Teo Ala-Ruona - Anabolic Spectacle

Performances: Teo Ala-Ruona /Anabolic SpectacleGalleri Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm, 2025 8th nov 16 - 17.00 (including a break and a subsequent artist talk with curator Alexandra Campbell Anabolic Spectacle is a text-based solo performance that draws inspiration from the language of men’s online magazines, transforming their words into feverish dream scenarios of a violent quest for self-mastery over the body. It seeks to articulate a labyrinthe of fantasies, restless nights and the impact of the categorical gaze on a non-normative body, comparing the audience’s gaze to the scrutinizing stares in public spaces. The performance sees the transmasculine body as an incompatible territory for hegemonic masculine narratives – a realm where the capitalist ideals of the optimized self begin to crumble. Anabolic Spectacle is a collaborative creation between performance artist Teo Ala-Ruona and dramaturg Even Minn. Concept, text and performance: Teo Ala-RuonaDramaturgy: Even MinnPhoto: Samir Ceric KovacevicProduction: The Space/Galleri Steinsland Berliner/Teo Ala-Ruona