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.
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.
Nanna Lysholt Hansen, Dear Daughter/Organic Cyborg Stories (After Donna Haraway)#1, 2013, 14.58 minutes HDV+sound, installation view: Kulstof15, Kunsthal Nord/Nordkraft, Aalborg, 2015
Nanna Lysholt Hansen, Dear Daughter/Organic Cyborg Stories (After Donna Haraway)#5, 2014, 14.58 minutes HDV+sound, looped on flatscreen, installationview: St. Valentin Espace d’art, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2014
Nanna Lysholt Hansen, Dear Daughter/Organic Cyborg Stories (After Donna Haraway)#4, 2013, 20 minutes live performance, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, 2013
Nanna Lysholt Hansen, Dear Daughter/Organic Cyborg Stories (After Donna Haraway)#3, 2013, 20 minutes live performance, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, 2013
