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performance documentation

WHAT S/HE FEARS

There are only two fundamental emotions: love and fear.

What do we fear in common? To what extent can we relate to someone else's fear? Is there a place for love under a pile of heavy stones?

During preparation for this performance, I was collecting female-identifying people's fears in Umeå city library, Konsthall and Kvinnohistoriskt Museum, and via online form. Every fear has weight. Through attaching written story to the stone invisible fears and feelings obtain physical shape and heaviness.

Fear is part of human nature.
So is resilience. So is love.
​By acknowledging our fears, and taking steps to address them, we grow.


What s/he fears.
​performance, 45 min
Kvinnohistoriskt Museum (Museum of Women's History)
in collaboration with Umeå Konsthall, ​Umeå, Sweden, 2018


COME BACK.
COME BAREFOOT

Intuitive search for the place where one belongs - "the forest". Stepping inside, 
summoning the integrity branch by branch, one restores the forest - the wholeness - and shares love with whoever is around and willing/trusting to receive it. This is an invitation and a silent reminder that everyone carries a forest within and can go there anytime. Barefoot.

/ soil, grandmother's hair, 13 green branches, red threads, envelopes /

perfromed for 13Festivalen.



Come back. Come barefoot.
​performance, 45 min
Konstepidemin, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2018
photo: Ellinor Kärnestam, ​Jill Lindström, Kristina Marić


MAKE YOU MINE

Through image of a berry-pile, slowly being transformed into a decorative item, the performance reflects upon abuse in all forms and human greedy attitude to nature in particular. The beauty of the red juice and jewelry is painful, as in order to attain this beauty, harm needs to be done. The necklace leaves stains on the white shirt. Ruthless footsteps leave  stains on the pathway. We play a dangerous dominative game, refusing to think about the consequences. We don't humbly take what we need. 
We want more. 

Make you mine
​performance, durational, 120 min
KH Messen, Ålvik, Norway, 2017
photo: Sam Van Strien, Kate Van Harreveld


​YOU DON'T FEEL PAIN,
​DO YOU?


Durational performance and installation in a place where they cut down the trees. A meaningful forest - home for plants and animals, is now a wasteland - an empty place with no meaning, crossed out patch of land. 
You don't feel pain, do you?
​performance, durational, 180 min
installation: 36 red strings, cut trees

Ålvik, Norway, 2017

THE LOVE YOU SEND

​forest 
is calling /
lover
is sending the letters /
leaves-roots-branches /
whisper
in response /

bones-flesh-skin /
cut your hair
clear the view /
cut off your shoe laces
step on the grass /
you know
this smell /
you are ready
​for this journey​
 The Love You Send
performance, durational, 90 min
Luisa Catucci Gallery, Berlin, 2017
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photo: Barbara Kowa, Freyman & Heinrich, Mathieu Leger, Lilla Magyari

SACRED GROUNDS

​​touching
the roots /
returning
the seeds /
wet
soil /
growing
elastic /
breathe in

the uncertainties /
breathe out
the dance /
no need
for your old eyes /
you can see
​with your heart
Sacred Grounds
​performance, 15 min
Luisa Catucci Gallery, Berlin, 2017

photo: Barbara Kowa

FOREST LETTERS

check your mailbox
hear me
I'm here

Forest Letters
performance, 25 min
Luisa Catucci Gallery, Berlin, 2017

photo: Barbara Kowa
check out other performance pieces, that are parts of the following works:
We Swim in One Water
High Land
Cityescape
​This too shall pass
vimeo (videos)

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