Alina Amer
Performance
Intimate gestures tabooed by society, calls of natures hushed by pseudo-decency, look at me in forbidden places, do not throw paper towels in the toilet, be obsessive-compulsively hygiene-oriented, follow the neat instruction and repeat after me as you see my acts through public privacy. A performance in a bathtub in a closed washroom for the purposes of the occasion, reminiscent of childhood manual of instructions of how to be the cleanest one can be only to slide into the insignificance of ges
Performance
Performance
Take your shoes off Can I ask you something please ? Can you stop controlling everything ? Do you feel comfortable in our bed ? Our performance was an experiment of interaction between our intimate place and the public place, a space of intimacy that the four performers shared, four bodies creating an isolation and offering a shelter that one may take or refuse, we were experimenting people’s reactions when they were asked questions outside and inside the private space, we were ourselves and th
