With the art project Beatrice Beads Through Mini-Universes Beginning with ‘B’ I want to develop my multi-faceted artistic practice, involving acting, writing, performance, video, drawing, photography, painting and sculpture, and bring it into a new area and connection, where I merge all these artistic fields using my lived experiences, own history, travels, memories as conceptual material translated into fine-art through the many different media.
With a background in fine-arts, a working life in acting and performing – and continuous writing. I am fed up with the boxes I am and we are being put in to be able to ‘work’, in me all the art-forms are fluid and they connect and disconnect on-off, but they always follow each other, and now I am on the threshold, where I want to change this way of ‘thinking’ in separate entities: I need a developing space, a universe, where my areas of expertise and artistry can be united. And concentration, a workspace, and a highly creative and explorative environment, so that wonderful essential experiments and mistakes can be made along the way to create unique pieces of art and performance installations. To discover what the materials can do, alone and in contact with each other, how will the beads change on the string depending on content. It will become an abstract universe of video installations, performance and visual art, original, innovative, combined into the mini-universes of ‘Beatrice’.
‘Beatrice’ is a fictional crazy feminine travel guide, bubbly, burlesque and happy, my new still developing alterego. The idea for her came to me a summer in Athens, when I realized how little I care about guided tours. ‘Beatrice’ is named after Dante’s guide and muse in the underworld whom he loves and admires through hell, purgatory and paradise – whom Dante G. Rossetti also have immortalized numerously – and after Shakespeare’s ‘Beatrice’ from the comedy ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, one of the coolest female characters, talkative, independent, witty, feministic, proud, smart, intellectual, humorous and full of desire and love when she allows herself to.
The mini-universes beginning with ‘B’ Beatrice will visit in 2024, to be presented in 2025 are:
BILLOWS (WAVES), BEDAZZLE (BMI), BIODIVERSITY and BOXES
Looking at femininity, identity, and social norms, with directness and a touch of important humour and social criticism, held together by beads on a string through narrations, research, and notions.
In January 2024 I was very lucky to be rewarded a residency of 12 days at The Lab in Copenhagen to develop the performance part of my Beatrice project, this ended in an open trial infornt of an audience: see the trial here:
The project and performance trial was also presented at the Platform Showcase Day at The Lab on the 8th of June 2024.
