„[...] Motta’s theoretical constructs are crystalline, but the work shimmers when clearly sited in bodies. Idea becomes engorged form in a carved stone cock (Untitled, date unknown), almost punishing in its phallic force, to be used in the imagined sex rituals of a disappeared civilisation.“ artreview.com
Disziplin und jede Menge Mut
„Für die nicht-binäre, genderqueere Wahlberliner_in Jam Rostron alias Planningtorock war das Spiel mit verschiedenen Rollen und Geschlechtern, die Maskierung und gleichzeitige Demaskierung, jahrelang vor allem Überlebensstrategie. Ein zäher Abnutzungskampf, den sie vor allem für sich selbst bestritten. Nun hat Rostron allerdings einen Durchbruch zu vermelden [...]“ spex.de
How real can you be?
„I feel like boychild’s performance is like that too: the things about pop and spectacle and fantasy which are why we’re all wrapped up in that kind of culture production, but also the feeling in our bodies and ourselves of being grounded on the earth, hurting in pain, suffering.“ sleek-mag.com
Body as a concept
„Highlighting the vagina as an emblem of womanhood, Maria’s performance questions normative gender roles and forces an intimate, unashamed engagement with the physical organ itself. Often censored, condemned, controlled and rarely represented at close range, the vagina remains taboo, vulgar and obscene, both in the art world and in the mainstream media.“ culturestories.co
