Are you feeling lost and confused? Are you looking for a way to recast yourself in the name of a substance that only changes but never dies? Are you ready to ЯƎSPAWN? Welcome to a procedure that promises to initiate you in the accursed journey of self-alteration.27-28/2 ● Doors 18:30 ● On stage 19:00 ● 45 Min● ENG
ЯƎSPAWN is a host-assisted solo performance staged as a covert restorative procedure. The work probes contemporary conspiracy theories in which sex, gender, and self-identification have been recast as shadowy battlegrounds for persuasion, coercion, and ideological control. As the work emerges from a subject position that has been repeatedly targeted and mythologized by these movements, ЯƎSPAWN blasphemously confronts the aesthetic and psychological horrors these theories generate, reanimating them as a Frankensteinian amalgam of lived paradox.
Because if the conspiracist is right—if the practices of altering one’s identity, form, or sex truly trace back to ancient esoteric priesthoods, then it seems that the alteration of the self is an unstoppable substance that wanders, occupying whatever body it pleases, passing from beast into human being—a substance that only changes but never dies.
BIO
Ruby Nilsson (SE/DK, b. 1993) is an artist and writer whose work investigates the sexual dimensions of subjectivation. Through performance, curation, and writing, she explores the theories and conspiracies that shape our understanding of sex as an integral part of both social culture and the self.
She is the founder of the expansive performance project ‘Center of Unseen Trans Survival’ (C.U.T.S.) and her performances and curatorial projects have been presented at venues such as GIBCA, Warehouse9, Norbergfestival, Index – The Contemporary Swedish Art Foundation, Konsthall C, My Wild Flag, Skånes Konstförening, Bikubenfonden, VEGA, Fylkingen and more.
Alongside her artistic practice, she teaches the summer course ‘Text as an Artistic Medium’ at The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, and contributes writing to publications such as Bastard and Paletten Art Journal.
Ruby is educated at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2019-2025).
CREDS
Directed and written by Ruby Nilsson
Scenography: Ruby Nilsson (den här behöver du nog egentligen inte ens ha med)
Performer: Liza Tegel
Video and animation: Jacob Habinc
Make-up/Special effects: Emma Eastop
Light design: Will Zawistowski
String score: Aase Nielsen
Sound design: Hannes Ferm
Event Venue
Bergsgatan 29, 214 22 Malmö, Sweden, Bergsgatan 29, SE-214 22 Malmö, Sverige, Malmö, Sweden
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