The Classroom

202425-minute PerformancePOUSH, Paris, France
Performance still — The Classroom by Tina Atami, POUSH, 2024, durational performance exploring discipline and collective presence

The Classroom is a performance that unfolds through repetition, discomfort, and ritualized release, navigating the threshold between public ritual and private bodily need.

The work explores the conditioning of bodies within institutional spaces, questioning the boundaries between control and liberation, between the collective and the individual.

Through a 25-minute durational performance, the piece examines how we negotiate our most basic human needs within systems designed to regulate and contain us.

Video documentation of the performance