Vidadöd

Performance Art

I have been exhausted, I have suffered, I have crawled

yet I am everything that is as glorious as the euphoria

climaxed through perseverance.

It is a path humanity endures & Vidadöd is a version.

Artwork / Edits by Vidadöd

Polaroid by Andi K @akshootsphotos

The Vidadöd

Performance Art

I have been exhausted, I have suffered

I have crawled yet I am everything

that is as glorious as

the euphoria climaxed through perseverance.

It is a path humanity endures

& VidaDöd is a version.

The Vidadöd Performances birthed in 2017 through a personal rebirth period. These expressions began growing and came to the cathartic artwork ranging from performance art, painting rituals and tattoo sessions. Everything is a representation of experiences, transformation, surrender, strength, death of one, birth of another, acceptance, growth, love.

The first Performance in 2019 was a 3 hour painting ritual, enduring blades, needles and hooks. This was a part of the Exhausting the Body event put on by multiple Body Modifcation artists and Performance artists, many from around the world.

Since then there has been a variety of performances and rituals all across Europe. These include hook suspension, needles, blood, emotive and contemporary dance, painting rituals and more.

The current performances lean into dance movement as a journey, the voice is used, blood and grace.

It has always been the intention of Vidadöd to present elegance, beauty, softness and raw emotion alongside the more extreme blood and piercings acts, often with cathartic creams and tears. A journey that reminds us through perserverance and acceptance of pain comes growth, reflection, beuaty and peace. In a society and world where so much pain yields us, yet these emotions and notions are not deemed socially acceptable to express, we must move to art forms of expression to relate and release. We must find our own rituals and spaces to safely unleash the practise of truth. Unmasking of the ego, unmasking of the day to day, unmasking of the coping, grinding, surviving, and even thriving of capitalist life.

I reflect into my own pain, my own traumas,

my own restless madness-ness of the mind,

& use it as fuel to carry my performance & energy through to every & each soul who joins to witness.

I thank those who join me, always, as it is in the moment of our togetherness,

our energy & our collective humanness

that allows me to manifest each time,

what comes up inside of me, what I can release & hopefully curate for others

a moment of connection & catharsis.