Audience Testimony:

Boys Just Want To Have Fun

After our performance at CCA – Center of Contemporary Art, presented by Circe Platform in Tbilisi, Georgia in November, an audience member, Neka Sharashidze, shared a very intimate and powerful testimony about her experience. Thank you for feeling with us, and sharing your personal story!

Read the full testimony by Neka Sharashidze below:

“When I first stepped into the space, I immediately let my eyes wander, because I believe the full development of a process comes from the smallest details. The fact that I could move through the space with the artists felt strangely pleasant, almost as if it made me a participant in the performance… I was not seeing a performer that undressed themselves or searched for hope in tiny cracks but I was seeing myself standing naked in the room in front of the mirror. I saw the version of me that tried to escape the space that shrinks her, destroys her, steals parts of her and leaves her open...

The impressions stirred inside me and I thought I was watching paintings come alive. In my own reality, cubism and surrealism suddenly gained breath…

There was a moment I remember so deeply when the artists ran and collapsed on the ground. They fell and kissed, embraced the dirty, dusty, terrible earth. I thought ´isn’t life exactly like this? Don't we all end up in filth after choosing a wrong path? Don't we swallow ugliness in our day to day life? Don't we fall and taste mud in this reality?´

I wanted to cry, because I was seeing my own reality so vividly, so clearly, and my heart shattered into a thousand pieces. The emotions caught me deep and I became part of the space. It was an incredibly interesting performance and for me it was a clear answer to the questions that have been troubling me.”