Towards Race, Class and Hoe Tags
Towards Race, Class and Hoe Tags: The Pedagogy of a Bitch discusses the overt, as well as the covert classism in art and culture and the fact that classism cannot be thought of in isolation from racism and misogyny. Through the archetype of the bitch, Myassa Krait’s performance project KDM Queen of Power formulates a critique of the subtle effects of capitalism: how does pressure to perform, as pressure to conform, inscribe itself in the body and skin? And what is the potential inherent in artistic forms of expression to challenge the idea of excellence? This confrontation exposes degradation and declassification in order to name the hidden mechanisms of exclusion.
is a performer, dancer, rapper, cultural and social anthropologist, educator, and trainer. Her artistic interests and work focus on a wide range of themes such as Orientalism, epistemic violence, resource colonialism, invasion and post-invasion Iraq, and education under attack. Myassa Kraitt created rapper KDM Queen of Power, a dazzling queer-feminist outcast whose goal is to abolish patriarchy. Since 2020, she has been a board member of WIENWOCHE, and since 2023, she has been responsible for the digital stage at Dschungel.
In English and German