Passive Aggressive 3 (Public Relations) performed at Maureen Paley, London
In this 10 minute performance was made in collaboration with Edward Thomasson. A male performer invites a group of younger white men to play out a fantasy of vulnerability; enacting violence on his body without touching it. It was first performed at Camden Arts Centre in London and was part of a series of works which explored passive agressivity as as a kind of everyday theatrical power-play couched in forms of avoidance, where politeness is a means of obscuring hidden violent and aggressive feelings.
The perfomance series was performed at Tate Britain, Maureen Paley London and other theatre and museum spaces between 2014–17. Often involving the live construction of sound, these performances are largely choreographic and consider what happens when language fails as a mode of communication and people are left to use their bodies collectively as a means of
transformation.
Watch full performance here: