Lake Studios Berlin

BABY I’M SICK TONIGHT
Olivia Hyunsin Kim / ddanddarakim

From the perspective of a queer woman of color with chronic illness, Olivia Hyunsin Kim experiments with the format of stand-up comedy. In collaboration with other chronically ill artists, she looks for forms of self-empowering humor. Together with her team, Olivia Hyunsin Kim uses dance and narrative to counter the stigmatization and prejudice faced by artists with invisible disabilities or those who are falsely read as healthy. Using the means of stand-up, pop, and performance in a radically unruly and humorous way, the artists connect the cultural history of hysteria, today’s treatment of sick female queer people, and the body images of the contemporary dance scene, among other things. 

German Sign Language (DGS) integrated.
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CREDITS

Choreography, performance: Olivia Hyunsin Kim
Costume, stage: Kristin Gerwien
Sound environment: Martyna Poznańska
Video, lights: Jones Seitz
Technical direction: Gefährliche Arbeit
Dramaturgy: Marielle Schavan
Access consulting: Hyemi Jolee
Production management: ehrliche arbeit – freelance office for culture
Assistant stage, costumes and production: Luca Plaumann
Light foam object: Susana Alonso und Jones Seitz
Graphic design: Christian Cattelan
Sound design: Elisabeth Enke
Hysterical choir: Yvonne Sembene, Jill B. Suffner
Interpretation in DGS (German sign language): Hyemi Jolee und Aniella Tiedje
Audio description in tandem: Swantje Henke und Gerald Pirner
Subtitles: Elena Polzer and Luca Plaumann

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