Caressing
In the context of the continuous attack on our lives and the normalization of increasingly frequent attempts at social fascism that subordinates us to the violence of gender and moral supremacy – those who kneel and pray, the call to caress puts sensation and touch into experiential focus as a feminist act of rebellion and resistance. We placed the intervention of the “affective” in the broader social and spatial context of Peristyle, as the scene of numerous encounters, conflicts and demonstrations of power, dominated by the performances of politicians, artists, fans, supplicants and tourists. Starting from the experiences of multiple asymmetries, especially those of gender, class and status that define our position in relation to the centers of power, with this intervention we questioned the imposed social norms. Combining the critique of power relations in the sphere of artistic work with the critique of social regimes that, deepening the existing asymmetries, continue to subjugate us, we created a tactile, sensory and edible mobilization of the embodiment of defiance and pleasure.
By caressing, accompanied by eat-art poetry in prose, we called for the empowerment of the multi-layered reality of female energies present in us and around us.
