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ToBeOrNotToBe
Kronborg Carstel / Elsinore / Denmark 2008

Video: ’Hamlet’ Actor Niels Anders Thorn
Sound: Anders & Ulla Koppel


Heirlooms are all the traces we leave behind. At Kronborg, the traces are theatrical and fictitious after the non-existent Hamlet character, which has been created here in countless versions. I am working with three stages of the legend of Hamlet, freely adapted from Shakespeare: To Be / The Past, Or Not / The Present, To Be / The Future. From the organic body of primitive man - via our time’s preoccupation with the brain and artificial organs - to the control of the future of genes and technology. Prince Hamlet has been laid to rest in this burial chamber among his ancestors and in our consciousness as dead, as alive or as the spirit of the time.


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