by the Bevica Foundation’s grant fund, is called SOCIAL:CINEMA and focuses on the body, inclusivity, and sustainability. Scaffold constructions, specially designed furniture, and wheelchair-friendly tables and bars provide access to a more diverse and varied audience.
Poet and disability activist Caspar Eric, who opens SOCIAL:CINEMA on March 16th with a new and visual version of the manifesto ‘Sorry we’re here’, which is a collective outcry from a wide range of people with disabilities and their relatives.
During CPH:DOX, Kunsthal Charlottenborg also opens the Thao Nguyen Phan exhibition ‘Reincarnations of Shadows’. In this first solo exhibition on Scandinavian soil, Phan delves into pressing questions about her homeland’s history in relation to more contemporary issues of environment, colonialism, and historiography.
Moreover, we open the doors to a new edition of our INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition, which is based on the interplay between creativity and technology. Through various media such as games, interactive installations, video art, textiles, and AI, a number of artists explore changes in how we relate to our physical self and investigate how we break the boundaries of our imagined limitations. The INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition is curated by Mark Atkin.
12:00
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? The Body Reexamined. An exploration of our changing relationships to our bodies.
Where Am I From?
Nouf Aljowaysir / United States & Saudi Arabia / Short Film, AI / 2022 / Danish Premiere / 13 min
Ana Min Wein? (Where Am I From?) is a short film and visual diary that constructs the director's genealogical journey using two different voices, her own and an AI 'narrator.'
Vocalize
Halsey Burgund, Francesca Panetta & Shehani Fernando / United Kingdom / Interactive Web App / 2024 / International Premiere / 20 min
Sign up to Vocalize - the cutting edge voice agency. Shape your showreel with Hayley, our AI-assisted voice coach. Will she unlock your potential or does she have a hidden agenda?
Unbuilt Environments
Alistair Gentry / United Kingdom / Video Loop / 2024 / International Premiere / 54 min
Utopian and dystopian environments for disabled people, built in Unreal Engine and based on collaboration with disabled-led groups and disabled people in East London.
Turbulence: Jamais Vu
Ben Joseph Andrews & Emma Roberts / Australia / Mixed Reality (MR) / 2023 / 10 min
An intimate mixed reality docu-essay exploring the phenomenon of derealisation, inviting audiences to reflect on the fragility of perception.
The Sound Voice Project
Hannah Conway, Hazel Gould, Luke Halls & David Sheppard / United Kingdom / Installation - Film and immersive audio (opera) / 2024 / International Premiere / 25 min
The Sound Voice Project explores the intrinsic value of the human voice – merging synthetic voices with live opera, performers who have no voice box and digital voices, sharing real-life stories about the symbiotic relationship between our identity and the way we sound.
Queer Utopia: Act I Cruising
Lui Avallos / Brazil & Portugal / Virtual Reality (VR) / 2023 / 25 min
A retired playwright is losing his memories and seeks companionship on a transformative journey to reconstruct and preserve fragments of his cherished remembrances.
Into the Rabbit Hole
Jess Coldrey / Australia / Mixed media art installation and video / 2023 / European Premiere / 5 min
Jess Coldrey explores her uncertain and pain-ridden relationship to the world during her battle with endometriosis by creating a soft, surreal, yet alien world through contemporary quilts and surreal digital imagery.
Intangible
Carl Emil Carlsen / Denmark / Mixed Reality (MR) / 2023 / 12 min
Intangible investigates the oddly satisfying sensation of touching simulated natural phenomena while calling attention to the controversial idea of reconnecting with nature through computational means.
I see it, so you don’t have to
Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm / Denmark / Wall Hanging / 2023 / European Premiere / 0 min
Combining machine learning and Jacquard weaving, the artistic wall-hanging delves intomental health of low paid micro-workers laboring in the data and content moderationsector of the AI industry.
GLITCHBODIES
Rebecca Merlic / Austria, Germany & Thailand / Game / 2023 / 0 min
GLITCHBODIES:is an experimental game project that explores body transformations, LGBTQ+Draq and intimate sensitive representations of the 59 protagonists and aims to bring them to a wider audience. It is a play of transformation, a catwalk of vogeuism, exhibitionism & voyeurism.
Garden of Ghost Flowers – The Embodiment Archive
Lundahl & Seitl & Untold Garden / Sweden & United Kingdom / Virtual Reality (VR) / 2024 / World Premiere / 15 min
An ongoing exploration of resonance as a model for intra-action between tech, humans, and the more-than-human. Visitors are invited to witness the creation of virtual ghost flowers which depend on human voices for growth.
Finite Horizon
Astria Suparak / United States / Installation (print and video) / 2023 / European Premiere / 9 min
Finite Horizon is an amalgamated skyline of Asian futures imagined by white filmmakers. Sourced from 20th and 21st century sci-fi, these movies depict a vice-ridden, dangerous world.
Blood Speaks: Periods, Power and Protest 2013-2024
Poulomi Basu & CJ Clarke / United Kingdom & India / Mixed media installation, video, VR and Photography / 2024 / Danish Premiere / 0 min
Mapping the body as a site of resistance Blood Speaks is an odyssey of womanhood and defiance drawing together the real and the imaginary to trace possible paths to resilience and justice.
Antipsychotic
Matt McCorkle / United States / Installation, Game / 2023 / European Premiere / 15 min
Embark on an immersive XR installation that blends psychotropic cyberpunk aesthetics with high fidelity sound and poetry to explore personal experiences with bipolar disorder.
Anamnesis
Petr Salaba & Ondrej Hrach / Czech Republic / Game / Web based chatbot / 2024 / World Premiere / 6 min
In this simulation, you are a medical student tasked with obtaining anamnesis from an AI-simulated entity by posing investigative questions. Your empathy towards the suffering chatbot will be assessed.
17:00
Bye Bye Tiberias
Lina Soualem / France, Palestine, Belgium & Qatar / 2023 / 82 min
Four generations of Palestinian women give vivid and moving accounts of their relationship with their homeland, their hometown of Tiberias, and the resistance that has been passed down from mother to daughter.
20:00
The relationship between students and their favourite teacher in a bilingual Austrian school class, observed with loving attention over three formative years by documentary auteur Ruth Beckermann.
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