WORKS
PRIMORDIAL PRAYER, Performance (2025), Central Congress, Hamburg, DE
Duration: 17 min. (once). Stills from video documentation.
Ball of yarn, moss mask, latex gloves with long nails, recited text, green stage light.
The performance includes a repeated recitation of my text: “the day the revolution comes I am a tree (…)”. The intensity increases to Hüma Utku’s music “Vulnerary”. A moss mask is put on and the last remnants of the ball of yarn are thrown out to the audience, who passes is spun into the yarn.
In the work, I am inspired by an interspecies and monstrous figure – and the ecofeminist idea of how the connection between women and nature has been a historical factor of oppression.
Concept and performance: Josephine Marquard. Film documentation: Jeppe Pachai.
REVOLUTION PIECE, Textile work in public space (2026), Aarhus, DK
Cotton and black textile paint. 10 x 1,2 meters. Photo documentation of work.
Textile work, previously shown on a block building on Langelandsgade, Kunsthus TESE and Kaospiloterne in Aarhus, 2026.
I investigate how an in-situ work can open up new narratives between buildings and citizens in urban space.
The textile from DAYDREAMING is resurrected here with text from PRIMORDIAL PRAYER, as part of a narrative process about kinship.
In the work, I am inspired by the book “Women without Men”, where the transformation into a tree becomes an image of survival under oppression.
FLUID, Performance (2025), Smukfest, Skanderborg, DK
Duration: 45 min. (once). Collaboration Work. Stills from video documentation.
Swimming pool, textiles, crystal carafe, plastic tubs, wind machines.
The audience is led around with blindfolds and bathes their hands in water, after which the blindfolds are removed. Two performers undress and step into a pool. The work explores connection and closeness through bodily improvisation.
Sounds from a trumpet are looped together with sounds of water at an increasing tempo over a melody sung by us. We invented the melody by the sea. We imagine that it came to us as an old hymn from women who have told the sea its secrets for millennia.
The work is in further development, where the actions are combined with spatial installation as an exhibition format.
Concept, performance and installation: Josephine Marquard, Ane Palmelund. Sound: Robin Døssing. Film documentation: Stine Emil.
DAYDREAMING, Performance (2026), Poetisk Klubhus, Godsbanen, Aarhus, DK
Duration: 22 min., performed twice.
White fabric as head piece and scenography, mattress, microphone, DJ-controller.
A figure dressed in white speaks words in an ambient, electronic soundscape consisting of field recordings from snow. The texts are sensual and poetic fragments from everyday life and personal stories. The work is rhythmically worked with voice performance and repetitions in bodily improvisation.
With inspiration from Catholicism and music from different cultures, the work processes what it means to live in a society where cultures mix and dissolve. The work is a prayer to dream in a poly-crisis society that is dissolving.
Concept, performance, and sound: Josephine Marquard. Film documentation: Kristian Herlev.
BLOOD BODY, Video piece (2026)
Video piece, flexible format, can be projected on a wall, fabric or shown on screen.
Duration: 2 min. – in loop.
Materials: white underwear, carafe, sheets, blood, red boots, white sheet.
The work is a staging of a story about inherited systemic traumas between women from generation to generation.
Concept and performance: Josephine Marquard.
SPEAKING IN SOILS, Performance (2026). Galleri TESE, Aarhus, DK
Duration: 30 min. – once.
Materials: soil, plastic bags, DJ controller, two computers, recited text.
Poems about kinship and sisters are recited, while samples of electronic music and anthems from different cultures are DJed. The tempo increases until the computer is smashed into the ground. The audience receives letters from the computer keyboard, which they bury in the ground.
The work is based on ideas behind ecofeminism.
Concept and performance: Josephine Marquard.
I BURY THE DEAD FACES AND WATER THE NEW THAT GROW, Photo piece (2026)
Inkjet print, 29.7 x 42 cm, wooden frame.
The image is an exploration of how we go through transformations with ourselves.
The photographic process involves the production of a flower wreath as a form of ritual. The ritual points to a narrative as a mourning or celebration of roles that have been lost or want to be released.
Concept and photography: Josephine Marquard.
THE FIRST SUPPER, Collaborative Performance (2025), Kulturmødet Mors and Den Nye By, Aarhus, DK
Duration: 45 min. Collaboration piece.
Materials: red vegetables and fruits, sheets, five performers, text recited.
Five hosts set a table of red vegetables and fruits. Twenty guests are invited to sit at a plate – or leave to make room for a new guest. The following is recited: “(…) we are the same body. we are the same body.” The meal is shared in silence. The work is a collective bodily improvisation about how we can share meals in new ritual ways. The installation is experienced between performances.
The same white tablecloth and the performers’ white clothes are included in all the settings of “The First Supper” – and are slowly colored redder by the food during the screening.
The work is a reflection on rituals and faith in our society – and rethinks Jesus’ “Last Supper” from the Bible.
Concept and performance: Josephine Marquard, Anders Freestone. Scenography: Amanda Kessaris. Choreography: Rikke Ebling. Performers: Josephine Gosvig, Anders Freestone, Regina Rex, Aleksandra Klitgaard, Johanne Ringblom, Luca Cao, Embla Kristine, Josephine Marquard. With support from the Danish Arts Foundation and Teater Fluks.
ANATOMY OF AN ORANGE, Performance and installation (2024), Galleri TESE, Aarhus, DK
Duration: two hours in two sessions over two days.
Materials: ten performers, sheets soaked in orange juice, diary notes, rotten oranges, video projections.
The work invites 50 participants into an immersive performance where intimacy is examined and redefined. Here, the participants experience a series of rituals involving blindfolding and bodily improvisation with sheets and oranges.
The action is documented in video, audio and text. Some participants wear GoPro cameras that follow their gaze. The performance forms the basis for a nine-day installation where one can move in the remains.
The work explores intimacy as an eco-aesthetic action.
Concept: Josephine Marquard.
Performance: Linnea Slipsager, Anders Freestone, Sarah-Kamille Teib, Johanne Møller Jepsen, Chiara, Jonas, Mohu Moruti, Martina Rousková, Regina Rex, Josephine Marquard
Light and sound: Sofie Acs
Photography: Ingrid Johanne Video: Jonas
Curation: Sarah-Kamille Teib.
NORMAL, Performance (2024), Observatorio del Placer, Barcelona, ES/CAT
Duration: one hour (once).
Materials: 15 performers, swimming pool.
The work invites 50 participants into a performance where intimacy is examined and redefined. The performers bodies interact and improvise contact with each other in a swimming pool and on the floor in different compositions.
Concept: Matilde Flor. Performance: Josephine Marquard, Nanna Finding Koppel, Oscar Martin, Pia, Rod Malasana, Ary Adne, Koset, Íñigo Laudio, Alma Rousing, Olly, Il Ruh
Photography: Nanna Finding Koppel.
THE WITCH CLUB, Performance (2024), Sitio x Espiritu Club, Barcelona, ES/CAT
Duration: one hour (once).
Materials: 5 performers, swimming pool.
Guests experience sounds and touch from the performers. Guests blind folds are removed. Performers explore interconnection with each others bodies in a swimming pool.
The performance builds on a six-month artistic research in Barcelona 2024, bringing together ten women and queers to explore witchcraft through ancient ritual practices. Historically, people, especially women and marginalised people, have been labeled as “witches”. This work highlights why it is still important today for marginalized groups to come together and practice rituals.
Concept: Josephine Maruqard. Performance: Sally Pimienta, Eleonora Rotola, Linnea Slipsager, Jetske Bles, Josephine Marquard. Sound: Sandy Davis.
Photography: Aitu Luner.
THE HARVEST PARTY, Performance and installation (2023), Kulbroen, Aarhus, DK
An all-night immersive performance with 50 participants re-imagining a post-capitalist society. Through a series of rituals and a meal, the participants are invited to explore what living poetry is and how we can share it.
Concept: Josephine Marquard
Performers: Sarah-Kamille, Alma Rousing, Anders Freestone, Loïc Luchini, Filip Rukan, Josephine Marquard
Film: Morten Berthelsen.
