she/her
Film Stills
‘https://rb.gy/tv0jzq‘ is a short film which addresses the existence of sexism online, fostered by the manosphere. It shows the reaction from a female perspective to comments on a YouTube post, where she transcribes them directly onto her body which leave stains; a metaphor for the emotional labour and fall out from informing an audience of such sensitive matters.
The film is a remaster of the live performance, Bagger (2025), where it took just 82 minutes to cover an entire female body with sexist comments found online. Taking place in a replica of a domestic environment highlights the accessibility to such comments, not to mention being on a ‘family-friendly’ platform like YouTube.
The live, interactive performance which inspired the short film where the body was covered with comments found on a similar post. Audience members were also encouraged to help cover the body, being passed the pen and phone to transcribe the comments themselves- allowing them to see what the performer was seeing.
The performance acted as a test to merely see how long it would take, whereas the film is a rendition of that, curated and remastered into something much more comprehensible and compact.
The colour red holds significance in my practice for its complex symbolism. Red itself represents both love and hate, passion and anger and luck and danger. Its complexities resemble my relationship to being a woman.
The process of the stains fading is documented through photographs, captured day-to-day showing the removal process. This acts as a reflection on the emotional labour which takes place in order for the work to be produced.
