QUESTIONS FOR A SON, FOR A FATHER, FOR AN AUDIENCE, FOR A WORLD (2022)
T wants to perform with his 18 month old child E. Faltered by the ethical pitfalls of what it might mean to implicate his non-consenting toddler in a performance, the thought lingers on.
T wants to ask E some big questions.
How do you like coming into this world in the midst of a pandemic?
Will you have satisfying relationships and encounters?
How do you feel to be born male in the 2020’s?
Will you contribute to positive shifts in male-ness?
What would that mean?
Do you feel you have a gender?
Are you going to stick with it?
How do you reckon with the privileges that you have inherited?
How do you deal with the patriarchal and colonising structures that bring us here?
Is this earth beyond repair?
Can we ever really reconcile the scope of damage that we humans have created?
What’s the point of it all - what are we all to do here?
What’s on the other side of this existence?
Is it worth the wait?
E on the other hand is compelled to crawl, roll, wrestle, climb, run, sing and make buzzing noises.
In search of a middle ground, T evokes the spirit of E in the form of a lone-performance
drawing on an imaginary dialogue between song, utterance and play
T wants to perform with his 18 month old child E. Faltered by the ethical pitfalls of what it might mean to implicate his non-consenting toddler in a performance, the thought lingers on.
T wants to ask E some big questions.
How do you like coming into this world in the midst of a pandemic?
Will you have satisfying relationships and encounters?
How do you feel to be born male in the 2020’s?
Will you contribute to positive shifts in male-ness?
What would that mean?
Do you feel you have a gender?
Are you going to stick with it?
How do you reckon with the privileges that you have inherited?
How do you deal with the patriarchal and colonising structures that bring us here?
Is this earth beyond repair?
Can we ever really reconcile the scope of damage that we humans have created?
What’s the point of it all - what are we all to do here?
What’s on the other side of this existence?
Is it worth the wait?
E on the other hand is compelled to crawl, roll, wrestle, climb, run, sing and make buzzing noises.
In search of a middle ground, T evokes the spirit of E in the form of a lone-performance
drawing on an imaginary dialogue between song, utterance and play
