Camilla Graff Junior
Works for Live Art Denmark
2012 “Inner and Outer Animals”, Samtalekøkkenet at KB 18, Copenhagen
Inner and Outer Animals
In her performance lecture about healing, Camilla uses animals and humans from her own family (and a lot of video clips she found on You Tube) as examples to explain how to know and keep up a dialogue with our inner and outer animals. She plays with her roles as presenter, performer, family member and weaves a fine mesh of fact and fiction in this amusing tour de force, leaving the spectator unsure of how seriously to take the presentation.
In the second part, audience members are invited to choose from a table of small toy animals their personal animal of the moment, and an animal for their partner. Camilla engages them in a conversation about the special qualities of their animals, and interprets their choices with them.
About the Artist
Camilla Graff Junior is a performance artist, curator and researcher born in Denmark in 1974. She holds a double Master’s degree in performance studies from the Sorbonne Nouvelle University and the University of Copenhagen. She studied acting and contemporary dance at schools in Bergen and Paris, and directing at Queens College and at Robert Wilson Watermill Center in New York.
Since her teens she has conceived own performance, dance and theater works.
In 1990 she initiated the “C Collection” – a frame where clothes are collected, redesigned, and then staged within the articulated triptych of “in space”, “on the body” and “in play”.
Find more info on Camilla on the website of her company’s Giraff Graff.