HOANG TRAN HIEU HANH
Score #4: spread and reflect, 2021
More or less an hour, several performers
About:
Mirror, Mirror – Spread Your Reflection! is a collaborative intervention with large mirrors, first performed in Berlin’s underground in January 2018 in the frame of Tanja Ostojić’s Misplaced Women? performance art workshop, confronting manspreading, a habit of men sitting in public transport with legs wide apart, thereby covering more than their own seat.
Instruction:
1. Choose a mirror to bring along with you, (the larger the better).
2. Select a means of transport of your choice, for exsample: metro, tram, train.
3. Take your seat in front of a cis man (short for cisgender man: a person who was assigned male at birth and whose gender identity is male).
4. Hold your mirror between your legs with the mirror reflection towards the person sitting opposite to you.
5. You can do the same action on a different means of transport and see how different it is being perceived at different times.
Note:
Reflect upon how it feels to hold the mirror, to take up space, to be made invisible by the mirror, and to become visible with the mirror.
Crediting and Publishing:
It is very important to credit everyone properly. With the Misplaced Women? project we pay special attention to that. Please be sure to fully credit your action as: (Your name:) a performance in response to the delegated performance by Hoang Tran Hieu Hanh, Score 4: spread and reflect, MIS(S)PLACED WOMEN?, project by Tanja Ostojić, performed by: (add names of everyone performing with you and the photographer(s) name(s))— wherever you share it or print it, and we will do the same with your contribution. Send a photo or a drawing of yourself performing, the description about how it went (your name, date, time, duration, location(s) and notes about what happened). Please let us know if you would like your contribution to be published on the blog of the project. We would greatly appreciate that!
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Hoang Tran Hieu Hanh is a Berlin based activist, who is a member of the Mis(s)placed Women? community since January 2018. As a response to the racism related to the COVID-19 pandemic, she co-created a group for the Asian Diaspora in Europe and has hosted artist and community talks on notions of home, mobility and the politics of care. Her activism is centred around intersectional feminism, the right to reproductive self-determination, climate justice and the sense of solidarity in communities of colour. In her spare time, she ponders over creative approaches to link the arts with political activism to shift boundaries, change relationships and create new paradigms. Currently, Hanh is working on migration and displacement in the context of climate change, environmental degradation and disasters.
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Edited and first published by Tanja Ostojić on the Misplaced Women? project blog (2021)
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Please visit the related posts:
TANJA OSTOJIĆ: Score #1: Unpacking a Bag of Your Own, 2009
TANJA OSTOJIĆ: Score #2: Holding the Misplaced Women? Sign, 2012
“Mirror, Mirror – Spread Your Reflection!” by Hoang Tran Hieu Hanh, Berlin (Jan. 2018)
Misplaced Women? 