Strawberries with Whipped Cream is a dance performance by two friends, collaborators, and artists, Jovana Stojić and Đorđe Živadinović Grgur, who subtly objectify their own bodies, largely without physical contact, through a consciously chosen and emphasized male–female dichotomy. Drawing modestly on certain ideas of Bataille and Foucault, the work also embraces hedonism and contact with the other as both a way of living and a performative practice—accompanied by a favorite seasonal delicacy.
Within the discursive relationship between the natural and the contextually constructed, strawberries and whipped cream symbolize the dynamics of sexual prerogatives and the potential for their exploitation. Questions of the erotic and the sensual are introduced in this first performance of a series that will explore these and related themes.
