Live performance, 35 min, 2023

Commissioned for Roskilde Festival, Denmark, July 2023.

Installation, 30 mins, looped, 2023

Painted steel and Perspex structure, three channel HD video, three channel audio, variable lighting, aluminium frames, miscellaneous props

Live performance, 30 min, 2023

The performances had variable starting and end points

Is This All There Is

Artist's studio desk during first year studying at the Royal Academy Schools

69 x 183 cm, 2019

Ring Ring

Digital print on curtains

340 x 240 cm

Shown as part of RA Schools Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London, June 2023.

The single 'Radical' was released in conjunction with the show.

HD Video, 3 min 25 sec, 2020

Screened at CIRCA x Dazed Class of 2022, Piccadilly Circus, London, September 2022

and at Roskilde Festival, Main Stage, Denmark, July 2023.

Live performance, 25 min, 2022

Performed at Open Studios, Royal Academy of Arts, London, November 2022

and at within Guendalina Cerruti's exhibition Ohh... Youth!, V.O Curations, London, November 2022.

Circumbendibus chronicles the killing off and eventual resurrection of a former alter ego, and elaborated on criticism she received and the artist's own frustration with the narcissistic character. Working from a script for the first time, Blum embodied a range of voices and roles using monologue and song. She also laments a period of renovations she underwent at her flat, and of the unfortunate encounters with ‘the BOYS’, thinking through gender stereotypes, heteronormative queerness, false binaries, and dust.

Dust which settles on literally every surface, ends up in every god damn crack, in my hair, in her lungs, all over the house, FOR EVER AND ALL ETERNITY. 

A mixtape containing live recordings of the tracks written for ‘Circumbendibus’ was released in early 2023.

The annotated performance script was published as an A5 publication, edition of 50. Email to purchase one (£25).

74 unique objects: folded, printed T-shirts, recycled polyester jersey, 2022

Exhibited at Premiums 3, Royal Academy of Arts, London, March 2022.

All 74 items were available to purchase on www.daria.land

Live performance, 8 min, 2022

Performed at Premiums 3, Royal Academy of Arts, London, March 2022.

In conjunction with the performance, the cover song 'If You Could Read My Mind' was released, originally written and performed by Gordon Lightfoot.

Live performance, 25 min, 2022

Performed as part of the closing party for Louis Morlæ's exhibition Machinochrome Dreams, Rose Easton, London, February 2022.

Live performance, 45 min, 2021

Performed at The Averard Hotel, London, October 2021.

Curated by John Hodgkinson

Baby I've been lonely, I've been missing you

A single line from the song 'I've Been Missing You', which Blum wrote during the height of the pandemic, is chanted repeatedly, looped and layered over itself. Her multiple voices begin to harmonize, and the melancholy verse swells into a euphoric hymn inside the unconsecrated Fitzrovia Chapel, as loneliness becomes an experience witnessed together.

Live performance, 8 min, 2021

Performed at DISCO, Fitzrovia Chapel, London, August 2021.

Video of performance here

Hello, you rat.

Did you know this wooden table is from our old kitchen?

I’m going to make a stew.

It just has to make sense to me, somehow. I’m going to get one of those rabbits in Sempach.

They’re getting that Urbrot again at the health food store in Zug, I’ll go get it on Tuesday.

For the Brotanussa?

A recipe book is definitely a good idea.

Just come by ... There’ll be something to eat.

I’ll be here if you need me.

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Exhibition and two evenings of food and drink, in collaboration with Julian Blum
Ahoi, Lucerne, Switzerland, August 2020.

Look.   At.   These.   Beans.

Would you   ...   just   ...   

   lookatthesebeans

Look at them !!!

Live performance, 15 min, 2019

Performed at RA Open Studios, London, November 2019

and at Hold On, The Koppel Project, London, January 2020.

"QUAGGA took place in a large industrial building, including spaces once part of our mother’s former ballet school. The impending demolition of the nearly 100-year-old structure being a catalyst for both our practices over recent years, we presented new, collaborative works created within the historical site. Through the use of video, sound and performance, site-specific installation, and large-scale photography prints, we attempted to revive past scenarios and imagined narratives played out within the space."

Sculpture, installation, live performance, video, photography, in collaboration with Julian Blum, 2019

Shown at Neustadtstrasse 24a, Lucerne, Switzerland, March 2019.