Jo Bannon – We Are Fucked

We Are Fucked is a new performance work by artist Jo Bannon exploring desire, sexuality and neoliberalism. It interrogates the modern feminist experience of personal, psychological and political penetration.

We are Fucked is a melodramatic opera, an ode to hard work.

Soft flesh contends with hard metal as vibrating bodies and hysterical voices attempt to unseat the hidden interior of anxiety, daily exertion and relentless penetration.

We see three women as fucking objects. In a relentless game of in and out, up and down, push and pull, stuttering arias, they are constructing a power house. They are women, winning.

As they vibrate, our gaze on them is shaken, each time we look, what we’re seeing shifts. The room quakes with the force of these vibrations until we imagine they might just be strong enough to topple patriarchy from its precarious perch. It is both ecstatic and excruciating, euphoric and unforgiving.

Jo Bannon is a UK artist making live art and performance. She has presented work in the UK, Europe, South America and Australia including the Barbican, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Arnolfini, Itau Cultural Brazil, Battersea Arts Centre, PAD Mainz and the National Theatre. She is a founder member of artist collective Residence.