Fat Talk
Artist Talk with Katharina Bill & Jordan Tanner, Canan Venzky, Linus Wirth (Strassentauben Kollektiv)
Part of SOLO – Festival für künstlerische Alleingänge
After the showing of their performance project »Fat Fucks,« ↗ Jordan Tanner, Linus Wirth and Canan Venzky from the Strassentauben Kollektiv will meet the performer, director, mediator, and fat activist Katharina Bill in the artists’ talk »Fat Talk.«
Katharina Bill will present her long-term project »Fatsuit,« in which she explores the performativity of body fat, normative conventions of representation and their consequences. The project is comprised of historical research on the genesis of the fat suit, conversations with costume designers on how it is made, and a reflection on the contextualization of the fat suit in our theater and film landscape. It is part of a longer project that deals with bodies, their imitation and the phenomenon of dressing in fat bodies in a fat-phobic environment. Katharina also hosts the podcast »FETT – über die Sichtbarkeit dicker Körper auf Bühne und Screen« (FAT – on the visibility of fat bodies on stage and on screen).