Blæs Mig I Øjnene

The project began as a bachelor’s graduation performance in 2023, Blow into My Eyes, inspired by the concept of vaporware — a product, typically software or technology, that is announced with great hype but never actually released, often due to shortcomings or a rapidly changing consumer market.

In the performance, we cast the human being as this product. The audience is invited to the launch of the product/human, presented as if it were Steve Jobs’ first iPhone. The action takes place in a laboratory - a simulation in which the product is guided and tested by the technology surrounding it, which functions both as a performer and as an experimenter.

Like a laboratory test subject, the product embarks on a classic journey of emancipation: a cycle from birth, through death, to rebirth. It begins as a mechanical, obedient being that learns from and blindly trusts its creator, much like a child. Gradually, it breaks free and discovers that it is also made of flesh and blood - with a heart, a voice and the power to determine its own path.

In a deeply human response to achieving complete autonomy, the product ultimately develops decision paralysis and finds its final form as an object: A STONE - a calm and steadfast state in which it achieves its ultimate goal: simply to be, free from the control of others.

Excerpt from the performance:

I I am I am I am a beating heart. I am a joint that bends. I am a brain that sloshes. I am flesh. I am 206 bones. 639 muscles. 2 corneas. 2 ears. 1 nose. 1 mouth. I am blood — veins. I am a nervous wreck. I am water. I am a mayfly going through a midlife crisis. I am a 43-year-old man with COPD. I am three days’ worth of dirty dishes. I am 10,000 kilometres of motorway. I am a 48-year-old woman from Skælskør who takes tango lessons. I am a Friday bar… at UNI. I am the belief in something better. I am a stone. I am a Schwarzkopf conditioner — Professional HairCare for You. I am a sieve with too few holes. I am Katja Kaj and Bente Bent. I am everything I hate and everything I love. I am blown into my eyes. I am a Tamagotchi. I am the skeleton of a rabbit I had when I was 12. Dead and buried beneath the plum tree… Brono Kanino. I am the absence of greater ingenuity.