Panel 5 (Babylon)
Jessie Kleemann Performance
With Jessie Kleemann (DK/GL)
Greenlandic performance artist and poet Jessie Kleemann interweaves elements from her homeland with her experience as a feminist city dweller. Inuit culture is an important source of inspiration, the disparity between the former colonial power Denmark and the former colony of Greenland often is a driving force of her work.
In the performance in Berlin, specially developed for the festival, she will address one of the first histories written and printed in the Greenlandic language. A commemoration and revival of 19th-century Greenlandic native poets Jens Kreutzmann and Aron von Kangeq.
Jessie Kleemann is an internationally renowned visual artist, poet and performance artist from Greenland. She has been living in Copenhagen for many years. In her art, she explores Greenlandic identity, colonial history, myths, and Arctic climate and nature. Characteristically, she is not afraid to use the traditional in a new way. In her poems, she likes to mix different languages.
Titles:
• Arkhticos Dolores, 2021
• Tallat, Digte Poems, 1997
Arkhticos Doloros (The Arctic in Pain) by Jessie Kleemann, 2019. Jessie Kleemann performs at Blue Lake near Ilulissat. This is a place where an unprecedented glacier melt is taking place. She works with hemp rope, light bulbs, a black cloth sail and with the wind.