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There is a drama on the streets between between those who beg and those who give, or don’t give. The barriers are both emotional and due to language, and many cultural codes are at play. Images of each other, often generated by prejudice and ignorance, are set in play. These images we have - how we picture one another - need to be negotiated, as these images today create a violence against humans. This is what The Chorus of Giving and the Chorus of Begging does. Here participates people who beg in the streets and givers. It’s a filminstallation for two screens where the viewer stands between. The process of creating a choral work together these three days was also filmed and became a production film with an accompanying text where, among other things, ethics, aesthetics and work conditions are described. The piece has been shown in a number of public places and at seminars. It’s a visualisation of how it’s possible to create space for action. It shows both method and result. There is a space of action between us. Art is a way to utilize this space to express the sensual, that which also is the basis for the political: in the affects and reactions in people. If art is about visualising this space of action then the political is about how it is possible to see which images that are relevant in this space, and to activate it.

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