#ShapeME

“Become the strongest version of yourself. Be your own guru. The body achieves what the mind believes. It always hurts before it gets better”

HipSick operates at the intersection of performance and installation art. #ShapeME is a performative installation that deals with different perspectives on the virtual identity. After PUPPIES FOR SALE, the trilogy Some Say Morality is Negotiable continues with #ShapeME. This part emphasizes the performer’s own relationship to the fabricated real, the makeability of the body, and the psychological effects these concepts have on us. Does your life matter if you don’t continuously show it off online? If others can’t see how fit you are and how perfect your skin looks?

About HipSick

HipSick operates at the intersection of performance and installation art. The work often starts from a fascination with Western visual culture, normativity, and the night. Contemporary social topics are approached from different perspectives, decontextualized and abstracted, which results in performances that aim to destabilize the viewer's perception. The collective is known for extremely visual, brutal performances, artistic rawness and confrontational, personal subjects. HipSick has an unique movement idiom, in which the body and the physical endurance of the performer is central.

Credits

Idea & performance	Nadîja Roza Broekhart
Concept	Sylvia Weening, Nadîja Roza Broekhart, Diederik Kreike
Dramaturgy	Sylvia Weening
Choreography	Leo Spreksel
Music, light design, technician	Stefan Julizar
Video and projection	Diederik Kreike
Personal Trainer	Desteny van der Horst
Installation	Jeroen Molenaar
Decor	M met de Zaag
Costume	Sylvia Weening, Nadîja Roza Broekhart
Special thanks to	Linda Ammerlaan
Supported by	VSBfonds, NORMA fonds, Van der Mandele Stichting, Kickstart Cultuurfond, Gemeente Rotterdam, Stichting Bevordering van Volkskracht, Stichting Droom en Daad, Stichting Elise Mathilde, Fonds Erasmusstichting