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I embody a female, white skinned, avarage hight body, multiple herniated disks, brown hair. As a performing artist this is a fact that I ALWAYS have to consider as it delivers a message that needs to be consciously presented. I believe it is impossible NOT to make the performing body, part of the content of the art work. Performing is communicating. As the first Axiom of Paul Watzlawick says "one cannot not communicate" I therefore am convinced that one cannot not perform. The Performativity as Judtih Butler refers to the gender as social constructs, identity representation and beauty standards one is exposed to. The decision on how I as a performer handle those themes can be enforcing or confronting, but I will always have some kind of treatment of the body in relation to the social ideas and therefore of the political in performance.
All bodies are political and so all performances are inherently political aswell.
The body not only is flesh and bones, as a physical container but also holds emotions, experiences and the memories that add up to the identity presented and percieved by the other(s). The beauty industry uses the insecurities of how (especially older) women should behave and look like. The manipulation of stereotypical beauty to create the urge to buy and enforce capitalism is just another shade of the battle that I fight (on and off stage) against patriarchy. (read: Now it's official: the entire beauty industry is built on the peddling of pernicious nonsense | Sam Leith | The Guardian)
In my performances I question beauty, the body I live with and what that means on a personal and social level. I am young, but also I have multiple herniated disks, chonic pain, I survived sexual violence and my case was dropped, as many others. All these experiences add up not only to the person and the body I perform but also influence the topics and views that I show in my performances.
All bodies are political and so all performances are inherently political aswell.
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