Nika is Dead (2002)

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Nika is Dead was the last installation of the Twin Life project. It revolved around Nika's staged death and resurrection, at times a seemingly insolvable murder mystery and at others, a requiem in memory of her life. The performance evolved over a period of ten days and was open to the public at all times. Ten performers occupied ten rooms in an abandoned industrial building playing day and night. The performance also featured audio and video installation, photography and relics.

Visitors were given the opportunity to journey through the rooms of Nika is Dead in many different ways. They met with the performers, read discarded letters and looked at photographs. Others walked the installation, observing how it progressed from day to day. Some shared meals with the inhabitants, staying overnight as if holding a vigil for Nika.

Date: 10th to 20th of October 2002, nonstop
Place: Old industrial rooms in the ground floor of Njalsgade 17 – 27 (now demolished), Copenhagen, Denmark

"With Nika is Dead, Signa Sørensen has extended a work which more than everything else in the present radiates presence."
- Janus Kodal, Politiken

"Exploring Signa Sørensen's new performance installation 'Nika is Dead' is both puzzling, challenging and utterly fascinating. A highly daring game in which the audience is in direct dialogue with the performers and becomes part of an inseparable mixture of reality and fiction."
- Vibeke Wern, Berlingske Tidende