Name: Surfacing HypoKrisia by Charlie Laban Trier
Start: 2026-04-30T20:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-04-30T23:00:00+02:00
Location: COKO space

Surfacing HypoKrisia by Charlie  Laban Trier

COKO SPACE

Surfacing HypoKrisia invites you into a space where absence becomes presence, and what was denied begins to take shape.

COKO space

Surfacing HypoKrisia unfolds as a series of performative acts that attempt to summon a speculative, myth-like figure: HypoKrisia. Imagined by Trier as the forgotten younger sister of Tiresias, the oracle from Greek mythology, HypoKrisia emerges as both fiction and force, a presence that reshapes how resilience and identity are understood.According to the classical myth, Tiresias sees two snakes twisting together while mating. Disturbed by what he does not understand, he strikes the female snake and is transformed by Hera into a woman. In Trier’s reimagining, both Tiresias and HypoKrisia can be read as trans figures. But HypoKrisia does not move toward a final form. She stays in-between. She chooses to exist in a state of being unfinished, always not becoming. HypoKrisia is cast as dangerous, ungraspable, and ultimately erased. Like the snake, she is fluid and elusive, shedding skins, slipping through narrative control. The performance acts as an invocation, a gesture of calling her back from beneath the surface where she has long been suppressed.

BioCharlie Laban Trier (b. 1987, dk) is a performing artist who chooses to situate his practice deep within the realm of dance, though the dances often appear through other forms such as; bottom-barrel yells turned into songs, text-sampling, endlessly becoming costume, carrying/caring for screens, extreme sculptural headbanging and more. He sees dance as inherently messy, slippery and emergent - a form of knowledge that resists legibility.Living as a transperson, is another big teacher in his thinking/approach to work. Charlie thinks of transness, like dance, as a technology that helps him complicate material. It allows for embodying multiple images, seducing viewers, and shifting fluidly between forms.He is currently investigating practices of collective myth-making, wanting to foster conversations that resist fixed meaning and invite a dis-positioning of the hero/center-stage.He’s a member of Jakoozi (fka. Jacuzzi) since 2019 – an artist-run studio in Amsterdam where dance/performance and other time-based medias swim together – collectively organizing public events and workshops.

Credits:Choreography &amp; performer: Charlie Laban TrierDramaturgical partner: Noha RamadanLight designer: Angela XRC-vehicle builder: Anders Toft PedersenRC-performer: TBAOutside eye: Kai MerkeMusic remix: Isadora Tomasiphoto: Joseph Mayers (cover), Amanda Bødker and HAUT residencySpecial thanks: Angelica Stathopoulos Developed with support from:HIMHERANDIT, Warehouse9 and Åbne Scene/Godsbanen – Queer Practice Residence 2025/26, HAUT – IN PROCESS residency, EHKÄ residency at Contemporary Art Space Kutomo, Performance space &amp; PACT Sydney – Queer Development Program 2024, Museion Bolzano – Opening the pill symposium 2022, Arts Centre BUDA residency, Jakoozi Amsterdam. Music in piece: Aamourocean, Britney Spears, Cascada &amp; Maurice West, Chicane &amp; Moya Brennan – The Thrillseekers remix, Forest Sword, Hole, ORM.

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