L-INKED/Bitch, a perception!
2021-2016 | performance-maker, performer
Current Duration: 45 minutes (8 minutes video installation in the foyer)
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Showing @Altered Affairs Evening
Photo Credit: Violetta Wakolbinger
Labelled-unlabeled, boxed-not boxed, white & black, male & female, good & bad;
The performance "Bitch, a perception" (titled L-INKED until 2019) questions the duality inside the human body and psyche.
The work investigates the act of conscious and unconscious labelling due to the strict criteria available in our knowledge
of words to prejudice and stereotype people.
The research deep dives into the social definitions of a sexual being.
The choreographer-performer Jaskaran Anand understands desire as a formless entity
and believes that desire does not see any definitions or blocks, it just desires. With his performance he questions the society
“Where does the boundary between the 'desire of being in a trance ' and 'the learnt seduction' exists?”
The research deep dives into the social definitions of a sexual being. The choreographer-performer Jaskaran Anand understands desire as a formless entity and believes that desire does not see any definitions or blocks, it just desires. With his performance he questions the society “Where does the boundary between the 'desire of being in a trance ' and 'the learnt seduction' exists?”
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Showing @Altered Affairs Photo Credit: Violetta Wakolbinger
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Showing @RED
Photo Credit: Didi Elena -
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Showing @Altered Affairs Photo Credit: Violetta Wakolbinger
Motivation
Raised in India by my open-minded, forward-thinking parents, I learned that everybody should be treated as you would
treat your own self, regardless of their race, sexuality, gender or class. My mother educated me to reflect on the
deep divide between genders and how they are boxed & codified in the society we live in. She said that patriarchy
wasn’t a friend of anyone and also was not led by any specific gender.
Having various personal experiences in my life around the topic, I realized that objectification is not only for a woman
but also for a man: the topics of the sensitivity of the man, the emotionality of a man, the fluidity in a gender, the duality
in a gender are not appreciated by the normative side of society.
After these personal encounters, I believe that a human’s definition of love and desire is created for and by themselves.
The same definitions are influenced by many factors such as culture, environment, society, personal expectations and
experiences, which in turn, influence the society. Thereby, the project also aims at emphasizing a respectful attitude
towards one’s own self and others’ preoccupations, especially when someone does not fall in “my” definition, as the definition
of the other is equally important for the other as mine is for myself.
I started researching the spiritual, psychological and practical boundaries of myself to understand my own definitions of gender
and sexuality.
Having various personal experiences in my life around the topic, I realized that objectification is not only for a woman but also for a man: the topics of the sensitivity of the man, the emotionality of a man, the fluidity in a gender, the duality in a gender are not appreciated by the normative side of society.
After these personal encounters, I believe that a human’s definition of love and desire is created for and by themselves. The same definitions are influenced by many factors such as culture, environment, society, personal expectations and experiences, which in turn, influence the society. Thereby, the project also aims at emphasizing a respectful attitude towards one’s own self and others’ preoccupations, especially when someone does not fall in “my” definition, as the definition of the other is equally important for the other as mine is for myself.
I started researching the spiritual, psychological and practical boundaries of myself to understand my own definitions of gender and sexuality.
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Showing @RED
Photo Credit: Didi Elena -
Showing @Theater Phönix
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Showing @RED
Photo Credit: Didi Elena
Upcoming dates:
2020
August: Residency @ D.ID Dance identity
Buergenland
Earlier dates:
― RedSapata Linz, 2019
Showings have taken place under :
― Open Space RedSapata , Linz
― under the evening of
Altered Affairs
organized by Karin Harrasser (Kunst university), VALIE EXPORT, Martha Wilson, Julia Scher,
Marie-Luise Angerer, Golden Pixel Cooperative.
― A Thousand Masculinities at Spritzer
Odeon, organized by Philosophy unbound
Panel discussions under:
― DorfTv , Linz
― Open Space RedSapata
, Linz
Showing from 2018:
Review from the
showing in December 2018
The last showing took place in December, 2019
@REDSAPATA TANZFABRIK Linz
Read about: THE TRANSCRIPTION/Appearing in Disappearance
2020
August: Residency @ D.ID Dance identity
Buergenland
Earlier dates:
― RedSapata Linz, 2019
― RedSapata Linz, 2019
Showings have taken place under :
― Open Space RedSapata , Linz
― under the evening of
Altered Affairs
organized by Karin Harrasser (Kunst university), VALIE EXPORT, Martha Wilson, Julia Scher,
Marie-Luise Angerer, Golden Pixel Cooperative.
― A Thousand Masculinities at Spritzer
Odeon, organized by Philosophy unbound
Panel discussions under:
― DorfTv , Linz
― Open Space RedSapata
, Linz
Showing from 2018:
Review from the
showing in December 2018
The last showing took place in December, 2019 @REDSAPATA TANZFABRIK Linz
The last showing took place in December, 2019 @REDSAPATA TANZFABRIK Linz
Read about: THE TRANSCRIPTION/Appearing in Disappearance