THE MONSTER – a New York thriller
Madame Nielsens horrifying new novel THE MONSTER is now paralyzing the world
The Monster is a New York horror novel, a vision of the impending.
READ THE 5-6 starred REVIEWS:
THE TOURING MONSTER SHOW:
Saturday 27 October 14:15 hrs: Tranescenen Bogforum (with Lilian Munk-Rösing)
Sunday 28 October 13:30 hrs: Spotscenen Bogforum (with Morten Hesseldahl, CEO of Gyldendal Publishers)
Thursday 8 November 17 hrs: Politikens Boghal (with Mikkel Bogh, director of SMK)
Alex Ahrendtsens Danmarksscene (The Vision of the Danish Peoples Party)
As part of the multi-national performance on nationalisms and national emotions Topographies of Paradise, Madame Nielsen in collaboration with Alex Ahrendtsen – Cultural Spokesperson for the Danish Peoples Party – has developed and staged Mr. Ahrendtsen’s personal vision of The Danish Scene.
Friday 12 October at Skuespilhuset, The Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, this outstanding national vison was shown 4! times. Starring: Karin Heinemeier, Sigurd Holmen Le Dous (& Madame Nielsen her very self)
The Invasion in Transit – novel as exhibition & performance
13. September – 10 February 2019 Madame Nielsen is part of the TRANSIT exhibition at museum KØS in Køge.
The bildungs-roman Invasionen (The Invasion) has turned into a three-dimensional space. And the Mexico City-walk is on show as a video-satellite in the museum café.
In early October, Madame Nielsen will complete her European Walk Over 7 Borders from 2015 with a 2-days walk fra Køge along the E-line to Copenhagen Central Station.
Topographies of Paradise – soon on tour!
Madame Nielsen’s major project on European national(istic) visions culminated 25 August at The Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern during the Bergman Festival in Stockholm. In collaboration with 10 actors from 5 big European theatre houses associated in the pan-European stage arts organisation Mitos21 Madame Nielsen mapped and performed the multitude of nationalisms and separatisms, which are currently blooming all over the old continent.
During the coming season, the performance will – we hope – go on a small tour d’Europe to Belgrade, Copenhagen & Barcelona. Watch out for dates!
The mission includes the following theaters:
National Theatre in Belgrade, Serbia
Teatre Lliure in Barcelona, Spain
Akademie für Darstellende Kunst in Ludwigsburg, Germany
Dramaten – Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern in Stockholm, Sweden
The Royal Danish Theater in Copenhagen, Denmark
THE WORLD PREMIERE took place at the Bergman Festival at Dramaten, Stockholm, Sweden 25 August 2018
Black Madonna – solo show on Teater Sort/Hvid & the World Stages
The race-erasing show by Madame Nielsen & Christian Lollike stirred the Danish public into a foaming race-race. The show transgressed the stage borders and fourth and fifth walls out into the public space and the social networks. It includes Sister Nielsen’s own black songs, viral music videos and much more. Until the 12th performance the show was named and publicited as White Nigger / Black Madonna but then – of reasonable reasons – reduced to its initial title.
Black Madonna is the first of a 3-part beyond-the-races work, which now also includes:
PART 2: “Who, what, why is she” + “2 x Black Messiah” – a photo exhibition by Mdm Nielsen, Lollike and Sofie Klougart
PART 3: The music video BLACK MOON RISING by WHITE PRIVILEGE
Black Madonna show calendar:
30 April – 19 May 2018: at Teater S/H in Copenhagen.
31 May & 1 June Bergen International Festival (Bergen Festspillene) Norway
Friday 8 June 21 hrs & Saturday 9 June 11 a.m. at Teater S/H as part of Cph:Stage 2018
Madame Nielsen in Germany
Madame Nielsen in The U.S.
3-16 March, Madame Nielsen will be book-touring that U.S. with her novel The Endless Summer
published 13 February by Open Letter Books
Her she goes: The first dates and cities:
5 March : Portland at Powell’s Bookstore
6 March : Seattle at Elliot Bay
8 March : San Francisco at Green Apple Bookstore – interviewed by Scott Esposito
11 March : Houston, Texas, at Brazos Bookstore
13 March : Rochester, Minnesota, at Spirit Room, University of Rochester
15 March: New York City at Scandinavia House
READ THE BRILLIANT REVIEWS IN:
THE NEW ALBUM: Mum & Dad
Thursday 22. February the new and long-awaited album from
THE NIELSEN SISTERS: Mum & Dad
hit the world, the wide, the web and the real record shops
& it sounds like sex and sorrow and die till you dance in your ears and hearts:
SISTER NIELSEN: vocals & guitars / SISTER ANJA: vocals / SIMON SAILOR TOLDAM: keyboards, bass, organ, electronics & clarinet /
Jakob Høyer: organ, keyboards, groove box & reverse guitar / Niels Bosse Davidsen: double-bass & cello / Oliver Hoiness: guitar / Anders Banke: clarinet / Henriette Groth: viola & clarinet / Mads Emil Nielsen: moog, electronics & cosmic noise
Recorded live in Koncertkirken/Blågårds Church, Copenhagen / Engineered & produced by Jakob Høyer / Mixed by Mads Emil Nielsen & Jakob Høyer
BUY THE ALBUM NOW & HERE!
WATCH THE VIDEO-SINGLES:
RELEASE TOUR:
22 February 20 hrs: Svendborg Giant Steps Festival – REVIEW
7 April (Saturday) 21 hrs: Teater Sort/Hvid, Copenhagen – THE RELEASE CONCERT
Madame Nielsen & Mikkel Bolt – 10 years later
MADAME NIELSEN møder MIKKEL BOLT & CHRISTIAN LOLLIKE 10 år efter sammenbruddets!
I anledning af 10-året for bestselleren ”I sammenbruddets tjeneste” mødtes Madame Nielsen og Mikkel Bolt i december på Teater Sort/Hvid for i samtale med teaterdirektør Christian Lollike at diskutere fremtiden for revolutionen. Mere end 100 verdensborgere var op og sad med ører på stilke og fulgte den nådesløse dyst. Men netop da det afgørende svar skulle formuleres, måtte samtalen afbrydes og scenen ryddes.
I mere end en måned holdt verden vejret, før denne kunstens og intelligensens Bermuda-trekant i igen mødtes den sidste aften i januar for at give publikum de svar, vi ikke længere kan leve uden:
Hvad gør vi med det igangværende sammenbrud? Hvordan håndterer vi alle de sammenvævede kriser, økonomiens, den biosfæriske nedsmeltning, den såkaldte ‘flygtningekrise’, de politiske institutioners kollaps, den totalitære stramning og kunstens neoliberalisering? Hvilken strategi skal vi vælge: tilbagetrækning, konspiration, forræderi eller “den lange march gennem institutionerne”? Står vi stadig i sammenbruddets tjeneste, eller er det snarere Undtagelsestilstanden, vi vil erobre. Og hvem fanden er ”vi”? Og ikke mindst: Skal Bolt virkelig give sine døtre til revolutionen?
Var du der ikke? Så kan du få svaret senere på året, når tidsskriftet Vagant i et særnummer publicerer hele samtalen.
Madame Nielsen in Mexico
9 – 16 October, Madame Nielsen was participating in Mexico City’s Zocalo International Book Fair, presenting her first novel in Spanish: El verano infinito.
Read the wonderful review in the important Spanish newspaper: El Periodico
Madame Nielsen in Paris and France
18 – 26 September, Madame Nielsen returned to her city of cities: Paris to promote the French translation of her novel The Endless summer – in French: l’Eté Infini, published by Editions Notabilia .
Read the spell-bound review in LIBERATION by author and Prix Médicis winner Mathieu Lindon
The Endless Summer on the Spanish, American, French and German markets
Madame Nielsen’s novel The Endless Summer is seducing the Spanish readers all over the Planet Earth:
In Spain & Latin America, the novel was published in April 2017 by Editorial Minúscula, Barcelona, translated by Blanca Ortiz Ostalé
In France, it was published August 24 2017 by Edition Notabilia, in a translation by Jean-Baptiste Coursaud
In the US, it will be published 13 February 2018 by Open Letter Books , translated by Lady Gaye Kynoch
In Germany, it will be published 8 March 2018 by Kiepenheuer & Witsch, in a translation by Hannes Langendörfer
DET HØJESTE VÆSEN (THE SUPREME BEING) is born!
28 March, Madame Nielsens new novel DET HØJESTE VÆSEN (The Supreme Being) has now been by published simultaneously in Denmark and Norway by Gyldendal Publishers and Pelikanen.
Read the 5-starred reviews:
Listen to a dialogue between Madame Nielsen and the Norwegian professor of Literature Per Buvik
Salon Madame Nielsen on Tour de Europe: Winter lair in Auschwitz
Madame Nielsen is on a never-ending tour with her Salon – including pianist and wizard of musical toys Sailor Toldam – visiting capitals and major cities all over Europe, from Stockholm to Berlin, Krakow and Paris. In each city Madame choses a proper residence and invites the local guests to her bedroom, where they are treated with songs, poetry and dance. In each city, Madame invites a special guest – the most influential female being of the region – to discus the problems of gender and the state of our planet.
At the moment, Madame and her Sailor have gone into winter lair, of all places: in Auschwitz.
Previous salons:
2013:
April-June: Paris, Studio 116, Les Recollets
2015:
May-June: Copenhagen
17-19 September: Stavanger, Norway – Kapittel Festival
22-24 September: Oslo, Norway – Black Box Teater
13-15 October: Aarhus, Denmark – Aarhus Teater
17-18 October: Odense, Denmark – Odense Teater
2016:
23+24 January: Berlin, Deutsches Theater
29 January: Oslo, KHIO
30+31 August 2016: Stockholm – Bergman Festivalen – Dramaten
16+17 September 2016: Stavanger Kapittel Festival
15 November 2016: Katowice, Poland Ars Cameralis Festival
The Nielsen Sisters live in Odense
Thursday 10 November 20 hrs., The Nielsen Sisters played live in concert at Teater Momentum in Odense
Saint Nielsen nominated for Nordic Literature Prize
Saint Nielsen and Madam Karrebæk’s Da Gud var Dreng (When God was a Boy) was nominated for the Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize .
The film about Nielsen & Das Beckwerk
NIELSEN, Cæcilie Østerby Sørensen’s film-in-3-parts about the work of Das Beckwerk, was premiered at the international documentary film festival CPH:DOX in November.
WATCH PART ONE “THE BURIAL” HERE!
INVASIONEN – a border crossing novel
Thursday 31 March, Madame Nielsens enlightenment novel INVASIONEN (THE INVASION) was published (by Gyldendal Publishers), telling the tale of the long lost continent Europe in the year of 2015 where a new kind of humanity arrived.
Read some of the online REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS:
In September INVASIONEN was published in Norway by Pelikanen Publishers
More films on Youtube
The Nielsen Movement online-cinema has new films on the program:
THE NATIONAL BRAND, a tragic comedy about the famous storyteller H.C. Andersen/Nielsen’s claim to fame in Copenhagen, Berlin & New York
Watch also:
The Political Thrillers:
The Impossible Walk – documentary from Nielsens 2008-attempt to walk under The Flag of Friendship from to mountains between Iran and Afghanistan and down through the capital Kabul
Walking under a Banned Flag – documentary from Nielsens pre-revolution intervention into the dark matters of the Egyptian regime in November 2010 – an attempt to solve the new caricature crisis.
Colonizing Iran! (2006) – Nielsen & Altheimer staging the second Iranian Revolution
The Dramas:
The Language of Hope (2009) – starring Olaf Johannesen as the medium of Barak Obama
The Transformer (2014)
The Last European (2005)
The Comedies:
Reumertprisen 2003 – in 2003, Nielsen was awarded a Reumert Prize for “best playwright of the year”. Nielsen was expected to show up and receive the prize live and direct in the TV-show from The Royal Theatre in Copenhagen. BUT: an alter ego showed up and took over the show.
The European Pilgrimages
Follow Madame Nielsen on her on-going pilgrimage through Europe (and beyond)!
Follow Madame ALIVE now in Tigres-vandringen crossing the red mountains of Aethiopia
Madame Nielsen is on a tour de Europe with her Salon. The arrival at each new city takes the form of a pilgrimage. Along the ways, Madame takes notes in her little white book and snap shots of herself and her surroundings with her very smart phone.
The European Pilgrimages are and will currently be published by Salon 55, so watch out!:
The Endless Summer – sold to Norway, Sweden, USA, France, Spain & Germany
Madame Nielsens heartbreaking novel, written in her studio in Paris Xéme, is now sold to Norway, Sweden, USA, France & Spain
Den endeløse sommer came out in Denmark August 2013 and had brilliant reviews – buy & read the real thing HERE:
Read the reviews:
Music Video version 4 of 5: Behind-the-scenes
The Nielsen Sisters have revealed the charismatic behind-the-scenes version 4 of their blockbuster music video
Watch it here: Love & Peaces
The European Border Crossings
In mid-October, Madame Nielsen took the first step on a border crossing Odyssee:
Throughout October and November she walked all the way up through Europe, crossing the 7 borders from Greece in the south to The Land of DKay in the north.
And by the way she – by chance – followed the paths and constantly shifting ways of the wave of refugees:
From Greece into Macedonia into Serbia into Croatia into Slovenia into Austria into Germany into DKay
By the ways she wrote 7 big essays, which were currently published – one each week – in the newspapers Weekendavisen and Information.
And 31 March 2016 her border crossing novel INVASIONEN (THE INVASION) will come out.
World premiere at CPH-DOX: I gave my Body to The Revolution
The new film by The Nielsen Movement on CPH:DOX
8 and 10 November, the documentary film festival CPH:DOX dedicated an entire evening to the works of The Nielsen Movement and the movement’s ancestor Das Beckwerk:
Cæcilie Østerby Sørensen’s film-in-4-parts about Das Beckwerk
&
I gave my Body to The Revolution, the agent-thriller-movie about Nielsens attempt to donate his other body to the revolution, on Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, on a Holy Friday and – unforeseen – at the same time as 1 million furious Egyptians gathered on the square to support The Muslim Brotherhood.
The Nielsen Effect in Berlin
Nielsen has staged his version of the Clash of Religionizations at Deutsches Theater in Berlin.
Read the review HERE
When God was a Boy
Saint Nielsen
appears before the world only when the body temperature rises above 40 degrees Celsius. In his elevated presence he has access to the time before creation When God was a Boy. As a true Saint he wrote down his vision, a most holy book now illuminated by Madam Karrebæk.
Buy the Holy Book here: Høst & Søn.
The Nielsen Sisters’ Global Song Contest
Dear sisters all around the planet; join The Nielsen Sisters song fame & salvation contest HERE!
WATCH THE MUSIC VIDEO LOVE & PEACES
The Royal Release Concert: 6 June
June 6th., The Nielsen Sisters gave their millions of fans a Royal Release Concert in Copenhagen.
Salon Madame Nielsen in Copenhagen
In May, Madame Nielsen left her beloved Paris to open a salon in her bedroom at the harbour front of Copenhagen. In Salon Madame Nielsen, the chosen few were be received around Madame’s bed. Accompanied by her pianist, Sailor Toldam, she entertained the guests with ballads, poetry and discourse on the most emergent topics of Today. Each night a special female guest arrived to discuss the feminine future of our world with Madame.
Among the excellent women guests were: stage director Elisa Kragerup, author Suzanne Brøgger, critics & novelist Leonora Christina Skov, politician Özlem Cekic, trend old lady of Danish performance art Kirsten Justesen and bishop Tine Lindhardt.
The Market is no Place – The Royal Theatre
The Theatre of The Medium – part 5 – Copenhagen May-June 2015
Nielsen and stage director Elisa Kragerup has taken their “Theatre of The Medium” another step and another dimension further towards a new world order in Markedet (er ikke noget sted) / The Market is no Place;
The end of market economy staged as a Wagner dystopia for the 21st century.
Read the reviews:
The Nielsen Sisters: Love & Peaces – new album out now!
22 April, the new The Nielsen Sisters album appeared on the planet as touchable matter – LP/vinyl, CD – and virtually as downloadable sound. The name of the darling is Love & Peaces.
“a disturbing album ( … ) the sweet music of the breakdown ( … ) a cabaret on the madness of humanity”
Read the review in Information
3 singles are out for free listening on Soundcloud
BUY THE ALBUM AS LP/CD/Download HERE
Nielsen in Germany – eine Deutschlandsreise
18 – 28 April, Nielsen – the author, playwright and metteur en scene of History – undertook a journey to universities and theaters throughout Germany; eine Frühlings-Deutschlandsreise:
20. April: Berlin – Deutsches Theater
21 April: Berlin – Humboldt Universität
22 April: Göttingen – Georg-August Universität
23 April: Frankfurt – Schauspiel Frankfurt
24 April: Frankfurt – Goethe Universität
27 April: Ludwigsburg – Akademie für Darstellende Kunst Baden-Württemberg
Nielsen as Distinguished visiting professor at University of Aarhus
Throughout February 2015, Nielsen was residing in the Danish provincial capital Aarhus as distinguished visiting professor at Centre for Fictionality Studies at Aarhus University.
Miss World in Ukraine – the movie on CPH:DOX
The movie about the Angel in Ukraine had it’s world premiere on the international documentary film festival CPH:DOX Thursday 6 November in Copenhagen
Nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize
“The winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize was announced at the Nordic Council Prize Gala Wednesday 29 October 2014 in Stockholm.”
Claus Beck-Nielsen was among the nominated authors.
Book release in Sweden
23 October, the Nordich Council nominated Nielsen-novel was published in Swedish translation as “Mina möten med de verkliga författerna” by Kabusa Böcker; and the book has been praised by the Swedish critics.
Read the brillant reviews:
The Transformer – the album of pure voice
Thursday 25 September Sister Nielsen & Mads Emil Nielsen launched their new album The Transformer; an album made almost only from (millions of) Sister Nielsen voices.
Buy the entire album for only 40 d.kr. here
Nielsen & Miss World back in Ukraine
The Ukrainian Nielsen book
Нільсен
Всесвітня історія
21-го століття
is published by Meridian and in September Nielsen & Miss World was touring the huge country to promote the book with readings and concerts.
Ultimo September Father Nielsen and his Ukrainian angel left Kiev for an expedition into Eastern Ukraine.
Read Father Nielsens reports in Politiken about the sufferings in Donetzk Oblast:
Nielsen and Handke in Norway
Saturday 16 August Nielsen was in Grimstad to present his Claus Beck-Nielsen novel Mine møder med De Danske Forfattere and discuss the political and aesthetic pros and cons of the Austrian author Peter Handke.
Læs Nielsens dom over Handke i det norske tidsskrift Vagant.
Miss World in Ukraine
Miss World is the guardian angel of all the peoples in the World.
No matter where in the world there is a conflict, Miss World arrives to encourage the individuals and heal the fractures.
Throughout May and June, Miss World has travelled all over Ukraine – from Kiev along the border to Donbas to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa in the south and Lviv in the West – in her white dress, with her black guitar and her bright songs.
Miss World is singing to the Ukrainians about the Russians, and to the Russians about the Ukrainians.
And at the end of the song we will all just be human.
Follow Miss World – The Guardian Angel in Ukraine on her Angel’s WingBook
Read the 4 big features in Politiken:
4. Omfavnelsen er det bedste våben
Watch the 5 minutes video on Politiken tv
21 years after his death
In August 2012, Nielsen had a conversation with his grandfather 21 years after his death.
The conversation with the dead was broadcast by the Radio 24Syv
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.
Watch THE VIDEO of the entire performance
Listen to the radioactive sound emissions:
Drømmer om et køn (Dreaming of a gender)
Interview & reviews:
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 –
Watch the Event
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