Krabstadt Education Center

Join in for a multimedia event with the Krabstadt Education Center project at Kunsthal Charlottenborg and experience a different teaching method, where an online teaching format transforms into an on-site event.

Ewa Einhorn and Jeuno JE Kim are the creators behind the transmedia project Krabstadt.and together with Karolin Meunier they present their most recent collaboration, the Krabstadt Education Center (KEC).

At the event in Kunsthal Charlottenborg the audience will be students of KEC. The audience will be served Indonesian Coffee and German well-being tea from Stuck Cafeteria, a cafeteria in Krabstadt. This is followed by a musical classroom with a performance by Henritte Sennenvaldt and her band.

Krabstadt is a fictitious town in the Arctic where all the Nordic countries send their unwanted people and problems – different demographics, such as feminists, artists, retired teachers, emotionally stuck creatures, the long-term unemployed and architects.

Krabstadt has been developed by Ewa Einhorn and Jeuno JE Kim and consists of animated films, a digital game, online as well as onsite performances, sculptures in public space, academic texts, and an art school. Krabstadt has now animated its Education Center (KEC) which traverses between being a drawn element in an animated fictional universe and an actual context hosting educational time.

For further reading: krabstadt.com

KEC seeks to exchange ideas on teaching methods and attitudes, learning outcomes and activities that are informed by performance, translation, digital and non-digital games.
Krabstadt Education Center (KEC) was initiated in 2020 and participated in the Jakarta Biennale 2021: ESOK and guest-edited the Spring 2022 issue of PARSE Journal for Artistic Research.

The event is supported by the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme and the Swedish Research Council

The event will be in English and the admission is free.

BIO
Karolin Meunier is an artist and writer. Her performance, text and video works observe how access to individual experience is accomplished through cultural techniques. Her research is oriented towards feminist writing strategies, translation processes, learning methods, and the politics of dialogue. She is part of the collective book shop and publisher b_books in Berlin; her artist book on the work of Italian feminist Carla Lonzi is forthcoming in 2023.

Ewa Einhorn is a visual artist and filmmaker working with animation, satirical drawing and documentary formats. She currently teaches at HDK-Valand, Gothenburg University (SE). Influenced by popular culture, her work seeks to unhinge everyday assumptions by misusing language and images. The topics relate to the construction of societies, more specifically the relations between political rhetoric and nations as brands in the Nordic context. Since 2009 she has been working together with Jeuno JE Kim.

Jeuno JE Kim is an artist with a background in feminist theology, music, and radio. Kim’s artistic practice and research focus on sound, performance, video, and text. Her work is influenced by the ongoing modernization in Korea and the Pacific East region, and the urgency of the political, sociological, and cultural issues that permeate this reality such as nationalism, identity construction, and historical narration. Currently, she is the study leader of the BFA School at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

Henriette Sennenvaldt is a musician and former frontwoman of the band Under Byen, who with their debut album in 1999 became part of a new wave in European rock music. With a wild text universe and a different approach to instrumentation, the band created compositions that explored the borderland between Nordic folk music, pop, jazz, post-punk and rock. Sennenvaldt released her solo debut Something Wonderful, which earned Sennenvald the Danish Steppeulven award for Composer of the Year. Sennenvaldt’s solo work delves into new territory in the outer reaches of pop and is, in her own words, tender, campy, delicate, intricate and disturbing like few.

Sennenvaldt performs with Bjørn Heebøll (drums); Daniel Honore (sax/clarinet); Jeppe Skovbakke (bass); Johan Wieth (guitar).