Her name is HypoKrisia
Surfacing HypoKrisia unfolds as a series of performative acts that attempt to summon a speculative, myth-like figure: HypoKrisia. Imagined by Trier as the forgotten younger sister of Tiresias, the oracle from Greek mythology, HypoKrisia emerges as both fiction and force, a presence that reshapes how resilience and identity are understood.
According to the classical myth, Tiresias sees two snakes twisting together while mating. Disturbed by what he does not understand, he strikes the female snake and is transformed by Hera into a woman. In Trier’s reimagining, both Tiresias and HypoKrisia can be read as trans figures. But HypoKrisia does not move toward a final form. She stays in-between. She chooses to exist in a state of being unfinished, always not becoming. HypoKrisia is cast as dangerous, ungraspable, and ultimately erased. Like the snake, she is fluid and elusive, shedding skins, slipping through narrative control. The performance acts as an invocation, a gesture of calling her back from beneath the surface where she has long been suppressed.
About Charlie Laban Trier
Charlie Laban Trier (b. 1987, Denmark) is a performing artist who chooses to situate his practice deep within the domain of dance, although the dance often manifests in other forms, such as: screams from the depths of the soul that turn into songs, text sampling, costumes becoming endless, wearing and caring for screens, extreme sculptural headbanging, and more. He views dance as inherently messy, slippery, and emergent a form of knowledge that resists readability.
Life as a trans person is another important teacher in his thinking and approach to his work. Charlie views being trans, just like dance, as a technology that helps him complicate material. It makes it possible to embody multiple images, seduce spectators, and switch fluidly between forms.
He is currently investigating practices of collective myth-making, hoping to stimulate conversations that resist fixed meanings and invite a repositioning of the hero/center.
