In First Person is a trans life project consisting of three singular pieces that function apart while simultaneously creating one coherent work. This music video was created during the production of In First Person: The House [Digital] in Bergen, August 2020. The second and third part follows in September and October, IRL in Bergen.

Karmaklubb* is honoured of sharing the greatness as part of an ongoing collaboration with Daniel and 71BODIES (ESP/NOR). Watch, learn, reflect, and enjoy! This is pleasures for the whole body.

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In First Person: The House [Digital] was a ten-day live event 4–8 and 11–15 August 2020 streamed from different locations in and around Bergen, every day from 19:00 to 20:00 CEST. Through dance, performance, film, and personal stories created and performed by a cast of ten transgender protagonists, the project aims to give space and visibility to personal transgender experiences by elaborate and deepen the discussions about gender identity, collective transgender history, and social norms. The project is initiated by Bergen based performer Daniel Mariblanca in collaboration with filmmaker Ursula Kaufmann and starring Barry de Bruin (NLD), Bart Bloem Herraiz (SWE), Christer André Gudmundsdottir (NOR), Isak Bradley (NOR), Joakim Eide (NOR), Judith Juanhuix (CAT), Koyote Millar (GBR/NOR), Silje-Håvard Bolstad (NOR), and Tonje Havstad (NOR).

In First Person is a multidisciplinary artistic project initiated and produced by Daniel Mariblanca (ESP/NOR) / 71BODIES (ESP/NOR) in collaboration with various artists, such as the filmmaker Ursula Kaufmann (ESP), Kjersti Alm Eriksen, Thomas Bruvik, and Florian Hofer. Through exploring and connecting different art forms with research and academic perspectives, the project gives space and visibility to personal transgender experiences with the aim to elaborate and deepen discussions about gender identity, collective transgender history and social norms. The project is consisting of three singular pieces that function apart while simultaneously creating one coherent work: The House [Digital], The Festival (Litteraturhuset, Bergen, 17 September; Kunsthall 3,14 and KRAFT, Bergen, 18–19 September), and The Dance (Studio Bergen, 24–25 October). ↗︎ More info on ↗︎ In First Person ↗︎ here.

A further presentation of ↗︎ The House [Digital] ↗︎ and the protagonists here. More on ↗︎ In First Person and all the editions, here. General info on the beauty of ↗︎ 71BODIES — click here.

“I was born in a society that told me my body was wrong. […] I was born in a society that told me how to walk, how to sit, how to smile, how to be, how to shit, how to wake up, have to make up, how to love, how to hate, how to fuck […]’