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How can I dissolve gender norms in Aerial Practices?

AIM: Dissolving myths around feminity to reclaim physical space and challenge normative narratives around gender

Objectives:

1. Explore the dissolution of aerial plastic, mythical (medusa) narrative and edible material (cotton candy) in public space as feminist resistance (residency Zirkuszeit Showing 5.6.)

2. Explore drag creature and monster (Medusa) with costume- elements of edible material (dough, fruits, gum,…)

3. explore site responsive / site specific and interactive/participatory elements on the grounds of TRAP circus centre

4. Literature and theory to feed my practice. Practice to feed my thesis.

(((5. develop a feminist framework of digesting myths through physical + material practices)))

Field: intersection of feminist performance art, circus, environmental artivism, sensorial research. Performance + gender studies, (critical materialism) food studies, mythological re-narration.

3 theories:

performativity - Butler

technology of self – Foucault

political body circus – Lindsay

alimentary performance - Hunt

3 artistic:

Medusa statue

Tiamat painting

Drag king

Urgency: ecological collapse, systemic gender- based violence – this research seeks to re-consider our relation to materials, our bodies and the environment, unlearning toxic myths, proposing alternatives, poetic strategies for reclaim, care and resistance.

Contribution: new dialogues between food, feminist resistance and territorial agency through “material dissolution” as aesthetic, performative and activist act.

Methods:

-          Practice as Research (aerial practice, Food research)

-          Journaling+ blogging

-          Literature review (myths, food, performance, gender, circus, aerial)

Ethical implications:

-          waste production through plastic use

-          food waste, though material use

-          trigger warnings – re-traumatisation,…

How is aerial art, food and feminism connected and what research can I develop from this?

Through my tutorial, the first presentation and feedback session I was confirmed of the idea that I have to deepen the connection point and make more explicit what I already found. I am exploring my body through the intersection of food´s materiality and aerial/ practice, restisting gendernorms. How is my body: female + androgynous. white, abled, lean. What does that mean to the research? How can I amplify aspects through the use of edible material and movement to criticise gendernorms?

AIM:

1.      converge food and feminism

2.      investigate how aerial dance engages with, challenges or reinforces gender norms and representations

3.      build my technical skills in aerial dance and food elaboration.

OBJECTIVES:

1.      Examine relevant literature for food and feminism

2.      Explore aerial art and gender representations

3.      Build a framework to connect aerial art and food through feminism

METHODS:

PaR

Impro + choreographic scores

Literature review

Collective cooking

Question: How can I deconstruct the technologies of aerial dance and food preparation to challenge gender norms?

Why? Because that’s who I am, trained in this technologies + practices pastry + aerial arts + feminist, formed also outside, personal idiosyncratic.  Formed me also outside this technologies

• gap: methodology that intersects the political, sensorial and theoretical through embodied practice. Aerial art and food as genderes technologies not explored together.

• theory: feminist reclaiming agency

  • feminist aerial works?

  • Elias canetti – Masse und Macht (power of food- mother)

  • gender performativity -butler

• artistic:

  • womb of fire Womb of Fire at the Playhouse in Durban

  • medusa´s statue Luciano Garbati

  • Drag creature https://www.jadervision.com/

  • (Tiamat goddess, Thunder Perfect Mind)

Urgency:

• personal: my practices as an aerialist and pastry chef as an AFAB body

• social:

• field: interdisciplinary approach