Between 2018-2020, I lived in Aarhus and had the pleasure to perform at PERFORMANCErum, “an association that wants to create a space for performance art in Aarhus. PERFORMANCErum is a place where innovative and experimental performance art can live, and where there is room to test the practical and theoretical limits of the art form”.
Here’s documentation of 2 performances I have done for 2 for their performancerum editions happening every month.
(2018) TRIBUTE TO NEZAKET EKICI "Emotion in motion (2001)": Externalizing (self) Love
A tribute to the performance artist Nezaket Ekici’s “Emotion in Motion” famous piece.
A performer dressed in white puts different coloured lipstick on and proceeds to kiss a large white piece of paper canvas set onto a wall. I was inspired by the simplicity of this piece in communicating what I was reading back then as Audre Lordean uses of the erotic
Performed at Rum46, Aarhus
photo documentation courtesy of PerformanceRum
Emotion in Motion by Nezaket EkiciPerformance
Milan, 2002
Hair cities is a collection of performative canvas-sculptures made of synthetic, used/ new, twisted, and braided hair. The concept exists in different mediums, from an image in a canvas onto material mapped in a gallery.
(2018) hair cities, performancerum, Aarhus
The action: a performer (body_hacker) removes their braids and positions them in a mapped out room. The image below is a map speaking of the pluralist body navigating racial class journeys and patriarchal capitalism. There are three main boxes: capitalist imposter syndrome, my comfort zone, and multitudes of being.
There is an attempt to write an equation:
human -commodity=
multitudes - commodity =
human + commodity =
?
The performer dies their hair in blue.
This was a very early and careful attempt to articulate body politics within a capitalist and elitist art field. I wonder what I was reading back then.
mixed photo collage
