AOI: Afraid of I //
- a solo on male performativity by I B R A H I M Q U R A I S I H I
- performance: D I E G O N A N T E
- music: D I V A L A S T I C
- cow skins & costumes : A Z I Z
AOI: Afraid of I //
Watching a performing man executing the codes of a lost profession. Watching the iconography of a male icon in his coded sphere. Men in uniform engaged with violence cannot afford to be constricted or spend time drifting elaborately. The willingness to live on the edge requires the eagerness to cultivate for its own sake an erotic enhancing acuity, a new morbidity with a new physicality. “If only there would be fighting again, If I only could face dangers now, If only I could risk my life, could fight forever, it would be an eternal relief.” What if the endless violence, the cows and horses disappear? What is left of the codes when other norms of violence take over? What is left of the melancholy songs and those legendary lonely nights? Farewell cowboys, the world doesn’t need you anymore. Lets dance!
Afraid of I, is an performative analysis of the structures that influences how we see the performer, his codes and the dance. It is a solo for a male performer on the last remains of cowboy-ism.
