Dear Daughter - Nanna Lysholt Hansen

four booklets, riso-printed, hand-sewn, 16x11 cm, Edition of 100, 2019

Dear Daughter/Sen_sing_inannainanna (Russ, Shiva, Klein)
ISBN 978-87-93883-02-4 

Dear Daughter/Anatomy of the Chthulucene (O’Connell Oh Oh Haraway)
ISBN 978-87-93883-01-7

Dear Daughter/Motherboard Theories of Evolution (W/ Braidotti, Plant et aliae)
ISBN 978-87-93883-00-0

 Dear Daughter/Organic Cyborg Stories (After Donna Haraway)
ISBN 978-87-999834-2-1

each booklet: 80 DKK 

box set of four booklets: 275 DKK 

Nanna Lysholt Hansen’s project 'Dear Daughter' consists of a series of four performances documented in an a collection of four riso-printed and hand-sewn booklets.

In Dear Daughter/Organic Cyborg Stories from 2013, she addresses her unborn daughter by mixing fragments of professor Donna Haraway’s essay A Cyborg Manifesto with her own thoughts on pregnancy and birth. Dear Daughter/Motherboard Theories of Evolution is a speech to the new born daughter. Text fragments of different origin is interwoven and combined in a sound collage on femininity, history, language and technology. The performance Dear Daughter/Anatomy of the Chthulucene is about sex and sexuality and links anatomic descriptions of clitoris with Donna Haraway’s concept of ‘the Chthulucene’.  Dear Daughter/Sen_sing_inannainanna is a collage of inter-generational feminist knowledge-sharing about ecologies, sustainability, ancients pasts and technological futures to come.

Nanna Lysholt Hansen (b. 1980 DK) is educated at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen in 2011. In her artistic practice she examines the relations between body, voice and technology. Her primary expression is performance, but she also works with installation, sound, photography, sculpture and text.