RED

RED is a performance-installation that investigates a Northern European Christian legacy as a lived system of control, inscribed in bodies, affects, and ritualised actions. The work does not treat religion as an abstract ideology but as a material, somatic infrastructure—shaping the ways we touch, conceal, order, restrain, and repeat. It asks: how does the body inherit, resist, and transform these disciplined histories?

The performance unfolds as a ritualistic transformation: over the course of the work, the performer’s body is gradually painted red, marking a shift from restraint toward an unsanctioned, excessive, and intensely charged presence. Through choreographic scores, objects, voice, and proximity to the audience, RED brings visibility to qualities often denied or disciplined—desire, anger, softness, strength, and excess—turning the body into both site and agent of resistance.

RED situates the personal within the political, the intimate within the collective. It invites audiences into a space where embodiment, sensuality, and autonomy are felt viscerally, where control and transgression collide, and where ritual becomes a terrain for testing, experimenting, and reclaiming expressive power.a