Exhibition
Avgang 2026: Lone Eivindsdottir / Show me your hard woman feelings
Some years ago, in another institution, in another part of the country, maybe even in another body, a teacher asked me to show him my hard woman feelings. I did not ask what he meant. I tried to respond. The sentence has never settled. Like an instruction without method, it continues to move through me.
Show me your hard woman feelings unfolds across the institution as a set of exercises. Ex-ercises toward the unstable terrain between language and body, where authority, desire and projection circulate without clear translation.
A morning class takes place. Several voices guide at once. Instructions overlap, interrupt, contradict. The wish to follow becomes entangled with the impossibility of doing so.
Language accumulates in the body faster than it can be understood.
Elsewhere, a script speaks. It positions itself as care, as processing, as institutional therapy. Those who perform it submit to its authority in real time, without preparation.
The voice knows more than the bodies that carry it.
Throughout the building, the sound of shoes moves through corridors. A presence that cannot be fully located. A figure who appears as guest, but leaves a lasting imprint. An authority that persists without needing to be visible.
The work lingers in the afterlife of instruction, in the residue of pedagogical desire, in the bodies shaped by earlier gazes, in the confusion between devotion and obedience.
It asks what it means to perform what we do not understand, and how institutional language continues to speak through us.
Program
Morning class with guest teachers
Morning class: 11:00-11:45, Tuesday 17th, Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th. Dance studio 10, KHiO. Invitation to join in on a morning meditation, lead by a set of new guest teachers every day. No previous experience is needed. Welcome as both participant and/or observer. Meet up point at KHiO reception 11:00am.
Show me your hard woman feelings
Performance: Friday 20th 17:00 and Saturday 21st 13:00. Dance studio 10, KHiO. Entrance from river side to Scenetorget, performing arts department.
The ghost of a guest teacher
Sound installation: Friday 20th. Can be heard throughout the main building of KHiO during the open-ing hours of the school.
Lone Eivindsdottir (b. 1997) works with video and text, as well as performative, site-responsive, and social strategies to create time-based and multimedia works. Informed by her background as a dancer, she often uses the body as a conceptual framework, where somatic knowledge is processed to form new choreographic narratives and modes of participation.
