Welcome to a festive launch of the book CAMP status! Seven Years of Engaging Art on Migration Politics and a farewell reception for Trampoline House’s exhibition space, CAMP
It is with great joy but also sadness that CAMP / Center for Art on Migration Politics is inviting the public to a book launch in Trampoline House of the recollective publication CAMP status! Seven Years of Engaging Art on Migration Politics. The publication will be CAMP's last activity before the center closes on Oct. 1 and looks back at CAMP’s unique production of migration engaged exhibitions, events, publications, and education programs from 2013–2020.
Instead of lamenting that an era is over, we would like to rejoice together that CAMP’s Creative Director Frederikke Hansen has joined the Artistic Team of the worldwide exhibition documenta fifteen, and that CAMP’s co-founder and program director in Trampoline House, Tone Olaf Nielsen, together with Trampoline House will be part of creating a network of organizations that will be pivotal in that very same exhibition.
About the book /
CAMP status! is edited by CAMP’s founders and curators, Frederikke Hansen & Tone Olaf Nielsen, and tells the complete story of CAMP's foundation and its unique production of migration-engaged exhibitions, events, publications, and educational programs from 2013–2020.
The publication reflects on CAMP’s methodologies and conclusions and presents, in addition to a detailed chronology, a series of essays by Matthias Hvass Borello, Frederikke Hansen & Tone Olaf Nielsen, Anders Juhl & Marianne Ping Huang, Sabine Dahl Nielsen & Anne Ring Petersen, and a conversation between CAMP’s founders and Nora El Qadim.
One aim of the publication is to contribute to the documentation of those contemporary artists of the 2010s, who dealt with issues of decolonization, racism, and migration politics. Another aim of the book is to serve as a guide of sorts for anyone interested in establishing new exhibition venues focused on ethical, political, and politicized issues.
The publication is designed by graphic designer and artist Kristina Ask / Print Matters! and is printed in a 60-page hardcover edition. A Danish as well as an English language version is published.
The first 50 copies of the publication are sold for DKK 60. After this, the price for the rest of the day is DKK 75. After the book launch, the publication can be purchased in Trampoline House for DKK 130.
Registration /
As we follow the authorities’ corona guidelines, the number of seats for the book launch is limited to 50 people. If you want to attend, please send an email to communication@campcph.org no later than Sept. 25 at 12 pm.
Venue /
Trampoline House
Thoravej 7
DK-2400 Copenhagen NV
Program /
2–2:30 pm: Doors open. Drinks and book sales
2:30–3:15 pm: Welcome / by CAMP’s founders Tone Olaf Nielsen & Frederikke Hansen
Keynote / by publication contributors, Sabine Dahl Nielsen & Anne Ring Petersen
3:15–3:45 pm:Break with refreshments
3:45–4:30 pm:
Stories from CAMP / by exhibition guide Shakira and by contributing artists Nermin Durakovic and Dady de Maximo
4:30–5 pm:
Thank you for today
Film screening /
2–5 pm:During the book launch, there will be a preview screening of the film Bag Hegnet [Behind the Fence], directed by choreographer and mime artist Helle Fuglsang. The 22 min. film is screened continuously in a loop in CAMP’s former exhibition spaces, which are now home to Trampoline House’s Children's Club. Bag Hegnet is filmed on location in the long corridors of the Danish deportation center Sjælsmark and presents a group of children from the center. With mime, body language, absurdity, and humor, the film focuses on the children's creativity, strength, and personal expression.