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Open enclosures: a woodchopping performance
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Critical StudiesAuthor
Johanna EkenhorstThis performance invokes bodies that chop wood, bodies that break things up, bodies that make links and alliances, both desired and unwanted. Through encounters with neighbours, Disney’s piglet Babe and different (sheep) dogs, it speaks of power and protection, exercises in repetition and ambiguously gendered production processes. Who is really doing the work and what are its consequences?

