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Human

Nature

Human Nature
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2022
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Human Nature dismantles the contract of striptease. Instead of staging revelation as reward, it stages exposure as the starting condition and asks what it means to be seen before one has consented to the terms of looking. The performance moves from nakedness toward clothing, reversing the expected arc not as a gimmick but as a critique: concealment becomes an active construction of agency, a slow claiming of boundaries in a culture that treats the queer body as available.
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BDSM iconography—leather, chains, restraints, a gag ball—appears alongside pop references, most pointedly Madonna’s Erotica and Human Nature. But sexuality here is not offered as spectacle or confession. It is treated as a field of power: a place where pleasure, discipline, and visibility collide. The work asks who controls exposure, who benefits from it, and how queer bodies are trained to perform legibility under demand.

As clothing accumulates, it carries language that has historically been used to injure: slurs, insults, verbal wounds turned into material. These words are not presented as trauma content; they are presented as evidence—marks of a social order that names the queer body through contempt and expects the body to absorb it quietly. Worn on the surface, the insult is stripped of stealth. The costume becomes both archive and shield, injury and strategy.

A surveillance-like live feed runs in parallel, making the gaze literal. The audience is implicated not only as witness but as operator: watcher, evaluator, consumer. The performance does not let the viewer remain innocent. It forces the question of entitlement—what kind of access is being assumed, and what “release” is being expected from the body onstage.

performances

2022-09-03
Human Nature//@ Galeria Labirynt, Lublin
2022-06-12
Human Nature//@ Kino Muranów, Warsaw / Post Pxrn Film Festival Warsaw
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