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FLOCKS Elephantbutterflies 
ARTISTS RUN WORKSHOP 
In public involving performance and video production
Credits & info

Duration: 2,5 month (21 days)
Place: zoological Garden and Nikolaj Kunsthal
Age group: 5th. - 6th.grade
Participant’s max: 28 persons

Idea and concept: Marika Seidler
Educators: biologist Helle Helensten, writer and performer Seimi Nørregaard, puppeteer Sif Jessen Hymøller video artist Marika Seidler.
Organizer and producer: Marika Seidler
External organizer: Nikolaj Kunsthal dep. of communications Collaboration: Nikolaj Kunsthal dep. of communications, Zoological garden and Kaptajn Johensens private primary school.

Flock mentality between animals and between people seen from an artistic, scientific and literary perspective examined in a Zoological constructed natural environment. The students create their own hybrid animal flock from elephants and butterflies in the Zoological garden. In the elephanthouse the students gain knowledge of masks, text and performance improvisation and performance for video camera in the constructed natural landscapes.

The project throws the students into an ambitious artistic creative process in an authentic high tempo over 2.5 month. The students get an understanding of and responsibility for the creative production in a collaborative performance and video work. In 2015 the collaboration premiered at the Nikolaj Kunsthals Video kunstfestival FOKUS

Financed by Velfærds og forsknings fonden i 2016 and Huskunstnerordningen

© Marika Seidler & clients 2018