 Thank you. My name is Lilibeth Koenke-Rasmussen and I'm an artist from Copenhagen in Denmark, in the Nordic Denmark, and actually I'm born in the Philippines and I'm half Filipino. And this piece is kind of about this matter that you are looking like something else on the façade, but inside you maybe you have another nationality and things like that. Well, I basically work in video media and recently, the last two or three years, also I work with live performances and documentary and installations. And this piece, Absolute Exotic, is what I have in the show here. It's about racial discrimination between ethnic groups in a certain society and this piece was made for a very Danish exhibition in Denmark where only Danish artists with another ethnic background were invited. So this song is also very political, about cultural identity, and it's also about the exoticism and what else. So, yeah, this racial discrimination between ethnic groups in a society like in Denmark that the big issue is more like that people from the Eastern Asian countries, Muslims, that there's some kind of more discrimination towards these ethnic minorities but like Asian people they are more like said to be able to adapt within a new culture so they are almost like invisible and like black people in Denmark are very popular because of hip hop from the US. So since I'm like half Asian, I'm like making a comment to this thing. Okay, I'm gonna show an excerpt of the piece. Oh, not here? So, yeah, this was just an excerpt because I would like to show some other pieces. Wait, this song because, yeah, the last three years I've been working a lot with using myself as like the object in my videos and in this piece it's called The Cockfight Song and it's about macho identity within a culture. One of the projections as you see it's a documentary about cockfighting in the Philippines. I do a lot of my documentaries, I go back to the Philippines and make a lot of, make different films. And then on the other side of this iron cage there's a performance where I'm dressed up as a cock because I'm using, it's also, I write the lyrics of my songs myself and I work with a composer and musician who makes the music for me. So it's a collaboration with a composer and me for this kind of work. So in cockfight song I'm singing, I'm trying to actually my, what you call it, my character is being a cock who is in a fight, the animal cock, but also a female and it's about actually this patriarchal society we are erased in, I'm commenting on this like how I'm in the stereotype image of a man I'm actually teasing with this and I'm using the dual meaning of the word cock in my song and I also show a small excerpt of the video, yeah. But this is a single channel projection because I made two versions, the other one image you saw was an installation you could enter the cage and yeah switch back and forth to the documentary. All of a sudden a crowd, a cockmake man will go around and he will be nicer about the man. It's a dead fight. A vain cock is worse than it means even worse is a cock in his chains. Yes. And the next piece I want to tell you about, it's called The Ego Song and it was actually made for the same show with a cockfight song so it was a solo show in Denmark and yes in my characters they are very feminine but at the same time I have maybe a more masculine attitude so I'm actually I'm very aware of like sampling between, have a balance between the masculine and the feminine sides within a person. In this piece I'm dressed as a sun because for me the sun is the symbol of the universe and I'm singing about being a big egoistic person and then that everything I live for is just mirroring myself that refrain is like call it a Freudian slip I'm on an ego trip or something like that I forgot and then it's just a one take performance and it was projected as a round thing so it's a very sarcastic song but sometimes if you want to get your message through you have to be very you know going to the edge maybe so even though I look very maybe very feminine there it's also a very cold figure actually I'm imitating Malin Dietrich if you know her German diva because she was also for me she was representing both the masculine and feminine science in a person sorry yeah so that was an installation what else can I say about this? yeah it's actually a comment about this very western very materialistic world we live in the western world that we don't have to stick to our families anymore we can build up our own identity by buying things and choosing friends choosing a new family just building up your whole identity from scratch just leaving what you have behind and when you don't want this identity anymore you can just maybe choose another one and buy yourself and throw friends away and use them like that the last piece I want to show you is my latest piece I just showed it for the first time last week in Copenhagen it's called the art song so this is also a new identity I have this time as an artist and this piece I'm dressed out if you can't see it I'm dressed up as a sculpture a living sculpture and I'm walking through a this is a collection in the museum we have in Denmark it's called New Carlsberg, Leipzig Tick this famous beer Carlsberg we have in Denmark he got very rich this man so he had this huge foundation of neoclassical sculptures European sculptures so I'm dressed out as one of these and I'm actually name dropping a lot of artists from the contemporary art scene who made kind of a change and a very radical move in art like going through boundaries so they will for sure make history that's for sure when you move boundaries you will make history so I'm singing about them but I'm also singing about like how many artists that exist in this world and I'm just one of them and you are one of them and many of us will be forgotten and I'll just... elephant dung on canvas because he's famous he can even sell in Kansas Rick Rick Cook's tie and make people happy and John Buck's style is to make it look crappy art is great it has no limitations you can get by doing recitations on exhibitions many did so in a progression I surely wouldn't go as far as this Elga Christopher drinking her piss bird and shot tries and the armpit operations like our lances are all worth it so many artists in this wide world and many of us just won't get hurt better to learn to deal with rejection critics and curators have made their selection so many artists in this wide world and many of us just won't I want to say part in art history too but you can only do what feels right for you so that was half of the song okay I have three minutes and then I'll tell you well this is pieces of video and I also make it as a performance and for a show I had in Copenhagen last week I also made a lot of reenactments which lasted for three hours reenactments of other artists pieces because the idea was to broaden to make the song a bit more to visualize it more so I made reenactments of artists which I admire a lot but I also artists that I think also made some very radical moves in art history and what else can I say well before I was involving my family a lot in my video pieces and then for this show they were also playing as actors and helpers for when I was making reenactments so I made a reenactment of actually each client's the void it's from 1958 and this performance or art piece was about that he invited people for the show and there was absolutely nothing in the room it was just empty but on the outside of the gallery space he painted this famous Eve Klein blue but I did something else because I changed a little bit the artworks and I poured drinks to people who came to visit the show instead so they would get blue inside and then I also made a reenactment of what he called Pierre Manzoni and he was his living sculpture he was signing a lot of models nude women so I was just tagging everyone who entered the show they got my logo on and then after an hour of this I went on a scene that was built there and I was making a reenactment of this artist in Elisemba she licked a whole room for three hours but I just licked the scene I was performing on for like 15 minutes and my tongue started bleeding and then because all my reenactments were in a narrative it was like a narration so they would keep on going so I only made like 15 minutes or 10 minutes of each reenactment this was Olan people could buy a kiss from me so they didn't kiss me but I really kissed them and I kissed them very different some would only get a small kiss and some would get a real long kiss so long that at the end they would be so frightened that they just had to run away and then I made an Anna-Mindiesa piece where I was writing and making body tracks with blood and then the famous Yves Klein a troublematress of the blue period and as a female artist I thought I should have some male nudes so that's what I got and then a re-crit to revenge my mother was cooking a very national Danish dish no, a Filipino dish and then this Marina Abramo which was... beautiful and then I made this Janine Antonini when I was painting with my hair and then kind of imitating Jason Pollack with his macho paintings brush paintings and I was really happy there was a clock that rang because I think all my clothes would have been gone if it didn't ring very active scissor and then at the end a Namjoon Pike he made a very simple thing after his concerts in the 60s where he put a big bucket of water after his performances that's all I have thank you for attention