Visual artist Andrew James Zealey (DK/ UK) is in the Magic Mandorla performance taking place at Pilgrim Mors by Årbæk Mølle in the afternoon on May 25, 2018. In 2017 he supported Inge Tranter’s Flower Bunke and was a co-creator and performer in Anja Korsgaard’s Magic Mandorla for the Cultural Summit 2017. Andrew Zealey was a […]
Anja Korsgaard with her work be yond guilt at the Hirtshals BunkerLove Festival 2014. Photo by Chris Brock Magic Mandorla The Magic Mandorla performance will be presented at Pilgrim Mors, May 25th, 2018. Anja Korsgaard orchestrated the Magic Mandorla for the Danish Cultural Summit 2017 in collaboration with Andrew Zealey and Rikke Steen Mapstone. Be […]
A performance by Inge Tranter in collaboration with BunkerLove For the Landshape Festival in Hanstholm – June 6 at 21.30 by the Light house Background This work examines the crucial role of fire in nature, touching on broader themes of destruction and regeneration. It is a test piece for a larger work intended for […]
Find a selection of Chris’ portraits from BunkerLove 2014 on our Facebook page and Chris’ blog. Photo exhibition ‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’ featuring the best Chris Brock portraits from the BunkerLove 2013 Festival series was exhibited on tour from the fall of 2013 to the late summer of 2014. Andrew Zealey […]
Sound artist, composer, musician and entrepreneur Christian Skjødt participated in People’s BunkerLove 2013 in Furreby on July 21 with a sun-powered sound installation with the title Inversion and the work is documented at skjodt.net/inversion.Christian is also part of BunkerLove’s energy project. Inversion is made specifically for the WWII bunker type Regelbau Fl277, and is a […]
For Rainbow BunkerLove Festival 2014 on July 6 Dominik will be playing the piano in the bunker landscape. Dominik Blaško is a Slovakian pianist and composer currently studying Art and Technology at Aalborg University. His compositions are mostly minimalistic, experimental filmic music. His music is both a concert and performance art as he makes full […]
Edit E. Vizer created a user-dependent responsive environment entitled Tilted for PEOPLE’S BunkerLove 2013 in Furreby, 21 July. Getting from A to B is a challenge sometimes. Sometimes you want to give up. Sometimes you fight yourself through it. Sometimes you just have to. Sometimes you choose it yourself. Sometimes it feels like a game. […]
Architect and installation artist Elin Strand Ruin in collaboration with architect Klas Ruin/ Spridd, based in Stockholm, created Heart of Darkness for People’s BunkerLove 2013, which is a spatial interpretation of the front and inner rooms of a cannon bunker of the type Regelbau M272, located in the Furreby bunker battery near Løkken, on the […]
For BunkerLove Festival 2014 in Furreby by Løkken on July 13, painter and multi-artist Erik Peitersen will create a Floating Bunker Transformation. The Floating bunker was created for People’s BunkerLove Festival 2013 in Furreby. It was exhibited on the beach until late August, from there it drifted 5 kilometres North to Nr. Lyngby and has […]
Inge and Gabriel Tranter’s video installation Liden Karen was part of Alert BunkerLove Festival 2013 in bunker no. 62 in the Hirtshals bunkers, and part of People’s BunkerLove Festival 2013 in the tunnel bunker at Furreby beach. The story of Liden Karen’s resistance to the overtures of a King and her subsequent death after incarceration […]
Nick Lehrman, aka Giant Hamburger, writes of the children’s bunker – also referred to by the people at BunkerLove as the “burger bunker” because it looks so much like a hamburger: “I want to live in the Hamburger Bunker. People could just push food through the slot until I grew so large I could not […]
Multimedia artist, composer and guitarist Gregers Kirkegaard with musicians Sarah Schramm playing trumpet and Andreas Bennetzen playing bass and loops contributed an ambient audiovisual soundscape installation titled In a Silent Wave for Chilled BunkerLove Festival 2013 in Grønhøj. The piece consists of a mixed media sound sculpture and installation, and a tranquille sea concert. For […]
For the Nature Meeting 2017 Inge Tranter will recreate her Flower Bunker, only this time assisted by local school children. Inge’s overall bunker theme – which is a red line through her groundbreaking works created for BunkerLove since the beginning in 2012 – is the permanent nature of impermanence, the fragility of power. The bunkers represent […]
Playwright, actor and director Lars Ditlev Johansen was BunkerLove’s speaker in 2012 and lead the drama A Walk in the Dark for BunkerLove 2013. Lars is also a board member in BunkerLove, and will be giving the opening speech for Free BunkerLove Festival 2014, July 13 in the Furreby bunkers by Løkken. A Walk in […]
Louise portrayed by Chris Brock after the BunkerLove Festival 2014 in Furreby For BunkerLove 2014 Louise Kristensen wrote Leviathans Ryttere (Riders of Leviathan) which was published in web magazine (april 2014) Reflex p. 12 (and p.13-14), by poetklubben 57º Nord. The text was the point of departure for her performance at the BunkerLove Festival 2014 […]
“An unpolished vocal, a highly personal musical expression and Danish texts on a most distinguished level” These were the words of Kim Skotte from the Danish paper Politiken, after the release of Mouritz’s latest EP album ‘The last day and the first’ from 2013. Mads is a contemporary troubadour and musician. He made his debut […]
Notes A place in the world is a geography we define for ourselves. To be safe is to have an inner shelter as well as an outside one. Inner: standing in vigil and dream all the same. A private bunker. Our minds: bunkers for excessively stormy conditions. Outside shelters: bunkers or any other structure shell-shocked […]
Marie Vibe 1974. Master of Art: Theatrical Science, Actor, play writer, dramaturgist and director. Artistic responsible 2010-13 for The Stage of Shadows: “Skyggescenen” – a theatre run by the North Denmark region’s Psychiatric Information center: www.skyggescenen.rn.dk Art is created in magic moments, reaching infinitely beyond time, place and identity. From ourselves. Inside us. For us. […]
RUTH – ONE OF THE TALKING FIGUREHEADS FOR THE THIRD SHIP IN THE LIFE-BOATS PROJECT by sculptor Marit Benthe Norheim WWW.LIFE-BOATS.COM The 19 figureheads that will be mounted on the back of the third sculpture ship, “My Ship is Loaded with Memories”, will be symbolic portraits of a variety of contemporary women who will […]
Experience the sound of 111 Buddhas at the Landshape Festival on June 4-6, 2015 in Hanstholm. The audio installation was also a part of BunkerLove Festival 2014 in Hirtshals on July 6 and Furreby near Løkken on July 13. Multimedia artist Meile Sposmanyte participated in BunkerLove’s 2012 pilot project with film installation Slow-Wave Sleep and […]
Michael Richardt presented part of his RULE PINK performance sequence on the beach for Alert BunkerLove Festival 2013 in Hirtshals. Rule Pink is a series of artworks examining aspects of his relationship with his mother. “STELLA was my mother’s name when she worked as an society girl in Hamburg and Greece when she was young. […]
The artistic duo Objartiste on Furreby beach for People’s BunkerLove 2013 exhibited a video installation entitled AKURAT made specifically for a cannon bunker there. The piece explores the idea of evolution of change – in stories, relationships and environments. In two films in each side of the cannon bunker it attempts to capture the delicate, […]
Wish Boats by P.S. Wish Boats is a performance by the artist trio P.S. which will take place at the Danish Culture Summit 2018, on the night of the 24th/ at 01-03 in the morning of Saturday 25th August in Klosterbugten, Nykøbing Mors aka the Culture Fjord. See details about the Wish Boats event on […]
For BunkerLove Festival 2014 in Hirtshals Peter Max Jakobsen created Chronometer. The work transforms a bunker into a porcupine-like structure, using the shifting coastal light to create a play of light and shadow. www.petermax-jakobsen.dk
Sandro Masai participates at BunkerLove Festival in the Furreby bunkers 13 July with: My Body Your Room – Interactive Art Installation and Dance Performance “BunkerLove aims to breathe new life into the bunkers with cultural happenings which both commemorate lives lost and ponder past mistakes as well as look to the future positively.” From BunkerLove […]
We often think of the ocean as a silent place, but it can actually be quite a noisy environment. The sounds used in Sub were recorded with underwater microphones at a depth of approximately 8 meters, about 900 meters off the coast of Hirtshals, where the ferries and fishing boats are sailing. While we can […]
At the Danish Nature Meeting taking place in Hirtshals on May 24-26 visitors can experience Sub created by sound artist Morten Poulsen for bunker # 42 in the Hirtshals bunker battery. Artists Inge Tranter and Morten Poulsen are available at the Nature Meeting: Come and explore the strange-sounding plant names that we have in Denmark […]
How differerent are we from one another when it comes down to it? The German soldiers manning the bunkers on the Danish north sea coast during WW II must have missed their loved ones, their friends and all those they cared about just as we do when separated from them for more than a few […]
For Alert BunkerLove Festival 2013 in Hirtshals and for Chilled BunkerLove Festival 2013 in Grønhøj, Danish artist Tulle Ruth based in Rygge, Norway, brought her Wind-powered Musical Organ. This is an experimental sound project that challenges new-old techniques and turn wind into music in a most charming manner and sound. Tulle Ruth runs a solar […]
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