The Performance Bulletin

Den Frie and Toaster present our upcoming performance festival The Performance Bulletin, which will take place from 5 to 8 June 2025. Together with Danish and international performance artists, we investigate how situational performance pieces can introduce alternative ways of engaging and experiencing contemporary art. Formed by artistic actions that disrupt our attention and open the senses, the program asks what kinds of imaginations can be activated through embodied, situated, and processual performances.

The program is based on close collaborations with artists, who experiment with everything from feminist openings of symbols and monuments in the city to collective dance ecstasies, vocal performances, joints dinners, performative explorations of the city’s infrastructure, and traffic hubs as well as performance pieces that slow down the pace and enhance our sensitivity. Improvisation and movement are central forces in the program, which experiment with access and negotiate the use of the public space. Celebrating the unexpected, indeterminate, and activistic impulse of performances, the program tests public attention and social processes by the happening of art.