ELLINOR AURORA AASGAARD

Me, “Browsing”, by Elizabeth Ravn

I care about worldbuilding and storytelling. Through film, installation, and sculpture, I explore themes of precarity and use popular culture references to produce satires. Many of these projects materialize as kinetic and/or interactive sculptures, and attempt to debunk the role of the solo artist genius, emphasising the inherently collaborative nature of the art economy.

Since 2018 I am working in an artist duo with Zayne Armstrong. We began our collaboration with a serial video ‘soap opera’ project called Days, and most of our work relates to its storylines or functions as its scenography. Days adapts the romantic themes, typical to soap operas, to stories about labour (emotional, unpaid and abstract labour), and its domestic spaces are swapped for the so-called ‘third spaces’ of neo-liberal labour: the cafe, hostel, bar, car, gym, co-working space, public park, etc. The video works engage numerous collaborators in forms of satirical auto-fiction and docudrama, set within synthetic stylized spaces that speculate urban dystopia.

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