Current Commons (Collaboration for Vincent Becher Master Graduation) Performance, 4h00’’, @Royal Academy of Antwerp, June 2025
Current Commons (Collaboration for Vincent Becher Master Graduation) Performance, 4h00’’, @Royal Academy of Antwerp, June 2025
‘‘The performance, a collaboration with artist and performer Ethan Lieutet Khnafo (Ethan LK), explores the body as a vessel of resistance. The performer rubs himself with sunflower oil — a reference to an archival photograph accompanied by a text by an unknown author: ‘Poetry demands the immediate abolition of property / The communal feeding of all / The erection of cities of light, wildness and 150,000 circuses / & the introduction of progressive unemployment.’ This text hangs above the stage on which the performer stands, pointing to the struggle for visibility and ownership within queer history’’
Article Extract featured in Metropolis M, number 4, 2025.