Baby, I'm Sick Tonight

In the organizer's words:

From the perspective of a queer woman of color with chronic illness, Olivia Hyunsin Kim experiments with the format of stand-up comedy. Together with other chronically ill artists, she is looking for forms of self-empowering humor.

Current discourses critical of capitalism often romanticize or simplify people with chronic illnesses. They are read as resistant bodies that counter capitalism - for example through other temporalities or the failure of expected productivity - while aspects such as constant pain or the necessity of crip time, for example, are ignored.

Together with her team, Olivia Hyunsin Kim uses dance and narrative to counter stigmatization and prejudice against artists with invisible disabilities or people who are falsely read as healthy. In doing so, the artists use the means of stand-up, pop and performance in a radically unruly and humorous way to connect the cultural history of hysteria, today's treatment of sick FLINTA*s and the body images of the contemporary dance scene, among other things.

Price information:

Solidarity pricing system, University of Marburg students free