Video, Performance and Site-Specific work — Copenhagen
The Portal / Public Performance Walk/ Site Specific Installation
06.02–20.02.2025
THE DOLLHOUSE_ARTSPACE — Fynske Kunstakademi, Grand Foyer · Odense · DK
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The Portal / Portalen
MediumSite-specific installation
Year2025
A site-specific installation created for THE DOLLHOUSE_ARTSPACE at the Grand Foyer of Fynske Kunstakademi, Odense, February 2025.
The Portal / Portalen Site-specific installation, public performance · 06.02–20.02.2025
The possibility to create a dimension emphasising strangeness, cultural root-seeking, attachment and connection in displacement — creating a portal of relocalization into an existing dimension and parallel realities.
A shrine, a rooted temple, moving between spaces. With collected objects from cultural heritage adorning the space — a dollhouse becoming a portal between cultural gates.
The work opens with a public performance walk — a ritual consecration that weaves patterns, binds and connects. The circle repeats in an endless formation, where the boundaries between "them" and "us" dissolve into a unified whole. A cultural exchange takes shape through fragments from the temple of memory.
Following the performance, the work is installed site-specifically — remaining as a space, a portal. A room between dimensions, between cultures, between worlds.
The visitors are invited to enter and continue the pattern. Endless and eternal.
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.