Syndicate of Creatures 

Manifest (2017)

tSoC is an art and intervention group based in Copenhagen. Initially organized around the exhibition and performance platforms TYS and KRÆ. In recent years, we have restructured to work in a broader field and more collaboratively with other organizations both locally in Copenhagen and internationally.

tSoC is built around a core of three artists/curators/researchers and art theorists, and we collaborate with a wide range of professionals. tSoC consists of visual artist and art theorist Nanna Gro Henningsen, human ecologist and performer Michelle Appelros, and visual artist and curator Signe Vad.

We create exhibitions, events, workshops, and intervention projects on topics related to our main focus: rethinking how we inhabit this planet. Our primary approach to this theme is to work with poetic, sensory-based, mystical, and scientific methods.

the Syndicat of Creatures manifest:

We are KRÆ. We are creatures. We are a syndicate of creatures who believe that the world needs radical rethinking.

While the capitalistic autocannibliism devours our nature, feasts on all living creatures and living growths; while we humans becomes a bottomless gap of insatiable needs, in a splintered world, where reflection hurts as the world is spinning in the wrong direction; we turn into disturbing creatures – we become KRÆ – creatures identifying with critters and growths, emerging as beings of the earth.

The Syndicate of Creatures gathers around exhibitions, events, rituals and conversations. We work with events that revolve around inter-connectedness to the past, the future, to the nature of multiple creatures and species, to each other and in the common world.

We want to create an experimental non-profit environment for rethinking; we start by dealing with the grotesque, the absurd, the rejected, and the elements of nature, the roots, the robots and death.

We use art and poetic collaboration as a gateway to disturb our fossilized mind-sets and awaken numb senses.

The KRÆ Syndicate work with the connections between death in culture and the representation of the radical other; the refugee, the creature, the weed, the violence, the grotesque, the bacteria, naked life: things and bodies that represent and characterize the unwanted.

The KRÆ is you and me, us and them. A beast born out of fellowship

of humankind, a manifestation of our contradictory nature. The Syndicate is radical, emerging as a growl from our collective consciousness; it´s the creator of sensitive and intellectual disturbances.