BABY I'M SICK TONIGHT

From the perspective of a queer woman of color with chronic illness, Olivia Hyunsin Kim experiments with the format of stand-up comedy. In collaboration with other chronically ill artists, she is looking for forms of self-empowering humor.

Current discourses critical of capitalism often depict people with chronic illnesses in a romanticized or simplified way. They are read as resistant bodies that counteract capitalism – for example through different temporalities or failure of expected productivity – while aspects such as constant pain or the necessity of crip time, for example, are ignored.

Together with her team, Olivia Hyunsin Kim uses dance and narrative to counter stigmatization and prejudice against artists with invisible disabilities or people who are falsely read as healthy. The artists use the means of stand-up, pop and performance in a radically unruly and humorous way to connect the cultural history of hysteria, today's treatment of sick female queer people and the body images of the contemporary dance scene, among other things.

Choreography, Performance: Olivia Hyunsin Kim

Costume, Stage: Kristin Gerwien

Sound-Environment: Martyna Poznańska, Klaus Janek

Video, Light: Jones Seitz

Dramaturgiy: Marielle Schavan

Access-Consultant: Hyemi Jolee

Set - and Productionassistant: Luca Plaumann

Light-Foamobject: Susana Alonso und Jones Seitz

Hysterical Choir: Yvonne Sembene, Jill B. Suffner

German Sign Language in Tandem: Hyemi Jolee, Sarena Böckers

Sound-Operator: Klaus Janek, Todor Stoyanov

Technical Direction: Gefährliche Arbeit⎜Production: ehrliche arbeit – freies Kulturbüro T

hanks to: Aniella Tiedje, Dornika Kazerani, Isabel Gatzke, Naomi Boyce, Tanzhalle Wiesenburg and the RED Residenzprogram of Tanzfabrik Berlin

With tbe Kind support of University City Marburg and Karin and Uwe Hollweg foundation.