jerklædte Misforståelser (Feathered Misconceptions) is a fifteen-minute associative performance commissioned by Ny Carlsberg Fondet for their annual celebration of their founder on 28 February 2018. Taking its starting point in the Glyptotek's architecture, the work investigates the epistemological potential of misunderstandings, drawing threads from traces of ancient Greek wooden architecture still visible in the Glyptotek up to the advanced computer systems that interpret and often misunderstand us today.

The performance is about misunderstandings whilst simultaneously consisting of a series of linguistic, historical and visual misunderstandings, bound together by a lecturer who is not entirely in control of what is happening but wonders and is surprised alongside the audience. The presenter introduces himself as Karsten Orth (deliberately mispronouncing his own name), welcomes the audience and discusses the boundary between inside and outside in the Glyptotek's winter garden.

The work is divided into five short sections that flow into one another: "Not quite oneself," "Other architectures," "Dream architecture," "A speaking object," and "Google listens and misunderstands." During the performance, the lecturer tastes and listens to the hall's columns, tells of dreams of feathered ancient architecture inspired by feathered dinosaurs, and presents a talking plum that raps about the art world as a collective ecology of misunderstandings.

Technical elements include a 3D animation sculpture representing the Roman emperor Trajan, normally standing in the Glyptotek but at the time on loan, slowly being inflated like a balloon and changing colour from white to multicoloured marble before flying away into darkness. The Glyptotek building emerges from darkness with its solid architecture beginning to flow whilst first hair and then colourful feathers grow out of the building, transforming it.

A key moment features a deliberately misspelled book title: "Plummed Past" instead of "Plumed Past" (feathered past becomes "blommet fortid" - flowered past in Danish), leading to the presentation of a talking plum. Using computer vision software, a rapping face appears on the plum, following its movements as the lecturer holds it in front of the webcam.

The performance concludes with Google's speech recognition continuously but often mistakenly transcribing what the lecturer says, with colours changing rhythmically each time the text updates. The work explores how electronic systems constantly push at our understanding of who we are, our history and context, suggesting that their constant misunderstanding provides opportunities to see the world with fresh eyes. The performance questions traditional notions of heroic bodies and monochrome histories, imagining instead non-heroic bodies in soft, feathered institutions that function as part of a collective ecosystem. It positions deliberate misunderstanding as a productive alternative to seamless digital communication and reliable interpretation systems.