Excerpt from 45 minutes video mediation document of the live performance Dear Daughter/Sen_sing_Inannainanna #6, in collaboration with film director Anita Mathal Hopland and midwife Marta Orbis, part of the exhibition the Birthkeeper Alter, Collega, Copenhagen 2023.
In the performance Lysholt collaborates with midwives and doulas who perform a collective mother care ceremony with the Cyborg Mother Goddess. This ceremony, known as the “closing of the bones” represents the transition from the openness of the body and soul after birth to the return to a core connection.
Dear Daughter/Sen_sing_Inannainanna (Russ, Shiva, Klein), is part of a series of written text for live performance, video and performative speech installations. I these works she recalls her own ongoing experiences with and thoughts on crucial elements of female life – pregnancy, birth, mothering, and female sexuality – and intertwine them with fragments of texts from various literary sources – ancient poetry, feminist sci-fi – in order to interweave complex assemblages of historical and technological narratives.
the performance text is published here online here: https://bastard.blog/nanna-lysholt-hansen-dear-daughter-sen_sing-_inannainanna-russ-shiva-klein-2019/
and in paper here: https://www.labae.org/publications/dear-daughter
more information about this work: http://nannalysholthansen.com/?page_id=1120