Excerpts of Diva Vulva (2015)

DIVA VULVA - Body as a Symbol of Capitalism Finland in 2015 lives in the middle of a capitalistic spectacle. This spectacle is also an environment of power. Power produces images and lives in these images. Money produces money and images create more images. Together they produce bodies, how to recognize, live and represent bodies. Does democracy actualize for everyone: women, immigrants, gender and sexual minorities, marginalized, disabled? Power is gendered. The gender of power is heteronormativity. “Capitalism intervenes the body and molds it: with pleasure. Are pleasure and consumption just secular things, which will bring an end to the transcendental beliefs? No. Pleasure and consumption remind a religious mystery, a transcendental principe, the mystery church for centuries transmitted to people, telling what is this world and this reality they live in. The transition of pleasure and consumption into lifestyle didn’t leave the locus of the transcendental principal empty. Now the principal of pleasure and spectacle is in that locus. It tells people what is the world they live in, what are its meanings, what a person should seek after in life and what is his reality.” – Sanna Kekäläinen. Script, text, choreography and space: Sanna Kekäläinen Performance: Sanna Kekäläinen and Satu Rekola Production management, graphic design, video: Lilja Lehmuskallio Production: K&C Kekäläinen & Company www. kekalainencompany.net