CUNSTRUCTION #MattMiwa "Desperado" (2020)

Overview

Presented at HTMLLes Biannual Festival hosted by Studio XX in Montreal – performance artists Les666, Amy Ede, and Matt Miwa explored the ideas about rebuilding a new world from a feminist or matriarchal perspective. In this installation video – Matt Miwa cuntstructs his new cat suit out of garbage bags – his questions for Cuntstruction included “Why can’t we just build everything out of garbage?” was put to test. At the time of this production, in our context we were confronted with a lot of popular media issues in the USA #MeToo movement and at the end he sings “Desperado” to lure the white male elite to their senses.

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