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HENRYS DREAM PAPER

HENRYS DREAM OFFICE Blågårds Plads 5, 2. sal. 2200 København N Denmark PRESS Esben Weile Kjær esben@henrysdream.dk Phone: + 45 30343042

HENRYS DREAM 2013

BOOKING AND ADMINISTRATION Anne Birch Basse music@henrysdream.dk anne@gunforhire.dk PERFORMANCE AND INSTALLATION Madeleine Katë McGowan madeleinekate@houseoffutures.dk Phone: + 45 51228947

Henrys Dream is an interactive performance and music festival that will take place from July 18. – 20., 2013. The main focus of the festival will be to include the participants in the interactive design of the festival and to make them become creators of the contents of the festival. Henrys dream will set the scene for a new, fictive society and community. The festival area is a parallel universe, created with its own rules, aesthetics and social patterns. The guests of the festival will be confronted with rules that include them in the culture of the festival. In this sense, Henrys Dream will become a full installation that maneuvers on the borders between fiction and reality. Because the behavioral structures of the festival sets the scene for stimulating the senses and the mind, we wish to achieve a dynamic social energy that binds the participants together across the borders of their individual background and the social circles they usually are part of.

VISUAL IDENTITY Marta Julia Johansen marta@henrysdream.dk WEB EDITORS Randi Pallesen Kristian Teilmann Frederiksen TRANSLATION Peter Stanners VOLUNTEERS Thomas Wesley Antonson frivillig@henrysdream.dk THANKS TO We would like to thank everybody from the Henrys Dream Community

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS AND PARTNERS OFFICIAL MEDIA PARTNER

The musical part is merged with the performative and the installational. The idea is to redefine the performance- and concert forms and thereby crea-ting a new way to experience the two arts. This way, the audience will be challenged in regards to how they experience and interact with the music and their comprehension of how it can be communicated. The musicians who play will also be performers and include themselves as actors in the room. This way, the traditional concert form will be broken up and the audience will not be able to remain passive, because their reaction to the performances will become an interaction in itself, thereby redefining rituals and ways of acting in relation to the concert form. In order to get the full experience of the festival, the participants have to devote themselves completely and dare to lose control and challenge their own behaviors. This is the way to step all the way into the fictional narrative!

LEADER

I AM NOT SO IMPORTANT WHILE SLEEPING by Maria Gerhardt, also known as Djuna Barnes

lie. I can’t keep up, not least because I’m trying to foster a nurturing presence, a not-so unpopular characteristic in the over-30s. Why keep your fingers constantly on the pulse when there are fresh raspberries to be picked in the garden. It’s a natural progression, the cultural food chain, and someone has to become an adult. And no, it’s not possible to remain a DJ once you grow up. You have to decide. Some days the inner animal stirs within, especially when the young people hit upon something truly new.

I have dreams where I disappear inside apartments with a never ending number of rooms. Every time I open a door, another comes into view. There are lots of plants in the rooms. Light streams in through roof windows. Illuminating wine bottles that sit upon hardwood furniture, emptied during nights of howling laughter. I love those dreams. I wake up with the feeling that I can accomplish anything. Then there are the dreams that steal my clothes. I’m suddenly naked in a crowd. That is already enough of a problem. But then, without warning, I start to masturbate. I don’t know who is controlling my arms and I desperately look for somewhere to hide. But I can’t. After 35 years of dreaming that dream I still wake up relieved. Esben Weile Kjær hasn’t seen my pussy after all. Then there’s the classic nightmare. You needn’t fall asleep. You needn’t be awake. The feeling can creep up at any moment – in a suburban supermarket with a screaming baby draped around your neck. It takes place later in life. You’ve had experiences, watched subcultures come and go, lost a nose ring at a crazy concert, felt restless on a Tuesday night. When you’ve felt so tired from partying that a trip to IKEA feels like iodine and honey and nourishment for one’s soul and liver and wallet and voice. It’s once you’ve tried to have an alcohol free January, which I’m pretty sure Anne Basse hasn’t yet attempted. It’s the feeling of losing in everything that mattered. Nightlife, clubbing, the music industry — all the scenes. I’m no longer that important. A generation change has taken place and there are suddenly a lot of codes I don’t understand. The nightmare is wanting to remain young on the inside. Trying to live a

Henrys Dream is just that. Copenhagen this summer couldn’t get any hotter. Besides a late night with Frank Ocean in a hotel room in June. Spending time with Devon Hynes in the Jutland heath or with your best friends in Søndermarken listening to Rodriguez. Henrys Dream is hot — a heat that draws me close to a younger community I want to join. Henrys Dream is the zenith. It is the group hug. It is at the core of every festivalganger. Early at one morning encounter, Maidelene Kate repeated the words Das Unheimlich, over and over again. Freud coined it first, it means ‘The uncanny’, the opposite of everything that is safe - but in a comfortable and familiar setting. You can’t leave Henrys Dream until it’s over. Hopefully the experiment will work without the onset of angst. Hopefully it will be a dream you won’t want to wake up from. And hopefully there will be some holes in subconscious through which us old-timers can escape through to our homes. We just need a good nights sleep.

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Above: Performance artist Yaa Lioness. Photo by Madeleine Kate McGowan

DREAM ACTIONS By Esben Weile Kjær

So you wanna be a dreamer? Most modern festivals act like supermarkets and the program is like their free advertising catalogues they deposit through our mailboxes. They present music as consumer products and their shows are produced as though on factory floor – without any ambition to deviate from conventional understandings of how to experience music. Henrys Dream is a reaction to cultural consumption and commercialisation that has become increasingly legitimised in many cultural circles. We want to start a collective experiment in which the responsibility for the experience does not sit solely with the organizers, but rather as a project or idea that allows participation. Henrys Dream will be constantly under construction until July 20, just like the temporary parallel society that will occupy it.

festival or, put slightly differently, return once you have left the collective. It’s not a rational and controlled presence we want from our guests, but rather an escape from comforts and intimacy. Journey to an unknown destination We will never divulge the festival’s location. When your ticket is delivered, you will also receive a location where you will be picked up by busses. The journey to Henrys Dream starts here and includes a number of mostly psychological rituals. Transportation to the festival will take place on both busses and antique trains. Once everyone has arrived the gates are shut, signalling the start of the three-day festival. Henrys Dream is a large immersive theatre where performers mingle anonymously with the crowd and where the boundaries between reality, consciousness and the subconscious are explored.

H.D. is a singular artwork, not the sum of experiences We don’t see Henrys Dream as consisting of individual concerts, but as a complete artwork involving guests, performers and musicians. But we need everyone’s full attention and participation if the experiment is to work. That’s why it’s not possible to leave the

Specific examples I am very excited to see all of the international artists, many that I have waited a very long time to see play live. For example Dead Skeletons from Iceland whom I once saw at the Reeperbahn Festival in 4

HOW-TO-ACT Hamburg and who put on the best show that I saw in 2012. Then there’s Zombelle, Indian Jewelry, No Ceremony. The list goes on. All the artists have signed a contract agreeing to the festival’s ambition to create a temporary parallel society. The contract means they have agreed to challenge the conventional festival format, the audience and themselves by involving performance art or another visual aspect into their show.

by Madeleine Kate McGowan Action # ID What you need: A photo-booth, a pair of scissors, a fat marker, a normal pen, an envelope and a piece of paper. Decorate yourself and paint the Henrys Dream symbol on the palm of your hand. When you are ready to be photographed in the photo-booth, place the painted hand in front of your face so that it hides part of your face while the symbol on your palm is exposed to the camera. Take the photo. Hang the photo somewhere, real or virtual.

I look forward to sleeping in a tent, exploring the large abandoned area, watching concerts and immersing myself in the collective.

Action # Rainbow Streets What you need: A bike, a road, clothes which you don’t care much about and a bucket filled with colourful paint. Find lots of colourful paint and pour it into buckets. Attach the buckets to your bikes. Trying placing a couple of buckets on one bike. Go to a streetlight. If you are in a group, you can synchronise ‘the spill’ at the same streetlight. When you are parked at a red light remove the lid, if there is one, and get ready to tilt the bucket. When the green light shows, tilt the bucket and start accelerating. Pour the paint all over the road while you are in motion. Enjoy colours all over the streets.

Some of the most exiting things One of my favourite projects is the 24-hour stage hosted by the DJ collective Vektor. As far as I’m aware it’s never been done in Denmark before so it goes without saying that it’s an experiment. German DJ Tama Sumo, resident at the legendary Berghain nightclub, will be playing, but the rest of the line up of electronic and dance DJs has yet to be finalized. Another favourite project is the sound temple that is being built by Goodie Pal and Syg Nok Records. The temple will house rituals and music throughout the festival. It will also function as the festival’s information centre, not too dissimilar to how mosques in smaller Muslim towns distribute information. A newspaper will be published next week that we have written together with university lecturers, artists, photographers and daydreamers. The newspaper is about Henrys Dream, what is going to happen, and who is going to play. Sometimes I forget how close we are to the goal. We have come a long way. The thought conjures fear and butterflies fly around in my stomach as I brim with expectation. But no matter how curious I am to know the festival’s outcome, I can’t predict it, and I can only walk confidently into the unknown. There’s nothing more I can do because there’s no going back. Right now I’m virtually living in our little office on Blågårds Gade. I can barely contain my excitement. I look forward to sleeping in a tent, exploring the large abandoned area, watching concerts and immersing myself in the collective. If I actually manage to.

Action # Body Image What you need: body decorations, colourful clothes, and aesthetic inspiration. Gather in a group. Dress up and paint your entire face one colour,preferably metallic, pink, or blue. Now place yourself in an everyday situation, but present yourself in a different way. Introduce objects into the scene that signal something from a dream you have had. The idea is to create a dream image by using the language of the absurd in an everyday setting. Document the situation and upload the photo to an internet platform, tagging the photo HENRYS DREAM. Action # Letter What you need: Paper, pen, an envelope and a bus. This is your dream confession. Choose one of your dreams. It can be sexual, symbolically loaded or light-hearted. Type it as a document on your computer. Make sure the letters are fat and large. Decorate it as you please. Print it. Fold it and stuff it into the envelope. On the back of the envelope write: HENRYS DREAM in big fat letters. On the other side write: DEAR DREAMER. Find a bus or a public toilet, place the letter on one of the seats. Leave it there for someone to find. Action # Quote What you need: quotes about dreams, colourful fat markers or large chalk. Collect a variety of quotes about dreams, go into the streets and tag them on odd places such as stairs, leaves, ticket machines, signs etc. Remember to sign them: We believe that these images and qualities need to be introduced to our society. Action #Ritual What you need: body decorations, colourful clothes, a powerful location and a camera to film it. This action is one of the most open, but also one of the most dramatic. Before doing it, we recommend that you prepare by performing some of the other actions, such as Action #Body Image. We believe that this action is strongest when performed as a group, but we dig it if you want to experiment alone. Find the inspiration for the ritual in the concepts of the unseen, the absurd, the chaotic, the sensuous, and the poetic. We believe that these qualities need to be introduced to our society to balance the qualities that have emerged from the capitalist paradigm. Design a ritual in which you perform ‘the opening of’ the unseen, the absurd, the chaotic, the sensuous, the poetic. Choose a location to perform your ritual. It could be a city centre or it could be the middle of nowhere. Just make sure you document it and upload the documentation to an internet platform, tagging the material: HENRYS DREAM.

A party that is one long adventure Many people have asked me if there will be partying at Henrys Dream, a question which surprises me. Henrys Dream is built on the ambition to fuse art, music, excitement and adventure. Henrys Dream is a party where you awake surrounded by people you don’t know and where you dance on stage while the band plays where the audience normally stands. There’s no space for being passive and antisocial, instead you are the co-creator and activist. 5

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by Sarah Armstrong Dance Agent at Henrys Dream Festival

As a performance artist I wish to practice the notion of transformation. I allow my identity to become multiple, fluid and malleable1. I allow myself to transcend in the moment of Now. Though still bound by the culturally imposed narratives of my body and the arche-types residing in the contours of society. I am a dancer. A voyager.

ble in their truest form and would expose The Third Mind — a new consciousness. The Third Being, eliminates the effects of previous oppression and represents the divine state of another consciousness, immune to the restrictions of the flesh and its history.

In many ways they saw ‘the third mind’ as an entity in and of itself-something ‘other’, closer to a purity of essence and the origin and source of a magical or divine creativity that could only result from the unconditional integration of two sources.

My journey a marriage between reality and fiction.2 A live transmission between art and life. A terrororganisation fluctuating within the sensuous bing3. A body of weapons. A rehearsal for change. Poetic Terrorism is a form of activism. It is to have no direct chronology. But give meaning to the sensuous and immediate world. To become integrated in the state of our dreams. It is to break free of the linearity of our being. Through visual stimuli and stroboscopic intensity one acts as a Dream Machine.

— p.3, D. Johnson, Kult ov Kaos

All things that are created with the mind have the ability to manifest outside of the mind in some form or shape. The mind is a microcosm of the universe. That which affects the mind, has the ability to affect the universe. This means that if we have the ability to think or to dream then we also have the ability to lit. In Chaos Magick this is the foundation of the understanding of magical rituals and the first step towards acknowledging the power of awareness. The liminal state of performance is magical.

Our dream is to becoum INTEGRATED on every level ov consciousness and character. — P. Orridge, 1994

A performative posing as a threat to the linearities of mundane life. It is to aim towards resisting the easy consumable modes of our existence. It is to become Other. Becoming Other is to diminish the fixation of borders and cut nations open. To be Other is to demolish the dictatorship of Us/Them dichotomies. Being Other is a body of creativity and awareness. Where the creation and integration with the Other is a liberating embrace. An essential path towards unity and emancipation. The Other is a form of poetic terrorism.

Power Divine/ Violence

The body is moulded by the great many distinct regimes. It is broken down by the rhythm of work, rest and holidays. It is poisoned by food or values, through eating habits or moral laws. The body is a subject of violence. And in any healthy society this constructs resistance. Inspired by the words of body modification artist Lukas Zpira - to explore what the body is capable of is an implementation of power. Though it is not an established power nor a coercive one, it is a power on the self or rather to become oneself, following an itinerary combining the personal choices, the unconscious and the

The Third Mind/Body In order to free the written form from its linearity, William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, both close friends of Genesis Breyer P.Orridge ( Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth), would cut up texts and thereafter randomly piece the words together in order to create new texts. In doing this they believed that it would reveal what was there all along. Texts would assem6

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POETIC TERRORISM unpredictable.Though power always exists and one must strive to operate from the inventive, mobile and productive forms of power. We are to acknowledge that not all power is oppressive and not all violence is counterproductive. This acknowledgement is the acknowledgement of divine violence.Divine violence is the subject of love. Love without cruelty is powerless and cruelty without love is blind, as short-lived passion which loses its persistent edge.Poetic Terrorism is a mode of performance and is a tool that functions as an important opposition to the power structures implemented in society. It is the means of a process with no visible goal. It is the commitment to the idea and not the ideal, which is our path. — Pandrogeny Manifesto

We had a chat with our friends from the DJ collective Vektor who are taking care of the heart of Henry’s Dream, namely the techno and house stage that will pump music 24 hours a day. The renowned DJ Tama Sumo, from Berlin’s legendary Berghain nightclub, is the only act so far confirmed on the stage curated by the uncompromising and experimental collective. We hope that neither power cuts, nor freak events, will make Henrys Dream’s heart skip a beat. Who are you? Vektor is an association and DJ collective whose goal is to promote electronic and club music in Denmark. What have you so far achieved? We started out by holding a series of shows in Aarhus at a time when the club scene in Jutland’s capital had more or less stalled. We ended up putting on some parties that introduced some acts which people wouldn’t normally be able to experience. We now put on gigs in both Copenhagen and Aarhus. What’s your ambition for your stage at Henrys Dream? Our goal is to present a line-up that reflects the diversity and nuances found in the subgenres of techno, house, and disco. The festival’s other stages have a clearly different focus to ours so we are taking this as a unique opportunity to introduce some genres to a new audience. What’s special about putting on a 24-hour stage? Most clubs in Denmark close at five a.m. so when it gets close to closing hours people start frantically getting drunk and trying to “get something” out of their night. There are very few places where music is the focus and not just a soundtrack to people trying to hook up. But we often hear about DJs playing marathon sets in clubs outside Denmark and about the experience this gives the crowd. A lot of techno and house take a long time to experience, just like acid rock for example. The music doesn’t necessarily have to be party music. We’ve had some incredible experiences after stepping straight into a club right after we’ve woken up. We want other people to experience that too. So how you are going to put together the program? It must take a different approach to build up an audience over 24 hours and not just a single evening? The stage is an exciting experiment that has not really been tried before in Denmark, so we’re going to try our hardest to mix interesting foreign artists with Danish talent while also maintaining some sort of continuity throughout.

The goal lies within the malleable existence of our explorations and desires, which is a strength, that poses as a barricade against the attacks on our being. Poetic Terrorism is a threat towards the way we conjure limitations and it presents the possibility of positive transformation within ourselves and our society. To dream is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one dreams is the most difficult of all. Dreamers of the day are dangerous people, for they dream dreams with open eyes.

1) — Slavoj Zizek states that it is not about removing oneself from culture but creating a new fluid culture with o borders, a culture with beliefs and practises instead of norms and rules: To be Kulturlos! Which is the subject of the Cartesian thought, that;(...) the subject is conceived ascapable of stepping outside her particular cultural/ social roots and asserting her full autonomy and universality.(2008) 2) (...)the possibility exists to make fiction work in truth,to induce effects of truth with a discourse of fiction. — Foucault, 1989 3) ...terrorism that figures a convergence of sustained assaults upon perceived ideals about the body, its pleasures,pains and desires. — P. Orridge, 2010 4) We are never trapped by power, we can always modify its grip in determinate conditions and according to a precise strategy. — Foucault

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interview with DJ HVAD & Yaa Lioness DJ Hvad and Yaa Lioness, together Tantra, will manifest the spiritual core of Henrys Dream this year together with Syg Nok Rec. The Temple - An interactive sound installation decorated by Halfdan Pisket. We asked them some questions for Henrys Dream Paper.

How can music bring about change? It is important to revolutionise your inner world every once in a while. Music can bring your emotions to the boil if you let it. When strong feelings and reactions are suppressed by society, people seek solace in music Should music bring change? It can help wake feelings and visions that lie dormant because they have not been taken seriously. But instead of suppressing visions, we should shape the world we live in. Feelings and visions that merge become dreams. I have a strong feeling that many people forget or give up on their dreams and instead fall back into routines. Control dominates in rigid domains, while empathy is forced to work in the background.

What is music? It is the language and soul of visionaries. Music explains the magic and mystery of being human and can express the poetry of living in an infinite and unknowable universe. It’s a universal language that lifts us up and increases life’s intensity. It keeps our internal lives intact. What is life’s most important lesson? Many people have forgotten the power of movement, both mental and physical. People can create prisons for themselves and one of the best ways to become liberated from these prisons is by changing patterns and movements. But it requires courage for people to notice and confront their rigid norms.

What is the purpose of the temple? The temple will use ritualistic methods to draw out and realise dream landscapes. Modern ‘dreamcatchers’ will use a variety of sensual, human and true exotic instruments to weave polarities and energies together. Our wildest dreams will live. 8

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by Diana Ø. Tørsløv Møller MA in Psychology, works as a visual artist

We do not need the illusion of reality to have fiction? Do we need to be awake to dream? Are you able to create poetic faith in the universe you are engaging in? A more aesthetic way of living is to be able to experience and engage in spaces, where the limit between illusion and perception, between facts and fiction, dissolves. Dreams are those kinds of spaces. Only the dreamer knows what he dreams. And even while remembering the dream, it tends to disappear. It can be so sensuous, so fragile, that it doesn’t connect with spoken language. I once dreamed I was the color red, floating between other colours. Some other time I dreamed I’d swallowed time. Some have similar experiences when they’re awake, synaesthesia; colors with taste, numbers as landscapes, tones with smell.

time able to change the content of our dreams. We can decide to sit in a burning car and feel our flesh burn. I had a lucid dream recently; I dreamed that my friend’s head was eaten by a spider with a crab coming out of it’s back. I was scared to death. But after trying to save the situation, I noticed that her head was back, where it belonged. Then I realized I was dreaming. I knew my reaction was due to the fact that I wasn’t engaging in the game. Why didn’t I realize that I was dreaming, when I saw the weird look of the spider, I reflected. And I told myself I was ready to stay in dangerous situations without acting with anxiety. I woke up. There are ways of training lucid dreaming. I prefer the one where I constantly remind myself to become lucid when I am awake. That means asking myself several times a day, if I am dreaming. I tend to forget, and therefore I write a large C on my left hand to remind myself. C for conscious. Another method is meditation: There seems to be associations between meditation and increased lucidity.

Jorge Luis Borges uses the maze as a riddle for time, instead of space. And both time and labyrinth are often important in dreams. Time isn’t necessarily linear and chronological in dreams. When we recall a dream in our awaken state, we only have our spoken language to communicate it. And because we are accustomed to a sequential life, we give a narrative structure to our dream, even though the dream might have been multiple and simultaneous. We continue to spin tales when we recall dreams. Maybe because we haven’t developed other ways of doing it? Because, how do you memorize a bodily experience? When you’re flying in a dream, how does it felel to use your muscles? When you are around people who are strangers and family at the same time, how do you interact? When you get killed in a dream, what do you sense? Is it possible to have a sensory experience of flying and dying? To penetrate the limits between reality and fiction that we’ve been raised with, we can train the ability to engage in lucid dreaming. In lucid dreaming we are aware of our dream state and at the same

The soul, without the body, plays (Joseph Addison). And in lucid dreaming our conscious penetrates the subconscious - if we talk in such terms. But how do we penetrate to a bodily experience? How do we remember dreams with our body, our senses and a language that is closer to poetry? Jorge Luis Borges perfects the poetic complication of dreams: You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened. 9

ARTISTS A—C Animal Bodies (CAN)

Animal Bodies’ industrial soundscapes and minimalistic pop songs are a product of the bleak Vancouver neighborhood where the duo developed their sound. Inspired more by movie soundtracks, pictures and newspaper cuttings rather than other bands, Natasha and Sam’s dark and danceable universe is created using analogue synthesizers, drum machines, guitars and samplers.

Broke (DK)

Simon Lattauer and Mads Bergland formed Broke in 2010 as a direct result of their mutual contempt for Danish mainstream pop culture. They call their style “dark-coloured disco” where noisy effects and pulsating beats create hypnotizing and psychedelic soundscapes. Broke’s debut album is yet to be released, but for now you can dig your teeth into the mixtape “Broke – Lifestyle Mixtape”, which features a guest appearance by Danish MØ.

B R O K E N (DK)

B R O K E N drapes, with the help noise, melodic punk riffs and beautiful harmonies the audience in a thick, atmospheric fog. The band is still young with only a few gigs in Copenhagen’s underground under its wings. Comprised of five musicians with widely different musical backgrounds, B R O K E N gathers inspiration from the last, many decades. With three guitars and multiple vocals at front, B R O K E N is a beast of an orchestra live and their concert at Henrys Dream this year is going to be a unique interaction of art and sound.

The KVB (DK)

Henrys Dream 2013 offers a line-up of progressive music chosen without reference to any established benchmarks of status or hierarchy. The artists are chosen from the heart and not according to their international recognition or the extent of their commercial following. As a result, the line-up is not focussed on genre, but rather on innovation and performance. The musical scene in 2013 is a motley affair teeming with talent and alternative genres. This is the result, not least, of a thriving DIY culture and a generation of musicians brought up with the opportunities of the internet and without the restrictions of stuffy and antiquated major record labels. As a result, the musical landscape has become harder to navigate and no one can predict who will be tomorrow’s stars. The artists that Henry’s Dream is presenting are all visionary musicians that we think are setting the musical agenda, both now and in the future. There are both established musical acts with several projects beneath their belts, along with fresh new talents with their naïve and fresh vision. The music will sway between psychedelic soundscapes, minimalist pop arrangements, distorted post punk and timeless melancholia. The combination results in an offbeat and experimental line-up. This year’s festival provides the musical framework for provocation, surprise and intrigue. It is a golden opportunity to experience established foreign and domestic artists and become inspired by reflective mental states, aggressive emotional purging and raving universes. 10

Complicated Universal Cum (DK)

Frederik Valentin is the main figure behind Complicated Universal Cum. His solo project a far cry from his punk rock group Rock Hard Power Spray - explores the fine line between noisy space rock and distorted pop melodies. Valentin’s music originates from a musical addiction and creative urge that can neither be restrained nor defined. This creative urge has resulted in three studio albums in just two years, and the planned release of another five albums before the end of 2013.

CTM (DK)

Cæcilie Trier will be visiting Henrys Dream with her latest project, CTM that journeys back to the 80s using large synth arrangements, percussive elements and distinctive vocals. As cellist in Choir of Young Believers, and a frontline figure in Chimes & Bells, Cæcilie Trier has an impressive musical CV. In 2011 she became the first woman to be awarded the Ken Gud-

ARTISTS D—I man-price that is given annually to a musician who has displayed integrity, personality and musical craftsmanship.

Dead Skeletons (IS)

“He who fears death cannot enjoy life.” This is the mantra of Icelandic Dead Skeletons - a warning against becoming lost in the alluring darkness of death. Paradoxically both complex and fascinatingly simple, Dead Skeletons play a neo-gothic, dark, drone-like and psychedelic groove with ritualistic live shows that have been known to include portrait painting, incense and dark, acid rock.

ics, and according to the group, their music will get the audience to, “dance like your inner-stoner was set free at a tropical tiki party, where punks are hanging out with the masters of reggae and dub and everyone’s having a good time”.

Østerbro, Copenhagen. They play cryptic, melodic, reverbed and pop-inspired eurotrash and are currently producing their first single in their bedrooms using Garage Band, synthesisers and drum machines.

Gay (DK)

Gay’s pop music is characterized by manicdepressive drum rhythms, jagged bass lines, a rough and catchy guitar sound and sharp and spontaneous vocals. He takes the stage buzzing with curiosity and a fear of his own mortality, hoping to find a cure for the overwhelming numbness of youth.

Death Valley Sleepers (DK)

Gold Lip (DK)

Death Valley Sleepers have provided us with naive and simple pop songs littered with splashes of psychedelic outbursts since 2008. Front man Tobias Winberg takes us on a journey through youthful escapades, love, lust and repressed desires. Death Valley Sleepers started out as a solo project but now includes five additional members who have brought organs, tambourines and the sitar into their catchy sound universe.

Dorit Chrysler (US/S)

New York-based Dorit Chrysler debuted as a singer aged seven and has since been identified as a talented theremin player and producer. In 2010 she joined Anders Trentemøller on the Orange Stage a Roskilde Festival, and it was also he who earlier this year produced Chrysler’s latest release. Dorit Chrysler is the First Lady of the theremin and creates amazing and evocative soundscapes with her deep and airy vocals.

Gold Lip belongs to the new generation of Internet bands whose fame is built upon a sparse number of songs and images that have been spreading across blogs and tumblr. We know little about them but we love their aesthetics and, in particular, “Breakfast Song” that has been set on repeat ever since the first rays of sunlight hit the streets of Copenhagen. They call their genre Nu-Trance and are, unsurprisingly, inspired by trance and eastern European dance music. The sound is minimalist, trashy, melancholic and as restless as the band is young.

Dracula Lewis (DK)

Dinner (DK)

Choir of Young Believers-producer Anders Rhedins created the solo project Dinner, which, in the studio, includes Jennis Makrigiannis (COYB), Cecilie Trier and Nicolai Kock (Oh No Ono). The music mixes heavy synth compositions and quirky pop experiments, while the stage show has been known to feature wands wrapped in gold, glowsticks and tribal dancing. Dinner are bringing two EPs-worth of material when they visit Henrys Dream.

Dracula Lewis was, unsurprisingly, born in Romania but now lives in Italy. His inspiration spans widely and includes Throbbing Gristle, Royal Truz, Lee Perry and early hardcore punk. While Dracula Lewis describes his music as folk music, he argues that punk, hardcore, gangsta rap and industrial are actually modern folk genres. Dracula Lewis is hard to force into a genre but his music is reminiscent of noise, space punk and hypnagothic.

Holograms (SWE)

The claustrophobic isolation of modern society is mirrored in Holograms’ dark and gloomy atmosphere, though the band’s punk attitude belies an adamant and rebellious energy. A new-wave punk group with pop-inspired compositions, Holograms released their wellreceived and self-titled album last year and have since toured alongside big names such as The Vaccines and Deerhoof. At Henrys Dream, the four young Stockholmers are guaranteed to kick off a party with a wall of fast guitar riffs, ice cold synthesizers, pulsating drums and insistent vocals.

The Divers (DK)

The Divers is a Copenhagen-based duo consisting of Mikkel Andersson and Benjamin Kongsted. The music is soaring and melancholic 80s pop with references to British new wave and psychedelic. Accompanying this synth-based and cool-yet-heartfelt music, the lyrics focus on restlessness, medicated mental states, lost love and longing. The band performs a powerful live show accompanied by analogue synthesizers, heavy beats and Kongsted’s dramatic onstage persona.

Ectoplasm Girls (DK)

Ectoplasm Girls is an audio-visual project started in 2007 by Swedish sisters, Nadine and Tanya Byrne. The project is based on their shared fascination and experiences with death and dreams, and describes their art as containing both impressions and expressions. The work of the two sisters is both audio and video through which they manifest their project.

Electric Set (US)

The Dreams (FR)

It is difficult to place The Dreams in a genre though the band’s music draws upon dub, reggae, post-punk and French garage rock. Their first album contains a fusion of emotions and aesthet-

New York-based Electric Set is fronted by Brandon Davis and Elizabeth Torres and accompanied by no less than 17 additional artists on its latest release. The sound is composed of layers of shifting realities forged by guitar and synth harmonies that, together with an underlying, pulsating beat, and vocals that caress the soul, move the mind’s shadows and drive away life’s everyday demons. It is a perfect accompaniment for summer journeys – just put it in your pipe and smoke it.

First Hate (DK)

First Hate consists of Joakim Nørgaard and Anton Falck Gansted, who both grew up in

De Høje Hæle (DK)

Danish trio De Høje Hæle was founded in 2007 and has since successfully toured Europe, the US and Australia. The three young men, Mads, Myre and Henrik, have managed to carve out their own unique sound despite finding clear inspiration in The Stooges, Frank Zappa and the ironic cult-band, DEVO. Their tight, energetic and garage-punk sound is warm and charming while their Danish lyrics are straightforward and naïve. The combination has understandably earned the band a broad following.

Indian Jewelry (US)

Indian Jewelry is a Texan group known for their dreamy, electronic psyche. While they have changed their names a few times since they started out in 2002, their sound has essentially stayed the same - a fusion of drum machines, drone, noise and other elements that can be classified as experimental, psychedelic and industrial. It all melts together in an alluringly free-form mix that, together with their distinctive visual identity, makes them one of those bands you fear might crumble into ashes when confronted by direct sunlight.

ARTISTS J—O Lust for Youth (SWE)

Lust for Youth is the on-stage pseudonym for Swedish producer and electronic musician, Hannes Norrvide and Danish Loke Rahbek. Norrvide started the project in 2009 using a toy keyboard and the resulting music can best be described as atonal, primitive, drone-like synth-pop. The musical style has since evolved into full-on synth-pop with a touch of dark, minimalist post-punk. After Rahbek joined the enterprise, Norrvide’s Swedish homeland has been replaced with the Danish capital.

Jenny Graf DK)

Jenny Graf is a Baltimore-based artist who works with the social dimensions and consequences of performance art. She is a musician, improviser, filmmaker and a sound artist and has worked on a wide range of projects and collaborations. Her solo compositions blend improvisation and song structures that explore the boundary of sound narratives and ruptured moments.

Kim Anh (US)

L.A. resident Kim Anh started DJing at local clubs and underground parties in 1998. These venues have since been replaced by huge gigs in New York, London and Paris together with legends such as LCD Soundsystem, Sam Sparro and Lady Gaga. In addition to DJing, Kim Anh is a producer, club host, composer and member of the indie, electronic duo Saint Le Roq.

Nikolas (DK)

Molly Nilsson (S)

Molly Nilsson is a Swedish singer particularly admired for her enormous lyrical talent. She has released four albums and several EPs-worth of her dark pop songs through her own record label since 2007. Molly Nilsson’s sound universe can be described as minimalist synth pop and timeless melancholia - a sound that has recurrently been compared to Nico. In 2011, John Maus acknowledged Nilsson’s great songwriting talent and recreated her song “Hey Moon” as a duet together with the singer herself.

Nikolas is a collaboration between Danish writer and musician Anders Jørgen Mogensen, Niels Kristian Eriksen and Pallet Højrup. With highpitched vocal loops and obsessive noise pieces, the music is psychedelic and trance-like. As the band puts it, “Nikolas are the suffocating hands from another century, a bong smoking a dancing human being [...] Perhaps a musical tongue licking so violently that time transforms into the tinnitus of absolute zero and brings about the day musical instruments throw up on the inhumane soul of the notes”.

The KVB (UK)

The KVB is an audio/visual project created by London-based duo Klaus Von Barrel and Cat Day. Together they have formed a universe that combines shoegaze guitar, minimalist synth melodies, hypnotic drum rhythms and abstract visual elements. They describe their sound as “dark, layered, complex and moody – an icy atmosphere juxtaposed by the warmth of distorted guitars”.

No Ceremony/// (UK)

Lace & Collar (DK)

Lace & Collar is Mikkel Dunkerly’s solo project in which he tries to reconcile his love for both pop, industrial, techno, house and noise. The preliminary result are rave-like tones, calm ambient sounds, industrial tracks and minimalist pop experiments. Lyrically, Lace & Collar attempts to merge and disintegrate the traditional concepts of femininity (Lace) and masculinity (Collar).

Moth (DK)

Moth is a post punk/new wave band from Copenhagen that works with dark, atmospheric synth lines, electronic drums, pulsating bass, a raw treble guitar and lots of reverbed vocals. With inspiration from bands such as Low Life and New Order, Moth also touches the pop music world. The band has so far released two 7 singles and a debut album is well underway.

Musik for seks elektriske guitarer (DK)

Less Win (DK)

Less Win has long been known in Copenhagen’s underground music scene and last year their debut album finally surfaced. The band originally consisted of Casper Morilla on guitar and Patrick Kociszewski on bass together with a drum machine, though the electronic beat-maker was later replaced with drummer Kasper Hansen. This created a special dynamic in both the band’s live performances and music that, with their catchy melodies and quirky vocals, draws parallels to no wave and post-punk. Tough to categorize and all the better for it, Less Win make dissonant rock music for dissonant people.

When yoyooyoy wizard Anders Laugesen Meldgaard – also known as Supermelle or Fresh Fruit – travelled through West Africa, he encountered a special instrument that would be the inspiration for M.F.S.E. The project was unveiled at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival in 2010 when six guitarists performed by playing on only one string each. The guitar band has experimented with breaking down the boundaries between audience and musician, while also staging intimate aucustic concerts.

Nils Grøndahl (DK)

Nils Grøndahl’s solo project demonstrates how much noise and turbulence the four strings on his violin can conjure. The sound is high and melancholy and reminiscent of towers rising up into the darkness above a swampy landscape. He explores soundscapes and tests limits all the while uttering laconic statements about hope – and the lack thereof.

We know little about the Manchester band No Ceremony/// that eschews self-promotion, so much so that they don’t appear in press photos, interviews or even have a biography on their website. All this, of course, to focus on what really matters - the music. However, we are in no doubt about the quality of the sound of the trio that explores the musical space between euphoric warehouse rave and melancholic, emotive pop, characterized by loads of piano, distorted synths and emotive, manipulated vocals.

Ocean View (DK)

Copenhagen-based melodic punk quartet Ocean View has been recognized as a respected live band for some time and last year their debut album, mixed by Jens Benz (‘Thulebasen’ and ‘Iceage’), was finally released. Ocean View is a band in constant motion and who finds most of their inspiration from live situations. “The magic that swells up during concerts can get the audience to think, feel, and act differently,” they say.

Oracle O. (DK)

Copenhagen-based duo Oracle O. consists of the Chilean guitarist Mauricio Santana and the Danish singer Madeleine Käte. After more than half a decade working with different artists, Oracle O. is now ready with their first release. The music leans on psyche rock but without ever surrendering completely to the genre and their first single is characterised by jungle drums and drone-like guitar-riffs.

Own Road (DK)

Simon Skjødt Jensen’s solo project Own Road exists in a twilight space between American folk music, singer-songwriter and a nuanced psychedelica. Through the use of looping vocal effects, guitar, ukulele and more exotic instruments, Skjødt Jensen’s compositions move effortlessly between anxiety, melodic beauty and otherworldly abandon, resulting in a sound

ARTISTS O—Z that is both oddly familiar and utterly contemporary. His eponymous debut was released in November 2010 to great critical acclaim and a highly anticipated album is out later this year.

float up from the driven surf guitar, voluminous strings, kitsch keys, and electronic soundscapes.

Syg Nok Records (DK)

The Road to Suicide (DK)

The Road to Suicide is a Danish psych-gaze band with a penchant for the sitar and didgeridoo. The six-man band has created psychedelic rock with lots of guitar noise and musty melodies since 2011. They have a very present and dynamic approach to music that is especially evident at their live shows. The band is currently working on their first album, which is expected to be complete before the summer festival season ends.

Shiny Darkly (DK)

The boys behind Shiny Darkly are hardly idle when it comes to their musical careers. Since forming in 2011, they have signed to record label Crunchy Frog, released a debut EP, and performed at last year’s Spot and Roskilde festivals in Denmark. When they visit Henrys Dream they will bring their familiar dark and electric universe that has been compared to bands such as Joy Division, The Stooges and The Velvet Underground.

Syg Nok Records is a Copenhagen-based music collective and independent record label started by Dj Hvad in 2000. Together with Tantra Clap they will host the Temple stage. Syg Nok Records works with a wide range of genres and covers everything from their self-titled perkertech to electric rap and Indian crunk.

Syringe (DK)

Noise frequencies are often seen as unnecessary sound but Syringe uses them to create uncontrolled melodies. Instead of trying to define the different sounds, Syringe shuts off all that is self-evident in order to present something more immediate and allow listeners to slowly walk into a wall of sound accompanied by fast drums, noise and neon colours. The experience feels like entering unknown world for the very first time.

TAMA SUMO (D)

”Music is pure communication – stay in contact and follow your heart!” This is the mantra of German DJ Tama Sumo who has been developing and expanding her musical repertoire since 1993. If you have ever set foot in the disused power plant that houses Berghain nightclub, or visited the opulent atmosphere of Panorama Bar, then you have probably witnessed the work of the resident queen, Tama Sumo. Her long sets draw upon the many shades of house together with reduced techno, old electro, disco and pop. Tama Sumo says her sets are bound by emotion, funk, soul, sexiness, a bit of edge and huge amounts of bass. “Music and bass in particular make people happy!” she says.

Tiger Love (UK)

Strange Forces (AU)

Australian trio Strange Forces are influenced by everything from space rock, obscure new age prophecies, psychedelic plants and pagan mythology, to colours and spaceships. Their music, that the band describes as “a black sandy beach beneath 20 suns”, has an underlying beat that is both psychedelic and instrumentally heavy. Together it forms a unique universe bound together by frightening, oceanic and cinematic sights.

Vektor (DK)

The primary ambition of DJ collective Vektor is to promote electronic and club music in Denmark. They have so far been hard at work in both Aarhus and Copenhagen and they now join Henrys Dream by hosting part of the 24-hour scene, Heart Beat. They will hand-pick a mix of Danish and foreign artists to play on the stage that will represent the incredible diversity and nuances found in the sub-genres of techno, house and disco.

Tiger Love is electro pop with glam and glitter created by three guys from London. Inspired by 70s horror movies and The Velvet Underground, they have produced their own videos for the singles “Gio Gio” and “Pussy Cocaine” that, together with their latest single “Summer Rain”, have generated hundreds of thousands of YouTube views. Tiger Love is currently working on their debut album and their concert at Henrys Dream in July will be their first Scandinavian performance.

Zombelle (US)

Seapunk rose from the depths of the sea, landed on the roiling waves of the social networks, and has grown as vast as the sea’s turquoise colour the movement so devoutly worships. Shannon Zombelle belongs to the new wave of electronic female soloists and has arisen with a soul voice and 90s electro-inspired sound that is both festive and pensive. Zombelle will perform a solo show at Henrys Dream, accompanied only by her electronic gear.

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Unkwon (DK)

SPEkTR (DK)

Former Raveonettes’ guitarist, Manoj Ramdas, is the driving force behind the quintet SPEkTR that has crafted evocative, wordless space music since 2000. Their visually evocative sound is driven by a musical curiosity and originality, expressed as a soundtrack to their own unrecorded movie. Endlessly detailed melodies

If you hang out in Copenhagen and like to move to electronic music, then you’ve probably encountered Anders Dixen. He is involved in more clubs, festivals, projects and genres than we can count but will grace Henrys Dream as his new solo project, Unkwon. The five electronic ballads on his first release, “Fractures EP”, revealed a deeper and more sensitive side to the DJ and producer than was previously known.

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Dream Agents interpreted by artist Maja Malou Lyse

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By Kristine Samson, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Performance Design, CBIT, Roskilde University

tations and temporary spaces. However we need to question what is a temporary space, what is ephemeral art? Its time to take urban spaces back from the strategists, the planners, the cultural eventmakers. Its time to internalize urban space. Because urban spaces are not designed, they are not only physical material spaces – urban spaces are ephemeral mental – they are an process of becoming. We have to reclaim urban spaces - not as places to meet and come together as the urbanists in the 20th century wished for public spaces. Sennett and most recently David Harvey have debated the loss of public spaces. Rather than reestablishing a public space for meetings and public discussions, we could co-create ephemeral urban spaces. Spaces for momentary altered states. Differentiating from the functionality and commerzialisation such temporary spaces could enable meeting with other people in their radical otherness. Not affective urban space made or planned for affecting you, but urban affective spaces emerging from the complex patterns of social interactions, the unforeseen meeting of stranger, the discoveries of forgotten corners.

A street art exhibition in Køge, a one minute rave on Knippelsbro, a dome of visionson a contested battleground, a cultural planner proposing culture for change, politicians dancing with activists, urban planners stratifying site-specific affections. Today temporary spaces are deeply intergrated with urban development, strategic communication and branding. The understanding of temporary urban spaces and ephemeral art has gradually been absorbed by capital interests, the well-meaning planners of public administration and be the moral driven consensus of the welfare state. Today urban planning welcomes temporary spaces, grass-root culture and events in public space. Maybe because affective cultural production accumulates capital. Or maybe because the artist and cultural activists produce alternative urban spaces that become attractive in private development. Even before being creative, temporary urban spaces are already circulated in consumerist middle class society in the guise of creating better places, the good city life etc. Along with super bicycle lanes and urban designs integrating art, cultural and temporary urban spaces pop up in the city. Often they are means for the government to create the good city and welfare for the many. However, as the good intentions are based on equality and sameness, the city as a differentiated and troubling space gradually disappear. What is in the core of urbanity – the noise, affects, otherness, dreams and desires are being erased by a stratification of mankind into a well organized functional entity fit for production in consumerist society. We need spaces directed otherwise, spaces liberating the dreaming subject.

Such urban spaces are temporary in the strongest sense of the word. Spaces for becoming, for deterritorializing yourself – for finding otherness in the mirror. It goes without saying that these space are not temporary as the branded and incorporated urban space – spaces where you recognize urban identities, the tourists attraction, the Danish welfare society becoming neo-liberal. We must radically redefine temporary spaces as the ephemeral; Simply because urban spaces may not be recognized as something comfortable defined with a purpose – as communicative spaces.

Today cities like Copenhagen, Berlin, London, Hamburg, are turning into one massive stage for cultural events. Urban spaces have become eventalized by musical acts, performance art and street culture. One may argue that the city is no longer a city of functionality but an organism of cultural manifes-

Reclaim space is to reassemble the city However, to reclaim urban space does not necessarily imply protest. As noted in a recent volume on Temporary spaces as catalysts, some approaches to urban space work with wish production and the imaginary:

TEMPORARY URBAN SPACES AND EPHEMERAL GESTURES The goal is to deprive existing town planning of its legitimation and gain an ideal majority for an alternative use and development scenario. The means for achieving this are not first and foremost protest, criticism, and negation.This realization takes place on two levels, which usually go hand in hand – first in the sense of wish production, that is, the awakening of the idea of a different, more desirable development in the midst of the public, and second in the practical implementation of that idea from the very beginning. However small, symbolic, and temporary these single steps may be, they are nonetheless still capable of sparking a social dynamic in which more and more actors participate, so that the project keeps evolving.

pected. The city is functional and solid, but it is also a machine of the unconscious, of potentials. If we allow ourselves to distract ourselves from our everyday habits, our productivity the discipline of the self. Rather we must realize, that, we cannot control the city. We should not attempt to stratify and functionalize the city. Rather the city must remain an unruly territory – for us to get lost, for us to find cracks in an already too organized world. Sudden recollections and associations continues to fold in the city – we may not be aware of these processes before we suddenly see ourselves perform in the cracks of urban spaces. Articulations of becoming The sunset over the rooftops, the smell of rain in the nearly empty morning streets, the affective arousal from bodies in a club, sharing the toilet with the young brunette, feeling the drugs running through your veins, flirting with a stranger in a train, a fragmented reuion of students, excessive flash points in a rush.

—Oswalt, Overmeyer, Misselwitz (2013): Urban Catalyst: The power of Teporary Use p. 276

To reclaim a space is rather to reassemble its ephermeral and sensopry gestures. Gestures that point toward your inner landscapes, an unexisting neighborhood, a thought-provoking street corner, a break with the four walls of your unbearable room. Ephemeral gestures establish ephemeral territories – not for specific use – play, meeting, experiencing – but for mental settlements of not yet recognizable forms – unactualized potentials. We can easily resist the disciplined and bio-mediated spaces of recent planning if we deterritorialize ourselves into urban spaces not yet defined..

The city fosters altered states if we allow it access to our bodies. Change is not going to happen by designing and transforming urban spaces, rather change is going to happen by letting plural environments of urban spaces, hidden corners and urban edges get into our bodies. As noted by the pragmatist Ockman Pluralism is not just the diversity of private experience in confrontation with a homogeneous public space: rather, our experience of public space is structurally distributed throughout the ’urban scene’.

Urban space – a mental stage Underneath a highway in Sao Paulo people create their own urban empire by trash from capitalist urban culture; in Istanbul tourists meet locals and perform strange and forgotten rituals in a striptease bar; in Hamburg thieves and liars ordinate pink pills to teenagers behind a closed church; in a backyard at Vesterbro, Copenhagen, young Adonis meets in secret with a well-dressed obsessive lawyer; in Madrid the many meet the singular in an political act against the world economy.

—(Ockman 2000: 189)

So, if we dream of altered states, of heterotopias, for bodily and mental becomings we must realize that the city is already a multiple, diverse and affective space. It is only by loosing yourself through a surrendering to the city, as machinic organism that we may experience. We must try to understand that the altered states we dream of are not to be designed or organized – they occur by letting go of ourselves in the intense and perpetual becoming of urban spaces. Whether these spaces are to be found in the center of the city where the roads meet, or they are in the outskirts of forgotten terrains vague – vague territories – urban space is a state of mind, ephemeral, temporary, a constantly becoming into being. And, they will happen with or without your participation.

While urban planners, cultural planners and architects seem to agree on the stratification of urban spaces, I thinks its time that we move inside – that we reclaim urban spaces as mental spaces for liberation and becoming. Rather temporary spaces must be reconsidered as circuits of states that form a mutual becoming between people forming multiple or collective assemblages.

Temporary spaces should not be instruments in urban development; rather temporary spaces are practices, as actual potentials not yet in existing: the are articulations of becoming.

Desires, dreams and the search for the unknown drives these temporary spaces of intensity. Spaces directed otherwise are produced. Not urban spaces for consumption, experiences or for creative people to have fun, but ephemeral, mental situations that transgress the every day productivity of the city. Urban space can become territories of of the unex17

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Illustration by Victor Nuno DREAM DONATED BY Ocean View who are performing at this years Henrys Dream Festival 18 18

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On July 18 this year a large-scale experiment will take place somewhere in Denmark. The experiment is called Henrys Dream and is a new music- and performance festival, which will run over three days. During these three days you will be able to experience a mix of dreams, performance, rituals and music in a parallel universe at a secret location, where your participation is key to the experience and concept. How to get there In order to get to the festival you need to buy a ticket for all three days and show up on the location, written on your ticket, on July 18. This location will be situated in the centre of Copenhagen. From here, all guests will be transported to the secret festival location by bus from 16:00. When the festival is over on July 21, buses will transport you back to the initial pick-up location. You can, of course, also choose to leave the festival by yourself. There are several transport possibilities within a short walking distance, and not more than an hour of transport time back to Copenhagen. The location of the festival will not at any point be announced publicly and it will not be possible to enter the festival by yourself. Henrys Dream requires attention and participation and in order for the festival to become a success, guests are obliged to let themselves become a part of the creation of the festival and remain within the festival site for all three days. What to bring Henrys Dream is not like any other festival. However, like many other festivals, there will be a camping area, where you can camp. Therefore, you should remember to bring tents and sleeping bags. You are welcome to bring food and beverages to be consumed, but only to the camping area. Only food for own consumption is allowed at the festival site, as there will be various food stands to serve your hunger. As a main rule you should only bring to the festival what you can carry by yourself and remember to bring your belongings with you, when you leave. Step into a world of dreams at Henrys Dream and be prepared for a full-scale interactive experience, where music and art aims to inspire you and give you a different festival experience Take part already— now! Remember to take part of the creation of Henrys Dream already now by calling the Henrys Dream Recorder and give us your dreams. We will use them.For further information about the festival and practical information in general, visit our website www.henrysdream.dk 19

Lucid Zone: A state of deep dreaming, where the dreamer is in a state of self hypnosis, controlling the dream landscapes in which she is moving. The dream of lights, movement, damage, corruption, sounds, disgrace and all that is spectacular. Totem Zone: The totem as a centre, collective rituals and speeches. Multi dimensional spheres. The gathering and the announcements. Collect roumours here, listen carefully, look for signs.“The shaman is a survivor. He has passed through pain, death and disease to cure his tribe.” Dream District: Getting lost in the labyrinth, you will have to know the rules well to maneuver into these rooms. Behind every door is a dream. It is not every door you are ready to open.

Heart Beat: Non-stop rave. This is the heart beat of the festival. Violent, colourful, chaotic. Temple Zone: A non-stop sacrifice and creation. From the ashes of the old empire we called capitalism, thrown at the feet of the oracles naked white whipped flesh. Dialogue, interactive electronics, shamans, SYG NOK Records and m.m. Grey Zone: For those who have to wake up now and then...

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At Henrys Dream, we value every dream precious. When you sleep, you dive into absurd, beautiful, horrible, amazing dream landscapes. We ask of you to donate your dreams and let them shape this years Henrys Dream Festival.

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