Performing: Elena Zanzu
EZ is a project about vulnerability, negotiation, consent and care. It explores the power dynamics and the pact in place between artist and audience.
What happens when a human body is consensually tied and manipulated on stage? What reactions – physical, emotional and cognitive – occur in a person manipulated, in a person who manipulates and in a person who observes the manipulation?
Is there space for care? Can we laugh? Is it a ritual?
Questioning binarisms such as activity/passivity, domination/submission, man/woman, pain/pleasure, artist/audience, EZ invites the generation of safe(r) spaces. ez –which means no in Basque – is an invitation to a yes , which is only possible when a no is also an option.