DONNIMAAR
(DOMA)
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Daughter Donnimaar dances with the
Knight of the Rose Garden in the song Æ
Fåwanleng ('The
Transformation'), which
Johanne Tygesdatter sang to the Danish folklore collector Evald
Tang Kristensen in 1873, when during his fieldwork he visited her in
Sammelsted By on Ørre Heath in Western Jutland. Donnimaar is a music and visual arts
project by Marie Kølbæk
Iversen. The title of her first album, Donnimaar.
Vredens Børn, combines the main character Daughter Donnimaar from Æ
Fåwanleng with the title of the novel Vredens Børn ('Children
of Wrath') written in 1904 by Jutlandic writer Jeppe Aakjær. The project is
anchored in the ethnographic material that Tang Kristensen collected on the
West Jutlandic heathlands—among others from Tygesdatter, who was Marie
Kølbæk Iversen's great-great-great-great-grandmother. Donnimaar is a shapeshiftress, and Kølbæk
Iversen's project consists of both live and recorded elements, which are
produced and unfolded through a network of collaborations. Donnimaar. Vredens Børn was released as a digital album at autumn equinox 2021 on the occasion of Soil.
Sickness. Society at Kunsthal Rønnebæksholm. At spring equinox
2022 a vinyl LP was released on the occasion of TED Talks on Acid (TToA) | New
Red Order Presents: One if by Land, Two if by Sea at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
Donnimaar. Vredens Børn was produced in
close collaboration with Katinka Fogh Vindelev and Michael Ejstrup and
released by MoBC Records. The upcoming album is expected late
2024 or early 2025. Donnimaar forms part of Kølbæk
Iversen's practice-based artistic research, informing both her recent
PhD—which she defended in May 2023—and her current post-doctoral research
project, Fælledfuturisme |
Futurities of the Commons, at SMK Thy, 2024 – 2025. Both projects
are realized with the kind support of the Novo Nordisk
Foundation's Mads Øvlisen stipends. Donnimaar traces deep family ties, and Marie Kølbæk Iversen would
like to thank her parents, Margit Kølbæk Iversen and Hans Iversen, her siblings and her extended family—aunts, uncles, and
cousins—for making music and history a living part of our life together.
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The album's five songs relate to a different cultural tradition than the
Protestant Christian and national romantic context of their collection:
They are largely (and in places explicitly) proto-feminist, apocalyptic,
anti-Christian, anti-materialist, and anti-Danish.
Donnimaar
stands on your shoulders.