One day while walking in a pine forest, I found myself hitting a branch against a tree, and it struck me that this action had a strong resonance with the act of flogging, a common BDSM practice and a personal passion.
Humans in the capitalocene are imbricated with Earth in ways that mix deep love, material dependance, the basic violence of existing in a food chain, and the horrific violence of unbridled extraction. I began to wonder if the affects of BDSM might be a particularly powerful lens to look at the relationship between humans and their ecosystems.
The solo Deep Cuts will deal in the sensations and body states of erotic violence. Rather than engaging in the imagery of BDSM that one might associate with certain costumes, objects, or aesthetics, I engage with the body of BDSM, the body that generously receives or doles out pain, and the states of anger, ecstasy, and exhaustion that might come with it. The body of Deep Cuts is a body that hits - hits itself, hits objects, hits the floor, hits the furniture, hits to get angry, hits to get percussive.
I am interested in a state between pleasure and rage, which I experienced while hitting this tree, and which I have also experienced on the dance floor, in a wrestling match, while flogging a lover, and while running through the forest. Concept and performance Bryan Campbell. Light design and scenography Bruno Faucher. Sound design Aria de la Celle.
Guitar Geoffrey le Gouaziou. Assistant to the creation Oscar Houtin. Latin translation Marion Dapsens. Music Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphonie No. Administration and production Charlotte Giteau. Production Sandrine Barrasso. Open studios. April 28, - Kunstencentrum Buda, Courtrai Belgium.
