Oh! That’s Cute! - video performance
In this performance, I delve into the spectrum of cuteness—its emotional and interpersonal dimensions, and the body language it entangles—while displaying/playing with some of its characteristic elements. Questions of how solitude and desire are represented under this aesthetic category are present throughout the piece. Changing abruptly from binary emotions like happy/cute/dominant to sad/vulnerable/submissive helps me translate some of the ideas behind what it means to be cute under late capitalism and how (if possible) we can find some potential in a type of cuteness that escapes being tokenized and can help in the building of an expanding kinship.
This piece was presented in:
✦ 2023 - OT1 - Amsterdam - The Netherlands
✦ 2021 - Post-Theater - Arnhem - The Netherlands