TOMATO — CHOU Kuan Jou

— You will never look at tomatoes in the same way again.

Our brain is our genitals, it controls our lust.
Lust doesn’t mean pure desire or the act of sex.
It is the thing that surrounds and lingers around sex.
And the material that lingers is our sexualised body.

Lust and desire take centre stage in a canny, capricious combination of live performance and live-camera documentation. This enticingly tasty work is an absurdly funny expression of dancer-choreographer Chou Kuan-Jou’s ongoing interest in the sexualised body from a feminist perspective.

Rib-tickling, cheeky and provocative, this work sees the artist and collaborators – aided by a box of ripe and shapely tomatoes – explore sex, gender and lust.

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什麼是情慾？如果情慾不是色情，不是受精行為，那是什麼?

準備好衛生紙

噴湧汁液不怕髒只怕你擦不乾淨

帶著踰越的心 愉悅的身體

可窺探可凝視也可以遮眼睛

《TOMATO》從不同的性別身體出發，去探索各種情慾的方式。

鮮紅果實作為情慾、性別身體、性別認知等象徵，藉由身體與之時而倒置、時而抗衡的權力關係，與其動態所產生的想像去探問「情慾為何」的同時，也梳理我們的性/性別如何在我們所處的社會被建構。舞作從此認知出發，或許延續其發展、或許打破，甚至反其道而行，將肉身與物的性實踐舞蹈化，試圖抽象的打破「人與物」既有的身體符號。

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Choreographer: CHOU Kuan Jou

Performers: CHOU Kuan Jou, NG Chi Wai and Zito Tseng

Lighting Designer and Stage Manager: YANG Yu-Chieh

Video and Technical Designer: LO Yu-Chen

Presented by Dancehouse and Melbourne Fringe. Fringe Focus Taiwan is supported by The Ministry of Culture, Republic of China (Taiwan), and Cultural Division, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Sydney.