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Filip Vest, Self Tape, Still from video, 2024 Photo: Ville Vidø Courtesy of Filip Vest

Filip Vest – Self Tape

Performance

7.11 2024

Malmö

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As part of the performance program in connection to the ongoing exhibition “On the Absurd Drama That Is Also Life”, Filip Vest presents their performance “Self Tape” (2024).

Date: 7 November

Time: at 18.00. The performance lasts för 35 min

Language: English

Location: The Loading Dock

Tickets: 50 SEK, 40 SEK for students and pensioners (admission ticket included). Free admission if you hold an Annual pass or for those entitled to free admission. Buy your ticket through link above.

Copenhagen based Filip Vest has long investigated issues of queer identities, love relationships, desire and contemporary methods of communication. In their work, characters exchange roles, lose themselves in their dreams and hold forth about life, the self, loneliness and, not least, love.

Music: Francesca Buratelli
Choreography: Paolo de Venecia Gile
Co-directing: Rasmus Balling

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Filip Vest, Self Tape, Live performance, 2024 Photo: Morten Jacobsen Courtesy of Filip Vest

In the performance “Self Tape”, we follow an actor-aspiring character named “The Creature”. In a monologue that is equal parts humorous and sad, we share the character’s preparation before castings – sometimes for the role of the monster, sometimes for the princess.

The monologue in Filip Vest’s “Self Tape” refers to and cites several characters from popular culture and fairy tales, both contemporary and historical, such as Frankenstein’s monster, Lorelei, Desdemona from Shakespeare’s Othello and the house elf Dobby from the Harry Potter books.

There is something almost Sisyphean about the loop that the character seems to be stuck in, and at the same time Vest is staging and commenting on precarious work in late capitalist society.

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Filip Vest, Self Tape, Live performance, 2024 Photo: Morten Jacobsen Courtesy of Filip Vest