200 Imperfect fingers modelled on a full-body soft armour
are pointing at someone… is that you?
“I wonder if nothing happened tomorrow” replies the dog.
Sterre’s work gives value to the devalued, both aesthetically and conceptually. Emerging as a monstrous femme creature with rotating manicured fingers and accompanied by a talking cyborg dog, the artist makes room for exploring and exploding the power structures that silently – although violently – regulate our lives.
We are asked to get closer… but do we really want to talk?
Quirky intimacy between the performer and the public is enacted as a method to confront our anxieties around normalcy and look into what most frightens or excites us. As the public interacts unconventionally with the desired object – an ‘unnatural’ body – also our notions of ‘heterosexual alignment’, integrity and wellness fall apart and reveal themselves as criticisable fictions.
When approaching this tentacular entity, the binarisms speech/non-speech, human/monster,nature/cyborg,life/death, (wo)man/animal, dynamism/stasis are troubled and dismantled. These debris allow for an autonomous, affectively charged time and space to emerge and alter our personal lived experiences and collective consciousness. Abjection and desire are at work in this moment to analyse our own preconceived understandings and perceptions of sexual desire and power dynamics.
In here, we can let go.
Text written by Giulia Casalini - PHD candidate Feminist Live Art at the University of Roehampton
are pointing at someone… is that you?
“I wonder if nothing happened tomorrow” replies the dog.
Sterre’s work gives value to the devalued, both aesthetically and conceptually. Emerging as a monstrous femme creature with rotating manicured fingers and accompanied by a talking cyborg dog, the artist makes room for exploring and exploding the power structures that silently – although violently – regulate our lives.
We are asked to get closer… but do we really want to talk?
Quirky intimacy between the performer and the public is enacted as a method to confront our anxieties around normalcy and look into what most frightens or excites us. As the public interacts unconventionally with the desired object – an ‘unnatural’ body – also our notions of ‘heterosexual alignment’, integrity and wellness fall apart and reveal themselves as criticisable fictions.
When approaching this tentacular entity, the binarisms speech/non-speech, human/monster,nature/cyborg,life/death, (wo)man/animal, dynamism/stasis are troubled and dismantled. These debris allow for an autonomous, affectively charged time and space to emerge and alter our personal lived experiences and collective consciousness. Abjection and desire are at work in this moment to analyse our own preconceived understandings and perceptions of sexual desire and power dynamics.
In here, we can let go.
Text written by Giulia Casalini - PHD candidate Feminist Live Art at the University of Roehampton