Uses of the Erotic (WT)
Showing
by
Daria Iuriichuk
In her essay «Uses Of The Erotic. The Erotic as Power», Audre Lorde claims that “(t)he erotic is a resource within each of us”. She states that
we all are taught to separate the erotic demand from the most vital areas of our lives, other than sex.
How the Erotic could be revisited as apower and an activist practice? During her residency at Tanzfabrik BÜHNE, Daria Iuriichuk explores how the erotic is used in culture in many forms, being a tool of political seduction, othering, empowerment and a way of sustaining life.
Drawing on iconic images from art history and pop culture the showing invites to an erotic cruise through a play of gazes, utopian visions and moments of togetherness. What pleasures keep you alive?
Information on accessibility will be published here 2 weeks before the showing.
we all are taught to separate the erotic demand from the most vital areas of our lives, other than sex.
How the Erotic could be revisited as apower and an activist practice? During her residency at Tanzfabrik BÜHNE, Daria Iuriichuk explores how the erotic is used in culture in many forms, being a tool of political seduction, othering, empowerment and a way of sustaining life.
Drawing on iconic images from art history and pop culture the showing invites to an erotic cruise through a play of gazes, utopian visions and moments of togetherness. What pleasures keep you alive?
Information on accessibility will be published here 2 weeks before the showing.
Daria Iuriichuk
Daria Iuriichuk (she/her) is a dance artist, researcher and educator from Moscow based in Berlin. She works in the fields of visual and performance studies, with a particular focus on political dimensions of performativity, infrastructural critics and body politics within the various economic regimes. In 2023 she received Research Funding from the Fonds Darstellende Künste for the artistic research of the genealogy of the body tracking systems. At Tanzfabrik Berlin BÜHNE residency Daria develops a project on the political roles of the Erotics. Her works have been presented in the MyWildFlag festival (Stockholm), neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK, Berlin), Hellerau Europäisches Zentrum der Künste (Dresden), H0 Institut für Metamorphose festival (Zürich), Meyerhold Theatre Center (Moscow). From 2019 to 2022 she was a member and a co-founder of the media activist collective Kafe-Morozhenoe dealing with labour politics in art and academia.
Duration: 60 minutes
Tickets: Admission free / First come first served / No registration neccessary
Tickets: Admission free / First come first served / No registration neccessary
Concept, Choreography, Performance: Daria Iuriichuk
The concept development and artistic research are supported by ON/OFF residency (ProHelvetia), Fellowship-Programm “Weltoffenes Berlin“ (Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt) and Tanzfabrik Berlin. Special thanks to Miriam Coretta Schulte, Polina Fenko, Ekaterina Kaliuzhnaia, Ada Mukhina, Maria Sarycheva and all my interviewees.