Performative exhibition by Lise Haller Baggesen (US/DK)
‘A Space Where Your Voices Can Live’ is a performative exhibition exploring the totality of someone else’s mind. In an old canon tower at Malmöhus Castle a dreamlike, inner landscape will be assembled in the form of a large-scale textile, multi-media installation by Lise Haller Baggesen (US/Denmark), sound by Naima Karlsson (UK/Sweden) and Adriana Camacho (Mexico), and a choreography by Sanna Blennow (Sweden) performed by Julienne Doko (France/Central African Republic/Denmark), Yrsa Heijkenskjöld (Sweden), Viktoriia Khoroshylova (Ukraine/Sweden), Chollada Phinitduang (Thailand/Norway), Alvilda Aja Faber Striim (Denmark).. The performance frames a dialogue between a human being and its thoughts. By turning our perspective inwards, the visitor will experience the solidarity between what is perceived to be sane and insane.
Taking its cue from the textile collections at Malmö Art Museum, spanning from national costumes to contemporary textile appliqués, ‘A Space Where Your Voices Can Live’ tells a story about communities of care, and about how our personal stories fit into greater institutional narratives. Inspired by an anecdote passed down to Lise Haller Baggesen in her childhood by her mother, the spatial installation is a visualisation of a mansion, built by a woman who needed somewhere to co-exist with the incessant voices who followed her around.
The performance is an account of diverse contemporary perspectives on mental health, identity, care, healing, and reconciliation with ourselves. In correspondence with our dialogical cognitive functions and the idea of the costume as a carrier of identity the performance wishes to generate insights into the complex understandings of our inner worlds. Our multitude. Our composition.
'A Space Where Your Voices Can Live' will later be shown in the context of Roskilde Festival 2023 in the local area of Sankt Hans Hospital (Psykiatrisk Center Sct Hans).
Curator: Anne Thomasen (Denmark). Co-curator Roskilde Festival: Brian Ulbrichsen (Denmark).