Camilla Lind (*1989, DK)
MELODRAMA, 2024, Performance, 25 min.
Camilla Lind sees the body as a fluid entity that can render social reality fragile, causing cracks to form. She is interested in how mistakes, chaos and humour can be used as tools for examining the potentials for change in the human body and gender. In her new performance MELODRAMA (2024), she takes her point of departure in the genre of gothic melodrama, where strong affects mix with elements of the supernatural. In Lind’s version, the artist adds references to pop culture and subcultures. Central to the performance is a female character who seems to occupy a space poised between fiction and reality. Through a series of transformations of her own self, and by means of choreographed sound elements and cinematic techniques, she explores the possibility of communicating with the spirits of the deceased as a way of coming to terms with her own grief. In this way the work unfolds a multi-layered and circular narrative, a ghostly universe and one-woman show for the dead, where nothing is as it first seems. In contrast to the Futurists’ efforts to move beyond the past and plunge headlong into the future, the work directs attention to how states of body and mind are connected to memories and how we can come to terms with them.
ABOUT CAMILLA LIND (DK)
Camilla Lind (b. 1989) is a dancer and choreographer from The Danish National School of Performing Arts 2019. She is a member of the artist-run studio Dance Cooperative. In her work, including performance, text, sound and costumes, she investigates the transformative potentials of body and gender by blurring the lines between private and public space, art and life. She works with the body as a fluent entity that may dissolve or create fractures in the concrete. Using errors, chaos and humor as tools she seeks to create performances that are both present and expanding in their format and expressivity. Her choreographic situations and images investigate the friction between aesthetics, form and performativity.
ARTIFICIAL OPTIMISM PERFORMANCE PROGRAM
Artificial Optimism is an exhibition about the resonances of futurism in contemporary art, which can be experienced at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning from Aug. 24th – Oct. 27th 2024. During the exhibition period, performances and concerts by the exhibiting artists will be regularly held. Performance was central to futurism and the program is inspired by the evenings and afternoons that the futurists held between 1909 and 1914, where they presented combinations of readings, sound art, happenings, etc. Participation in the performance program is free when the ticket to the exhibition has been paid.
The exhibition’s performance program has been developed under the auspices of Toaster, a collaboration between Husets Teater and Den Frie.
