SocietyTrash, Contragic Fine Arts: Dancing with the skunk

Inspired by my short tearm pet Dracula (and many other youtube skunks)

Dancing With The Skunk (2013)

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Rasende Liebe verkennt häufig die Realität der von ihr begehrten Objekte. Sie projiziert die Notwendigkeiten des eigenen Begehrens auf einen fremden Körper. So ergeht es Sexualpartnern wie auch Haustieren. Die Bilderserie »Dancing with the skunk« basiert auf den Drohgebährden eines Stinktiers. Als Schomburg nach einem jahrelangen Besitz von Frettchen eine Allergie entwickelte, stieg sie auf ein Stinktier um, welches eine ähnliche Körperform besitzt. Leider wandte sich das neue Haustier der Künstlerin vor allem mit dem Hintern zu. Beide mussten sich wieder trennen. Während einer nostalgischen YouTube-Suche begegnete Schomburg eine Reihe von TierbesitzerInnen, die das stressbedingte Droh- und Abwehrverhalten ihrer Tiere vielmehr als amüsante und liebenswerte Eigenart verstehenverstanden. In einer Performancestudie kleidete sich Schomburg daraufhin mit einem Burleske-Kostüm und vollzog die Bewegungen ihres Stinktiers schrittweise nach.

Raging Burning love often misjudges the reality of the its objects it of desires. She It projects the necessityies of her its own desire onto a foreign body. This is what happens to sexual partners as well as to pets. The picture series "Dancing with the skunk" is based on the threatening buildings gestures of a skunks. After years of owning ferrets, When Schomburg developed an allergy after years of owning ferrets, she and therefore switched to a pet skunk with a similar body size and shape. Unfortunately, the new pet mainly turned its butt to the artist. mainly with her butt. Both had to separate again. During a nostalgic YouTube search, Schomburg met encountered a number of animal owners who understood the stress-related threat and defensive behaviour of their animals as an amusing and endearing peculiarity. In a performance study, Schomburg then dressed herself in a burlesque costume and gradually followed mimicked the movements of her skunk.

Dancing with the skunk is based on the choreographie a skunk performs before it sprays.

choreography studies

I lived with a petskunk for a couple of weeks. It turned out my skunk was not very happy with me within the constellation. There are many kin of Skunk personalities but my skunk wanted to be a wild one.

Therefore, I had to find a better situation for him.

I missed him so I watched other pet skunks on Youtube. People claimed their skunks played and acted cute. Actually the skunks were performing their threatening dance, feeling as unconfortable as mine did.

The misreading of body language (consciously or unconsciously) is a result of suppressing reality to comfort the own needs. A behavior very common in the dating jungle as well. Projecting the personal wish into a potential significant other is something I watched and experienced many times.