Performance Anxiety: Part I and II

when: launch 16 March 2023 and 9 May 2023

where: verse.works

artists: Part 1: Alfacenttauri, Auriea Harvey, Hardmetacore, Martina Menegon, Tabitha Swanson

Part 2: Saeko Ehara, Ellie Pritts, Kika Nicolela and Aun Helden

"How can we come together in solidarity?" asks Legacy Russell in Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto, "It is our responsibility collectively to infect...to make impossible pathways viable as all else circuits towards a triggered collapse."

Digital space offers the potential for a recalibration. In digital, many rules are suspended and others are easily broken. This presents an opportunity to challenge the restrictive social, political and cultural discourses associated with the body and to step outside the tidy boxes we are expected to fill. It’s a space in which we can assert our presence, reclaiming the body to distort tired narratives. Performance Anxiety features women and non-binary artists whose progressive work is connected to the body and to identity. The artists reassess our expectations of the human figure and of gender and consider the permeable boundary that exists between ourselves and technology. They embrace the liberation to be found in digital space. They harness the opportunity to subvert the mainstream and create a new disruptive dialogue with the body as their battleground.

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