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... in dialogue with the four walls, where the appearance of screens and canvases draw the axes of the cross in the space. One axis is drawn by two smaller screens on which Marx and Socrates appear ... on the other axis, we find two large screens ... where the hooded young man appears and interrupt the dialogue of the philosophers in a perfect timing ...with which depicting references to both Zarathustra, Messiah and the Finnish school mass murderer are pressing in a loud beautiful music video ... ... A small video camera is used for transmissions in close-up view of the acting body: a blood sample needle, piercing into the white skin of the arm, a transmission from the singing uvula or a close-up view of his eye ... a face in protoplasmic transformation (a transformation, realized virtually in a video projection in which the nameless face dissolves into a large number of others: Andy Warhol's, Willem Dafoe's, Karen Blixen's, Mahatma Ghandi's, bin Laden's, Thomas Skade-Rasmussen Strøbech's ...) ... Lilian Munk Rösing, Information 23 January 2009
It results in a funny video conference (an animated symposium) between e.g. Pygmalion, Socrates and Karl Marx ... which along with a series of facial mutations (from Beck-Nielsen to Karen Blixen and Hitler and back) enough beautifying both dream and nightmare... Det kommer der en skæg videokonference ud af (et animeret symposium) mellem bl.a. Pygmalion, Sokrates og Karl Marx… sammen med en række ansigtsmutationer (fra Beck-Nielsen over Karen Blixen og Hitler og tilbage igen) nok forskønner både drømmen og mareridtet… Per Theil, Politiken 2009
Delicious video projections ... Funny computer-animated changes of the human face... Henrik Lyding, Jyllandsposten 2009
Copy And of course it is not the real Warhol in the year 1966, we see in video of ‘Master Copy' but performer Pold’s humorous copy of Warhol ... Wonderful Daniel Norback in the double role as Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart in 'Casablanca' and Merete Byrial is wonderful as both bespectacled Woody Allen and a young blond Mariel Hemingway in 'Manhattan'. Vibeke Wern, Politiken 28 August 2008
Children's performance is a fantastic experience of the senses. When the bird flies up to the sky, it does so on a video screen, and with help from animation technique it can dive into the sea too and meet peculiar fishes. Monna Dithmer, Politiken (a Danish newspaper) 2007
Elegant video projections create plenty of adventure and beautiful scenarios.
Henrik Lyding, Jyllandsposten (a Danish newspaper) 2007
The art of seduction. New Value is clever, funny and much-needed satire … The video artist Helle Lyshøj is the woman in NV in charge of presentation technique and she shows the idealistic, staged lifestyle of the NV-people in video clips already at the entrance, and later she shows us the worldwide network of New Value. Vibeke Wern, Berlingske Tidende (a Danish newspaper) 2006
Wonderful disaster relief for the danish theater. The theater is dead. Den Anden Opera (a Copenhagen music theater) is blown up. Swedish TV enters the smoke-filled premises to transmit the choking images directly to a viewing audience … Confused? Just wait till the |"behind the scenes" recordings of the rehearsals of Hamlet. The revisit of Requiem … Catastrophe on catastrophe unfolds in front of us. On stage. On the big screen. In the foyer. In the thoughts. Marianne Skovlund Christensen, (a danish radio programme)Teatermagasinet 2006
The use of video (by Helle Lyshøj and Erik Pold), as an all-over challenge to and intensifier of the scenic acts, emphasizes the fine balance between reality and staging.There are media conscious references to different forms of 'reality documentary': The old performance use of video as documentation, modern home videos and portrait interviews with the artist behind the scene or documentary look alike fiction. In this manner, clips are shown from the preliminary exercises of the rehearsal period in a summer cottage, interviews with the performers as they are 'in private', glimpses of the director Pold in action and it is rounded off with images like shaking cut-offs of The Blair Witch project. from 'KUF in the untried boundary area - a mid-way evaluation of the Danish Ministry of Culture Development Fund'
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