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.
Creating these works informed my considerations of the relations between the maternal and technology; how the matrixial body/voice can generate a critical dialogue with the viewer concerning aspects of post-humanism, family and kinship.
Dear Daughter – Nanna Lysholt Hansen
four booklets, riso-printed, hand-sewn, 16×11 cm, Edition of 100, Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology, 2019
Dear Daughter/Sen_sing_inannainanna (Russ, Shiva, Klein)
ISBN 978-87-93883-02-4
Dear Daughter/Anatomy of the Chthulucene (O’Connell Oh Oh Haraway)
ISBN 978-87-93883-01-7
Dear Daughter/Motherboard Theories of Evolution (W/ Braidotti, Plant et aliae)
ISBN 978-87-93883-00-0
Dear Daughter/Organic Cyborg Stories (After Donna Haraway)
ISBN 978-87-999834-2-1
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Box set of four booklets: 225 DKK (+delivery costs)
Box set of four booklets and one unique body print from the live performance Dear Daughter/Anatomy of the Chthulucene (O’Connell Oh Oh Haraway) #10, The Women’s Museum, Denmark, 11.09.2019, UV body paint on wet wipe, 23×18 cm each, series of 12:
750 DKK (+delivery costs)
Dear Daughter – Nanna Lysholt Hansen
four booklets, riso-printed, hand-sewn, 16×11 cm, Edition of 100, 2019
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ISBN 978-87-999834-2-1
In Dear Daughter/Organic Cyborg Stories (After Donna Haraway), 2013, I am 8 months pregnant and I address my unborn daughter by mixing appropriated fragments of Donna Haraway’s essay A Cyborg Manifesto with my own thoughts on pregnancy and birth.
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ISBN 978-87-93883-00-0
Dear Daughter/Motherboard Theories of Evolution (w/ Braidotti, Plant et aliae), 2014-2019, is a speech to the new born daughter, performed wearing a baby carrier and computer/textile. Text fragments of different origin are interwoven and combined in a sound collage on femininity, history, language and technology.
ISBN 978-87-93883-01-7
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.
Dear Daughter/Sen_sing_inannainanna (Russ, Shiva, Klein)
ISBN 978-87-93883-02-4
Dear Daughter/Sen_sing_inannainanna (Russ, Shiva, Klein) is a work about times of crisis. I use text fragments from selected -for me healing, caring, political- foremothers (in this text Vandana Shiva, Joanna Russ, Naomi Klein and Enheduanna) as well as my own experiences with mothering (oral utterings by my 5-year-old daughter) as material to mantrasing about sustainability, mothering, spirituality, and technology.
Dear Daughter – Nanna Lysholt Hansen
four booklets, riso-printed, hand-sewn, 16×11 cm, Edition of 100, 2019
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