A butoh performance on a table, which is covered with organic material and objects. Opposite myself is a torso cast made from my body, which throughout the performance come to and we begin to mirror one another.

The performance is an investigation of the relationship between meat and matter, the organic and inorganic material that shape our lives, the objects that imprint themselves on us and give us meaning, and in turn the subject that this interaction creates. The performance also considers the act of displaying oneself, of the female body as an object of consumption, and breaking the normative representation of the female body onstage. It considers the grotesque, experiences of discomfort, and the idea of consent not only within the social contract, but between the performer and the audience. The torso performs what can be considered a reverse autopsy, in which the internal is externalised, and begins to interrogate the introspector.

I used again a notational butoh image based on a Japanese spirit, the Noppera-bō, which looks like a human but has no face.

You open the drawers in your chest and find some objects which seem to be yours. You sit opposite the noppera-bō. The noppera-bō inhabits you. Another noppera-bō sits opposite you. It takes your face, swallowing it into its drawers. You go over and open the drawers, trying to find your old face. You find it full of strange objects.