Wear Me Out
Ari David
15.05.2025, 19:30
You are warmly invited to Wear Me Out, a lecture-performance by Ari David that explores the ways exhaustion shapes our lives today.
The performance will take place at Rib, on Thursday 15 May at 20:00 (doors open at 19:30h).
Wear Me Out delves into the often-invisible rhythms of exhaustion — how it creeps in, settles in our bodies, and becomes part of how we live. Developed through a year-long process of research and dialogue, the performance draws from conversations with cultural and art workers, personal narratives, and a range of written and digital materials.
It asks how exhaustion is produced and shared: in freelance work, in the experience economy, and in all the invisible labour we carry. It reflects on the cost of endless extraction — from our bodies, our attention, and the planet itself — and on the quiet, complicated ties that link our shared experiences.
Ari David, born in Romania, is currently based in Rotterdam. In their work Ari explores how the social is inscribed in the body, focusing on themes of identity, collectivity, and dissent. Their interdisciplinary work includes writing, video, sound, textiles, and performance, emphasising small gestures and the choreographies of everyday life to reflect on how bodies are shaped in Western society. Their works have been shown at WET Rotterdam, Available and the Rat, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, De Appel, Charlotte Street Foundation, National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka, Salonul de Proiecte, tranzit.ro/ Cluj. Between 2022-24, they co-ran an other world project space. www.aridavid.net