Future Fridays: Vanessa Macaulay

Enticement Machine exposes the humour and horror of expectations placed on a racialized female body. A satirical rap video circus that distorts and negotiates the vision of the black female body to make The Enticement Machine.

From gawking over the internet to gazing in live performance, Enticement Machine draws on make-up tutorials, music videos and twerking to interrogate the hyper-sexualisation of the black female body in pop culture. This show takes stereotypes to the point of the absurd, whilst combining dance, discussion and parody to pollute the image of the Enticement Machine

My creative practice exists because I do. It speaks to contemporary struggles and anxieties about navigating the world in a specific body. My practice tends to be solo based and often orbits around movement, spoken word and film.