Fit me
Ongoing performance, 2025–
A body lies on a narrow steel bed: too short, too rigid, too exact. Around it, people gather — to witness, to measure, to project. The scene appears simple, almost silent. Yet beneath this stillness unfolds a complex negotiation between seeing and being seen, between care and control, between the nervous system and the social frame.
FIT ME replays the Procrustean myth as an experiment in empathy: a performance that refuses choreography and instead allows the situation to sculpt itself. Each iteration becomes a mirror of its context — academic, clinical, erotic, institutional — revealing how collective space conditions the possibility of presence. The performance is both altar and test-site: how far will one go to make another body fit?
The work dismantles the heroic grammar of endurance art. It negates the Abramović posture of transcendence through pain, replacing spectacle with fragility, rupture, and neurodiverse perception. Here, endurance is not monumental but microscopic: the trembling of breath, the impossible task of letting go while being watched.
To watch is to touch. To breathe is to expose oneself to the gaze. The body of the performer becomes a porous membrane — both object and oracle — through which others encounter their own relation to the image, to ethics, to desire. It is cinema without camera, meditation without solitude, care without mastery.
The piece proposes that every act of attention is an act of shaping. The audience’s affect becomes the material; their hesitation, the choreography. Through this feedback loop of looking and being looked at, FIT ME turns performance into a diagnostic tool for the collective psyche: a space to observe how intimacy collapses into power, and how power can sometimes transform into care.
What happens when the neurodivergent mind — hypersensitive, hyperattuned — becomes the stage itself? What new ethics of perception emerge when every breath is an opening, every gaze a wound? FIT ME asks not to be understood, but to be endured differently: as an act of trust, a meditative failure, a shared collapse of form.
