Performance band Metafloora got invited to throw a gig in Oksasenkatu 11 gallery space after their phenomenal debut at Mad House a year ago. Unfortunately, a small inconvenience has occurred – the band has broken up – and is now under heavy construction.

“I was a pop star. I was a band member. I was an entertainer. I was promising young a super-hyper-mega-hot star who just wanted to be looked at. To be admired. To be liked. Was that too much to ask for?”
 

Metafloora invites its audience for a visit to a construction site of objectification ceremonies.

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Capitalism makes us all different kinds of objects and tools with various functions under its rules. The main goal is to make people, but also animals, land, nature, et cetera as efficient as possible. The act of objectification can be treating a person as an object or a thing. Usually, we have been trained to see objects or to be seen as objects through white-hetero-able-bodied-cis-(male)-gaze. Finding different ways to see and be with others around us needs to be deconstructed. We want to try to playfully rebuild our objectified bodies in front of your eyes and be constantly under construction.

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What can we experience by objectifying ourselves? What can we find by surrendering to the objectifying gaze? Or by challenging it? How can we, by intentionally re-objectifying us, create a construction site of imagination, collectivity, transformations, grief, loss and change?

“I did not want to become anything else than what I already was. But what was I?”