Infinite Contradictions: The Elastic Test is a performance by the artist collective Apparatus22, where three participants maneuver a large leather flag together in a space. The flag is heavy, cumbersome, and requires full coordination and collaboration to move. Without using words, the participants find solutions to control the flag’s movements. At the same time, the flag holds infinite aesthetic possibilities for form and expression, which can be explored as symbols of the constantly shifting balance points of power, which need to be restored and renegotiated repeatedly. Slowly, the flag changes hands between participants while the paradoxes of democracy in our modern and vibrant world are reflected. The work is part of the solo exhibition Civis Bloomcraft and will be performed throughout Roskilde during the spring and summer.

Experience Infinite Contradictions: The Elastic Test at your school or workplace
As a special offer, the museum is bringing this performance to your workplace, institution, or school. This work will facilitate a unique space for conversation, creative thinking, and community. The performance can be booked by contacting the museum’s art communicator, Astrid Brincker Olson, via email at astbol@samtidskunst.dk. The performance lasts approximately 1 hour, including a presentation and subsequent dialogue about the work.

The performance is non-verbal. The introduction and following dialogue can be conducted in Danish or English. 

Friday, 02.05 Musicon, Bagtæppet 10, Roskilde
Saturday, 10.05 Delta Festival at Gimle
Saturday, 17.05 Sankt Hans Area, Roskilde
Saturday, 26.05 Roskilde Libraries Literature Festival

Free of charge. No registration required

Civis Bloomcraft challenges traditional exhibition formats and explores how local relationships can blossom and make an exhibition grow. With humor, curiosity, and a bit of mystery, Apparatus 22 explores Roskilde as a city, culture, and community, asking where the city’s heartbeat resonates the loudest. The exhibition unfolds over three acts, with the first act kicking off with confetti blasts and a performance. The following acts will feature interactive installations in schools, train stations – and maybe even in your own living room.

Apparatus 22: The artist collective describes itself as a group of dreamers, poetic activists, and (failed) futurists, comprising Maria Farcas, Dragos Olea, Erika Olea, and Ioana Nemes (1979-2011). They are based in Bucharest, Brussels, and Suprainfinit, a utopian universe. For Apparatus 22 everything is up for negotiation and reinterpretation, experimenting with both form and content. Their works span from installations to performances, and texts. Time and space are reimagined and reassembled as the entire city of Roskilde becomes a stage for this exhibition, with works presented across public and private spaces throughout the spring.