Artist : Hart Lëshkina
[ exhibition ]
Free entry
Time :
Wed-Fri • 12:00 - 20:00 / Sat-Sun • 10:00 - 16:00
Location : DOKK1 (udsigten)
A multi-channel video and sound installation that engages the historic Danish boys’ choir Herning Kirkes Drengekor as both subject and living system.
Info about the piece
Boy World Effigy II is a multi-channel video and sound installation that engages the historic Danish boys’ choir Herning Kirkes Drengekor as both subject and living system. Positioned between ritual and performance, the choir becomes a mechanism through which the work examines how identity is formed within structures that simultaneously nurture and constrain. Rather than addressing youth as a theme, the artists focus on the choir as a collective body where individuality remains fluid, continuously calibrated against shared codes of harmony, posture, breath, and timing.
Constructed through performative frameworks, behavioral scores, and spatial conditions, the installation unfolds as a constellation of fragments rather than a linear narrative. Moments of cohesion and discipline coexist with subtle ruptures, hesitation, misalignment, or shifts in awareness, revealing ongoing negotiations between agency and conformity. Vulnerability is not scripted but emerges within the friction between structure and improvisation, where participants encounter themselves as both subject and image.
The choir operates as a metaphor for broader social and mediated systems in which the self is shaped through participation, projection, and mutual awareness. Recurring concerns include collective identity, ritualized behavior, avatars, and the internalization of being seen. Attention circulates laterally through imitation, alignment, and self calibration, producing a condition where performance arises from within the collective rather than through external command. Spatially, the installation disperses perception through simultaneity. Video and sound function as interdependent structures, creating a horizontal perceptual field that resists singular viewpoint and total comprehension. Viewers navigate partial visibility, aware that something always remains beyond their field of view.
By translating fragmented media rhythms into an immersive environment, Boy World Effigy II positions the audience within the contradictions of collectivity, holding them in a space where harmony and fracture coexist, and identity remains continuously negotiated rather than resolved. The installation can be experienced at Dokk1 throughout the day.
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Web : www.hartleshkina.com
Hart Lëshkina is an interdisciplinary artist duo based in Los Angeles. Their practice examines how identity is produced within social, spatial, digital, and performative systems, and the duo stages conditions in which behavior and perception are negotiated.
Working across film, sound, still image, installation, text, and collage, the duo constructs immersive environments where boundaries between individual and collective, participation and observation, interiority and projection remain unsettled.
Central to their work is the formation of the self through structures that enable and constrain. Figures within their work often appear suspended between roles of participant and observer, subject and image, autonomous and choreographed, revealing tensions within systems of visibility and control.
Collective identity, ritualized behavior, avatars, media lives, and power dynamics are recurring themes. Their work has been shown internationally at O-Overgaden in Copenhagen, Spazio Maiocchi in Milan, Benaki Museum in Athens, Community in Paris. Upcoming projects are planned for Paris and Los Angeles.
