| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-12-16T17:09:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-12-16T17:09:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-05 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2077/37780 | |
| dc.language.iso | other | sv |
| dc.subject | Performativity | sv |
| dc.subject | Political | sv |
| dc.subject | Activism | sv |
| dc.subject | Time | sv |
| dc.subject | Queer | sv |
| dc.subject | Resistance | sv |
| dc.subject | Body | sv |
| dc.subject | Theatre | sv |
| dc.subject | Live Work | sv |
| dc.subject | Artist Writings | sv |
| dc.subject | Queer Masculinity | sv |
| dc.subject | Trust | sv |
| dc.subject | Commitment | sv |
| dc.subject | Site-specificity, | sv |
| dc.subject | Play | sv |
| dc.subject | Violence | sv |
| dc.title | Performing Fighting Cocks | sv |
| dc.type.svep | artistic work | |
| dc.contributor.creator | Coble, Mary | |
| art.relation.publishedIn | Printed in Teater 1 hardcopy edition | sv |
| art.description.project | Performing Fighting Cocks elicits Coble’s live performance Fighting Cocks that took place in 2011 as part of Commitment Issues, a night of performances curated by artist Jess Dobkins for the FADO Performance Art Network in Toronto, Canada. The site -specific 3 hour performance took place in Oasis Aqualounge (an upscale sex club).
Fighting Cocks is the investigation and reenactment of the dynamics of violence, play and masculinity in a site that typically offers no space for other than a normative expression of gender and an over accentuation of behaviors that are a result of that.
Two bodies, both performing queer masculinities, meet in a locker room and play out the ritual of snapping towels. When a towel is snapped there is pain inflicted and a mark left on another’s flesh whom, on their behalf, has to prove that they can take it.
It is a double play of dominance and endurance.
Continuing this beyond a realistic degree this conventional confirmation of masculinity and means of bullying is gradually deconstructed and new meanings are constructed based on the queering of the locker room as a symbolic site. The performance is a humanizing mimicry of a cockfight where the birds are conditioned for strength, stamina and trauma. | sv |
| art.description.summary | Performing Fighting Cocks is a text piece written by Coble, commissioned for the Danish theatre publication Teater 1 for the May 2013 Issue: Bodies in Theatre and Performance. This was part of an ongoing series where performance artist are asked to examine their working process, discuss their research and reflect upon performance in collaboration with theorist, writers and other artists. | sv |
| art.relation.uri | http://www.teater1.dk | sv |
| art.relation.uri | www.marycoble.com | sv |
| art.relation.uri | https://vimeo.com/37943253 | |
| art.relation.uri | http://www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=gallery&id=99 | |
| art.relation.uri | http://marycoble.com/performances-installations/fighting-cocks-2011 | |
