Turtleyou!
“The turtle should be fat and as fresh as possible - alive and kicking”
Turtleyou! is a visual, grotesque and associative solo-performance about meat, in the broad sense of the word. It can be understood as a movement-based staging of the real recipe "turtle-soup", from the old Norwegian cookbook Stor kogebog, and uses a mixture of choreography, spoken and recorded text, video projections, and sound.
By letting the visual material change between illustrating and contrasting the recipe-text does the meaning of the words open up and different subtexts appear. The recipe becomes a sort of springboard from which the audiences associations can expand, and move towards aspects such violence, power, meat-consumption, human/animal dualism, objectification, and gender. Turtleyou! is among others inspired by the book The Sexual Politics of Meat: a feminist-vegetarian critical theory, by Carol J. Adams. Created and performed by Annika Vestel. Sound by Cha Blasco. 20.30 - 21.00 on 29th August at Warehouse9 |
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