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A Sense of Doubt blog post #2953 - "Human" - Sevdaliza - Music Monday for 2303.20
Since this post is a regular Music Monday post, it is not in the count of the extended 12 post MUSIC WEEK 2023. Number Twelve drops tomorrow.
SEVDALIZA: Throwback to the first time in my life that I actually felt beautiful.
Immortalized by @paulkooiker @leendertcs @laurayard
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"Human" - Sevdaliza
"Human"[edit]
Sevdaliza appears to be a satyr and an erotic dancer performing in a semi-abandoned large building with classical detailing in front of an audience sitting on a mezzanine. The audience consists of only men, who are clearly wealthy, being served food and receiving this seemingly private and exclusive performance. The time and place that this is occurring remains ambiguous, mostly because of the mysteriousness of Sevdaliza's semi-mythological character, who is dancing on dirt that has been plowed as in preparation for an animal race. Additionally, her outfit recalls that of Debra Paget in the 1959 film The Indian Tomb, a nod to old Hollywood nostalgia and popular roles women play catering to male sexual desire.[33] The audience members sweat and watch cautiously, as if scared of her. Her video on YouTube is accompanied by the quote, 'the basic human need to be watched was once satisfied by god'. There is an official rendition of the song in Portuguese. The video for Human was directed by Emmanuel Adjei.
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And what is that about? Why is Sevdaliza half horse? At first, I thought of it quite literally — the animalism was a play on Sevdaliza striving to be seen as human (literally the lyric of the song) — a simple play on the dehumanization of women (maybe particularly women of colour). But I recently attended a seminar and lecture with Quantum Physicist Karen Barad. My sister introduced me to Barads work years ago, but while attending the lecture a coin dropped — and finally I began to understand some of the links between posthumanist feminist philosophy, queer-theory and Sevdalizas horse legs.
It sounds way out — but it makes me think of Karen Barads text Transmaterialities from GLQ: a journal of lesbian and gay studies — particularly the following quote: “Monstrosity, like electrical jolts, cuts both ways. It can serve to demonize, dehumanize, and demoralize. It can also be a source of political agency. It can empower and radicalize.” Was Sevdaliza radically performing monstrosity?
Applying Barads uses of “both/and” — in which we are asked to consider the materiality of something that is “both” (two separate things) “and” (one whole/the same) at the same time — begs us to consider that the fixedness with which we define bodies (ie. what is Human) might not be the most useful way to think of materiality. One could ask — is Sevdaliza distinctly human and nonhuman but also simultaneously both? If so, Sevdalizas Human video offers a quite literal critique through a use of the posthuman/nonhuman altered body — in other words, her use of the nonhuman and exotified character only briefly dehumanizes and demonizes Sevdaliza, in order to ultimately dehumanize, demoralize and critique the audience, ultimately giving Sevdaliza the empowering radical agency to reflect humanity onto itself through her own (non/)human state.
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