Daria Blum presents a multimedia live performance, titled I’m So Disappointed In You, a reflection on female alliances, desire, and rivalry that encompasses video, music, text and choreography. Incorporating a monologue set in Berlin in the 2010s, Blum embodies various alter egos whose names echo her own; with Daphne, Dahlia, and Daisy assuming leading roles. Through a first-person perspective, the artist narrates the encounters and disputes between these insubordinate characters, moving between different voices and mannerisms, and conversing, arguing and duetting with her counterparts on- and off-screen.
Traveling between electronic and physical spaces; sampling, looping and remixing digital debris, implementing literary and theatrical devices, Blum’s work investigates how ‘breaking character’ can disrupt prevailing forms of engagement with the world. Through live interaction with domestic props and lighting, on-screen text, music and phone recordings, the artist brings her female characters into the liminal spaces of hostel lobbies, club toilets and waiting rooms, and invites her audience to observe and consider how they perform within them.
This performance is in response to Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet at Tate Modern.
Part of the Digital Intimacies Learning Season supported by Anthropic. Also supported by Marcin and Izabela Wiszniewski
Tate Collective is supported by The Rothschild Foundation and Tate Patrons.
Daria Blum
Daria Blum (CH) is an artist who works across performance, video, music, text, photography and installation. She graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in 2023 and was the recipient of the inaugural Claridge’s Art Prize, awarded by Marina Abramović. Blum’s work has been exhibited and performed at various galleries, museums and festivals, including CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux (FR); Roskilde Festival (DK); and CIRCA on Piccadilly Lights, Ilenia, Palmer Gallery, Rose Easton, and Ginny on Frederick in London (UK).
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