KICKOUT — ivchan

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^{_{Collaborative Performance at M+ HK

Initiated by Eaton, HK

Concept, set and costume by IV Chan,

Dance by Jas Lin,

Music by Alexmalism}}
A staged fight ritual for unlearning the choreographies inscribed in our learned bodies. Utilizing the spectacle of professional wrestling as a theatre in the round, the match transforms the ring into a site of exorcism, where movement becomes a means of collective somatic release. The Chameleon, a shapeshifting trickster performed by Jas Lin, wields their queer fluidity as a weapon of survival and transformation against The Monster, an enormous soft sculpture created by IV Chan and animated by audience contributions to become a physical embodiment of internalized surveillance and inherited structural forces. Through biomimicry and wrestling movements, the sport performance art becomes a site for reclaiming queer bodily autonomy, with sound artist Alexmalism as the match’s sonic referee. KICKOUT offers an invitation to wrestle with our own conditioning and reimagine what liberation might feel like in the flesh.

^{_{Performance consists of 3 chapters :

1/ First introduction dance by Chameleon + Monster in the boxing ring

2/ Audiences’ written answers to our questions will be contributed and inserted inside the body of Monster.

3/ Chameleon final fight dance with Monster in the boxing ring}}

^{_{Photo Credit : Eaton, HK}}

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