Stateless Mind #5 – ‘Calling it home’

Artist talk – ‘Calling it Home’
Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Wednesday 25 October 2023 at 17.00-19.00

Join us for an artist talk with three artists in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s cinema, which is the starting point of the performance festival Stateless Mind #5 – ‘Calling it home’. This artist talk will start a conversation about the themes that this year’s festival thematizes. The starting point of the talk will therefore be to discuss the concept of ‘home’ in a globalized world, where cultures meet and negotiate, and identities intersect.

Panelists of the forum:
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen (Denmark/Philippines)
Thuy Nguyen (Sweden/Vietnam)
Amir Zainorin (Denmark/Malaysia)

Moderator:
Pia Lund Poulsen (Denmark)

Theme of the festival
Stateless Mind #5 – Calling it Home focuses on the concepts of home, materially and metaphorically in relation to the given environment and surroundings. It brings together artistic practices that explore the idea of home as an ideal place, identity, and a sense of belonging. For some people home is a house, connected to a particular place. For others, it is the city- or landscape, the color of the sky, or a sense of belonging to a certain group of people or community who shares the same values, beliefs, or way of life.

The festival will feature around 20 artists with different backgrounds in Scandinavia, Asia and USA. The majority of them are based in Europe as migrants. The participating artists are invited to create works in response to their exploration and experiences of the hybridity that exist in a multicultural society. They will create performances that reflect and investigate the concept of home, while contributing to a Nordic attribution on cultural diversity and potentially reclaiming their own history and narratives in response to dominant discourses.

Stateless Mind #5 – Calling it Home seeks to contribute to a bigger public awareness of the work of intercultural artists. It offers nuances about what home means and adds to the dialogue of the global movements or migration. It wishes to stimulate an interest in art, that enables a transnational connectedness between people in the local communities and internationally concerning the multi-cultural society we are living in. Diaspora refers to a group of people living outside their ancestral homeland, and in the context of this festival, it pertains to artists who discuss and respond to their exploration and experiences of hybridity resulting from multiple cultural heritages.

The festival aims to raise public awareness about the work of performance artists and artists of diaspora, offering nuanced perspectives on the concept of home and contributing to the global dialogue on diaspora movements. Diaspora individuals often navigate the complexities of their intertwined cultural identities in the northern context, and this festival seeks to stimulate an interest in art that promotes transnational connectedness among local and international communities, especially in the context of our multicultural society.

It is our hope that the festival also will reach new audience groups, and create opportunity for new network and cooperations.

BIOGRAPHIES

Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen (Born in Philippines, based in Copenhagen)
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen is a Danish/Philippine international acclaimed performance artist, who has done exhibitions and performances internationally, among others at KIASMA Art Museum in Helsinki, Brooklyn Museum in New York, Tate Modern in London, Performa (performance festival) in New York, Venice Biennale, Thessaloniki biennale, Busan Biennale, The Drawing Room in Manila, Röda Sten in Gothenburg, and National Gallery in Singapore.
In Denmark where she is also in the collection at AROS Art Museum in Aarhus, SMK/National Gallery in Copenhagen, Nikolaj Kunsthal and Copenhagen Contemporary.
Cuenca Rasmussen is a professor in The Art Academy in Bergen, Norway.
www.lilibethcuenca.com

Nguyễn Thanh Thủy (Born in Vietnam, based in Stockholm)
Nguyễn Thanh Thủy was born into a theatre family and was raised with traditional Vietnamese music from an early age in Hà Nội, Vietnam. She studied at the Hanoi Conservatory of Music where she received her diploma in 1998, followed by a Master of Arts at the Institute of Cultural Studies in 2003. She has received many distinctions including the First Prize and the Outstanding Traditional Music Performer Prize in the National Competition of Zither Talents in 1998. She has toured in Asia, Europe and the USA. Nguyễn Thanh Thủy has recorded several CD’s as soloist with orchestra and solo CDs. Between 2021-22 Nguyễn was an international postdoctoral research fellow at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, and at the Institute of Arts, Faculty of Education Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. Her artistic research project Music and identity in diaspora was funded by the Swedish Research Council.
www.thesixtones.net

Amir Zainorin (Born in Malaysia, based in Copenhagen)
Amir is an interdisciplinary artist working with performance, video, installation, prints, paintings and text with recurring themes on identity and belonging. His art projects are often interactive and participative and his artistic practice is informed by extensive interdisciplinary research and engagement with diverse communities which includes migrants and indigenous people.
He originally studied Business at University of Conway Arkansas and University of Missouri Kansas City, USA and worked with advertisement before he changed his path into art. He has exhibited his work at Kuala Lumpur Biennale, National Art Gallery Malaysia, Museum of Contemporary art in Roskilde and National Art Gallery Singapore among others.
Amir has been based in Denmark since 2002, and is the co- founder of artist association Jambatan. He has organized and curated several exhibitions, which includes Port Perak’s  Pera+Flora+Fauna at the 59th Biennale di Venezia 2022.

Pia Lund Poulsen (Born in Denmark, based in Copenhagen)
She studied cultural anthropology and Indonesian at Copenhagen University and University Gajah Mada in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She did her field studies in the Malaysian art society in Kuala Lumpur.
She has worked within the field of global education, museology, migration, tourism and cross-cultural communication. Among others she has collaborated with the Danish Immigrant museum, Mundu – Center for Global Education, the Danish Refuge Council and the Danish Red Cross.
As an independent public speaker, she gives talks on wide aspects of cultural history and works as a freelance tour leader in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Nordic countries.
www.pialundpoulsen.dk

FACTS
Artist talk
Introduction to the performance festival Stateless Mind # 5 – ‘Calling it home’
Wednesday 25 October 2023 17.00-19.00
Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s Cinema
Free