Artists : Dalin Waldo, Kizzer & Sigrid Norheim Ørtoft
[ performance ]
Time : Sat • 10:00 - 22:00 / Sun • 10:00 - 18:00
Location : Det Poetiske Klubhus, Godsbanen
How many more supplements? How balanced should a body become? Is this the final pill that will change everything?
Info about the piece
How many more supplements? How balanced should a body become? Is this the final pill that will change everything? House of Hope is an ongoing sculptural project by Dalin Waldo. Each week, Waldo adds a new bottle of supplements to a growing stack – an accumulation that will, in time, become an entire house built from every supplement taken across a lifetime. It is a monument of capsules and powders, of optimism, obsession, and survival.
The project emerges from a life shaped by chronic dysregulation, CPTSD, and the perpetual alarm of a body pushed into crisis. Waldo has often felt incorrectly calibrated in the world, and the bottles become both documentation and relics of the continuous attempt to correct that calibration. With every panic spike, hormonal crash, or sudden wave of stress, the cycle restarts. Balance dissolves. The Sisyphus stone rolls back down the hill. A new supplement joins the house. This is the Sisyphus Complex at the core of the work: The never-ending pursuit of the perfectly regulated artist – the fantasy of a body that wakes, produces, and sleeps without obstruction, without trauma, without friction. A human engine built for pure creation.
Yet House of Hope also exposes the paradox beneath that pursuit. Waldo carries an extreme fear of losing focus – a fear so strong that procrastination becomes its own loop, delaying the beginning again and again. Instead of a clean moment of creation, we witness Waldo circling the edges of the studio, hovering around the work, avoiding the terror of beginning – because beginning might reveal the terror of not being able to focus enough to complete it. It is another Sisyphus-motion: Orbiting the start instead of rolling the stone.
The performance is durational, and Dalin Waldo, the composer and performer, will be present throughout. Set design is by Kizzer, and the choreography is by Sigrid Norheim Ørntoft. The performance was commissioned by SPOR festival.