a body of work is just a body
centre for the arts rupert, 2025, vilnius
I tattooed my father around 25 times in the span of 2 years. As I poked and punctured his skin, it answered with questions:
What does it mean to apply, again and again, the result of my labour unto my father’s flesh?
How does the queer imagery of my drawings translate to the surface of his straight social body?
What is unfolding in our analogous transitions?
Is this what allyship looks like?
Trust, ego, boundaries.
Touch, pain, satisfaction.
As Ì create my creator, I become sure of one thing: every alteration goes both way.
A body of work is just a body
was created during Rupert’s Alternative Education Program, 2025 and performed during the closing event‘The Secretary, the Shaman, the Scholar, the Lobbyist, the Publicist, and the Virtuoso’
.The 30’ reading is divided in 5 chapters, and framed by a musical intro and outro. I composed two songs, Flesh takes, and The meaning of warmth, as a first attempt to integrate music and open up spaces of play around orality in my performative work.
A body of work is just a body
is a project that began when I was invited to take part in the organisation and programmation of Tattoo Marathon, a 3-day assembly of people to practice tattoo as a queer community health technology. With community tattooing, we aim to take control over our bodies, our experiences of pain and pleasure, and our approaches to harm reduction.Tattoo Marathon took place in the Athens Museum of Queer Art on 13-15.09.2023. On this occasion, a first draft of the text was born. Ouranos translated it to Greek and we both read it alternately, as the night fell on the garden of AMOQA.