Afgang 2025: Jacob Kaarsberg

Lipbalm

Lipbalm’s performance merges music, video, poetry, and drama.

The work navigates the emotional tension between global crises and the numbing stream
of information in everyday life.

The performance explores how, within this tension, senses blur — confusing the sources
of ill-fated imageries.

Confusing instagram-feeds with dream with reality, hurt with longing, the intimate with
the political, a love letter with a raging manifest.

The performance becomes a collage of emotion, a gesture that moves through
weltschmerz, compassion fatigue and, in the face of alienation and resignation, it moves
toward a collective intimacy. Towards love, despite.

The live show is accompanied by a narrative video essay composed of phone footage,
internet samples, scripted scenes, and fragments of text.

On stage: strings, saxophones, electronics, voices, and visuals.