Video installation and performance, 2008
The 5 or 6 songs in the performance.
Hypnotize 4 minutes · Choices – or Voices 3:58 minutes · Hocus Pocus Focus 4 minutes · Holywood 4:21 minutes includes special guest · Hollow 3:41 minutes · Lilith 3:50 minutes
Mis United is an ideal – a Miss Universe. She is all and everybody in one, thus thoroughly misshapen. Her successive changes in character are acted out in a bombastic multi-layered costume, as she undresses the music shifts in incompatible genres. Determined to adapt easily to a world in constant transformation, she poses as everything from a Burkha -clad woman to a lush she-devil.
Video installation
Footage filmed from front and back
Two channel video projection: 2 x 8:40 minutes
White leather coated cylinder: Diameter: 1,10 x Height: 1,95 meters
Black pedestal with rotating motor: Diameter: 0,90 x Height 0,30 meters
Lyrics and vocals: Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen
Music: Anders Christophersen
Costume Design: Lise Klitten
Cinematographer: Kim Høgh Mikkelsen
Editing: Henrik Möll
The artist poses as a living sculpture among other sculptures at the museum Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Her agility is diminished by a set of wooden shoes in the form of pedestals. She voices her thoughts about how to enter art history while questioning whether the ones already inscribed are important reference points.
Exhibition
2008: Soclé du Monde, Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning
Live performance on pedestal with rotating motor
Performance with Pether indgren, Simón Robertson Salas, Angelica Asp, Marit Fahlander, André Person, Kristian Person and Andreas Hansson
Duration: 60 minutes
Produced by Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö, 2008
Performance
25 – 30 minutes
2008: Renwick Gallery, New York City and In Transit, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin with Anders Christophersen & Robert Fertita, Karriere Bar, Copenhagen with Anders Christophersen & Kristian Finne Kristensen, Copenhagen Art Fair, Ringstedgalleriet, Ringsted
2009: No Soul for Sale, The X-initiative, New York, Testrup Højskole, F.K.I.T. Ars and Modus, Hammenhög
2010: Night Music Gallery, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen