The Starchild – A Performative experiment.
The Starchild is part of The Starchild Project, that consist of a row of performative pieces circulating on the topic Transnational Adoption as modern colonization.
The starchild is pain.
Investigates Gravity, Stars, Coloniality, Fragility, Flesh and Pain.
Concept and performative figure: Yong Sun Gullach
Photos by Mayra Navarette.
Video by Motion Vizual, Mario Samuel Scharff
A female figure draped in white silk. Her body pierced with needles, attached with large transparent spherical objects, each filled with items and objects carrying a colonial reference linked to the global East. The female figure attempts to move the body and objects in a room without harming her skin, that might be easily torn by the needles. She pulls silk threads from her dress to bind herself to the audience. A balance between the visual aesthetics and bodily discomfort, a balance between stereotypical projections and body reality.
The performance aims to investigate the ritual-burden that the colonized body experience by attaching objects that hinders a balance and movement. The experiment investigates the material, the audience and the body that leave traces – a bodily mark-a scar- scarification. The tactility of the materials both shapes and carry a clear reference to the colonization of Southeast and East Asia focusing on the female body and the commodification of her womb and sexuality.
Presented at:
- Documented at liveart.dk 2019
- 3D/360 installation based upon live performance, “Threshold(s)”, curated by Temi Odumosu, Camp 2019 – read Friktion’s review.
- The Performance Art Festival Transistors Meetings, Warehouse 9, Copenhagen 6th of October 2018
- Gallery |meter|, curated by Hvid[mə] Archive, Copenhagen 10th of June 2017