From the perspective of a queer woman of color with chronic illness, Olivia Hyunsin Kim experiments with the format of stand-up comedy. In collaboration with other chronically ill artists, she is looking for forms of self-empowering humor.
Current discourses critical of capitalism often depict people with chronic illnesses in a romanticized or simplified way. They are read as resistant bodies that counteract capitalism – for example through different temporalities or failure of expected productivity – while aspects such as constant pain or the necessity of crip time, for example, are ignored.
Together with her team, Olivia Hyunsin Kim uses dance and narrative to counter stigmatization and prejudice against artists with invisible disabilities or people who are falsely read as healthy. The artists use the means of stand-up, pop and performance in a radically unruly and humorous way to connect the cultural history of hysteria, today’s treatment of sick female queer people and the body images of the contemporary dance scene, among other things.
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◎ Place & Date:
▶ Worldpremiere , Sophiensæle Berlin, 25th of April at 20:00
▶ Further Shows Sophiensæle Berlin, 26th – 27th of April at 20:00 and 28th of April at 18:00
+28.04.2024 | Performance with German audio description. The preceding tactile tour takes place from 17:00 to 17:30.
+All performances with interpretation of spoken language in German Sign Language and sound and music can be visually and haptically sensed.
+All performances take place as Relaxed Performances.
◎ Credit
▶ ARTISTIC DIRECTION, CHOREOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE: Olivia Hyunsin Kim
▶ COSTUME & STAGE: Kristin Gerwien
▶ SOUND ENVIRONMENT: Martyna Poznańska
▶ LIGHT, VIDEO: Jones Seitz
▶TECH DIRECTION: gefährliche arbeit
▶ DRAMATURGY: Marielle Schavan
▶ ACCESS CONSULTING: Hyemi Jolee
▶ PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT: ehrliche arbeit – freelance cultural office
▶ STAGE & PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE: Luca Plaumann
▶ LIGHT FOAM OBJECT: Susanna Alonso and Jones Seitz
▶ HYSTERICAL CHOIR: Dornika Kazerani, Yvonne Sembene, Jill B. Suffner
▶ INTERPRETATION IN GERMAN SIGN LANGUAGE(DGS): Hyemi Jolee, Aniella Tiedje
▶ AUDIO DESCRIPTION IN TANDEM: Swantje Henke, Gerald Pirner
▶ A production by ddanddarakim in coproduction with Sophiensæle. Funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds. Media partners: Siegessäule and taz
Olivia Hyunsin Kim/ddanddarakim 