15 min

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Performed at SOZO vim, Kassel (DE)

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Concept: Salla Talvikki Nieminen

Performance: Hannah Breuker, Huong Tran Thi Tam, Stephanie Schmidt

Photos: Karl-Heinz Mierke

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Description:

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(L)on(e)ly Ones is a performance about being a woman and performing being a woman. It shows a painful and heroic attempt to perform the role of the ideal woman while revealing the difficulty of both the task and letting go of it.

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The performance lasts 15 minutes. The task of the performers is to embody and maintain a (stereotypical) ideal of feminine beauty for this time. It is impossible; it is more than a body can handle. The postures start to collapse, the ice cream melts, the coffee spills. When the ideal wears off, realness appears.

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Performed by three women, one plant, one ice cream and one coffee cup, (L)on(e)ly Ones is a subtle refusal to being perfect.