The project Dear Daughter consists of a series of voice-based live performances, video documents and performative speech installations. In these works, I interweave my own experiences and thoughts on crucial elements in female life -such as pregnancy, birth, mothering and female sexuality- with text fragments from feminist literary sources. I then perform the text collages through hybrid technological forms.
Dear Daughter/Anatomy of the Chthulucene (O’Connell Oh Oh Haraway), 2016-2021, is about sex, sexuality and kinship. This text links anatomic descriptions of the clitoris from Helen O’Connell’s “Anatomy of the Clitoris”, (2005) with Donna Haraway’s concept of the chthulucene (staying with the trouble, 2016) and is being performed in a landscape of sculptural objects and playback technology while marking/mapping my naked body with body paint.
Anatomy of the Chthulucene, 2017-2019, body paint on wet wipe cloth, 18×23 cm each. Installation view: Transitions #2, Rundetaarn Copenhagen, (Photo: Rine Rodin)
installation view: Transitions, Kvindemuseet, DK, 2019
Dear Daughter/Anatomy of the Chthulucene #9, 30 minutes live performance, 2018, it matters what thoughts think thoughts, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Dear Daughter/Anatomy of the Chthulucene #8, 30 minutes live performance, 2018, SMK Fridays, the national gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen
Dear Daughter/Anatomy of the Chthulucene #7, 30 minutes live performance, 2018, Poesiens Hus, Copenhagen
Dear Daughter/Anatomy of the Chthulucene #6, 30 minutes live performance, 2018 Shaking the habitual, meter, Copenhagen, 3-23.6.2018
podes of My Body, Vermilion Sands 2017/2018 https://kunsten.nu/artguide/calendar/the-antipodes-of-my-body/
Dear Daughter/Anatomy of the Chthulucene (O’Connell Oh Oh Haraway) #5, 21’58 DV, sound, 2017, “https://vimeo.com/247964996“
Dear Daughter/Anatomy of the Chthulucene #4, 30 minutes live performance, 2017
Mothernizing Ana, Astrid Noacks Atelier, Copenhagen, 2017
Dear Daughter/Anatomy of the Chthulucene #3, 20 minutes live performance, 2017
KN 1-15, Kunsthal Nord, Aalborg, 2017
Nanna Lysholt Hansen, Dear Daughter/Anatomy of the Chthulucene (O’Connell Oh Oh Haraway), seven a4 pages with script for performance, playback equipment, AV loop, microphone, installation view: The Factory of Art and Design, Copenhagen, 2016
https://www.idoart.dk/blog/to-be-one-is-always-to-become-with-many
‘TO BE ONE IS ALWAYS TO BECOME WITH MANY’, conversation with/text by Callum Ross, January 2017
Nanna Lysholt Hansen, Dear Daughter Anatomy of the Chthulucene (O’Connell Oh Oh Haraway) #2, 21’50” HDV, 2016, Installation view: The Factory of Art and Design, Copenhagen, 2016
https://vimeo.com/194802203