Name: An Info Comedy by Olof Olsson: Driving the Doubts Away
Start: 2025-10-30T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-30T21:00:00+01:00
Location: Anti

An Info Comedy by Olof Olsson: Driving the Doubts Away

"Going to art school is like going to jail. Except that with jail – it's hard to get out, while with art school – it's hard to get in. And when I apply, I'm sure to fail. And I'm confused – like a fish on a bus. But with that confusion, I confuse the art school jury – and I get in."
Driving the Doubts Away is an info comedy about a confused teenager, who wants to be an artist, somehow gets into art school — and gets even more confused.
Throwing light on the main plot are digressions on Valhalla, Mars bars, billionaires, Austrian wine, sparkling water, free coffee, and much more.
At the heart of the confusion stands Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, a urinal turned sculpture in 1917, which in 2004 was voted the most influential art work of the 20th century.
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Everyone is welcome. Doors open at 6.30.
Donation of 90 SEK at door (goes directly to reimbursing the artist). This donation will give you certain privileges during the evening.
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Olof Olsson is the product of the 1960s charter tourism industry. His Dutch catholic mother and Swedish protestant agnostic social democrat father met in Mallorca.
In his youth Olof made attempts in photography, journalism, and as a pirate radio DJ. After having studied English, philosophy and translation theory at Lund University, Olof went to art school at Konstfack in Stockholm and the Royal Academy in Copenhagen.
Olof did his first exhibition in 1992: a fictitious story about a photographer suffering from photomania. Since 2007, Olof performs info comedy — a combination of lecture, comedy, autobiography, and melodrama.
Olof’s first feature-length info comedy Driving the Blues Away, premiered in 2011. In 2016–2018, Olof performed Driving the Blues Away regularly in his Copenhagen one-room apartment (with an audience capacity of twelve), constantly fine-tuning the script. The audience got a two-hour performance and two cocktails for fifty Danish kroner. By early 2020, Driving the Blues Away had been performed 122 times in 19 countries.
Driving the Doubts Away premiered at Kunsthal Aarhus in May 2023. After a summer of intense script revision, Doubts was presented by SixtyEight Art Institute for two sold-out shows at Copenhagen’s Lygten Station in September 2023. After another year of intense script fine-tuning, Driving the Doubts Away started touring in late 2024, and performed for two sold-out at shows at Copenhagen’s Den Frie in early 2025.