Abstract
The performance „Venus wants you rotten“ explores the topics of corporality, sexuality and desire but also discomfort and experiences of objectification and violence that are
connected to sexuality as a female-socialized non-binary person in a male dominated, binary narrative of sex and body.
The starting picture of the performance is a recreation of Botticellis Venus painting, but in a trashy way. In the first scene I will sit in the plastic shell looking at the audience and let the audience look at me. In a second scene I will read a text, afterwards I will crawl out of the shell. The perfomance ends in a scene of movements, which incarnates certain stereotypical gendered movements and poses, and ends in a sort of creature-like deconstructed dance.