film and installation
The Wave - Vertigo x Lil Lacy, 20’ loop (2023-2024) - an audiovisual installation exploring waves
The Wave is an 80 meter audiovisual installation created by Vertigo, with a changing music and light scenography. In 2022 Vertigo x Lil Lacy created a new version of The Wave in close collaboration.
The Wave by Vertigo x Lil Lacy, is an exploration of the nature of waves in water, air and light. From the physical waves in the ocean and light waves to radio waves and waves of energy. The waves move in different ways - some amplify each other while other forms diminish or even erase each other, as well as there are phenomenons of among others standing waves and waves moving in families.
The installation The Wave can be experienced at Ofelia Plads, Copenhagen, DK from Dec. 3, 2023 to Feb. 25, 2024, and will be part of Copenhagen Light Festival 2024.
The art collective Vertigo, that designed and built The Wave, has in close collaboration and dialogue with the composer Lil Lacy, created a new light scenography inspired by theme of waves. Both sound and light is inspired the nature of waves and movement. Even the color scale of the light scenography is inspired by the breaking of white light into all the colors of the spectrum.
~ The Wave ~
Light scenography and design by Vertigo
Composed by Lil Lacy
Recorded by musicians from The Royal Danish Orchestra
Violin: Therese Andersen
Viola: Ida Grøn
Cello: Nina Reintoft
Horn: Páll Solstein and Constantin Glaner
Percussion: Mathias Friis-Hansen
Harp: Angelika Wagner
Recorded by Sebastian Eskildsen from The Royal Theatre
Edit, mix and matering by soundproducer Preben Iwan
Sound mix of 80 meter installation by Marco Timossi, Lil Lacy and Preben Iwan
The sound piece ~ The Wave ~ has been realized with support of The Danish Arts Foundation and is produced in collaboration between Vertigo, Lil Lacy Music and Foreningen Ofelia Plads.
The installation The Wave is owned by Foreningen Ofelia Plads – in a collaboration between Jeudan and The Royal Theatre.
About Vertigo
The art collective Vertigo has existed since 2010 and exists of Amalie Solander, Frederik Hilmer Svanholm, Jeppe D. Kristensen, Mikkel Meyer and Vibeke Bertelsen.
Vertigo are known nationally and internaionally for their large scale visual scenography and installation art. In their installations they create physical digital worlds, that invites the audience on a sensual experience of sound and light.
JÖRÐ, 45’ (2023) - a performance, which intertwines film-, dance- and sound art
Photos by Erla Ziskasen
Weaving the thematic threads of nature, female experience, and Nordic mythological figures into a modern mythology of its own; the multidisciplinary installation and performance piece JÖRÐ plays on the comical absurdity in our current reality.
The centre of the creative process is an exploration of the meeting between the practices of film, music composition and dance/performance. The artistic team includes film director Maria Tórgarð (FO), composer Lil Lacy (DK/US), choreographers and performing artists Louise Pousette (SE), Tiia Kasurinen (FI) and Vár Árting (FO).
The result is a piece of work that can exist in two different constellations; an audio-visual installation piece and a performance piece in which the choreography and installation marry into an immersive experience for the audience as the installation transformers into the scenography.
Thematically the work explores female identity and femininity through a contemporary Nordic lens. JÖRÐ reflects the contradicting standards and expectations one encounters by being female; the natural and pure and the superficial and materialistic. Inspired by myths, sagas and cultural images such as the Little Mermaid, the Seal Woman and Beyonce, we interpreted these icons into strong female characters with a twist of pop culture references and drag.
Through projections, sound art, dance and scenography the artists behind JÖRÐ examine how different art forms can collaborator and through this the audience will get an expansive artistic experience.
JÖRÐ redefines humanity's connection with nature and our place in the world; spins together thematic threads of nature, nordic folklore and the female perspective to create its own modern myth.
“Captivating avantgarde in the middle of Tórshavn. Astounding… Sublimity in darkness.”
“I was captivated by how all of the art-forms were so thorough and on such high levels. The whole was more than its separate parts (…) JÖRÐ took me on a journey that I unconditionally let myself be consumed by.”
- Solveig Hanusardóttir Olsen, Dimmalætting
Choreography and performance:
Vár Bech Árting, Lisen Pousette & Tiia Kasurinen
Director:
Maria Guldbrandsø Tórgarð
Composer and sound designer:
Lil Lacy
Set design and technician:
Anton Skarborn
Costumedesign:
Maibritt Marjunardóttir & Lydia Vermaat-Wallin
Cinematographer:
Barbara Lervig
Musicians:
Nordic String Quartet and Rune Kielsgaard (drums)
Photos by Erla Ziskasen
Past performances of JÖRÐ:
JÖRÐ, 45’ performance, intertwining film-, dance- and sound art, premiered 06.10.2023 @ Nordic House, Törshavn, Faroe Islands
JÖRÐ, 28’ video installation, premiered 11.11.2022 @ KoncertKirken, Copenhagen, Denmark as part of the GÁTT Nordic Arts Festival 2022
Photographer Bjarni Árting Rubeksen and journalist Uni Leitisstein from KVF (the public broadcasting station in the Faroe Islands) followed the production the day before the premiere. The result was two reportages, one with video and as well as an interview and one with still photography and text.
This gave the readers an insight into the thoughts, collaboration and artists of JÖRÐ, as well as a look behind the scenes.
Orgeldrømme, 60’ (2023) - an audiovisual concert performance exploring dreams
Orgeldrømme (Organ dreams) is the fourth performance of the series Orgeldrømme, that has been created and curated by David Bendix Nielsen.
The piece is inspired by the dreams we dream when at sleep - and when daydreaming. We have in this concert invited the audience into our shared dreamworld consisting of in the cross-artistic collaboration between David Bendix Nielsen (organ player), Lil Lacy (composer and experimental cellist), Vibeke Bertelsen, Mikkel Meyer, Frederik Hilmer (light designers and scenographers) from Vertigo.
As part of Orgeldrømme there were 5 newly composed movements:
Movement 1; Sleep, for solo organ (7-8 min.)
Movement 2; Transition into dreams, for solo organ (1-2 min.)
Movement 3; Swim in the Sky, Fly in the Ocean, for solo organ (9-12 min)
Movement 4; Cosmic Dreamfall, for cello and solo organ (7-11 min.)
Movement 5; Ending, Landing, Levitating, for solo organ (2-3 min.)
Orgeldrømme #4 was premiered as an audiovisual concert-experience
by David Bendix Nielsen (organ) and Lil Lacy (cello, voice) and Vertigo (light scenography)
in Sankt Markus Kirke, Frederiksberg, Denmark, November 24, 2023
photos by Vertigo
metamorf, 12 hours (2023) - a site-specific durational audio visual installation
Exhibited at Vor Frue Kirke, Aarhus, DK, Aug. 27 - Sep. 9 2023, as part of United Change and Aarhus Festuge
In collaboration visual artist Magnus Pind and composer Lil Lacy developed a 12-hour durational audiovisual installation inside and outside Church of Our Lady in Aarhus for Aarhus Festival.
Metamorf is an audiovisual clockwork that, like the ringing of church bells, marks the passage of time, as a meditation on deep geological time, the brick and the human.
The work is a paraphrase of the church’s characteristic coat of arms frieze, and consists of two 10-metre-wide LED video screens. The video follows a similar structure throughout the day: from a concrete documentary track, where we follow the day-to-day operations of a company that cleans and recycles used bricks, breaking down into an abstract, painterly track, and finally into a graphic track, showing very basic elements from architecture and construction—a horizon line, a house.
Epidemiens ekko, 59’ (2020) - a documentary film
Epidemiens Ekko, 59’ (2020), a documentary film by Niels Frandsen about post polio premiered on national Danish television via DR / the music is composed, performed and recorded in collaobration between Anders Lauge Meldgaard, Anja Jacobsen and Lil Lacy.
Can be streamed until June 2021 via this link:
ZANJ, 12´ (2019)- film
Mohau Modisakeng’s movie ZANJ (2019) is a continuation from the performance Land of Zanj, recently commissioned by the Sharjah Biennial. Here, Modisakeng created a choreographed procession as a symbol for the movement of bodies and trade between the Gulf area and the east African coast. This strategy is mimicked in the artist’s latest photographic series, which shows figures cloaked in black moving across a rocky terrain. Who are and were these veiled subjects? Could they have been Africans captured to be pearl-divers, led between home and circumstance? Or could they be deporting migrants, a contemporary relic of the aforementioned history? Modisakeng urges the audience to engage with these figures as poignant markers of this legacy of movement, using invocations of violence as a tool to evoke empathy in the viewer.
Mohau Modisakeng (SA, 1986) is based in Johannesburg and Cape Town, we he received his education at the Michaelis School of Fine Art. He won the SASLO New Signatures Award and the Standard Bank Young Artists Award and represented his country at the Venice Biennale in 2015 and 2017. He has also shown at Volta, New York; Saatchi Gallery, London; Dak’Art Biennale; Sharjah Biennial; PERFORMA17, New York and many more significant international institutions. He recently was commissioned to create a memorial for Nelson Mandela, which will be revealed in Amsterdam Zuidoost’s Nelson Mandelapark in 2020.
The short film ZANJ by Mohau Modisakeng is shown at a solo-exhibition exhibition at Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, NL
Music is composed and recorded by Lil Lacy
what world to come back to (2018) - installation
Installation by Kristian Byskov, cello and sound in collaboration with Lil Lacy, 2018
Article in IDOART.DK
PNEUMATICKS, 55’ (2017) - audio visual live performance and installation with film and music
- an inhalation and exhalation in four movements
for winds, voices, strings and images
PNEUMATICKS is a cinematic symphonic work about the source and unification of body and soul. In northern Uganda, at the source of the Nile, lives Leotissa Ayelango. She makes pots from two types of soil, that exist on each side of her village, Nyaravur. Blending the soil with the water from the river, shaping it with small fragments of old pots and creating new ones. Her work happens in balance between earth, air, water and fire.
We follow her in real time, with the breath’s inhale, exhale and pauses like symphonic markers - on a cyclical journey, into the creation of a soul, a lung of air that contains a life. Her task is infinite. She unifies the elements. She creates constantly while she lives. With arduous effort and perfect ambition, she moves us around and shapes the world, like the source of life itself.
PNEUMATICKS, audio-visual work, 55 minutes. Film: Day-for-night recordings = moonlight. Long shots follow 4 phases of the creation of a pot: Balanced soil walks the earth. Fertile earth, digs the soil. Fired earth gives birth. Hand polished dirt is mortal coil.
Music: Through-composed symphonic work in 4 movements for two cellos, tree singers and one bass clarinet, with individual elements of improvisation. The work is acoustic throughout, but also contains electronically manipulated sounds and effects. The work is a result of close collaboration among the composers and visual artists.
“Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it’s a sort of constant euphoria.” - Marcel Duchamp
Composition by Signe Lykke & Lil Lacy
Film by Ulrik Heltoft & Ann Sophie von Bülow
Musicians
Katinka Fogh Vindelev - soprano
Laura Mayer - alto
Simon Rønne Rischel - baritone
Morten Lohmann Sønderskov Jensen - bass clarinet
Soma Allpass - cello
Lil Lacy - cello
Sound by Bjørn Gjessing
Live performances
CLICK-festival, Helsingør / May 13th and 22nd 2017
Maltfabrikken, Ebeltoft / June 29th 2017
Musikhuset, Århus / October 29th 2017
Installation
Maltfabrikken, Ebeltoft / June - August 2017
Agua Seco, 9’ (2017) - film, salt and music
Composition, salt installation and film by Lil Lacy, 2017
Exploring wet and dry sounds inspired by the human change of climate.
Recorded live in LiteraturHaus at PULSAR festival 2017
Musicians
Didde Kildahl Nico Nielsen - flute
Anja Nedremo - saxophone
Patricia Martín González - clarinet
Thomas Skovlund Hansen - trombone
Mads Mortensen - percussion
Diana Bojanic - piano
Toke Hansenius - violin
Malthe V. Højager - cello
Mathias Skaarup Sørensen - conductor
SOMA & LIL, 11’ (2017) - short documentary
'A music documentary on the art of improvisation. Soma & Lil, a cello improvisation duo based in Denmark, rethink and deconstruct the traditional
written music for cello, and develop a more personal way of expression by creating singular compositions that are unique and always changing.'
The short documentary 'Soma & Lil' won
Best Short Documentary at the Ishinomaki International Film Festival in Japan (2017)
Best Music Short Film at the Queen City Film Festival in Maryland, USA (2017)
and the audience award at the Jazz Film Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark (2018)
Directed by: Nicolas Iordanou & Sylvia Nicolaides
Director of Photography: Nicolas Iordanou
Edited by: Sylvia Nicolaides & Nicolas Iordanou
Sound Design by: Sylvia Nicolaides
Music by: Soma & Lil (Soma Allpass & Lil Lacy)
Synopsis: A music documentary on the art of improvisation. Soma & Lil, a cello improvisation duo based in Denmark, rethink and deconstruct the traditional written music for cello, and develop a more personal way of expression by creating singular compositions that are unique and always changing. Produced with support from European Capital of Culture Aarhus 2017.
ANYBODY (2017) - installation and performance
Anybody is a curated experience that challenges the norms of the fashioned body.
Through social and cultural ‘rules’ we regulate how we present our bodies to the world. Failing to comply with the standards of the shared bodily behaviour, we often feel inadequacy and shame. We have asked some of the finest Danish fashion and art talents to rethink and reinterpret the body beyond the limits of fashion. They have created new disruptive bodies: plasticised and editable, engulfed by computer virus, metamorphosed, aged, made by chewing gum, randomly enhanced by magnifying glasses, and in the form of cyborg, imaginary friend, mascot and root system.
Collaborators
Danish Fashion Institute in collaboration with
Femmes Régionales, Ane Lynge-Jorlén
& Headstart Fashion
Music
Lil Lacy
The works will be exhibited in the heart of Aarhus city where they will trigger new and exciting ways of engaging with fashion.
Anybody ‘The Body & Beyond’ exhibition is showcased in the windows of Salling, from the 1st - 9th april 2017
Thin air (2016) - film and string quartet
Composition and film by Lil Lacy, 2016
Musicians
Jakob Rosendahl Poulsen - violin 1
Daniel Tølbøll Mortensen - violin 2
Eva Paulin - viola
Benedikte Borum Poulsen - cello
HOC COH, 18’ (2016) - film
HOC COH (As Far as the Eye Can See), 18’ / 2016
Film by Ulrik Heltoft
Music by Soma Allpass (cello) & Lil Lacy (cello)
FEAST OF DIANA - Agnete Bertram solo exhibition (2016) - performance
Performed a 30 minute piece, moving through the rooms of the solo exhibition by Agnete Bertram; Feast of Diana, at Viborg Kunsthal, August 2016.
Art and performance: Agnete Bertram // Music: Lil Lacy // Article from Kunsten.nu about Feat of Diana
Amnesty International - Ignite the Flame of Human Rights (2014) - film
Music by: Lil Lacy, Soma Allpass & Jonas Asp (www.fatswan.dk)