Human
Nature

- Year
- 2022
- Status
- ARCHIVED
performance documentation




// PERFORMANCE TEXT // RESEARCH
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.