Disco: the music - the places - the people

A lecture performance by Olof Olsson

7 - 9 pm, Saturday 4th December

After a year on tour around Europe Olof Olsson is completing his lecture performance project Disco: the music - the places - the people at MOT International, London.
Olsson has long been a dedicated follower of disco and the performance uses disco music as a generator of a lecture about the social experience of disco, its peak in the 70’s and its modern legacy. In Disco: the music - the places - the people Olof combines the traditional form of the academic lecture with the self-consciousness of the comedian and the missionary zeal of the DJ, to explore the performative aspects of knowledge sharing.

Swedish artist Olof Olsson shares his studio apartment in Copenhagen with 6000 vinyl records - most of them disco. He has studied philosophy, languages and translation theory at Lund University, and Fine Arts at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.

During 2010, Disco: the music - the places - the people has been performed at:
Rocker 33, Stuttgart; Divo Institute, Kolin; F.A.I.T., Krakow; Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg; Kunstraum D21, Leipzig; Razzia–Seefeld, Zürich;
Galleri Signal, Malmö; Den Frie Udstillnigsbygning, Copenhagen; Holstebro Kunstmuseum, Holstebro; Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen and Nationaltheater, Mannheim.