Performance — Duration: 2 hours
During the performance, I sliced my fingers and repeatedly fastened and unfastened the top button of my white shirt. With my hand exposed and covered in blood, I extended it toward the audience. Initially, fear was visible in people’s eyes. Gradually, something shifted. People of different ages began to approach and shake my hand. What first appeared as a shocking image transformed into a moment of openness and shared presence.
Capitalistic Uniform questions the illusion of freedom of choice by exposing what is usually concealed. The formal gesture of a handshake is recontextualized as an act of stillness, vulnerability, and collective experience. The work tests mental and emotional limits, provoking heightened awareness and allowing transformation to emerge through direct human encounter.
Emotion In Motion
Erasing Borders
2016 Revolve. Performance Art Days. Uppsala konstmuseum, Drottning Christinas väg 1E, 752 37 Uppsala, SE
After two hours, when I lost a lot of blood and the body became totally exhausted I started to move. In the middle of the other room, we met and stood in a four-meter distance gazing at each other’s eyes, slowly starting to move towards each other. The energy in the room retransformed. Yuki saw me and tiers came out of his eyes. I stood feeling exhausted, breathing slowly and feeling just the last energy left in my body, no thoughts just breath.
This was the moment we found each other’s energy as a pillar for one another and carried on exploring this deeper. After the exhibition we wrote and addressed questions that I believe are so relevant in today’s world of crisis: what is the true meaning of being here and now, how do we represent this for the future as humans of the world?
Body is our Passport,
Body is our Identification,
Body is our Identity.
We want the body to be free from gender or nationality limits. We make live work happening in the moment of doing in order to seek a stronger human connection to the real world. There’s a need to redefine body as an object, gender and human relations between two bodies, branding, advertising, commercialization of art, the artists’ need to self-sacrifice, inveterate structures and definitions once again. Challenge the entirety of technological and commercial cybernetic culture, social media and online imagery. With our performance work, we seek to address questions of human condition in historical, political and cultural fields, search for new methods of identification in the current world’s situation of crisis.
Holding Position
