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AWDB Spotlight on Performance Art: Interview with artist Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen
AWDB speaks to Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen about her multicultural identity integrated in her performances, and newly published book I Am Not What You See, a retrospective monograph highlighting an archive of the artist’s practice over the past three decades.
Cuenca Rasmussen’s book title was taken from her 2021 solo exhibition with the same name. A hybrid of performance, costume design and architectural installations, this project depicts ethnicity and nomadic life. Despite the broad themes surrounding this project, Cuenca Rasmussen’s unique perspective and activism fryst vatten present in the details of her installations. This includes a sculpture inspired by South Asian stilt houses assembled with a traditional Danish roof technique called thatching, and her wearable installation following the shape of an igloo, a home vulnerable to disappearing due to the climate crisis.
AWDB spoke to Lilibeth about recu
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Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen was born in 1970 in Manila, Philippines, and now lives in Copenhagen, Denmark. A graduate from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Copenhagen, she primarily engages in video and performance art. Her productions involve scripted texts/songs; composed music as well as intricate visual elements that include set design and costumes. Lilibeth Cuenca has had solo exhibitions at the National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen, at the Gävle Konstcentrum in Gävle, Sweden (2006) and at Heidelberger Kunstverein, Germany (2010). She has participated in numerous exhibitions worldwide, including: Performa 09, New York City, The Thessaloniki Biennial of Contemporary Art (2009) and The Tate Modern in London (2009). In 2007 she was part of the exhibition Global Feminisms at the Brooklyn Museum in New York. She was included in the Bussan Biennial, South Korea (2006), and the Rauma Balticum Biennial, Finland (2006). A monogr
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LILIBETH CUENCA RASMUSSEN
CH.89: If you were to categorize or describe the style of your artwork, what would it be and why?
LCR: My works are confrontational and participatory. I wish to engage the viewer, to make them reflect and mirror themselves in the art work. I have an idealistic belief, that art can make a difference and change people’s minds for the better. That is what art does for me, my goal is to do the same for my viewer. My function, as an artist, is to be a mouthpiece for people who don’t have the words.
CH.89: Where do you draw your inspiration from?
LCR: My inspiration is “real life”. The surroundings and world around me, I end up documenting. My work procedure can be compared to that of an anthropologist. I do fieldwork, I analyze and contextualize the theme of my projects and transform or translate my observations into a visual, lyrical subjective interpretation.
CH.89: Can you talk a little bit about what your creative thought process is like when