My Racist Body - Performing and Deconstructing the Implicit Bias
Category: Research | Role: Researcher, Performer, Coordinator | Venues: Theaterhaus Berlin Mitte, Living Rooms
My Racist Body is the first of three research projects subsumed under the title "The Biased Body". With this endeavor, I wanted to apply a performative magnifier to investigate the body's role in racist behaviour. Everything started with a scenario: A black and a white body cross the road from opposite sides, meeting randomly in the middle. It is this brief moment of immediate reaction that I wanted to extend and exaggerate.
Over the course of the project, I interviewed white people as well as BIPoC to find out what they perceived to be the racist score. How does the nonverbal side of behaviour racialize the body of a stranger? What are the reflexes that produce exclusion?
I took an Implicit Bias Test and filmed myself simutaneosly. This is an excerpt of my physical (facial) response while answering the questions.
Supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funding from the Federal Government for Culture and the Media within the framework of NEUSTART KULTUR.
