Tue 1 Sep, 6.30pm
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What does it feel like to build a body?
Artist-researcher Broderick Chow (author of Muscle Works, 2024) presents a performance-lecture about building muscle and all its contradictions: pump and failure, contraction and extension, digital screen and everyday routine.
How to Build a Body features demonstrations of weightlifting, wrestling, and bodybuilding alongside a history of physical culture in East London and beyond. At a time when muscles often signify the worst aspects of masculinity, this performance draws on personal narratives and muscle building as shared cultural memory to search for moments of connection, kinship, and possibility in sweat, reps, and micro-tears.
