house of cards

work-in-progress

2022 to present

︎ a collection of solo + collective performances
︎ living archive of body, sounds, imagery, movement, text
︎ communal + collective authorships
︎ an ongoing performance series

Photography by Maria Kousi

DIRECTION, PERFORMANCE, CHOREOGRAPHY | Yasmine Lindskog Visanko

SOUND COMPOSITION | Samara Rice

ANALOGUE VIDEOS | Kaija Lindskog

VIDEO EDITS | Yasmine Lindskog Visanko

LIGHTING DESIGN | Elliot Blue

INSTITUTIONS/PARTNERS | Lake Studios Berlin, Brussels Dance Contest, Ultima Vez Studios, Studio Joji, Inc., Tictac Art Centre

« house of cards » is an autobiographical exploration of identity, belonging, voice, memory, and place. A perpetual constructing, deconstructing, and balancing. Simultaneously, the work serves as a living archive of analogue material, movement, found sounds, and embodied memories.

A perpetual creating, destroying, and balancing; of falling too far on one side and finding the way to the other, of destruction’s potency to create, of wavering between space and noise, of the lines we keep drawing, of entertaining the spaces between two sides. The house of cards we keep building, over and over and over. Fragile and susceptible to the winds, we keep rebuilding, we keep creating, we play, we destroy, we balance, we keep balancing, we are balancing, and once we’ve balanced we let the new winds catapult us into the next surge of imbalance as we overstretch in opposing directions, fighting to maintain a static house amongst the dynamism of this rapidly spinning world.

house of cards series:

0.1BE.A
Solo variation performed in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Belgium at the Ultima Vez Studios on 24 September 2022; Semi-finalists for the Brussels Dance Contest sound score including recordings from the UK, Hawai’i, Virginia, Belgium, France.

A music collage designed by Yasmine Lindskog with music and sounds collected from alva noto, Mika Vainio, Ryoji Ikeda, Pink Floyd, Meredith Monk, King Oliver and His Orchestra and field sounds from a kitchen pot in London, a cat in the Blue Ridge Mountains, cicadas in Virginia, a runner on the road, ice coated branches melting in the early spring, an orchestra of birds in Hā’iku, Hawai’i, an abandoned building in Charleroi, the sea of the Parc national des Calanques, and a washing machine off of rue du page in Belgique.

0.2BE.A Solo variation performed in Anderlecht, Belgium at Tictac Art Centre on 29 October 2022; sound score including recordings from the UK, Hawai’i, Virginia, Belgium, France.

A music collage designed by Yasmine Lindskog with music and sounds collected from alva noto, Mika Vainio, Ryoji Ikeda, Pink Floyd, Meredith Monk, King Oliver and His Orchestra and field sounds from a kitchen pot in London, a cat in the Blue Ridge Mountains, cicadas in Virginia, a runner on the road, ice coated branches melting in the early spring, an orchestra of birds in Hā’iku, Hawai’i, an abandoned building in Charleroi, the sea of the Parc national des Calanques, and a washing machine off of rue du page in Belgique.

0.2DE.A Solo variation performed in Berlin, Germany at Lake Studios Berlin on 19 April 2023; Original music compositions by Samara Rice. Additional tracks by Frank Sinatra and Django Reinhardt. Lighting Design by Elliot Blue.