Pink people wanna know if other pink people like hip-hop 
how can it still be hip-hop? 
That’s like asking, if Black people like Dirty Harry 

is he still Clint Eastwood? (Greg Tate)

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Gangstas, Pimps und Hoes: The US rap world is imbued with images of exaggerated masculinity. When Black artists such as Cam'ron and Kanye West launched a fashion trend of pink plush, fur and velour in the early 2000s, they proved that even Barbie’s favorite color could not damage their image of heterosexual hypermasculinity. Joana Tischkau draws on this occasion to reveal the fragility of social constructions such as race and gender: to what extent are bodies of the "other" used to consolidate the structural power of white Cis masculinity?

BEING PINK AIN’T EASY is a confrontation with the insatiable white desire for Black forms of expression, searching for the ambiguities that are interwoven between defensive mechanisms like white fragility (Robin DiAngelo) and forms of cultural appropriation. In addition to their music, artists provide us with their physicalities as usable concepts for the construction of one‘s own identity. The capitalist logic of consumption turns Black aesthetics into a performative mask available to everyone.

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CONCEPT + CHOREOGRAFIE Joana Tischkau 

PERFORMANCE Rudi Äneas Natterer

COSTUME Nadine Bakota  

DRAMATURGY Nuray Demir, Elisabeth Hampe 

SOUND DESIGN Frieder Blume 

STAGE Inga Danysz 

LIGHTING Juri Rendler 

PRODUCTION Lisa Gehring

GRAPHICS Justus Gelberg

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Picture Credits: (c) Zombie Nanny, (c) Dorothea Tuch