Excerpt from the article: 1989 - a tribute to art as a counterculture and mobilization. By Matthias Hvass Borello ( from the exhibition 1989 – MOBILIZE YOUR MIND at VEGA|ARTS during GOLDEN DAYS)

…Kristoffer Akselbo is a Danish visual artist who uses performative strategies to confront the understanding of our surroundings - the power of cultural and economic systems - and what is ultimately real or speculative fiction. His works are not concrete suggestions for a different and better world, rather unpleasant reminders from the existing one that make us notice and look again. Tonight, his performance work , It’s the End Of The World As We Know I , will take on new mobilizing forms.

(The work could also be experienced during A Colossal Weekend in May 2019):

Excerpt from article: Shall We Just Play, Honey? by Matthias Hvass Borello

(from the exhibition at VEGA|ARTS during A Colossal Weekend)

… Kristoffer Akselbo's two-day marathon performance, It's The End Of The World As We Know It, is in many ways a living mirror. An inhabited installation work that invites us inside for an encounter with the unknown - the world we do not know or recognize, as the title suggests: A difficult-to-handle stranger; masked, unappealing, lurking but also withdrawn, outside the language and norm. He personifies the unmanageable in our society and existence. A scary but also tantalizing encounter for most. But answers are not found here. Only a mirror composed of our own notions of reality and our unknown neighbors.