Fist Piece

Premiered 20th August 2017 at Kraftwerk, Berlin.

Dealing with the inherent brutality and fluidity of feminised experience, Fist Piece is a performance work built for stage. Taking on the role of narrator, the artist engages in an improvised performance in dialogue with live music and a three-channel film installation featuring herself and her mother. Over the course of the performance, the artist explores multiple personas, at once playful yet fragile, intimate yet violent. A twist in the narrative occurs when she is joined on stage by a second person, acting as the protagonist’s double. Fist Piece is a visually vivid and sonically emphatic exposition of the artist’s personal understanding of trauma. While leaving open the possibility of transformation, it seeks to communicate and explain the idea of ​​pain in a universal way. Since its premiere at Kraftwerk Berlin, it has been performed internationally at venues and festivals including Barbican Center and Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.