Untitled: Skipping

In this video performance a naked man is skipping continuously for almost an hour. He progresses from excitement to exhaustion, repeating these lines: ‘When you fall like a stone one must not think. If one thinks then one must not fall.’ What initially looks like a voluntary and comical action turns into something scarcely done out of free will. This work illustrates how Åsdam has been concerned to illuminate how male sexuality in our era is not understood as being static and fixedly defined, but that the male body can be read ‘as an open sign, able to move in several directions of desire.’ (Grete Årbu)
This video was made in collaboration with the Scottish artist Michael Curran.