POSTCARDS WITH SNACKS FROM TAIWAN

Molly Haslund

Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art

2019

"The artist Molly Haslund was not present at her performance at Den Frie in Copenhagen today. She was in Taiwan and someone else (Piet Gitz-Johansen) read her postcard stories. The last story about Hong Kong police killings of young people being fakely announced as suicides, was "served" with exotic snacks and candies...It was a good ending of the performance, which left me with a strange mix of "flavours" - the sweet candy and the bitter story of deathly reality! A story form a distance coming from an artist who is not present, suddenly came so close so one could literally taste it. Ps: during the performance we also got the information that it only took 5 days for the box of candy to reach Copenhagen from Taiwan...yes, distance is such a relative thing.’’ Tijana Mišković

Photo: Malle Madsen