“The process of viewing another as consumable, as something, is usually invisible to us. Its invisibility occurs because it corresponds to the view of the dominant culture.”

Carol Adams

I love Ursula Hamdress (2016)

I love Ursula Hamdress is a performance on feminine identity, inspired by The Sexual Politics of Meat, a feminist-vegan critical theory, written by Carol Adams.

The title of this work comes from the name of Ursula Hamdress, the sow dressed up like a Playmate, appeared on Playboar magazine, “the Playboy of the pig farmers”, in 1981.

This show examines the meaning of being female through an exploration that brings together the condition of women and farmed animals, considered merely a consumable body, in our contemporary patriarchal and androcentric society.

An aspiring showgirl, Ursula Hamdress, tells about herself. At the beginning her tale is an ordinary tale, like a lot of tales of ditsy girls that try to get attention from guys, but at a certain point, her story is connected with the story of other females. Step by step, the life of an ordinary ditsy girl is overlapped to the life of a farmed cow, of a farmed sow, and their identities will be always more similar, until to correspond to each other, because of their biological femaleness; they have mammary glands, the organs of milk production, they are mothers, or rather they are able to give the life, and just for these unique skills, they have