15/03/2024
Caroline Beach is a German based, Texas born choreographer, performance artist and occasional musician who is best described as a cartoon artist working in the wrong medium. She has made work for a multitude of spaces including theaters, galleries, off-spaces, the Internet, and most recently, a media storage closet. Her work is not at the intersection of anything but rather looks at practicing meaning-making in the contested space between the arbitrary and the profund, the living and the living dead. She is interested in technology as human, the politics of nonsense, internet horror micro-genres, dance as dissociation as activation, and synthesis through pop logic.
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Swan Song
April 6th, 2024
EXGIRLFRIEND
Lankwitzerstrasse 14 12107
Performance @18:00
EXGIRLFRIEND back gallery
“ALL HAIRCUTS ARE SACRED”, 2024
is a performance that offers small contracts of transformation. From its vital roots to split ends, hair encodes personal history and ferries this information between the living and the dead. A haircut then is a chore, a ritual, an indulgence, an exorcism: the necessary shedding of self. In order to address not only the physical but the spiritual accumulation of dead tissue, the hair cutters make use of a range of real and invented tools. Conversation, hair reiki, shaving sound baths, and analogue scissors can all rid one of oneself, that is, if you know how to negotiate. Both the one cutting and the one getting cut must work together as mediums in order to disentangle desire from all the other voices in the room. Looking at the undervaluing of “feminised labor” and the disparities of transactional care, this performance seeks to create a space where every gesture no matter how arbitrary could be exactly the right one, and therefore all haircuts are sacred.
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