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2022
Inga
Inga is a performance and installation that examines the manifestation of genetic trauma in
language and linguistic structures. Inga seeks to hold the ambivalence of constructing a language and a cyborg
in order to be closer to a deceased relationship and lineage, while simultaneously engaging the potential for
liberation from it.
Inga is the title of the work, the name of my deceased grandmother, and the name of a programming language I
created consisting of eight characters used to write to her with my nails. Each lamp represents one of the
eight characters and lights up when the silver nails touch each other.
Because the programming language Inga consists of only eight characters, including their functions, writing
even the simplest sentence during the performance requires immense concentration and precision of the fingers.
The silver nails extend my body as a language, while simultaneously amplifying the very elements that
complicate the relationship in the first place. A self-reinforcing cybernetic ambivalence that stands in
conflict with the performative will of my hands.
Exhibited at Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling 2022 (KE22)
Exhibited at I know I can hardly know how - group exhibition at KH7 Artspace
Photos by Mikkel Kaldal