by Torben | May 19, 2019 | engelsk
In May 2019, I traveled to the United States in the service of the scissors. The University of Wisconsin-Madison had invited me to attend the symposium “Sustaining Scandinavian Folk Arts in the Upper Midwest”. The event was attended by Scandinavian and American...
by Torben | Apr 18, 2019 | engelsk
April 2th – on Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday – there was a foundation stone positioning for the new H.C. Andersen’s House (museum) in Odense. I about ten meters deep, a suitcase with some effects was dug down for posterity. Councilor Jane...
by Torben | Dec 28, 2018 | engelsk
I was busy with the scissors when I held a paper cut workshop at the Museum of Danish America in Elk Horn, USA. I was at the museum for over two days. Almost 400 visitors came to the museum and many of them grabbed the scissors. I also showed the exhibition “The...
by Torben | Aug 18, 2018 | engelsk
H.C. Andersen Festivals opens this year on August 19th with the dance performance “De 5 Papirklip” (The 5 paper cuts). I have made all the paper cuts for the performance. The performance takes place in Odense Concert Hall with 1,500 persons in the audience. The...
by Torben | Jun 30, 2018 | engelsk
In the summer of 2017, Leonardo Capodarte from the Italian RAI-TV recorded me for a film documentary about Denmark. Among other things, he filmed me cutting one of my paper cut people free from the paper. The program “L’estate danese” (Danish summer) has just been...
