SHE'S A SHOW

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SHE'S A SHOW (Moestrup & Karpantschof), live duo since 2010, has performed at numerous events and festivals, such as: Aqua Sounds; TARP: Audiovisual Poetry Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania; Oslo Poetry Film: Festival for Visual and Digital Poetry, Norway; Roskilde Festival; Louisiana Literature; Testrup Højskole, Nordic Poetry Festival, Hamar, Norway; Kvinner på kanten, Lofoten, Norway; CPH LITT, SPOT-festival; The Black Diamond.

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Mette Moestrup (1969/DK), Danish poet, performer, translator, literary critic and feminist activist. She had her debut as a poet in 1998, and her poetry is translated into several languages. For instance, her breakthrough volume kingsize has been translated into English, and her latest book of poetry, Dø, løgn, dø, into Swedish and German. Moestrup has published four books of poetry, one art novel, two collective books, and two children's books. She has i.a. received The Montana Price, The Danish Arts Foundation Grant, and Stiftung Brandenburger Tor Tandem Grant. She lives in Copenhagen.

Miriam Karpantschof (1973/DK), feminist artist working with sound, music and experimental media. Composition for poetry and performance, songwriting, music production and recording at Stellasound Studio, Copenhagen. Projects: Sange Over Sundet (Songs across the Sea) on- and offline inter-Scandinavian children's puppet-universe, interactive installation Human Generator. Media production studies at Malmoe University, MA in Music Therapy from Aalborg University.

Hanna Bergman (1978/SE), MA in Visual Communication. She works on the production of digital reading experiences and editorial design systems mainly for Scandinavia. Initiator of the concept The Reading School which is a social platform to create workshops and talks. The Reading School is encouraging a new experimental way of communication. She has i.a. received The Danish Arts Foundation Grant, Innovation Fund Denmark, and she is an award-winner of The Most Beautiful Swiss Books (2014) and of Werkplaats Typografie Design Residency (2013).

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Ivalo Frank (1975/DK/GL), MA in Philosophy, Artist, Visual Anthropologist. Born in Greenland, Ivalo Frank resides in Berlin and Copenhagen. Holding a MA in Philosophy and Social Science from Lund University, she works as an artist, film and festival Director. Frank has made films in various countries such as Bosnia, China and Greenland and the content range from post-war portraits and post-colonial perspectives to in-depth interviews with citizens from the former DDR. Her films are shown in academic, art and film contexts world-wide, e.g. at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and IMC gallery, New York.

Kajsa Gullberg (1977/SE/DK), artist and photographer, educated from Fatamorgana the Danish School of Art Photography and from The Royal Art Academy, the School of Design / Visual Communication. She had a number of exhibitions, and published three books, the most recent is Unravelled (2014).

Miriam Haile (1984/DK/NO/ER), visual artist, MFA from the Royal Danish Art Academy, co-runner and editor of Mondo Books and Hvid[mə] Archive. Miriam Haile’s artistic practice focuses on questions around migration, urban isolation, border politics and spaces of transition and change. Within multimedia installations she instigates an interdisciplinary dialogue, with a political landscape, investigating how one might understand moving imagery and its archive. She has participated in Addis Video Art Festival 2015, Rauma Balticum Biennale 2016 and is part of exhibitions around the Danish Centennial at Meter and Danish Royal Library, Blind Spots, Images of the Danish West Indies colony.

Sasha Huber (1975/CH/HT/FI), Swiss-Haitian visual artist living in Helsinki. Huber works with the politics of memory and belonging, in relation to colonial residue left in the environment. Huber works with performance-based interventions, video, photography, publications, graphic design and archival material. MA of visual communications, Helsinki and is undertaking doctoral research at the Department of Art at the Aalto University with the project “Demounting Louis Agassiz”. Exhibitions include 29th São Paulo Biennale (2010), 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014), 56th Venice Biennale (2015).

Helene Nymann (1982/DK), Copenhagen-based multi-disciplinary artist Helene Nymann AKA Ima, addresses the notion of embodied knowledge and the way in which associative images stimulate memory. Interested in the borderline between the natural and the digital worlds, Nymann constructs performative environments in which the moving image, sound and sculpture make way for transformative arrays of consciousness. She has a BFA from Goldsmith College, University Of London and MFA, Malmø Art Academy, Sweden.

Angela Rawlings (1978/ISL/CDN), interdisciplinary artist, poet and eco-critic, using languages as dominant exploratory material. Her performance practice seeks and interrogates relational empathy between bodies—be they human, more-than-human, other-than, non. Rawlings’ methods over the past fifteen years have included sensorial poetries, vocal and contact improvisation, theatre of the rural, and conversations with landscapes. Books include Wide slumber for lepidopterists (2006), o w n (2015), si tu (2017). Rawlings lives in Iceland.

Anna Roy Winder Salling (1995/DK) visual artist & student at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. She works with video/sound, drawing and sculpture, interested in the relation between humans/the body and systems. In 2015, she made the exhibition "Send me nudes" at Vess, Copenhagen.

Anja Høvik Strømsted (1986/NO), writer, director and author born in Oslo. She has studied Creative Writing at Gothenburg University and Film production (M.F.A.) at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She has made five short films in collaboration with producer Jasmin Hurst. Their films have been screened in India, Germany, USA, Italy, United Kingdom and Norway.

SHE’S A SHOW began in 2010 as a live duo. SHE’S A SHOW is musician Miriam Karpantschof & poet Mette Moestrup. SHE’S A SHOW is a feminist space for experiments. SHE’S A SHOW combines words with sound & performance. SHE’S A SHOW is electronica, lyre playing, voices, semi-rap, bird calls, beats. SHE’S A SHOW is trashed & tender. SHE’S A SHOW is queering gender. SHE’S A SHOW loves the body & the brain. SHE’S A SHOW is aggression & fun. SHE’S A SHOW embraces imperfection & improvisation. SHE’S A SHOW puts the clit on the map. SHE’S A SHOW is dancing & discussing. SHE’S A SHOW takes place in your mind. SHE’S A SHOW makes you sing you’re a feminist (even if you’re not). SHE’S A SHOW has performed at many literary & music events & festivals. SHE’S A SHOW almost stopped doing live performances after a car crash in 2011. SHE’S A SHOW is about finding new ways of creating despite injuries & trauma. SHE’S A SHOW is a grief ritual. SHE’S A SHOW helps you through heartache. SHE’S A SHOW is a choice, a friend. SHE’S A SHOW gives you a break from patriarchy. SHE’S A SHOW knows how. SHE’S A SHOW is norm creative. SHE’S A SHOW is about connecting & sharing. SHE’S A SHOW is a digital & audiovisual platform since 2017. SHE’S A SHOW, the platform, is a collaboration with digital designer Hanna Bergman. SHE’S A SHOW, the platform, shows videos and visuals by Nordic female artists, who were given free hands to interpret the songs and poems. SHE’S A SHOW is inter-Nordic & rethinking the Nordic. SHE’S A SHOW is working with antiracism & critiquing whiteness. SHE’S A SHOW is for lesbians and also for non-lesbians. SHE’S A SHOW is a cross-aesthetic & interdisciplinary collective. SHE’S A SHOW explores how feminist aesthetics can be activist. SHE’S A SHOW digs women in technology. SHE’S A SHOW is wow. SHE’S A SHOW is for the other. SHE’S A SHOW is open.

Mere om projektet
SHE'S A SHOW – en digital audiovisuel platform for feministisk æstetik i Norden tager kunstnerisk afsæt i digter Mette Moestrup og musiker Miriam Karpantschofs poesi- og lydduo SHE'S A SHOW. Den digitale platform struktureres af digital designer Hanna Bergman. Projektet arbejder med en anderledes kunstoplevelse og debatform ud fra et metodisk eksperimenterende rum for nordisk tværæstetisk og feministisk udveksling. En række kvindelige kunstnere fra Norden bidrager med videoer. Ved siden af det virtuelle space vil vi holde nogle offentlige events i det virkelige rum med henblik på at undersøge det digitale og æstetiske i forhold til feminisme som aktivistisk udtryksform i vores samtid. Herunder også women in technology, idet vi i forhold til teknisk produktion lægger vægt på kvindelig majoritet. I det digitale og audiovisuelle space kombineres poesi samt den musikalske oplevelse med det visuelle. Platformen rummer et både tværæstetisk, -medialt og interdisciplinært samarbejde. Spacet er komponeret i en kronologisk storform, som brugeren kan scrolle og klikke i og skabe sin egen individuelle lyttende, læsende og betragtende vej gennem. Hanna Bergman skriver om projektet: “The intention of this kind of digital space is to explore new ways of sharing audiovisuel stories and experimenting with the combination of music and video, sound and words. Using the various forms of media inherent on digital platforms, the space will make use of and play with these possible formats. In addition, we also want to work on emphasizing the new aesthetics and functions for this experimental space.” Ud over videokunstnerne bidrager Bergman også med visuelle installationer. Det digitale medie anvendes til at udforske og udfolde det tværæstetiske og flersanselige, som er iboende SHE’S A SHOWS poetik og praksis.

SHE’S A SHOW er en musik-, poesi- og performanceduo, hvor Mette Moestrups ord møder Miriam Karpantschofs lydunivers. Mette Moestrups poesi er i forvejen kendt i Skandinavien, og projektet åbner for en tidssvarende poesi-formidling. SHE’S A SHOW er en queer og feministisk duo, hvilket også fremgår af teksternes indhold, fx: “Min kittel er for kort / og det er noget lort / for jeg er feministisk / og kitlen er sexistisk.” Tekstuniverset er på dansk og engelsk. Duoen arbejder live med både sang, recitation og performance, og med et lydbillede, som er opbygget af melodiske elementer, beats, klangflader og stemmen, idet der bruges syntetiske lyde, reallyde og skæve akustiske instrumenter som okarina, lyre, klokkespil osv., hvormed computerens skarpe electronica-klangfarver blødes op af organiske lyde, melodiske forløb og harmonier. Stemmen og kroppen er omdrejningspunktet. De inviterede kvindelige visuelle kunstnere fortolker hver deres lydlige musikstykke/digt visuelt, idet de har fået frie hænder, og deres respektive videoer bliver på en gang enkeltstående værker og dele af en kollektiv fortolkning og et fælles arkiv. Den digitale platform distribueres gratis via nettet, den er blivende og tilgængelig for alle.

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