19/12/2025
✨ Last month, I was invited to join .vivifier on stage for their performance of It’s a Feeling 2 at the . Silva and I then recreated a therapy session live on stage. It was a fun and meaningful experience. What happens when you bring the intimate, often hidden world of therapy onto the stage and make it visible to everyone?
‘It’s a Feeling 2 is a portrait of Silva what it feels like to be her, from the inside out. A performance about girls who feel everything and are told they are too much. About parents who love you but don’t know how to hold on to you. About getting angry and wanting to apologize at the same time. About how a body remembers what the mind has forgotten. Everything is real, even when it’s imagined.’
In their performance, Pensive2Vivifier explore the idea that diagnoses are never just individual, but deeply socio-political. They question the role of gender in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), and consider how certain ways of feeling, expressing emotions, or occupying space are pathologised more quickly in some bodies than in others.
Thank you again, Pensive2Vivifier, for bringing me along! 🩷