art in a time of migration
“Kaert barn har mange navne” is a Danish saying meaning the one you have dear has many names. Used mainly for sarcastic situations; here too it is meant in a sarcastic manner. Migrants and their descendants have many names in Denmark; names, nick names and very derogative names. The series of work “Kaert barn har mange […]
“Eurocentric Gaze” Performance in wooden box, as part of Muslimah Arts and Voices Exhibition at Kvindemuseet in Aarhus in Denmark. Duration: 15 minutes. The unspoken gaze, that I felt on my body for years, that was classified as “me being too aggressive” by Danish friends. Telling me I was seeing ghosts. (Although I was […]
Looking at Turkish girls, of course I shouldn’t be generalizing, but I know what I see. For years being an ex-pat to Turkey, I have found that Turkish girls are/were in a specific way. The way they dress, behave, walk/move, stand on their legs, their attitudes, their gazes and even the color grade of their […]
Vagner sondag formiddag til en masse dejlig musik fra min kaereste. Pa trods af det skyndte jeg mig pa YouTube idet ojeblik han gik ud ad doren og fandt en masse danske sange frem. Nar ejg savner min familie og det at have en hverdag med et ordentligt meningsfuldt job, sa taenker jeg kun pa […]
The Post-It video was an improvized/halfly planned video-performance (with a naive approach as the performer weighs her every little step.not totally aware of what she is doing yet or wat she wants to do. But she is obsessed with the veiled woman a certain orientalism catches the eye in the viewer..) where a whole year […]