Eisa Jocson & Venuri Perera - Magic Maids

In the organizer's words:

Both archetypal female figures, "the witch" and "the domestic servant", are poles of the same misogynist matrix - despised and feared at the same time. In a solemn and sly incantation, "Magic Maids" exposes the intertwining of the history of European witch-hunts with global networks of care work and the exploitation of the colonized female body. The international artists Eisa Jocson and Venuri Perera have collected the unheard stories of care workers in the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Indonesia, the echoes of which now haunt their bodies. "Magic Maids" is both a ritual and a dance performance: by embodying the ambivalent female figures, the dancers swear themselves and the audience against the invisibility of care work and structures that despise women. In an evening of dance, magic and struggle, the broom no longer symbolizes oppression, but feminist resistance. This content has been machine translated.