Performances:
CHART Art Fair, Copenhagen, 2024
Organ Vida, Zagreb, 2024 (upcoming in September)
Anabolic Spectacle is a 25 min solo performance in the form of a feverish eruption of identity construction. It’s a textual overload, drawing inspiration from the language of men’s online magazines, dreamlike imagery, and a violent process of strategic mastering of one’s own body. It seeks to articulate a labyrinthe of fantasies, restless nights and the impact of the categorical gaze on a non-normative body, comparing the audience’s gaze to the scrutinizing stares in public spaces.
The performance sees the transmasculine body as an incompatible territory for hegemonic masculine narratives – a realm where the capitalist ideals of the optimized self begin to crumble. Anabolic Spectacle is a collaborative creation between performance artist Teo Ala-Ruona and dramaturg Even Minn.
Concept, text and performance: Teo Ala-Ruona
Dramaturgy: Even Minn
Production: CHART Art Fair, Teo Ala-Ruona
Premiere: CHART Art Fair, Copenhagen, August 2024
Supported by: Kone Foundation