Nectar & Knives
Nectar & Knives
In unison, seven women perform a ritual fruit cutting ceremony, as an expression of the disembodiment of the female body in order to be more digestible to society. Women cut apart fruit reclaiming entropy as a divine act. While alluding to domesticity, this dance of transformation allows fruit to reflect how destruction can be channeled into transformation.
Nectar & Knives is a part of a larger series of activations entitled, “My Body as the Altar”. The activations explore how we create sanctuary within ourselves, influenced by the Sufi wisdom that there is no altar, no image of the divine, we are the image of the divine, we are the altar.
Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Time Based Art Festival 2017
Choreographed by Alexandria Saleem