Upcoming:
1. The Taste to Participate
3. Gade Monster
8. To Lie on The Grass - A Manifesto
10. Doso Radio Station
How We Acquired the Taste to Participate Community Choir
Kunsthal Charlottenborg (2025)
How We Acquired the Taste to Participate is a participatory storytelling and choir performance set as a time capsule to the seven years leading up to the 2012 London Olympics. The work examines how the Olympic spirit—and its portrayal of children as symbols of effort, discipline, the future and hope—reshaped East London’s identity, urban landscape and imagination. Through scripted dialogue, found footage, and archival photographs used as props- the audience is invited to take part and perform moments of the story together. The piece culminates in a collective song about team spirit. Both affectionate and critical, the work uses the Olympic narrative as a lens to reflect on how we become subjects within larger systems of ideology - lingering in a space where satire, resistance, nostalgia, and participation intermingle. The performance unfolds through a blend of storytelling, scripted dialogue, and participatory choir moments. Found footage and photographs are incorporated as visual props, functioning both as evidence and as performative triggers for the audience’s involvement. Viewers are gradually invited to join the narrative, taking on characters, like “a person with a gym membership” or scenery like an ‘olympic themed kebab shop’ - embodying the roles of participants rather than observers. The audience is not only looking at the work; they are positioned by it. The performance is a humorous yet sincere ode to participation, team spirit, self-performance, and the quiet tragedy of staying in line. Referencing karaoke and school assemblies, it questions how personal narratives are branded, rewritten, rehearsed, and consumed by political forces, turning identity into public performance. In a world where self-improvement feels obligatory and every path leads to a 12-month gym membership, the choir asks: what is enough—and what if our personal brands were stamped on our foreheads? The audience shifts from observers to objects of observation.