Præsenterer Claus Ankersen

CLAUS ANKERSEN

Claus Ankersen is an intergalactic traveler who works with written and spoken literature as well as a wide range of cross disciplinary expressions. He is a painter, documentarist filmmaker, installation artist as well as the author of 5 books and a poetry CD. His feature length documentary on Danish performance poetry was instrumental in the constitution of the artform in Denmark. He writes bilingually in danish and english and have worked, exhibited and performed his art and poetry in 17 countries. His works are translated into 11 languages (Swedish, Finnish, Estonian, Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, German, Udmurt, Voru, Romanian and English). In 2013 Claus received the Fencepole Award for a cross disciplinary artwork. The letter stele 'ALWAYS', combining poetry, visual art, installation and performance as a piece of art in the public sphere. ALWAYS was awarded best installation of the year on Copenhagen public fences. Continuously challenging the literary and politically correct, in the spring of 2014 the artist published a collection of new danish limericks. The publication led to leading danish newspaper Politiken launching a month long literary competition, spurring a record number of readers to write their own limericks.

Internationally Claus Ankersen has performed, worked and exhibited in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Estonia, Ukraine, Germany, Poland, Holland, Serbia, Croatia, Romania, Turkey, Armenia, India and the USA, done readings at various literature- and art festivals, and guest lectured on performance poetry and poetics at various universities and academic conferences. He has recently been appointed vice member of the board of the Turku based finnish poetry organisation Poetryweek.

Often compared to fellow artists as beat poet Allen Ginsberg, occultist Aleister Crowley and media personality Russel Brand, Claus Ankersen is a poetic powerhouse of word, love and human r/evolution.