Togak Gwimo

Togak Gwimo is a roaming and malleable performance that adapts to the specificities of outdoor spaces. It questions the relationship between the human body and its environment through the lens of the uncanny figure of the ghostly monster. The familiar yet unsettling appearance of its “costume” redefines our conceptions of gender, of the living, and of the norm.

Togak Gwimo oscillates between living exhibition and site-specific choreographic performance. Through the supernatural, drawing on both past and present, a mutant being subverts existing social, racial, political, gender, and class boundaries. It distils abjection by challenging the authority of constructions such as the divisions between object and subject, life and death, or self and other, while questioning notions of the natural and the artificial.

An aberrant morphology born of the fusion between a human body and a large non-human costume, this form, grotesque at first sight, waddles and stumbles. Yet it moves furtively, disregarding the clumsiness imposed by its heavy fleshly shell. Through trivial performative acts, it haunts the space and saturates it with an aura of strangeness.