Nanna Lysholt Hansen – Dear Daughter

set of three hand-sewn, riso-printed booklets: edition of 50

published in connection with the exhibition The Anthopocene Laboratory at Kragerø Kunstforening, NO, 2017

Dear Daughter/Organic Cyborg Stories (after Donna Haraway)

Dear Daughter/Motherboard Theories of Evolution (w/Braidotti, Plant et aliae) 

Dear Daughter/Anatomy of the Chthulucene (O’Connell Oh Oh Haraway)

ISBN: 978-87-999834-2-1

250,- DKK  (few copies left)

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’. 

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.