RAPEFLOWER

RAPEFLOWER is an investigation that takes place in my own body. It is the body, not the discourse, in which the experience of sexual violence – one's own, inherited and learned – is interwoven with defense and survival strategies. Rape is one of the most transcultural phenomena shared by women regardless of their ethnic identity or latitude. Rape is a weapon used to turn a person into an object. In this artistic research I situate myself as a  rape survivor and as a yellow woman – a category borrowed from A.A.Cheng’s book “Ornamentalism”. RAPEFLOWER is a story of rape understood as a psycho-somatic state, a movement practice of an object that is becoming a subject.

Hana Umeda, born in 1986 in Warsaw, is a half-Polish half-Japanese performer and an artist. As Sada Hanasaki she is a jiutamai dancer and natori in Hanasaki-ryu school of jiutamai. In her artistic practice she works with auto-documental topics and investigates the jiutamai body.

IG: @hanaumeda