<"(((<3 Wet words and Tinder bios <"(((<3

participatory performance 
in collaboration with Loïs Soleil
about 35 min
2023

This work was developed for a performance event at IKLECTIK as a part of the Performance Art Curatorial Fellowship of Valentina Peri.

The performance brings people together to extend the understanding of how love can be portrayed, putting care at the center of a multiplicity of relationship(s). 
Drawing from hydro feminist thinking, as all living bodies are bodies of water and interrelated, as one body of water givesto another. And in that sharing, a question of care, responsibility and interdependence arises. Taking care beyond the relationship of human dating and extending care into another multiplicity of relationships, sound emerges through touch and movement of the hydrophones, looper, and a poetry reading collecting Tinder bios, as a means of questioning the relationship between love, desire, dating and technology and denouncing everyday sexism online. In the end, the participants are invited to destroy fragments of our words by leaving them in the water to dissolve.

Text printed by Martin Lemaire.