Lise Ulvedahl Carlsen (b. 1994, Maribo, Denmark) is an interdisciplinary queer performance artist who expresses herself with her body as subject and the camera as a secondary frame. She works with topics as sexual taboo, mental health and spoken language with her own body as her main tool. Ulvedahl explores crossing the lines between erotica, destructivity and pleasure for the patriarchy, topics that she approaches through different alter-egos that has outline in her own professional and private experiences. Lise has a BA in Moving Images from Filmkunstskolen I Kabelvåg and a MA in Fine Arts from The University of Bergen. She has a background in lingustics and finished af BA in French language, culture and literature in 2018. Her primary media is film, performance and music.
Lise Ulvedahl's primary medias is performance and film, but she also explores installation, sound and photography. She has great experience in film production both as cast and behind the camera and has experience as executive producer, set-manager and assistant to director. She is also active as a musician under her alias OCTOPUSSY PRIME.
She has exhibited and performed her work at galleries and art spaces such as Bergen Kunsthall (NO), Bergen Kjøtt (NO), Pride Art (DK), Projektrum 16 (DK) Rønnebæksholm (DK), Grønnegades Kaserne (DK), KBH+ (DK), Willumsen Museum (DK), VEKTA (NO), Blank Space (NO), Teatret Kristiansand (NO) and ØN (NO). Further more she has screened her film at Arctic Moving Images Festival (2019), Ji.hlava IDDF (2019), Tromsø International Film Festival (2021), Pust Uka (2021), Bergen Kunsthall (2023), Projektrum 16 (DK, 2023) and Pride Art (DK, 2023).
Photo: Agnes Juul Dinesen, 2024
