JUICE

In 1820, the nineteen-year-old Madame Lefort was preparing for her exhibition as an «irresistible attraction». She is described as a «perfect blending» of the sexes. Over the next hundred years, medicine will declare inter* people from a biological phenomenon to an anatomical impossibility. Expert opinion after expert opinion will dissect, analyse and ultimately make the existence of inter* people impossible. One hundred years after Madame Lefort's appearance, the Louvre in Paris draws a spell around a statue entitled The Sleeping Hermaphrodite. The young god - and namesake for inter* persons until the 20th century - had been touched so often in secret that his contours faded. 
For «JUICE,» River Roux enters a transparent space. The eyes that are directed at her can rarely decide between desire and disgust, between lust and shame. Surrounded by an audience, she becomes an exhibit, the observer and the desired. Roux uses fragments from medical reports, press reports, court judgements, myths and pop culture to examine the fascination with bodies in the «in-betwee», «JUICE» is a border crossing, as much an exhibition as self-empowerment. In her solo performance, the performer confronts the desire to categorise and searches for an existence beyond the fetish. 

River Roux is a performance artist and theatre maker. Her first theatre production, Lola Arias' Happy Nights, was created at Theater Bremen. River Roux studied photography at the University of Brighton in England. From 2021 to 2023, Roux was part of the Berlin Strippers Collective, a queer dance and performance collective that works predominantly in nightlife and performs feminist interventions for cultural institutions. Roux has worked in over ten professions, was a stripper and carpenter, and addresses the connections between work, care, gender and sex in her work.

Following the performance on 8.5 there will be a discussion with the artists at 22:00.