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you’re seeping into my bloodstream, 2023
1.5 hr poetry reading, performative lecture and auto-theoretical essay on love ruled by disease, examining its sick and vampiric tendencies for subsistence. This performance delves into Youden’s continued exploration of chronic illness as near-death experience, or a “time of ‘non-death’”. As a term coined by Gruppo Di Nun in Revolutionary Demonology, “time of ‘non-death’ speaks of the mysterious presence of absence, a world populated by impersonal forces and entities, that although not alive, cannot be called dead”. For Youden, the term becomes inextricably intertwined with the canon of lesbian vampire literature and its metaphors for disability, disease and queer Crip lust. In this realm of the undead, the terrifying angels of Rainer Maria Rilke co-exist with tragic heroines from meta-fictional K-dramas, relive 2015 psycho-thriller bimbo comedies, and sit through many a BPD girl dinner. Interwoven with Youden’s personal accounts of illness, limerence and immortal deviance, she threads together cross-generational fact and fiction, relating to forms of Crip collectivity and its underworld networks of care.
Credits:
Music: Scott Carver
Stage design, Costume and Production Assistance: Cornelia Isaksson
Debuted at Pogo Bar - KW Institute for Contemporary Art, curated by Nikolas Brummer on December 12, 2023.
Upcoming performances:
03.05.2024. THE DROP OUT - TELL THEM I SAID NO, E-WERK LUCKENWALDE, (DE)
06.06.2024. THE BODY THAT MOVES, PLATFORM 82, ZILBERMAN GALLERY, BERLIN (DE)
Press:
AOIFE DONNELLAN –– CITIZENS OF THE KINGDOM OF THE ILL: AN INTERVIEW WITH LAURYN YOUDEN
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VENUS IN SCORPIO, 2023
ACAB (“MARY KATE” OLSEN), 2023
BUT HAVE YOU TRIED YOGA?, 2023
THE FEAR OF DISEASE, 2023
HOT TOPIC ESOTERIC BIMBO, 2023
BEAUTIFUL…THIS IS THE SKIN OF A KILLER BELLA, 2023
BITCH I’M A COW, 2023
Installation views, Interdependencies: Perspectives on Care and Resilience at Migros Museum, Zurich from 07.10.2023––21.01.2024
Listen to poems 1-6 dedicated to each sculpture on Migros Museum website
Migros Museum, Zurich
Migros Museum Collection: Lauryn Youden
Press:
Jasmine Reimer –– Crossovers: Lauryn Youden, Boarder Crossings Magazine, January 2024
Shen He –– Reading Rämistrasse #138: Shen He on Interdependences: Perspectives on Care and Resilience at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, January, 2024
Interview by Maxime Gasnier –– Qui est Lauryn Youden, l’artiste crip queer qui révise les normes?, The Steidz, January 7, 2024
Brit Barton –– Interdependencies: Perspectives on Care and Resilience at Migros Museum, Zurich, Mousse Magazine, November 13, 2023
Interview by Dieter Roeschmann —- Kultur: Künstlerin Lauryn Youden: «Ich schreibe die meisten meiner Gedichte, wenn ich Schmerzen habe», Annabelle Magazine, October 16, 2023
Donna Schons —- Resting Place: Lauryn Youden’s Venus in Scorpio, PW-Magazine, March 19, 2023
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The Descent, 2023
Performance and site-specific installation that includes the remnants of Youden’s reading of Alice Notley’s The Descent of Alette, Part One on May 17th, 2023 and works by Aidan Pontarini, Julia Scher, Gili Tal and Kobby Adi.
Altar for Alette, 2023
chainmail purse, dried snake skin, candles, Myopridin packet, one bottle of Trimipramine-neuraxpharm, Rizatripan packet, Novaminsulfon packet, silver star glitter, nuttallia obscurata shells, two nuttallia obscurata shells with the text “FLESH BLOOD” and “BLACK LETTUCE” written in black ink, charms: angle wings, silver heart, sword, bag of chips, fairy sitting on a crescent moon, the staff of caduceus, heart made of brecciated Jasper, heart made of rose quartz, microphone, a dagger, the word “angel”, a tooth
The project is part of Backrooms, a Kunsthalle Zurich curatorial programme organised by Otto Bonnen.
FURTHER DOCUMENTATION:
Backrooms - Kunsthalle Zurich
Contemporary Art Library
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Venus in Scorpio, 2023
ACAB (“Mary Kate” Olsen), 2023
But Have You Tried Yoga?, 2023
The Fear of Disease, 2023
Hot Topic Esoteric Bimbo, 2023
Beautiful…this is the skin of a killer Bella, 2023
Bitch I’m a Cow, 2023
Installation views, Open Forum, Berlin, 11.02. –– 25.03.2023
Further Documentation:
O FLUXO PLATFORM
Open Forum, Berlin
REVIEWS:
Jasmine Reimer —- Crossovers: Lauryn Youden, Boarder Crossings magazine, January 2024
DONNA SCHONS —- RESTING PLACE: LAURYN YOUDEN’S VENUS IN SCORPIO, PW-MAGAZINE, MARCH 19, 2023
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Underworlds - Crip Mythologies, 2022
Performative reading of Alice Notley’s The Decent of Alette and Diane Wolkstein’s Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth - Chapter: The Decent of Inanna.
Part of STAINS OF TIME AND DREAMS, CREAMCAKE at MUSIK INSTALLATIONEN NÜRNBERG, NÜRNBERG (DE)
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Dead Paper, 2022
Performative reading and ritual by Lauryn Youden that includes the practice of letter burning, writing with invisible ink, and the sharing of Crip* knowledge and histories through oral tradition. She invites the audience to think about and formulate their own ambiguities and desires followed by a fire ritual which will momentarily make these letters visible to then be devoured by the flames. A moment of healing enhanced by the easing powers of a magical and medicinal herb, Mugwort, this temporary setting may set free psychic powers, induce lucid dreaming and astral projection.
Part of THE DEVIL’S RADIO 2: WITCHES, RITUALS AND HEALING, GOSSIP GOSSIP GOSSIP, FLOATING UNIVERSITY, BERLIN (DE)
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“MY LOVE” A SERIES OF SONIC RITUALS AT A TIME OF ILLNESS AND DEATH, 2021
COMMISSIONED BY E-WERK LUCKENWALDE
On the occasion of The Archive Show, Saturday 1 May – Sunday 18 July 2021
“MY LOVE” A SERIES OF SONIC RITUALS AT A TIME OF ILLNESS AND DEATH IS A PERFORMANCE SERIES THAT INVITES A GROUP OF PEOPLE TO COME TOGETHER AND ENGAGE IN THE MERCURIAL INTIMACY OF LISTENING TO MUSIC AS A COLLECTIVE.
ON 29 MAY 2021, THE DAY OF THE PERFORMANCE, MERCURY WENT RETROGRADE. AS MERCURY IS THE PLANET OF COMMUNICATION, WHEN RETROGRADE ALL METHODS OF COMMUNICATION ARE REVERSED, FLIPPED, MIRRORED AND A QUEERING OF LANGUAGE, ARTICULATION AND CORRESPONDENCE TAKES PLACE – WHERE DIALOG IS LOCATED IN A LIMINAL SPACE AND THE TECHNOLOGIES OF THE HEART BECOME TOOLS OF COMMUNICATION. WHERE RITUALS, TOUCH, MOVEMENT, REST AND LISTENING ARE HOW ONE NAVIGATES THIS SPACE/TIME AND ALLOW ONE TO CONNECT WITH OTHERS.
IT IS WITHIN THIS SAME SPACE THAT WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART, WHILE CONSTANZE WEBER, HIS BRIDE TO BE, WAS DEATHLY ILL, HE PRAYED FOR HER LIFE TO BE SAVED - MAKING WITHIN THAT PRAYER A VOW TO COMPOSE A MASS IN EXCHANGE. THIS PIECE OF MUSIC WOULD LATER COME TO BE KNOWN AS THE ‘GREAT MASS IN C MINOR, K.427.’ THE ACT OF COMPOSING A WORK IN EXCHANGE FOR THE LIFE AND HEALTH OF A LOVED ONE IS A QUEER MERCURIAL RITUAL. AS IS THE DEVOTIONAL GESTURE OF WRITING INTO THE COMPOSITION THE PART OF THE MEZZO-SOPRANO, INCLUDING SOLOS IN THE “CHRISTE ELEISON" SECTION OF THE KYRIE MOVEMENT AND THE ARIA “ET INCARNATUS EST”, SPECIFICALLY FOR CONSTANCE, A RESPECTED MEZZO-SOPRANO, TO SING ONCE RECOVERED. AND IT IS A REINCARNATION OF THESE VERY RITUALS EVERY TIME THE MASS IS PERFORMED AND LISTENED TO.
WE ALSO KNOW THIS HISTORY OF THE GREAT MASS IN C MINOR, K.427, THROUGH YET ANOTHER QUEER MERCURIAL NAVIGATION TOOL: LETTERS WRITTEN BETWEEN MOZART AND THE MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY - THAT LEAVE THIS PIECE OF WORK IN AN AURA OF LOVE AND DEVOTION. THESE SAME LETTERS CONFIRM THAT CONSTANCE DID LIVE TO SING THE WORK AT ITS PREMIERE AND ASSUME THAT THE FIRST PERFORMANCE OF THE MASS TOOK PLACE AT THE ST. PETER’S CHURCH, SALZBURG, AS THE SALZBURG CATHEDRAL IN THE EIGHTEEN CENTURY WOULD NOT ALLOW WOMEN TO PARTAKE IN THE MUSICAL PERFORMANCES OF CHURCH WORSHIP - WHICH SPEAK TO THE STATE OF THE TIMES AND HOW RADICAL MOZART’S RITUALS AND COMPOSITIONS WERE AT THIS TIME.
INCLUDED WITH THIS EVENT IS THE ARTWORK ‘I’D RATHER IDEALISE ROMANTIC ACTS OF CARE, THEN GRIEVE THE LOVES I HAVE LOST TO COMPASSION FATIGUE’ 2021, WHICH IS A LIST OF QUESTIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS THE AUDIENCE IS INVITED TO ENGAGE IN DURING AND AFTER THE PERFORMANCE.
THE ‘GREAT MASS IN C MINOR, K. 427’ SCORE HAS BEEN PLAYED AND PERFORMED INNUMEROUS TIMES THROUGHOUT HISTORY, EACH UNIQUELY. IT HAS REMAINED LATENTLY ARCHIVED FOR OVER TWO CENTURIES, A SUITABLE ILLUSTRATION OF THE PERFORMATIVITY OF ARCHIVES AND HOW THEY PERSIST. IN THE CONTEXT OF THE ARCHIVE SHOW AT E-WERK LUCKENWALDE, A PROJECT THAT ITSELF STEMS FROM THE INSTITUTION’S CENTURY OLD COLLECTION OF RECORDS, LAURYN YOUDEN’S PERFORMANCE PROPOSES A VERY INTIMATE ENCOUNTER, A NEW SCORE TO BE RE-PERFORMED, AS WELL AS AN ENACTMENT OF A NEW INTRICATE COLLECTIVE COMPOSITION.
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Peering Through a Half-Open Door
sandstone from ancient Roman quarry / Emma Kunz Grotto, Würenlos (stone used to produce Aion A), black plexiglass, black window foil
dimensions variable
2021
Those Stones which also express themselves at dawn
Electromagnetic, singing bowl and field recordings from the Emma Kunz Grotto, Würenlos processed into harmonic structures built around 238 Hz frequency.
Production and Sound Design by Florian TM Zeisig
49 min
2021
Installation view, Emma Kunz Cosmos. A Visionary in Dialogue with Contemporary Art, 2.3. – 24.5.2021, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Photo: Conradin Frei, Zurich.
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Visionary of Knives, 2020
At the center of Lauryn Youden’s exhibition are two wall-mounted altars, each measuring just under four meters long. Filled with dried flowers, medicine, herbs, books, candles, and ritual-based objects, the content of these altars documents the survival strategies she has developed to navigate an ableist world. ‘Visionary of Knives’ is a space of retreat and rest but also education and protest. Originally conceived as a meeting place for a queer Crip community, it has become a place of absence due to Covid-19, mirroring the physical isolation often experienced by people with disabilities. Drawing together Youden’s care practices, and her personal collection of literature and zines made by other Crip queer artists, healers, writers and thinkers, the exhibition is an invitation to encounter a space dedicated to Youden’s care and the discourses of her community.
Installation view, Visionary of Knives, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2020. Photo: Timo Ohler
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to offer you something, to bring relief, 2020
various materials
378 x 100 x 32 cm
Installation view, Visionary of Knives, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2020. Photo: Timo Ohler
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a process of grieving, 2020
various materials
116 x 65 x 40 cm
Installation view, Visionary of Knives, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2020. Photo: Timo Ohler
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From the Great Above she opened her ear to the Great Below, 2020
various materials
378 x 100 x 32 cm
Installation view, Visionary of Knives, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2020. Photo: Timo Ohler
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rest, soothe my burning spine, 2020
hand-dyed lavender blue and beige linen, white cotton fabric and cushions, four linen pillows with excerpts of CA Conrad’s poem Mount Monadnock Transmissions - Sharking of the Birdcage and Larissa Lai’s Tiger Flu hand embroidered by Ebb Bayley, freshly picked bouquet of mugwort, circular antique metal container with gold flower detail on the lid, small red container of Tiger Balm, 2oz container of Ceres Dragon Balm Deep Tissue Relief, small pieces of black and orange kyanite, gift from Patrick Cruz
380 x 420 x 35 cm
Installation view, Visionary of Knives, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2020. Photo: Timo Ohler
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DARK WATER, 2020
35 MIN PERFORMATIVE LECTURE, RITUAL AND AUTO-THEORETICAL TEXT THAT EXAMINES THE HISTORY OF MOURNING, LAMENTATION AND DEATH AS CENTRAL TO THE DAILY LIVES OF EUROPEAN SOCIETY DURING THE RISE OF CAPITALIST PATRIARCHY AND THE PLAGUE; AS WELL AS THE DIVINATION AND RITUALISTIC PRACTICES USED BY MANY TO ENDURE THIS PERIOD OF TIME. INTERWOVEN BETWEEN PASSAGES ARE YOUDEN’S PERSONAL EXPERIENCES WITH RITUALISTIC LAMENTATION AND INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA EXPRESSED THROUGH POETRY AND HEALING FOUND IN CRIP MAGIC PRACTICES.
IMAGE: MONTAG MODUS, BARBARA ANTAL, 2020
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DARK WATER, 2020 - NEXT WAVE THEATER, ROTER SALON
35 MIN
Originally performed at Montag Modus 2020, this digital/video version was commissioned by Volksbühne, Berlin as part of NEXT WAVE THEATER at the Roter Salon.
Performance, text, stage design: Lauryn Youden, Video & Editing: Franziska König Music: Dylan Spencer-Davidson Sound Engineer: Leo Liccini Costume: Belle Santos Production: Michael Ladner Video and Sound Technicians: France Weigert & Jackson Ford Lighting: Nico Schweda
Featured texts include an excerpt from CA Conrad’s Mount Monadnock Transmissions - Sharking the Bird Cage and an excerpt from Timothy Morton's Dark Ecology: For a Logic Future Coexistence.
Land Acknowledgement: I would like to show my respect and acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land, the Tsimshian/Ts’msyen people of Kitselas, Kitsumkalum, and the "Allied Tribes" of the Lax Kw'Alaams; the Metlakatla, Kitkatla, Gitga'at at Hartley Bay, and Kitasoo at Klemtu, of elders past and present, from which events in this text took place.
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I build my house on the heads of my enemies, 2019
hand carved self-defence cane with the sentence “I build my house on the heads of my enemies“ carved into it, caduceus pendant, hand dyed bandages (dyed with various treatments for chronic pain: tigerbalm, Advil liquid gels, CBD + THC tincture, magnesium, zink, iodine), twine
INSTALLATION VIEW FROM EXHIBITION ‘WHEN THE SICK RULE THE WORLD” CURATED BY CHRISTINA GIGLIOTTI.
Further Documentation: ARTVIEWER
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Scrying under the eyes of Joyce, 2019
Brass serpent teapot filled with black ink, black ink, water, brass bowl, brass serpent talisman and tail, wooded serpent, mirror, The Brotherhood of Light tarot cards, brass candlesticks, handdyed fabric, copper sheet, Joyce’s silk robe, offerings for Joyce: dried roses, a fresh rose, frankincense resin, rose of Jericho, caduceus buttons, dried witch hazel, a poem
Installation view from exhibition, ‘Cloak of Mercy’ at Horse and Pony, Berlin (DE)
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You say I for me, 2018
1.5 hr, performative reading of Youden’s text ‘Nocebo’, 2018, mugwort tea ceremony, sound bath with amplified crystal singing bowls and binaural music composed in collaboration with Florian TM Zeisig.
Performance at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2018.
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