Chakra Gang Bang (2018)
Chakra Gang Bang—a durational performative installation imagined and created to occupy the 7 nuclear shelters of Arsenic—stages 7 contemporary situations imagined according to the Eastern chakra system, an ancestral system of specific energy centres situated along the spine. Authentic Boys draws inspiration from their theoretical essence in order to transpose them into contemporary Western marketing signs. If they were slogans, they would name them thus: security, porn, workout, coaching, communication, leadership and immortality.
Chakra Gang Bang was performed on 20 & 21 November 2018 at Arsenic Lausanne
Concept: Authentic Boys (Gregory Stauffer, Johannes Dullin, Aaike Stuart, Boris van Hoof)
Direction: Aaike Stuart and Gregory Stauffer
Performance: Louna Rachel Basler, Nadia Beugré, Julia Bihl, Alexia Casciaro, Johannes Dullin, Adrian Filip, Bastien Hippocrate and Nora Moser
Video: Aaike Stuart, Boris van Hoof, Gregory Stauffer, Lionel Haubois and Filipe Pascoal
Documentation: Cynthia Mai Ammann (photography) and Boris van Hoof (video)
Sound and light: technical team of Arsenic
Administration: Pauline Coppée – Tutu production
Production: Le Cabinet des Curiosités
Co-production: Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain
Support: Fondation Nestlé pour l’Art