Enroll as a student in a sensuous boarding school and explore your poetic self together with an octopus and twenty-five performative teachers.
In a future society arising from a post-economical and ecological crisis, the world as we know it is no more. But The Sister and her staff have planted a seed of hope and opened Sisters Academy – a school in a world and society where the sensuous and poetic mode of being is at the center of all action and interaction. For three weeks in September, Inkonst in Malmö will transform into a boarding school where you will be able to explore and unfold new modes of more sensuous and poetic learning in an immersive landscape of sounds, images and bodies.
Operating at the intersection of performance art, activism, pedagogy and research, the large-scale Nordic project Sisters Academy manifests in a series of countries between 2014 and 2017. The project is initiated by the Danish performance group Sisters Hope who use radical interventionist and immersive performance art strategies to transform ordinary environments into parallel, slightly oblique universes where new modes of sensuous learning can be explored and unfolded.
Anyone over the age of 18 can enroll as a student and stay for a minimum of 24 hours, and up to the entire three weeks inside The Boarding School. You get a bed, three meals a day, a school uniform and some essential objects to take you through your experience as a student.
Inside The Boarding School there will also be concerts and seminars that are open to anyone, weather you wish to enroll as a student or not. The artists who will play concerts or DJ will also be affected by The Boarding School environment, for example by the way they dress, move or sound. Also, you as the audience becomes part of the piece, as soon as you step across the threshold, you are a co-creator and explorer of a sensuous school environment. Even the box office is part of the experience itself – therefore we have a special booking for these concerts, and it is not possible to buy tickets at the door neither to concerts nor clubs. But the fact that everyone is enrolled in advance has many advantages *wink wink* and the magical feast is well worth the extra effort. So make sure to book your ticket, cause this is something you definitely do not want to miss!
