Failing Gracefully 

In 2017 and 2018 the Uneasy Listening Society embarked on our long standing dream to bring artists, scientists, speakers and makers together with audiences in a festival of faults, failures and f*ck-ups. OOPS! festival seeks to highlight many facets and understandings of failing in order to question attitudes towards failure in society and ourselves.

The festival took place in Roskilde at Åben Dans with a one day program in 2017 and a 3 day program in 2018 - with a special view on failure and the body.

We were incredibly touched by all the attendants and have decided to push the OOPS! adventures further in years to come, wanting to create a more mobile and fluid way to connecting with audiences.

We are very proud to have had the following participants at the OOPS! festivals.

2018:

SPLASTIC by Tora Balslev & Cath Borch Jensen (DK), exhibition by artist and activist Sarah Glerup (DK), talk by philosopher Thomas Burø (DK), Ditte Andersen, MD & Kathrine Ekström, MD (DK), BRØL beer makers Philipp Mitterhofer (DK), Speaker Dina Amlund (DK), TERRIBLE SEX TIPS by Cameryn Moore (US), Jazz with Nola Jazz Band (DK), Stand up show GENDER EUPHORIA by Jamie MacDonald (CA/FIN), FETISH by artist and activist Topher Campbell, Performance Reading: from THIS IS FOR HER by Sofie Lebech (DK), OUR OTHER BODY by Boaz Barkan (DK), artist in residence; Lukas Pradino/ TeaterKUNST (BR).

2017:

Game designer Thomas Vigild (DK), Layla Torres Mollerup/ TeaterKUNST (DK), Liang Rui & Rebecca Ribbing/ The Museum of Failure (SE), teacher Keith Gumery (DK), Thomas Aaby Berdal - I Will Cook for Food (DK), SKRØBELIGE LIV by Sofie Lebech & Pelle Skovman (DK), TALKING HEAD by Janne Saarakkala (FIN), Philosopher Oleg Koefoed (DK), Concert by Jakob Bro (DK).

Festival board: Mika Christoffersen, Thomas Burø, Stephanie Clemente and Nina Larissa Bassett (curator)

These events could not have taken place with out the amazing contributions from: Beata, Johannes, Mathilde, Liv, Mie, Anne-Sophie, Pauline, Iben, Layla and Ida.

Supported by: The Danish Arts Council, Tuborg Fonden & DJBFA