57 Beds (2004)

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In the large black box hall of Kanonhallen, the installation juxtaposed a variety of scattered spaces in a single room. Around the hall lay crashed and burned out cars, a banquet table dressed for a wedding, a cocktail bar, a roadside cafeteria, border control, and a huge dancehall stage. Throughout the duration of the installation, individual characters inhabiting the space continuously added layers to their identities or stories, revealing a cryptic myth of a town in limbo at the outskirts of bordering lands. 57 Beds was a labyrinthine and unpredictable form of installation where the audience’s participation was equivocal with the artist and the performers.

Date: 12th to 28th of February, 2004, daily 4 hours, Saturdays 12 hours

Place: Kanonhallen, Østerfælled Torv, Copenhagen, Denmark

"The young performance artist Signa Sørensen has done it again with her new work '57 Beds'. Created a both magic and frightening scene where the line between fiction and reality ceases to exist, the barrier between audience and actors has been broken down, and where questions of borders and identity are put forth. (...) The way in which the actors insist on and steep themselves in their characters, fascinates time and again." (translated from Danish)
- Vibeke Wern, Berlingske Tidende

"In a challenging way, [Signa Sørensen] takes part in fostering new ways to test the line between art and reality - just as she has done it with 'Twin Life' and 'Nightfinder' - but what she in fact manages to stage, is a new theatrical reality." (translated from Danish)
- Monna Dithmer, Politiken