{"id":2889,"date":"2024-08-18T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fabyc.co.uk\/?p=2889"},"modified":"2025-09-08T11:59:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:59:44","slug":"revisions-to-spite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fabyc.co.uk\/index.php\/revisions-to-spite\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisions to Spite"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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Revisions to Spite<\/em> is a durational performance exploring the violent constructions of gender, desire, and social expectation through deliberate acts of self-transformation. The work begins with the performer reclining on a red couch, adorned in a matching red dress, pink face mask, and glittering silver heels, their chest exaggerated with prosthetic breasts. Two large kitchen knives become extensions of their body – instruments of both threat and precision.<\/p>\n

The performance unfolds as a systematic dismantling of feminine artifice. The performer’s breathing becomes labored, theatrical, as they begin cutting away their dress with surgical precision, each slice bringing the blade dangerously close to skin. The revelation of a bra stuffed with raw meat ribs transforms the feminine form into something visceral and abject. Wine poured over their head creates a baptism of sorts – a christening into “dirtiness” that society projects onto certain bodies.<\/p>\n

The removal of the face mask exposes grotesque plastic lips and a mouth reduced to void, which the performer fills with cucumber before slicing it away with knife strokes that blur the line between self-care and self-harm. The raw meat ribs become a crown, a parody of both feminine adornment and masculine conquest.<\/p>\n

The final transformation sees the performer methodically constructing masculine presentation – pink scarf replaced by white blouse, wine-sticky skin concealed beneath blazer and tie. The “manning-up” sequence becomes both costume change and social ritual, revealing gender as performance requiring constant revision.<\/p>\n

Through these deliberate acts of spite against societal expectations, Fabyc creates a space where the violence inherent in gender construction becomes visible, asking what bodies must endure to fit within acceptable presentations of self.<\/p>\n

Duration: Approximately 45 minutes<\/em> Materials: Kitchen knives, raw meat, wine, clothing, prosthetics<\/em> Documentation: Video, photography<\/em><\/p>\n

Venue P(art)y Here and Now Festival Courthouse Gallery Ennistymon Ireland<\/em><\/p>\n

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