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Ly Tran X Kirstine Lindemann: Ritual – The Lost Voice Plot

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Kirstine Lindemann: Ritual – The Lost Voice Plot (WP)

In Donna Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto, the cyborg is described as a figure of social liberation and an opportunity to recreate and reshape the idea of the woman, the body, and reality. With a nod to Haraway and her 1985 manifesto, Kirstine Lindemann’s Ritual – the Lost Voice Plot examines the human encounter with the machine and the possibilities for rethinking and transforming ourselves that may arise. In a transformation ritual, Lindemann and singer Ly Tran examine who the cyborg is in a world of analogue machines – can the cyborg take back the voice and perhaps even create a new potential view of ourselves? 

The ambivalent, undefinable space, where the boundary between human and machine is blurred, is not unfamiliar terrain for Lindemann. Recently, she’s received the Danish Composers’ Association’s special working grant, Nye Veje [New Ways], where she explores artificial intelligence’s ability to renew our view of ourselves and each other. For Lindemann, it is especially when artificial intelligence fails and thus exhibits something resembling humanity that something interesting emerges. This fallibility was, among other things, central to the creation of the work, Cyborg Songs - I’m a Scoglio (2024), which was broadcast by DR P2 in the podcast series, Soprano versus AI, where the boundaries between the human voice and that of an AI were challenged. In Ritual – The Lost Voice Plot, this exploration is continued in a setting of analogue machines. If Haraway has taught us one thing, it is that we always exist on the unstable borderline between humanity and technology – regardless of whether we are conscious of it or not. 

 

Support 

A big thank you to Kitt Johnson, Stephen McEvoy, Sigurd Dissing, the Development Platform for Performing Arts, the Lab Station, Open Stage – Godsbanen, as well as the Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansen Foundation, KodaKultur, and the Danish Arts Foundation for their generous help and support.

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Artists

Ly Tran

Classically trained singer/performer who works in the field of contemporary music, often exploring themes both connected to own experiences and related to current matters. Her approach is characterised by openness and curiosity, and through her collaborations with composers she is continuingly seeking new ways of expression.

Kirstine Lindemann

Danish composer. With a particular interest in the body and movement as compositional material, Lindemann's work revolves around the investigation of the spaces where we grow into each other and the places where we are delimited. In 2024 she received Klang Festival's Pelle Prize and in 2025 she received the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsens Honorary Award, and that same organization’s 2021 Talent Award.