She navigates in an interspace between the perfect staged music video, the raw reality of documentaries and a poetic quest for cosmic sense. For her exhibition at Röda Sten Konsthall Rasmussen will develop a live series of new performance works presented alongside a selection of recent videos, sculptures and paintings.

Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen often takes her own Danish-Filipino background as a point of departure, as she gathers, adapts, and universalizes her narratives in equally critical and humorous approaches. In 2005 Cuenca Rasmussen began a series of performances acting and singing out various male/female stereotypes in front of the camera, to illustrate the inherent paradoxes in specific though fictional characters. Adapting the format of the classical music video – integrating composed music, rap-like rhyming lyrics and intricate costumes supplemented with a tongue of quirky sarcasm and biting irony –  Cuenca Rasmussen brings both elements of personal confessions, social criticism and political commitment, as she performs her stories about anger, identification and longing. The exhibition will feature presentations of some of Cuenca Rasmussen’s most poignant video-performance works including Absolute Exotic (2005), Cock Fight (2006), The Artist’s Song (2007) and Afghan Hound (2011).

For the exhibition Musical Skies dropping down to Earth, making Trees Fly Cuenca Rasmussen will also organize and perform her largest group performance to date entitled GAIA#5(Sweden). The performance relates to her current project GAIA, which is a serial and site-specific sequence of performances, whose previous four editions have taken place in Denmark, Philippines, Germany and China. Created as a dialogue between the various physical-geographic, geological-material and metaphoric-symbolic interrelated dimensions, Cuenca Rasmussen examines the body’s identification in relation to the ground on which it is situated. GAIA#5 (Sweden) will be developed in a workshop with a group of local volunteers that collectively will plan and choreograph the performance. GAIA#5 (Sweden) will be performed in front of a live audience on Wednesday June 18th, at 6 pm outside Röda Sten Konsthall.