ABOUT
My work is interdisciplinary, participatory and feminist, moving between performance, textile, text, photography, sound and installation. I use text, textile and objects as carriers of language and stories inbetween my works, where they are reused and recontextualised. The fabric from DAYDREAMING reemerge in REVOLUTION PIECE with the text recited in PRIMORDIAL PRAYER, as a verse from DAYDREAMING is printed on mesh in SISTER, while the carafe in FLUID is reused in BLOOD BODY. Rather than isolated pieces, my work becomes a carrier bag of materials forming a larger, evolving narrative concerned with generational trauma and kinship.
My artistic practice grew as a response to the ecological crisis. Being born in 1998 in a little harbour village, Norsminde, south of Aarhus, DK, I played with awe and wonder in the meadows and forrests while simultaneously grieving the plastic and pollution I saw in the ocean. Now, I investigate how the body can operate as a site to reveal and reform collective narratives reinforcing the destruction between humans and the planet – especially those connecting females, queers and nature with oppression and domestication. That is expressed in PRIMORDIAL PRAYER in my work with a mask of moss and a ball of yarn that is spun around the body and further into the audience. Through this gesture, I wish to construct an interspecies and monstrous figure, entangling itself with its surroundings.
At the center of my work lies a tension between anger, grief and hope – grieving a society dissolving and at the same time collectively imagining and creating new communities through art. That is explored in DAYDREAMING, where voice repetition and rhythm can function as a daydreaming spell against patriarchal and productivity governed structures. Sound montage from different cultural contexts meet as polyphonic alternative.
I operate at the intersection of roles as an artist, cultural producer and facilitator – based on ideas of interdependence, systems change and with a wish of creating transformative situations. My proces differentiates between being individual and co-creative. With my studies from Kaospilot og from projects as Containeren i Hjortshøj and Den Nye By, I have experienced, how trust building is the key factor in creating sustainable long term impact, where people across places and disciplines learn to see more perspectives and collaborate. At the same time, from a long list of performances and installations in Danmark og internationally (Hamborg, Berlin and Barcelona), I have developed artistic methods where people interact and feel a deeper connection with each other and places. In FLUID the audience is e.g. activated with water and blindfolds inspired by hydrofeminism, where water is understood as a connecting element across boundaries, bodies and species. Intimacy becomes something revealed, negotiated and felt through the body. In this way, my artistic approach is both wide and horizontal across stakeholders, disciplines and long time spans – while also being vertical and deep where I move into behaviour and narratives that are often invisible material driving local communities.
JOSEPHINE MARQUARD
mail@josephinemarquard.dk
+45 22 16 32 10
CVR: 45597717