COKO Space hosts a series of events. Partially curated by the team itself and partially external by others. We focus on Art, Performance, Design and Politics.
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Our next COKO Happening invites you into a space where absence becomes presence, and what was denied begins to take shape.
Surfacing HypoKrisia unfolds as a series of performative acts that attempt to summon a speculative, myth-like figure: HypoKrisia. Imagined by Trier as the forgotten younger sister of Tiresias, the oracle from Greek mythology, HypoKrisia emerges as both fiction and force, a presence that reshapes how resilience and identity are understood.
According to the classical myth, Tiresias sees two snakes twisting together while mating. Disturbed by what he does not understand, he strikes the female snake and is transformed by Hera into a woman.
In Trier’s reimagining, both Tiresias and HypoKrisia can be read as trans figures.
But HypoKrisia does not move toward a final form.
She stays in-between.
She chooses to exist in a state of being unfinished, always not becoming.
HypoKrisia is cast as dangerous, ungraspable, and ultimately erased. Like the snake, she is fluid and elusive, shedding skins, slipping through narrative control. The performance acts as an invocation, a gesture of calling her back from beneath the surface where she has long been suppressed.
Bio
Charlie Laban Trier (b. 1987, dk) is a performing artist who chooses to situate his practice deep within the realm of dance, though the dances often appear through other forms such as; bottom-barrel yells turned into songs, text-sampling, endlessly becoming costume, carrying/caring for screens, extreme sculptural headbanging and more. He sees dance as inherently messy, slippery and emergent - a form of knowledge that resists legibility.
Living as a transperson, is another big teacher in his thinking/approach to work. Charlie thinks of transness, like dance, as a technology that helps him complicate material. It allows for embodying multiple images, seducing viewers, and shifting fluidly between forms.
He is currently investigating practices of collective myth-making, wanting to foster conversations that resist fixed meaning and invite a dis-positioning of the hero/center-stage.
He’s a member of Jakoozi (fka. Jacuzzi) since 2019 – an artist-run studio in Amsterdam where dance/performance and other time-based medias swim together – collectively organizing public events and workshops.
Credits
Choreography & performer: Charlie Laban Trier
Dramaturgical partner: Noha Ramadan
Light designer: Angela X
RC-vehicle builder: Anders Toft Pedersen
RC-performer: TBA
Outside eye: Kai Merke
Music remix: Isadora Tomasi
Special thanks: Angelica Stathopoulos
photo cover: Joseph Mayers
Developed with support from:
HIMHERANDIT, Warehouse9 and Åbne Scene/Godsbanen – Queer Practice Residence 2025/26, HAUT – IN PROCESS residency, EHKÄ residency at Contemporary Art Space Kutomo, Performance space & PACT Sydney – Queer Development Program 2024, Museion Bolzano – Opening the pill symposium 2022, Arts Centre BUDA residency, Jakoozi Amsterdam.
Music in piece: Aamourocean, Britney Spears, Cascada & Maurice West, Chicane & Moya Brennan – The Thrillseekers remix, Forest Sword, Hole, ORM.