Ghost Tent (2016)

Dragør, Denmark, November 19th–20th,  2016

REFLEX 16
Arranged by REFLEKSIONER, curated by Annette Lindroos

Ghost Tent (2016)
The site-specific performance Ghost Tent is based on a sketch of Arne Jacobsen’s lido on the coast of Dragør in Denmark, which Haslund came across during her research in a local archive. The prestigious lido was built in 1933. It was never an economic success, and locally there was opposition to the white modernist architecture of the complex. After years of political battles, it was finally demolished just over a decade later in 1944 when the architect was a wartime Jewish refugee in Sweden. Haslund’s work reconstructs the lido in its original location. Using white transparent banners blowing in the wind, she and two performers are joined by the audience in temporarily reconstructing the buildings and collectively evoking the obliterated architecture.


Tents and air-pockets made with guidance and support from Cecilie Bendixen tekstilerum.dk

Supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, and Dragør Municipality.

Photos by Maiken Kestner