Video, Performance and Site-Specific work — Copenhagen
RorgASM
The Culture TowerSite-specific installation, performance, video · March–April 2019 · Copenhagen · DK
A two-month site-specific project exploring identity, cultural inheritance, and intimate encounters. The work unfolded across multiple formats: video projections illuminating the tower and reaching out into Copenhagen's urban landscape, video installations placed in synergy with the tower's unique structure, spoken word, and performance one to one, an intimate interaction with visitors.
RASM is Urdu for ritual. org is short for original. RorgASM is a fusion of the artist's cultural origins creating a text-based work.
Opening on International Women's Day:
What does such a significant day mean for a woman who grew up with multiple cultures' views on women, simultaneously in the midst of 1970s Denmark? Does liberation feel different when the starting point is multicultural, or are the secret rooms, the female rituals, the intimate thoughts, and the stories without sender — ancient forms with the purpose of creating relations — the same everywhere?
Blancas Pearls screening from the Tower 2019
Foto still fra Blancas Pearls 2019
Site Specific Video installation Blancas Pearls in the basement of
The Culture Towers Toilets. 2019.
I am...
Screening from the Tower.
From the Opening
I, The Artist,
The Screening I Am...
Video and Objects of Venus Boudoir
Installed in the cabinet of The Tower
Guest experience
Still from Venus Combes her Hair
RorgASM
Performance one to one 00:16 min
02:00 min video
2019
Performance Space at The Culture Tower, Textbased Multiple work 2019
Klöhauschen video installation
Klöhauschen video installation
In collaboration with Klohäuschen has an installation with an video work exploring the fields of tight spaces “ Breathe in and Breathe out “ been created.
During daylight you will see an insignificant change at the door to the urinal.
With a closer look you will see that it is covered with a see through familiar plastic structure; bubble wrap. There are peepholes which invite you to come closer crossing the boundaries as a voyeur into an intimate space covered in layers and layers of bubble wrap, at the same time covering and yet letting you see the familiar structure behind.
Inside if you listen carefully you will hear a subtle claustrophobic and hypnotic struggling breathing sound filling the space.
As night falls the installation gets stronger and more visible to the eyes. As the night falls the space comes alive.
Using the well known, everyday material bubble wrap is vital in this work. It acts as a key object in the video performed and therefore most importantly it unfolds as an object into the surrounding space and thus including the existing space into the existing artwork tying them together in a "joint third" a piece which can and will only exists while the installation is shown at Klohäuschen.