Durational performance, 2024
Chameleons, 2024. Site-specific performance in collaboration with Chen Nadler, Daniela Pascual, Jenny Berger Myhre, and Tashi Iwaoka. Duration: 4h. Credits: Roberta Segata
Chameleons, 2024. Site-specific performance in collaboration with Chen Nadler, Daniela Pascual, Jenny Berger Myhre, and Tashi Iwaoka. Duration: 4h. Credits: Roberta Segata
Credits: Roberta Segata
Credits: Roberta Segata
Chameleons, 2024. Site-specific performance in collaboration with Chen Nadler, Daniela Pascual, Jenny Berger Myhre, and Tashi Iwaoka. Duration: 4h. Credits: Roberta Segata
Chameleons is a durational performance created for exhibition spaces, which premiered in June 2024 at HAM Gallery (Helsinki Art Museum). The work explores questions of translation, sociolinguistic identity, and bodily memory.
Rooted in my personal experience of gradually forgetting the gestures of my native language after living abroad for seven years, the piece unfolds as an ongoing process of adaptation and transformation. Within the exhibition space, performers translate the installation’s elements into movement—continuously studying, repeating, and reinterpreting gestures drawn from multiple cultures.
Chameleons offers a poetic and playful exploration of what it means to live in another language, observing how the body learns, forgets, and adapts when moving across linguistic and cultural boundaries.
Performers: Laura Cemin, Tashi Iwaoka, Daniela Pascual, Chen Nadler and Jenny Berger Myhre.