Lewd Banquet
2024
She chews, crunches, slurps, screams, sings, whispers, and moans….
Through an erotic, sensual, and visceral listening experience of compost plated on a banquet table, Kexin unfolds intimate relationships and proximities between our bodies and the discarded residues of what we eat.
Borrowing from ASMR mukbang—a genre of online eating show in which a host consumes food and amplifies the sounds of eating and drinking to trigger a viewer’s autonomous sensory meridian response—Kexin immerses visitors in a four-course meal and guides them into a world where guts morph into worms and tongues fondle soil. Titled Lewd Banquet, here the human digestive system, culinary routines, and sexual rituals intermingle with decomposing processes and compost organisms.
The aural feast is accompanied by a toast: “Canon of Filth,” where haunting waves of melodies imitate, follow, and delay one another. As staggered voices harmonize over one another, the canon begins to resemble layers of compost and the synchronization between our intestinal and the extrinsic realms. Touring in rounds of dissonance, it celebrates the unwholesome and brings us ever closer to the dead, the rotten, and the underground, where we make life, where we make love.
The performance consists of a vocal piece that borrows from ASMR mukbang (eating shows in which the host amplifies the sounds of eating to trigger a viewer’s autonomous sensory meridian response), live singing, and electronic music.
work credits:
- supported by Jan van Eyck Academie
- costume: Bastian Fisch
- music produced by: RADVLAD
- sound design in space: Matteo Marangoni
- concept, text, visual, song writting, vocals by Kexin Hao
