In case of emergency (fight like a man)
2022
boxing performance (approx. 15 min)
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz (GER)
boxing ︎︎︎
PERFORM MASCULINITY! HEAD BUT TO THE FACE. VOICE UP. IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY, DROP A JOKE!
The artist-boxer investigates cases of one’s excessive fear while activating self-defense mechanisms, to survive and create visibility. Followed by the emergency speech, boxing embodies an independent, fearless fighter. While shouting ‘‘Pull your skirt towards your knees! Fight like a man! ’’, she gives the instruction both to the audience and herself, changing the contexts of the fight by boxing in different public spaces. The artist-in-defense fights the commodities, fears, and masculinity, inevitably, within the cultural procedure, as the consequence of both laboring and existing in a capitalist system.
DU KANNST DAS TRAGEN, group exhibition at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz (GER) / Photo: Yavor Minchev