Melanie Jame Wolf: Mira Fuchs – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Melanie Jame Wolf:
Mira Fuchs
Mira Fuchs is the public face of artist Melanie Jame Wolf’s eightyear private life as a stripper. By drawing on the specific vocabularies of this bodily practice, she questions ideas surrounding gender, sexuality, performative intimacy, and dance as labour.
CHOREOGRAphy, PERFORMANCE Melanie Jame Wolf / Savage Amusement SOUNDDESIGN two4k / Carl Anderson
Duration approx. 60 minutes
With support of Arts House Melbourne.
Photo © Damian Stephens
Melanie Jame Wolf makes artworks, performances, and texts about power, persona, and the phenomenon of “show business”: the persuasive, the deceptive, the staged, and the performed in political, theatrical, and everyday contexts. Her work explores the vulnerability of the live moment and the body as an unruly political riddle. These interests are explored through shape-shifting and play with language in surprising and humorous ways.
Spaces that have presented her work include Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Kunstmuseum Basel – Gegenwart, KW – Institute of Contemporary Art, HAU – Hebbel am Ufer, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, nGbK, Schirn Kunsthalle, The National 2019: New Australian Art biennial, VAEFF - Film Festival NYC, Arts Santa Monica, Schwules Museum, Sophiensæle, Münchner Kammerspiele, Arts House Melbourne, Kasseler Dokfest, KINDL, Bärenwzinger Berlin, SOPHIE TAPPEINER and Institute of Modern Art Brisbane.