The Transformer – a performance
CaféTeatret Copenhagen 13 March – 7 April 2014:
The new major performance by La Nielsen Transformatoren (The Transformer) took over CaféTeatret in Copenhagen; a performance of the being beyond age and gender; the new feminine selves of La Nielsen, travelling through the bodies, movements, images and voices of those who were before: Blixen, Bausch, Ofelia, Antigone, Medea, PJ, Michael(a) Jackson, female samurais, amazones, reptiles, birds and others of the millions of Others.
Listen to the radioactive sound emissions:
Drømmer om et køn (Dreaming of a gender)
Interview & reviews:
I gave My Body to the Revolutions – film-preview
Film-preview: Sirid Laursen’s film about Nielsen’s intervention into the Egyptian revolution on Tahrir Square on Holy (Easter) Friday, 2012: I gave My Body to the Revolutions
The European Media in Hamburg & Berlin
The European Media on Kampnagel, Hamburg & HAU, Berlin – directed by Nielsen
In November-December 2013 Nielsen has been staging The European Media with German actors/mediums at Kampnagel in Hamburg, Germany. The production was subsequently shown at HAU in Berlin as part of the NordWind Festival.
Read the reviews
Watch the video-registration (Password: dasnielsen)
Nominated for the major Nordic Literature Prize – 2014
The Claus Beck-Nielsen-novel Mine Møder med De Danske Forfattere (My Encounters with The Danish Authors) has been nominated for the major Nordic Council Literature Prize.
Read the nomination statement in English here and in Danish here
Read more and buy the novel here
REVIEWS:
Frederiksborg Amts Avis & Flensborg Avis
Vaka över ensamheten (Swedish blog)
I am fiction – the movie about the Trial now on TV
I am Fiction (Identitetstyveriet) – director Max Kestner’s movie about the High Court-trial Thomas Skade-Rasmussen versus Nielsen & Gyldendal Publishers, and the tragical consequences of the verdict – was shown on Danish television:
DR2, Tuesday 1. October 20:30 hrs.
watch the trailer on Youtube:
Sister Nielsen in Ukraine
3-11 September the oldest of The Nielsen Sisters was touring the Ukraine (Kiev, Czernowytz & Lviv) with solo concerts and poetry readings.
Here is a video-postcard produced by the national Ukrainian tv.
Angel Hypocrisy live at The Royal Theatre
The Nielsen Sisters on Roskilde Festival
4-7 July The Nielsen Sisters performed 4 concerts at Roskilde Festival
Sister Nielsen in Paris
The monthly “Salon 116″ chez Madame Nielsen
The oldest of The Nielsen Sisters has moved to Paris,
and in her new home in the 10th arrondissement Sister Nielsen is holding a monthly “salon”, where she is receiving guests and treating them with music, dance and poetry reading.
The first three “salons” took place on
Friday 19 April, Thursday 16 May and Friday 14 June
The Nielsen Sisters touring Norway
In the last days of May, The Nielsen Sisters were touring Norway.
Afterlife
Museet for Samtidskunst /
Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde
1 February – 7 April 2013
The Nielsen Sisters on Youtube
Live at The Royal Theatre, Copenhagen
The Nielsen Sisters – We are Multitude
The Album – worldwide
On the threshold to winter and darkness the world has been saved by the sound of the debut album of The Nielsen Sisters: We are Multitude
Buy the album online here
And visit The Nielsen Sisters on Soundcloud and Facebook
De Europæiske Medier – Odense Teater
Premiere 15. november kl. 19:30
Spilleperiode for De Europæiske Medier:
Odense Teater: 15. november – 1. december
Hippodromen, Folketeatret, København: 12.-15. december
Nielsen and Sisters in Ukraine 5-9 September
5-9 September Nielsen & Sisters performed at “Meridian Czernowitz – III International Poetry Festival” in the Ukranian city of Czernowitz. Visit the festival program
Read the interview in the Ukrainian weekly «День»
Store Satans Fald (Fall of The Great Satan) – a novel
Denmark & Norway
Torsdag 23. august udkom Nielsens nye roman Store Satans Fald simultant på Gyldendal i Danmark og på forlaget Oktober i Norge.
Romanen fik 5 stjerner og hjerter i Politiken, Berlingske Tidende og Jyllands Posten.
I Danmarks Radio sagde Klaus Rothstein “Den roman rummer nogle af de mest fascinerende og grænseoverskridende og uheldsvangre passager, jeg nogensinde har læst i en dansk roman.”
Og i Kristeligt Dagblad skrev Lars Handsten “en større litterær og kunstnerisk begivenhed, som fornyer litteraturens etiske, politiske og eksistentielle potentiale.”
Nielsen’s new novel Fall of the Great Satan was published 23 August by Gyldendal Publishers (Denmark) and Oktober (Norway)
The Nielsen Sisters – live on Youtube
4 hits from the album-pre-sentation concert in Copenhagen
Sunday 13 May The Nielsen Sisters presented the songs from the forthcoming album The Nielsen Sisters: We are Multitude
Watch also:
I want you
The Moment that You came to Me
The Resurrection Concert II
Attempt no. 2 – The Royal Theatre, Copenhagen
Friday 27 April Saint Nielsen made his second attempt on a full and real resurrection. A reenactment of his first attempt on 22 January. He was once again assisted by his Banned Band.
De Europæiske Medier / The European Media
World Premiere at Det Kongelige Teater / The Royal Theatre, Copenhagen, Thursday 26. April
Script by Nielsen
Directed by Elisa Kragerup
Agent Nielsen in Cairo
The Supposed Statue of the Prophet Mohammad
- a parallel history of Egypt – Act 3 -
Sunday 8 April Agent Nielsen returned to Cairo to make the third and final attempt to free the plaster copy of Claus Beck-Nielsens body. In September 2010 the effigy was shipped to Cairo as a representative of the universal state citizen to have it’s death bed and burial in the City of the Dead. At the arrival in Cairo Airport it was seized by the Egyptian Intelligence Service, who suspected it of being a statue of the Prophet Mohammad. A few weeks later Agent Nielsen arrived and made his first attempt to free the statue, but he too ended up in the hands of the Egyptian Security Service. This may have been the beginning of the Egyptian Revolution, which culminated a month later in January 2011. Since then – for almost 1½ years – the statue has been considered lost in the post-revolutionary turmoil. But in March 2012 the Danish Embassy in Cairo reported that a private Egyptian individual, a Mr. Eng. Hazem had put it on sale for 5000 Egyptian Pounds. According to himself he had bought it from the Customs (a.k.a. the Security Service?). This final mission of Agent Nielsen was to redeem the statue and – on Friday 13 April after the morning prayer - to let six Egyptian revolutionaries carry the statue through the streets of Cairo to Tahrir Square and finally “bury” it in the hands of The People and the Revolution.
Tuesday 10 April
The statue tracked down in a warehouse in Giza, home of the Pharaos:
Friday 13 April – Mission completed!
The Body as a sign: White Man’s Metamorphoses
the transformation from the ideal world citizen through Mohammad caricature, black market commodity, Jesus figurine, hostage, freed and finally a gift to the People, who immediately transforms the ideal man into the Evil himself: Omar Suleiman:
Selvmordets svære kunst
The Difficult Art of Suicide – an essay
Dagbladet Information Friday 16 March
The Resurrection Concert I
The Inevitable and Impossible Return of Saint Nielsen the Banned
Attempt no. 1 – at Cafe Teatret, Copenhagen
Naming the Nameless
The Beginning of a New Era
- Nikolaj Contemporary Arts Center, Day 1, Year 1 -
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