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Twisted Lamentations
Research project evolving into a podcast and concert-lecture series, since 2024
Based on a cycle of 15 self-critical protest songs, Twisted Lamentations offers a shared reflection on life in a troubled world. Each song is recorded with another artist from Switzerland or Belgium, which creates different aesthetics and listening qualities. In the podcast series, conversations, autofiction, and dark humorous advertising create access points to the content of the songs and the reasearch in general. In the concert-lectures, an overhead projector and other visual elements are used to present the content in yet another fasion to a live audience.
For many years, I explored “the crisis” with my work, just as others in artistic, activist, and academic circles did too. Despite such efforts, analyses and the resulting warnings, the world is not heading toward new, utopian possibilities. As a consequence, feelings like helplessness, anger, and grief can emerge, and their expression can be judged as creating vicious circles, as an echo of that which is wrong, amplifying the wrong. In this project, I try to look at their expression as twisted lamentations: laments that attempt to become aware of their own construction, both on a psychological and political level.
Podcast
𖦹 Pilot episode on the website of Lumpen station
Presented on 18 July 2024 at the spoken word festival “Somewhere between A and Z” at Lumpen station in the Kunsthaus Biel Centre d’art Bienne in Switzerland.
In collaboration with Lisa Kokwenda Schweiger, Emilio Saura Jiménez, Milena Patagônia, Andrej Marffy, Stefan Hasler, Zoë Binetti, Christine Hasler and with contributions from Ernestyna Orlowska, Milica Dukić, Diana Duta, Enrico Floriddia, Zoë de Luca Legge
Picture: Andrea Marioni
Lecture-Concert
𖦹 13.09.2025 Grand Palais Bern
Picture: Clara Thomine
Twisted Lamentations is supported by nadine, Kultur Stadt Bern, SWISSLOS/Kultur Kanton Bern, Burgergemeinde Bern, SWISSLOS/Fonds des Kantons Solothurn
