Parfyme (perfume) / Index Contact About / Resume Projects: Evaluation/Watercolours, Cph, jun-aug 09 Backpack Factory, Loughborough, feb 09 Power to the People, Pancevo, sep-oct 08 Harbor Laboratory, Copenhagen, may-nov 08 Peoples Museum, Birzeit, 07-09 Open City Hall, Cph, dec 07 Ideas to better surroundings, Seoul, oct-dec 07 Deluxe/Flux Factory, New York City, sep-oct 07 Flexible Production System, Copenhagen, aug 07 The Tent Show, Copenhagen, jun-nov 07 Cinema, Bethlehem, march 07 Public Hair Department, Vienna, nov 06 Yellow Ladder System, Copenhagen, nov 06 The Living Restaurant, Reykjavik, oct 06 Mimersgade, Copenhagen, aug-sep 06 Parfyme & Malaria, Summer 06 Street Canoes, New York, jun 06 The Cave, Paris, Apr 06 Scooters, Odense, march-may 06 Mountains, Herning, march-may 06 Tutkia Suomi, Finland, nov 05 Banana Factory, Copenhagen, sep 05 Landscape, Copenhagen, jun 05 ServiceSystem, a tool, 01-05 The Office of the Future, Cph, oct-nov 05 Monument, Copenhagen, may-jul 05 Welcome to EU, Warszawa, march 04 Lejre, Lejre, dec 03 - feb 04 Bike Drive In, Copenhagen, aug 03 Decentralized Activities, Liverpool, oct 02 Carpetwalk, Copenhagen, jun 02 Tour de Denmark, winter 00-01 Mobil Scene, Copenhagen, summer 00

Parfyme & Malaria During the summer of 2006, in a minibus with a well packed trailer, we toured Denmark talking about malaria. The route was: Copenhagen, Vig, Maribo, Rudkøbing, Odense, Ærø, Aalborg Zoo (Aalborg zoological garden), Herning, Bovbjerg Fyr (Bovbjerg lighthouse) and Aarhus. During the month in which we travelled, we lived in a big tent. We slept, ate, built and informed. Malaria is big problem in large areas of the world, though not in Denmark! To live intermittently, cooking food at a fireplace and trying to make problems disappear are part of most people’s everyday life, though not in Denmark! Malaria is the kind of thing you may contract if you go to Africa! Why should we, of all people, inform about this? Oh hell, art must be capable of all sorts of things; it must be able to bend, stretch and twist in all sorts of desirable directions, art must be beneficial to as many people as possible, art must be whatever is most meaningful. The fact that we camped unheard in the middle of the town squares is a great starting point: We are doing well in our west European part of the world, no diseases wipe out those close to us, in this part of the world it is difficult to die of starvation, and it is easy to complain and close the door! Let us swing the door to and tear it open again, and let us assist, let us scratch quietly on the door, let us fit an automatic door closer, let us help with the handle since we are so practical, let us oil the hinges to stop the squeaks. Let us just do the opening and closing of the door, opening and closing, opening and closing, opening and closing. And let us camp in the town squares. Alright, the last mentioned may seem a bit too heavy and know-all. It is not that we want to preach, but what are we to do, if it was really like this. People, who on the one hand or other, have been left out, fools of the town, and people of other ethnicities often came to visit us. And thanks for that – it was cosy. On the other hand, however, a picture appeared of a traditional Dane who thought it was all something of a messy affair, a mysterious and a very confused hotchpotch. We regret the mess (and the malaria).